Tue.Dec 27, 2022

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3 Ways to Increase Retention of Early Talent

Symplicity

For an employer, it’s a great moment when new candidates get through the screening process and start employee onboarding. Finally, recruiting season is over and every spot is filled with early talent that’s ready to work. But what happens when less than a year later, retention rates begin to spike and employers are left scrambling for candidates to fill the spots they thought were secure for the foreseeable future?

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The Proctor Fund: Supporting the Proctor Experience

Proctor Academy

Why have we committed our lives to working at Proctor? Why have our parents chosen to entrust their children to us as educators? Why did our students fall in love with this school in the first place? The answers to each of these questions find common ground in the unique way Proctor seeks to fulfill its mission: through relationships with each other.

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Faculty Council applauds historic stipend boost - the Well, UNC

Ray Schroeder

Faculty Chair Mimi Chapman opened the Faculty Council’s Dec. 2 meeting by congratulating the graduate and professional student government and the faculty body on an official graduate student stipend increase , which begins in January. Combined with a fall increase, the new annual stipend for doctoral students is $20,000, reflecting a 25% jump. For master’s degree students the new stipend is up 37% to $16,000.

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Len Moore obituary

The Guardian Higher Education

My friend and former colleague Len Moore, who has died aged 89, was an industrial scientist turned academic who worked to create wider access to higher education. Born in Derby, he was the son of Leonard, a school caretaker, and Ethel Moore, a homemaker. Though he showed academic promise, his father made him leave Derby central school for boys at 15 to start life as a paint technician so that he could contribute to the family income.

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Enabling Data to Solve the Enrollment Challenge 

Collegis Education Data Management

As the number of high school graduates who choose to enroll in college steadily declines (while costs and competition continue to rise), there is little wonder that shrinking enrollment is a looming concern for the higher education industry. Yet, marketing, enrollment and retention teams are expected to mitigate — or even reverse — these trends for their institution.

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Leadership Matters. Now More than Ever.

Gray Associates

Explore the challenges facing higher education and discover the keys to successful leadership in this thought-provoking blog by Melissa Morriss-Olson. From truth-telling and truth-seeking to building relationships and taking bold action, learn how the best leaders are navigating the rapidly changing landscape of higher education and making a difference for their institutions and students.

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Bible Verses To Ease You Into The New Year

PUC

New year, new classes, new schedule. It’s a fresh start for you- and that can be a stressful thought. If you ever start feeling overwhelmed, know that the Bible is filled with verses that can help through pressured times. Here are six Bible verses to help ease you into the new year.

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Differential in Starting Salaries between Bachelor's and Master's Grads is Diminishing - Kevin Gray, NACE

Ray Schroeder

Although there remains a salary advantage for college students obtaining a master's degree, the differential between average starting salaries of recent graduates earning bachelor’s degrees and master’s degrees is diminishing, according to results of NACE’s First Destinations for the College Class of 2021 report. The survey found that there is currently a 22.5% salary differential between the degree levels.

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Medication Doesn’t Help Kids With ADHD Learn

Confessions of a Community College Dean

It’s "Best Of" Week on the Academic Minute. In our fourth most listened-to segment of the year, William E. Pelham Jr., distinguished professor of psychology at Florida International University, discussed why medications may not always be the answer for certain disorders. Find out more about the Academic Minute here.

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How to Develop Your Diversity and Inclusion Goals

Paradigm IQ

How to Develop Your Diversity and Inclusion Goals.

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How Might Elite Institutions Better Meet the Needs of Underserved Student Populations?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma. You may have read that Georgetown University is launching an online part-time bachelor’s degree completion program in liberal studies in partnership with Coursera. Georgetown already offers an on-campus version of this program through its School of Continuing Education to a student body that consists of 62 percent students of color and 40 percent military-connected learners.