Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
APRIL 12, 2024
Dr. Jeremi London Jeremi London has been named assistant provost of academic opportunity and belonging in the Office of Undergraduate Education at Vanderbilt University. She served as associate professor of engineering education at Virginia Tech. London holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in industrial engineering and a Ph.D. in engineering education, all from Purdue University.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
APRIL 12, 2024
Faculty members and students plan to hold events across numerous campuses Wednesday, April 17, to kick-start a movement against what they consider concerted attacks on quality higher education for all. They’re opposing academic freedom restrictions, defending protest rights, supporting diversity, equity and inclusion, calling for free public education, and advocating for more secure faculty jobs, among other things.
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University Business
APRIL 12, 2024
Dr. Larry Johnson first encountered Stella and Charles Guttman Community College in 2015 as a dean at Broward College (Fla.) when he read the seminal book “Redesigning America’s Community Colleges: A Clearer Path to Student Success.” Already well abreast of the role two-year institutions can play in students’ lives, Johnson was enamored by Guttman’s bold ways it geared students for success: appreciative advising , first-year student cohort team-building exercises an
Confessions of a Community College Dean
APRIL 12, 2024
Traction for the Three-Year Bachelor’s Degree Doug Lederman Fri, 04/12/2024 - 03:00 AM A group of college leaders strategize about how to design a new undergraduate experience—and get an unexpected boost from an accreditor.
Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)
APRIL 12, 2024
SAAL's Dynamic 1st Quarter: Progress, Initiatives, and Community Engagement The journey of the Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL) through 2024 has been nothing short of transformative and inspiring for me as President! I am humbled to be the leader of an organization that sits at the heart of enhancing equity and inclusivity in student affairs assessment through our actions.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
APRIL 12, 2024
Georgia University’s Decision to Close Prison Program Prompts ‘Heartbreak’ Sara Weissman Fri, 04/12/2024 - 03:00 AM Professors and students want Georgia State University to keep its college-in-prison program open. The institution’s leaders say new federal standards make it too costly to do so.
Ray Schroeder
APRIL 12, 2024
After an initial round of budget cuts and spending measures, the University of Arizona’s deficit has shrunk from $177 million to $162 million, says interim Chief Financial Officer John Arnold. Arnold gave an update on the “good news” for UA’s finances to the Arizona Board of Regents’ University Governance and Operations committee on Thursday. The UA’s current cash balance is $748 million, or $157 million less than it was last year at this time.
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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education
APRIL 12, 2024
Anyone versed in the use of security cameras is familiar with the DORI standard: When surveying a site, the decision about where to position a device will affect the camera’s detection, observation, recognition and identification capabilities. While universities in the market for a physical security upgrade don’t need to understand everything about DORI, they should be prepared to help their vendors position cameras for maximum coverage.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
APRIL 12, 2024
Harvard and Caltech Restore Test Requirements Liam Knox Fri, 04/12/2024 - 03:00 AM The decisions, announced hours apart, came more than a year before their temporary policies were set to expire—and after a wave of similar decisions by their competitors.
Ray Schroeder
APRIL 12, 2024
After warning in March of potential closure, Northland College will stay open for now but declared financial exigency, the board of trustees announced Thursday evening. The board said it would make “a final decision” about the college’s future in two weeks. In declaring exigency, Wisconsin-based Northland is formally recognizing a “serious financial crisis,” the board said.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
APRIL 12, 2024
President Biden’s new plan to forgive some or all student loans for 26 million Americans would cost about $84 billion over 10 years, according to economists at the Penn Wharton Budget Model, a nonpartisan research organization at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. When combined with the administration’s income-driven repayment plan, known as Saving On a Valuable Education, the total cost would be $559 billion.
CU Work-Life Balance
APRIL 12, 2024
The University of Colorado benefits cost changes will vary by plan — with no or low monthly premium increases for most CU Health Plans and larger increases for others. The university will continue to contribute 90% of premiums, averaged across all medical and dental benefits. Rates begin with the 2024-25 plan year on July 1. While the university’s four medical plans will not undergo significant benefit changes this year, they will expand no-cost coverage for certain types of generic preventive t
Confessions of a Community College Dean
APRIL 12, 2024
Is College Worth It? Elizabeth Redden Fri, 04/12/2024 - 03:00 AM David Wippman and Glenn C. Altschuler review a new book taking on the “myth” of the college wage premium. Byline(s) David Wippman Glenn C.
University Business
APRIL 12, 2024
Following the footsteps of its Ivy League peers, including Yale, Dartmouth and Brown, Harvard University announced that it is reinstating its standardized testing requirement in admissions beginning with the Class of 2029. Harvard had initially said the test-optional policy would remain in effect until applications for the Class of 2030, according to The Harvard Crimson.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
APRIL 12, 2024
OCR: Hinds Community College Failed to Support Pregnant Student, Violated Title IX Katherine Knott Fri, 04/12/2024 - 03:00 AM Byline(s) Katherine Knott
University Business
APRIL 12, 2024
Most American colleges and universities require the completion of courses that emphasize Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI)-related topics to graduate, according to a new report surveying public and private institutions. Speech First, a group advocating for First Amendment rights on US campuses, released an investigation on Thursday that found 165 of 248 selected institutions mandate DEI-related classes to meet general education requirements.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
APRIL 12, 2024
Ukraine Will Inspect Huge Spike in Enrollments by Draft-Age Students Marjorie Valbrun Fri, 04/12/2024 - 03:00 AM College applications climbed by almost 2,000 percent in 2022, the year of the Russian invasion. Most students chose low-cost courses with minimal entrance requirements.
University Business
APRIL 12, 2024
New College of Florida President Richard Corcoran, who spearheaded a controversial remaking of the Sarasota school over the last year, received a $200,000 bonus Thursday from a majority of trustees who said he had met the goals they set for him. The money adds to Corcoran’s base salary of $699,000, a sum that made him one of the state’s highest paid university presidents when it was awarded last year.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
APRIL 12, 2024
Today on the Academic Minute: Annabelle Roberts, assistant professor of marketing at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin, explains why we’re most impatient right before we get what we want.
University Business
APRIL 12, 2024
The suicide rates of college student-athletes have doubled in the past two decades, according to a new study from the British Journal of Sports Medicine. Researchers from the University of Washington, the University of Wisconsin at Madison and Oregon Health and Science University found that between July 2002 and June 2022, the rate of NCAA varsity athlete deaths by suicide rose to 15.3%, an alarm-raising jump from 7.6%.
Ed.gov Blog
APRIL 12, 2024
By: Dr. Jordan Matsudaira and U.S. Undersecretary of Education James Kvaal Highlights As the Department of Education works to smoothly transition borrowers back into repayment, we highlight the following: More borrowers made payments on their loans in January and February of this year than in any previous month since these data started being collected in Continue Reading The post An Update on the First Months of the Return to Repayment appeared first on ED.gov Blog.
SRHE
APRIL 12, 2024
by Tej Nathwani and Ghislaine Dell with a foreword and afterword by SRHE Network Convenors Tracy Scurry and Daria Luchinskaya Foreword As many of us working with graduate employment statistics will know, it’s difficult to find up-to-date large-scale data of graduates’ experiences of work. In the SRHE event Exploring graduate outcomes: Do we need to look beyond earnings and occupation?
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
APRIL 12, 2024
The Biden-Harris Administration has announced the approval of $7.4 billion in additional student loan debt relief for 277,000 borrowers, primarily eligible borrowers who signed up for the Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) Plan. Dr. Miguel Cardona The administration reported that nearly 8 million borrowers have been helped by the SAVE plan. Its newly approved relief brings the total loan forgiveness to $153 billion for nearly 4.3 million Americans.
Higher Education Inquirer
APRIL 12, 2024
The Heritage Foundation's 2025 Mandate for Leadership details what the next Trump Administration has in store for US higher education. The Education section starts on page 319. The Mandate was created by an army of writers and policy people, and it is approved by at least 100 conservative groups, including Liberty University and Turning Point USA. While one major goal is to eliminate the US Department of Education, there are many other privatization schemes in the works--shifting powers to the c
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
APRIL 12, 2024
Picture the moment you watch a police officer kneel on a Black man's ( George Floyd ) neck on the side of a busy street with folks watching. To go further, reflect on the moment when police bombarded a Black woman's “ Breonna Taylor ” and shot her to death. If you are reading this, I am sure your heart has been tugged on, and you remember where you were sitting in 2020 during a global pandemic.
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