Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 6, 2023

As president, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said he would strip accreditation from colleges and universities with diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs, MSNBC reported. It is unclear, however, if he would possess the authority to do so. Gov. Ron DeSantis DeSantis made the comments during an Oct. 4 interview with conservative commentator Hugh Hewitt.

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Great College Advice

OCTOBER 6, 2023

When it comes to college-bound students’ impressions of the relationship between financial aid and admissions, anxiety seems to rule the day. Many of my students and families worry that if they check the box on the college application indicating that they will be applying for financial aid that they won’t get in. So this is the question I hear over and over, “does applying for financial aid hurt my college admissions chances?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Piedmont Community College will be offering a Taylor Swift course next year. Taylor Swift Scott Legato/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management file The course will be taught by Dr. David Townsend, dean of university transfer and general education and a self-proclaimed “life-long Swiftie.” Seeing larger schools with similar offerings inspired him to create the course about the popular artist, he said.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Waiting for FAFSA Liam Knox Fri, 10/06/2023 - 03:00 AM A major overhaul to the federal student aid form delayed its launch at least two months. That means headaches for everyone from financial aid officers to applicants.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 6, 2023

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris will visit the College of Charleston on Oct. 11, as part of her Fight for Our Freedoms college tour. U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images The event will take place at 1 p.m. at the Sottile Theatre. The tour itself is meant to focus on issues disproportionately impacting young people, such as reproductive freedom, gun safety, climate action, voting rights, LGBTQ+ equality, mental health, and book bans, according to a press release.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Arizona Faculty Threatened After Online Commotion Over Gender Teaching Ryan Quinn Fri, 10/06/2023 - 03:00 AM College of Nursing employees were called "groomers" and received threats in response to Libs of TikTok's posting of two class slides. Faculty members are criticizing the university’s response.

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Ed.gov Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2023

By: Catherine Mcconnell, Policy Advisor Office of Career, Technical and Adult Education, US Department of Education The U.S. Department of Education is excited to join manufacturers, workers, educators, students, and families across our nation in celebrating National Manufacturing Day. Manufacturing is essential to our country’s vitality: it sparks creativity, fuels global competitiveness, brings dreams and Continue Reading The post Celebrating National Manufacturing Day: Creating Our Future ap

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Roompact

OCTOBER 6, 2023

What does the future of AI-based technology hold? We’re doing a little experiment, specifically with the AI chat-bot, ChatGPT. This post is part of a series where we ask ChatGPT interesting, unusual, or just plain fun questions related to residence life and college student housing. All answers were generated by the AI. At the end.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Federal Grant Proves Elusive for Certain Colleges kathryn.palmer… Fri, 10/06/2023 - 03:00 AM The money is set aside for institutions serving large numbers of Asian American, Native American and Pacific Islander students, but many eligible colleges don’t apply because of bureaucratic hurdles.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

OCTOBER 6, 2023

In this post, we share with you the Collegiate Commentary from our latest Teaching Matters newsletter↗️: Five conundrums from the Moving forward with ChatGPT series↗️ In this commentary, Sue Beckingham, Associate Professor (Learning and Teaching) at Sheffield Hallam University presents a comprehensive overview of AI in academia.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Pat Fitzgerald, the Northwestern University football coach who was suspended and later fired following allegations of hazing on the football team, is suing the university for wrongful termination, the

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PUC

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Andrea Maidan chose to attend PUC because it allowed her to be in nature and was highly recommended to her by friends and family. “The educational aspects and the fact that it is centered around God – this was another reason I wanted to attend,” said Andrea.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Columbia College plans to cut more than 120 jobs and close 17 of its 45 locations across the U.S. to address a budget shortfall at the private institution headquartered in Missouri, KOMU reported. In all, 122 jobs—some vacant—are expected to be cut, according to KOMU, the local NBC affiliate.

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Ray Schroeder

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The interest rates on new graduate loans from the U.S. Department of Education now top 7% while those for undergraduate loans have reached over 5%, the highest levels they’ve been in over a decade. That’s partly because the Federal Reserve has been combating elevated inflation by raising its benchmark interest rate to the highest level in over two decades.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The state of Michigan will no longer require a bachelor’s degree for many state jobs if the applicants are military veterans who have completed at least two years of active service at the rank of staff sergeant or above.

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Ray Schroeder

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Among the people streaming onto Baker College campuses early this fall were some new faces: federal investigators conducting an unusual review of the marketing and recruitment practices of the Michigan private college. The investigators looked at records and asked questions about admission interactions, including what prospective students were told about cost, financial aid and postgraduation salaries, according to multiple sources with direct knowledge who spoke anonymously because they said th

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SRHE

OCTOBER 6, 2023

by Sam Elkington and Jill Dickinson Wednesday September 13 th was the final instalment of the three-part SRHE ‘Landscapes of Learning for Unknown Futures: prospects for space in higher education’ symposia series, delivered in partnership with series co-convenors Professor Sam Elkington and Dr Jill Dickinson. This was the final symposium in the series following on from the inaugural symposium event (in April 2023), which used the lens of ‘Networks’ to discuss contemporary evidence of how HE learn

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AIFS Abroad

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Having an internship on your resume is incredibly attractive to prospective employers (especially if it’s with an international company). But mentioning it in passing simply isn’t enough — you need to know how to talk about your internship in a way that showcases the impact it’s had on you professionally and personally, and how it can benefit the company or organization you’re hoping to work with.

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CU Work-Life Balance

OCTOBER 6, 2023

LinkedIn Learning recently introduced a new library of curated learning content called Role Guides. These guides act as libraries for common job roles that bring together all content — from learning paths to courses to individual videos — relevant to that job role. Role Guides can be tailored for individual companies or institutions, such as CU, to meet any specific job responsibilities for a given role at that organization.

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University Business

OCTOBER 6, 2023

United States Vice President Kamala Harris will visit the College of Charleston as part of her “Fight for Our Freedoms” college tour, the school announced Thursday. The visit will come on Wednesday, Oct. 11. The event will be held in the Sottile Theatre, beginning at 1 p.m. Harris’ tour touches on critical issues such as reproductive freedom, gun safety, climate action, voting rights, LGBTQ+ equality, mental health, and book bans.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The increasing frequency of ransomware threats and attacks have spurred colleges and universities to focus on cybersecurity defenses. However, physical security at higher education institutions is also a major concern and can be just as challenging. Most universities, especially large ones, employ campus police, but they can’t be everywhere at once.

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University Business

OCTOBER 6, 2023

University of Nebraska President Ted Carter, at an NU Board of Regents meeting at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, said the work outlined this summer in a “Five-Point Plan” is ongoing to address a projected $58 million shortfall over the next two years. That plan is not just a drill to find cost savings, Carter said, because without action, the university’s deficit will grow and the risk of losing major programs or even colleges will increase.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The National Collegiate Athletic Association on Thursday reversed an earlier ruling that had made a football player transferring to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ineligible to compete. That isn’t remarkable: the NCAA makes such rulings regularly. But the language it used in announcing the decision was.

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University Business

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Among the college presidents to come and go in the past two weeks, two positions were indirectly decided by Gov. Ron DeSantis and his plan to re-envision education in Florida. Among the slate of presidents to announce their plans to retire in the next year, all three double as school alumni. Hired Richard Corcoran – New College of Florida Richard Corcoran has officially become the permanent president of New College of Florida after serving as interim president since January.

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College for Creative Study

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Farmacy is a comprehensive app that has been specifically designed to provide farmers with a one-stop solution for all their agricultural needs.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The Swedish Academy has awarded Norwegian playwright Jon Fosse the 2023 Nobel Prize in literature “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable.” “While he is today one of the most widely performed playwrights in the world, he has also become increasingly recognised for his prose,” the citation read.

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The Guardian Higher Education

OCTOBER 6, 2023

My friend and colleague John Bynner, who has died aged 85, was a social scientist who championed Britain’s birth cohort studies and had a mission to put the evidence to the greater good. John believed that data should inform policy to help people who are disadvantaged. His research on the penalties of the poor literacy and numeracy revealed in young adults by the cohort studies led to a national campaign.

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University Business

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Texas A&M University’s Interim President Mark Welsh III told faculty and staff in College Station on Wednesday that the university will largely stay the course on many unpopular organizational changes initiated by his predecessor. But he said that he and his administration will closely monitor the changes and continue to gather feedback from faculty and staff to make sure the new policies work as they’re intended to and assess if they need to be tweaked or abandoned in the future.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Today on the Academic Minute, part of SUNY Polytechnic Institute Week: Adam McLain, associate professor of biology, travels to Africa to observe one of the natural world’s many secrets.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Georgia Democratic lawmakers are calling on Gov. Brian Kemp to address funding gaps for state HBCUs. Rep. Sandra Scott Reps. Sandra Scott ,Viola Davis, and Kim Schofield hosted a news conference last week to call attention to funding issue. The lawmakers argued that funding has been a longstanding problem and threatened Kemp with a federal lawsuit if he makes no attempt to fix it.

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University Business

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Every year, Camps Pride updates its “Worst List,” a ranking of sorts that features colleges and universities with a documented history of anti-LGBTQ+ actions, programs and practices. The latest list found that colleges and universities in the past year took subtler ways of antagonizing LGBTQ+ students by leveraging their religious affiliation to escape being accused of sexual harassment by the federal government.

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