Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Dr. ClauDean Kizart If you think youre too small to make a difference, you havent spent the night with a mosquito. This African proverb holds a profound truth about the impact what often seems to be the smallest players. Like mosquitoes, community colleges have the power to create a ripple of meaningful change. Community colleges, often under-appreciated yet mighty in their mission, are essential agents of transformationparticularly for students from historically marginalized communities.

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The Scholarly Teacher

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Shannon R. Dean-Scott , Texas State University Key Statement: Cogenerative (cogen) dialogues are one learner-centered approach to engaging students in agency for their own learning and development in a course. Keywords: Teaching Methods, Pedagogy, Student Learning Introduction Staring out to the sea of questioning faces, I paused and asked the question again still no response from the 22 students staring back at me.

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University Business

DECEMBER 11, 2024

In 2025, high school graduation numbers will peak before entering a period of prolonged decline, exacerbating pressures higher ed institutions are experiencing as they brace for the proverbial enrollment “cliff.” Nearly four million high school students will walk the graduation stage next year, the Western Interstate for Higher Education (WICHE) projects in the 11th installment of Knocking at the College Door , a comprehensive report that tracks graduation numbers in every state.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

DECEMBER 11, 2024

In 2023, when Quinnipiac University undertook an extensive renovation of its Communications, Computing and Engineering building, a focus on student collaboration was central to the project. In recent years, the Hamden, Conn., campus has evolved to integrate modern collaboration technology, and spaces in which to use it, in every corner.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Image created on Dalle by author In this extra post, Steven Loughnan reflects on the shifting currency of knowledge in the era of AI, and the impact on teaching practices and assessment. Steven is a Professor of Social Psychology and the Director of Undergraduate Studies for Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences. At the heart of the university is the dissemination of knowledge, primarily through teaching.

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Development and Fund Raising Engineering Education IT 69

Higher Education Inquirer

DECEMBER 11, 2024

The Higher Education Inquirer has received all the current contracts between the US Department of Education and Maximus/AidVantage through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. Maximus serves millions of student loan debtors and has faced increased scrutiny (and loss of revenues) for not fulfilling their duties on time. The FOIA response (23-01436-F) consists of a zip file of 998 pages in 5 separate files.

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Education Higher Education 69

Higher Education Whisperer

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Speaking at the launch of the ACS Digital Pulse report John Griggs, ACS CEO, said "Every business is a tech business". This is at the National Press Club in Canberra. The point wat that all businesses need technical staff. The problem is that as the report details, universities cannot produce enough graduates and school leavers don't want to enrol anyway.

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The Guardian Higher Education

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Researchers say Chinese students feel they are treated as revenue sources rather community members Universities in the UK are being urged to provide better support for students from China to improve integration on campuses amid concerns about ethnic clustering. Chinese students make up a quarter of all international students and the 2.3bn fees they pay every year play a vital role in propping up the UKs cash-strapped higher education sector.

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University Business

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Ndilei Lukulay was skeptical when an email from Western New England University offered her admissionand a scholarshipbefore she had even submitted her application. Common App was still saying that my application was pending, said Lukulay, who grew up in Springfield, Massachusetts. So I was like, Is this a scam? Is this real? It was real. This year, Western New England offered admission to her and more than 2,000 other students before they had even applied, and 210or about 12%accepted the offer.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Christopher Edley Jr. In 2024, the nation lost a number of individuals who were passionate for helping to ensure that higher education remained accessible and diverse. While this is not an exhaustive list, we pause to remember some. May their memory be a blessing. Christopher Edley Jr. Christopher Edley Jr., a prominent legal and public policy scholar who co-founded the Harvard Civil Rights Project with Dr.

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Higher Education Inquirer

DECEMBER 11, 2024

The owners of shuttered for-profit Hussian College have sued the schools former president and CEO, Jeremiah Staropoli, seeking $162 million in damages and penalties and claiming that Staropoli and close associates in the company embezzled funds and then conspired to cover up the alleged misdeeds. On September 5, father-and-son Hussian owners David and Joshua Figuli sued Staropoli , other former Hussian employees, and two lending companies in Pennsylvania state court, alleging a racketeering cons

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University Business

DECEMBER 11, 2024

The college-to-career pipeline is broken, and the best way to fix it is to give students more latitude in choosing their own work-based learning experiences, says Jane Swift, president of Education at Work and former governor of Massachusetts, on the latest University Business Podcast. “There’s a lot to be upset about our colleges and universities, but to expect them to be able to do something that the private sector themselves aren’t doing successfullyearly career talent train

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 11, 2024

When Donald Trump took office in 2016, the political shockwaves reverberated far beyond the United States, reshaping perceptions of America as the land of opportunity. For many of us, navigating the complexities of identity and belonging as Black international students, it marked a seismic shift. Fresh out of a graduate program at American University (AU), a predominantly white institution (PWI), I began my first job in global education.

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University Business

DECEMBER 11, 2024

A federal judge is considering whether to overturn a Minnesota law that bans religious tests for colleges that participate in a state program that allows high school students to take college courses for credit. The state argued that the 2023 law rightly protects high school students who are not Christian, straight, and cisgenderthose whose gender identity matches the sex they were assigned at birth.

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