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How Career Services Can Enhance ‘Soft-Skills’ in Students

Symplicity

In today's job market, having the right technical skills is no longer enough to succeed. Employers are increasingly looking for candidates who possess a range of soft skills, such as communication, teamwork, and problem-solving. These skills are essential for building strong relationships with colleagues, clients, and customers, and for adapting to the changing demands of the workplace.

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DeSantis Cuts Higher Ed Funding; New College Gets a Boost

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Florida governor Ron DeSantis will cut $120 million of higher education funding from the state budget—nearly a quarter of the half-billion dollars in funding requests he rejected through line-item vetoes last week.

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Celebrate Credo's 2023 Core Values Awards Recipients With Us

Credo Higher Ed

Every year to celebrate our team, we present the Credo Values Awards recognizing individuals who live deeply in the core value s of the firm.

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MIT Exonerates Professor—After 3.5-Year Wait

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology received research misconduct allegations against Ram Sasisekharan in 2019. It didn’t clear his name until this spring. This spring, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology finally announced it had exonerated Ram Sasisekharan, a biological engineering professor, after a three-and-a-half-year research misconduct investigation.

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The Gazette: Meetings Set on Fencing at 5 Iowa City Schools

Hanover Research

Fencing is being installed as a part of the district’s comprehensive safety and security plan, based on findings from Hanover Research. The post The Gazette: Meetings Set on Fencing at 5 Iowa City Schools appeared first on Hanover Research.

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Rethinking Parking

Confessions of a Community College Dean

A review of Paved Paradise by Henry Grabar. For Father’s Day, my daughter took me on a walking tour of Princeton and offered to pay for any book I wanted at Labyrinth Books. I picked Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World, by Henry Grabar. My wife thought that was the most preposterous thing she had seen in years. It’s worth reading.

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Designing Effective Learning Outcomes with Solo Taxonomy in Higher Education

Creatrix Campus

Designing Effective Learning Outcomes with Solo Taxonomy in Higher Education editor Mon, 06/19/2023 - 06:45 Education plays a pivotal role in shaping the knowledge, skills, and competencies of students, and learning outcomes serve as a critical component of the educational process. Learning outcomes outline the expected achievements and competencies students should acquire upon completion of a course or program.

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2023 Roompact Door Dec Contest!

Roompact

IT’S BACK! Roompact is holding its sixth annual door dec contest! This contest is open to student staff (RAs, CAs, etc.) at schools who currently use Roompact’s software on their campus. Create a door dec with the name “Roompact” on it and email it to us at contests@roompact.com from your institutional email address (*.edu) with.

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Education Department Eyes New Requirements for All Programs

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Education Department Eyes New Requirements for All Programs Featured Image at Top of Article GettyImages-1256044871.

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Leveraging technology for effective Assessment feedback (part 1): How to do I.T.?

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

In this extra post, Avita Rath shares her experience with using technology positively to improve her assessment and feedback practices in a way that is interactive, agentic and empowering for students. This is part one of a two-part post, which will follow next Monday.

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Idaho Legislators Question Plan to Purchase U of Phoenix

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Legislators in Idaho are questioning a plan by the University of Idaho to create a nonprofit organization to manage the assets of the University of Phoenix,

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Many student loan borrowers likely face challenges when payments resume, consumer protection bureau warns - Jeremy Bauer-Wolf, Higher Ed Dive

Ray Schroeder

These risk factors include being delinquent on their student loans before the pandemic, or getting assistance to pay off those debts, the CFPB said in an online post Wednesday. As of March this year, the agency had identified 2.5 million student loan borrowers who were delinquent on other forms of debt, amounting to more than 1 in 13. This is 200,000 more delinquent borrowers than the CFPB found in its last analysis in September 2022.

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Connecticut, Vermont Mergers Gain Accreditor Approval

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Controversial consolidations of multiple public institutions in Vermont and Connecticut have earned the key step of initial accreditation from the New England Commission of Higher Education.

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More Borrowers at Risk of Defaulting - Katherine Knott, Inside Higher Ed

Ray Schroeder

More student loan borrowers are behind on their credit card bills and loans than before the pandemic, and they are paying more because of rising interest rates, a new report from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau found. The rising delinquencies mean that more borrowers will be at risk of defaulting when payments turn back on later this summer after a three-year pause.

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UC Berkeley Chancellor to Retire

Confessions of a Community College Dean

After a career in higher education spanning more than 50 years, University of California, Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ announced last week that she is retiring from her post in June 2024.

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Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge explores founder’s slavery links

The Guardian Higher Education

Historic and contemporary pieces interrogate city and university’s connections to colonialism An exhibition by the Fitzwilliam Museum will explore Cambridge’s connections to enslavement and exploitation for the first time, both in the university and the city. Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance features works made in west Africa, the Caribbean, South America and Europe, and interrogates the ways Atlantic enslavement and the Black Atlantic shaped the University of Cambridge’s collections.

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Seton Hall Expands Africana Studies After Protest

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Seton Hall University is expanding its Africana studies program after students took over the president’s office for several days last month to demand change, NorthJersey.com reported.

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Public News Service: Feds Call Loan, Rural Iowa University Shutters

Hanover Research

Rural colleges and universities have significant economic value to their surrounding communities. Iowa Wesleyan, for example, had an estimated $55.1 million annual economic impact on southeast Iowa, according to a 2017 study conducted for the university by Hanover Research. The post Public News Service: Feds Call Loan, Rural Iowa University Shutters appeared first on Hanover Research.

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The Significance of 13 Driver’s Licenses: Academic Minute

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Today on the Academic Minute: Ryayo Terao, associate professor in the department of entertainment technology at New York City College of Technology, part of the City University of New York, explores how simple things can have big stories to tell.

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Dispute Over Statement at El Camino Commencement

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The Council on American-Islamic Relations is criticizing El Camino College for the way it responded to a speech at commencement this year.

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Seattle Pacific Announces 40% Cut in Budget for Academic Programs

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Seattle Pacific University has announced plans to cut its academic budget by 40 percent in the next year, The Seattle Times

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