Wed.Dec 14, 2022

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Report: Test-Optional Policies Result in Increased Student Diversity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Test-optional admission policies have resulted in increased application numbers and student diversity at many business schools, according to a recent report by the MBA Roundtable and Wiley. Jeff Bieganek “Test-Optional Admission Policies and The Impact on Graduate Management Education,” surveyed and collected the input of 116 deans, directors, faculty, and staff at 107 graduate business schools – a mix of public schools and private, non-profit schools – in September and October 2022.

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What Is a Smart Campus and What Technologies Support One?

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

There’s no avoiding the role of technology in higher education success. According to a Barnes & Noble College report released this summer, 49 percent of students prefer hybrid learning options, while 35 percent of instructors favor this approach. Meanwhile, a Student Voice survey of higher education students, found that improvements to technology such as Wi-Fi (62 percent), online student portals (37 percent), online course offerings (33 percent), and connective technologies (27 percent) were al

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UNCF's Desireé C. Boykin Awarded 2022 Vanguard Award from Higher Ed Leadership Foundation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Desireé C. Boykin has recently been awarded the Higher Education Leadership Foundation’s (HELF) 2022 Vanguard Award and inducted into its Sankofa Hall of Leadership. Desireé C. Boykin “We believe it is important to honor those who are strengthening the bridge to sustainability and thriving that our ancestors so carefully built and curated,” the foundation said.

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International students are returning to the United States, but will that last?

University Business

The United States has reversed a pandemic-fuelled decline in student enrolment and remains the world’s leading host destination for international students, accepting 15% of the global total in 2021–22, a report finds. In second place is the United Kingdom, which accepts 10% of all international students, followed by Canada at 9%, according to figures from the Institute of International Education (IIE), a non-profit organization based in New York City.

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New Partnership Allows Orange Public School Students to Engage with Peers in Ghana

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Kean University has partnered with the city of Orange, New Jersey; Orange Public Schools; and Oiada International for a program to strengthen relationships between young people on a global scale. The Amistad Global Village Program – which aims to build community relationships through civic engagement and literacy through global connection – will give ninth graders at Orange Preparatory Academy the opportunity to interact with peers at the Osagyefo Leadership International School in Ghana, West A

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Higher education regulator to make freedom of speech priority next year

The Guardian Higher Education

OfS expected to gain new powers to regulate freedom of speech issues in England The Office for Students will make freedom of speech and “off-limits” subjects on university campuses one of its top priorities for next year, despite the regulator receiving only around 60 complaints over the last four years. Susan Lapworth, the OfS’s chief regulator, said students’ experience of higher education in England was “not just measured through statistics,” and could be affected by the attitudes towards iss

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Wayne State University Receives $6 Million for Cluster Hire Program and Black Studies Center

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Wayne State University has received $6 million to recruit and hire 30 new humanities faculty and create a Black studies center. The money – from The Mellon Foundation – will help fund a cluster hire program that will recruit 10 early career scholars in the humanities for a tenure-track preparatory initiative; 10 new tenure-track hires; and 10 tenured faculty at the associate or full professor level.

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More than 600 Adjunct Faculty at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago to Join Union

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

More than 600 adjunct professors and lecturers at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago will join the school’s union, the Chicago Tribun e reported. The Art Institute of Chicago Workers United – the city’s first major museum union –already represents approximately 600 staff at the museum and its affiliated school. This move – following a 377-33 vote to unionize – will double its size.

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Unifying Social Across Campus

Campus Sonar

“Starting social media accounts is the puppy adoption of higher ed” is a Darron Bunt quote that we repeat often. Does your campus have hundreds of campus accounts creating confusion for your audience? Research shows that your prospective and admitted students often turn to Instagram to get an insider’s view on campus life. If their search terms return a handful of inactive accounts before the official, well-managed accounts, it impacts their perception of your campus.

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The Consuming Effects of Commodifying Education on Faculty Members

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Neoliberalism is the application of market ideologies in non-economic matters. For this piece, we identify the function and effects of neoliberalism on the relationships among graduate students and faculty. In higher education, neoliberalism manifests through the not-new concept of students-as-consumers, who “shop” for the best collegiate experience.

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Improving Learning Experiences via Data Enablement 

Collegis Education Data Management

Connected, free-flowing data can be the key to understanding the student journey and positively impacting outcomes, but many colleges and universities struggle to discern clear insights from data that is siloed in separate systems. Collecting, connecting and activating data — which we call “ data enablement ” — can break down silos to inform decisions and drive success.

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HACU and FBI Sign Memorandum of Understanding to Increase Collaboration and Promote FBI Careers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) and the FBI have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU), agreeing to encourage more collaboration. Dr. Antonio R. Flores Per the agreement, the FBI will inform HACU about FBI internships, programs, and hiring opportunities open to college students and recent graduates. “HACU is pleased to enter into this agreement to help provide career opportunities within the FBI to students from Hispanic-Serving Institutions,” said HACU Presiden

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BCG is hiring Advanced Degree Candidates!

CAPD

BCG is hiring advanced degree candidates, aka ADCs (PhDs, postdocs, MDs, JDs, residents, practicing physicians). Check out our ADC website in January for details around additional virtual event opportunities and the Bridge to BCG application process. See below for upcoming events and hiring opportunities! BCG Information Session for Advanced Degree Candidates Get to know us!

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UC San Diego Health Receives $2.2 Million Grant to Encourage High Schoolers to Pursue Health Care Careers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

UC San Diego Health has received $2.2 million to develop a program to encourage high school students in underrepresented communities to pursue health care careers. The grant – from the California Department of Health Care Access and Information (HCAI) and to be distributed over five years – will help fund the “UC San Diego Health Career Experience,” an annual program meant to educate and train students interested in nursing and allied health professions.

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How Carleton College’s CTO increased staff diversity in IT

EAB

Blogs. How Carleton College's CTO increased staff diversity in IT. Insights from a conversation with Janet Scannell, CTO at Carleton College. One of Carleton College’s five pledges in its Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity plan is to increase representation of Black, Latine, Indigenous, and other underrepresented groups in staff roles—a commitment their Chief Technology Officer Janet Scannell has taken concrete steps to deliver.

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BRITTANY A. HOLLOMAN

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Brittany A. Holloman Brittany A. Holloman has been appointed deputy athletic director and director of the Scholar Athlete Program at Talladega College in Alabama. She earned a bachelor’s degree in biology from Stillman College in Tuscaloosa, Ala., a master’s in urban and regional planning from Alabama A&M University, and a Ph.D. in higher education from Jackson State University in Mississippi.

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2 programs that facilitate positive mental health conversations among Black men

EAB

Blogs. 2 programs that facilitate positive mental health conversations among Black men. African Americans are 20% more likely to experience serious mental distress than white Americans but less likely to report signs of mental health distress and suicidal thoughts. Suicide is the third leading cause of death for African American men of all ages, but they are among the least likely populations to seek mental health support.

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TAKAMA STATTON-BROOKS

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Takama Statton-Brooks Takama Statton-Brooks has been appointed interim assistant vice chancellor for university housing at the University of Arkansas. Stratton-Brooks holds a bachelor’s degree in vocational rehabilitation counseling from Emporia State University in Kansas, an MSW from Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas, and a doctorate in educational leadership and administration from Saint Louis University.

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20% of college students struggle to find stable housing—why it could have long-term consequences - Kamaron McNair, CNBC

Ray Schroeder

Where college students used to fear a budget-friendly ramen noodle diet, now 1 in 5 students have dealt with housing insecurity, according to a recent survey from student loyalty network, Student Beans. The company defines housing insecurity as someone who “finds themselves without a permanent place of residence while studying.” “There is a serious lack of affordable housing for students,” says Will Harris, Student Beans’ chief strategy officer.

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Alumni Spotlight: Alanis Caballero

ISA Journal

Stories that Shaped Us: Cultural excursions and travel experiences Alanis Caballero is a TEAN Seoul alumna…

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U grapples with graduate student compensation - REBECCA WALSH, At the U

Ray Schroeder

Graduate student pay is top of mind this fall at the University of Utah. Protests by University of California teaching and research assistants and the phased demolition of family and graduate apartments in University Student Apartments West Village and Medical Plaza have raised questions about how graduate students are compensated and what they pay in rent for university housing.

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Five from MIT named 2023 Quad Fellows

CAPD

Julia Mongo | Office of Distinguished Fellowships Published by MIT News on December 14, 2022. Four recent MIT alumni — Udochukwu Eze ’22, William Rodriguez ’18, Yotaro Sueoka ’20, and Sreya Vangara ’22 — and Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology doctoral student Jacob White have been selected for the inaugural class of the Quad Fellowship. The new fellowship is a joint initiative of the governments of Australia, India, Japan, and the United States, and is administered by Schmidt Futures.

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American college student missing in France for over two weeks, and family says “we fear the worst”

University Business

The family of an American college student who has reportedly gone missing while studying abroad in France is asking the public for help. Ken DeLand, 21, was spending the fall semester of his senior year at the Université Grenoble Alpes, a large university about 90 minutes from the city of Lyon. DeLand was staying with a host family, according to a website created by his family, and was last heard from on Nov. 27, when he communicated with his family via WhatsApp.

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A sign that tuition is too high: Some colleges are hacking it in half

University Business

Over the last two years, applications at Colby-Sawyer College, a small, quaint assemblage of red brick buildings surrounded by three mountains, fell about 10 percent, hurt by the pandemic and by competition from less expensive public colleges across the Northeast. Against that backdrop, Colby-Sawyer made what looks like a radical decision. It hacked the official price of tuition for the 2023-24 school year to $17,500, from about $46,000, a drop of 62 percent.