Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Dr. Vernon B. Harper, Jr. will become interim president of California State University, Bakersfield (CSUB), effective Dec. 31, Bakersfield Now reported. Dr. Vernon B. Harper Harper is currently provost and vice president of academic affairs at CSUB. Previously, he was dean of academic programs at the school. “Dr. Harper is a highly principled and energetic academic leader, with a well-established track record of innovation, student success and inspiring faculty engagement and productivity,” said

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

A Women’s College’s Profitable Foray Into Online Learning Lauren.Coffey@… Tue, 09/12/2023 - 03:00 AM Spelman’s experiment with in-house certificate programs earned nearly $2 million in its first year, exceeding its expectations.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

A new paper from Dr. Denisa Gándara, an assistant professor at the University of Texas—Austin, begins on a dispiriting note: although there have been many policy efforts to increase educational opportunity since President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Higher Education Act in 1965, they have largely failed to reduce ethnic and racial disparities at colleges and universities.

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College Forward

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

August 14 may have been an average Monday to some, but for College Possible Milwaukee, it marked the very first day of our 2023-24 Welcome Weeks in which 28 new and returning AmeriCorps coaches officially began their service year. Coaches spent Welcome Weeks connecting with fellow team members, learning the College Possible mission, and training to support scholars before the school year begins.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

U.S. President Joe Biden Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) are getting some recognition from President Joe Biden. The White House has issued a proclamation designating this week, September 11-17, as National Hispanic-Serving Institution Week. "Education beyond high school should be a ticket to the middle class — and across our Nation, more than 500 Hispanic-Serving Institutions have helped to make that promise real, opening the doors of opportunity a bit wider for generations of Hispanic col

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

As digital transformation initiatives accelerate across colleges and universities, institutions must bring their applications up to date. The limitations of some legacy applications may hold back transformation efforts and hamper improvements to efficiency, productivity and security. “This slows the pace of innovation because organizations can't meet the demands of their customers,” says Greg Peters, chief architect for strategic application modernization assessment with CDW.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The University of Michigan-Flint is partnering with select Michigan community colleges to bring more students into nursing programs. The $56 million initiative – a result of Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's 2023 budget – is offering community colleges up to $2 million to help students transfer to B.S. in Nursing programs, an effort to increase access and affordability for such programs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Ron Brade Ron Brade has been appointed senior vice president of administration and chief operating officer at Xavier University of Louisiana. He served as associate vice chancellor for strategic acquisitions and chief procurement officer at the University of North Texas System. Brade holds a bachelor’s degree in liberal arts and sciences from Virginia Tech and an MPA from The George Washington University.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

In California, New Debate Over an Old Funding Law jessica.blake@… Tue, 09/12/2023 - 03:00 AM The Fifty Percent Law, enacted more than 50 years ago, requires community colleges in the state to spend at least half their budget on instruction.

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PUC

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

by Vivian Geow (PUC accreditation specialist & MBA program advisor) Between July 26 – August 8 of 2023, I participated in a mission trip conducted by ShareHim ministries to Colombia. Participants with ShareHim are tasked to preach – something I said I would never, ever do.

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Ed.gov Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The ED Games Expo is the annual public showcase of game-changing forms of education technology created through more than 50 programs at the U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, and across government. The 9th annual Expo will occur from September 19 to 22. In addition to its many in-person events at the Kennedy Continue Reading The post ED Games Expo 2023: Featuring a Livestreamed Science Is Cool (ScIC) Event on September 21 appeared first on ED.gov Blog.

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College Forward

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Sinyetta is the first in her family to attend and graduate from college. Being a first-generation student could be challenging at times. She often couldn’t turn to her family for college advice, but this never prevented her from achieving her higher education goals. In fact, this only drove her to pursue experiences, programs and support to help her be as successful as possible.

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Higher Education Whisperer

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Paul Girrawah House, welcome to country,Greetings from the "Extinction thwarted? The nexus between climate change, social equity and health" symposium at the ANU Research School of Physics theatre in Canberra. There is still time to join in free online. The symposium explores the interaction between climate change, social inequality, and disease. How do we fix that?

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

At The Presidents Dinner in Washington, D.C., last week, 15 college presidents gathered with national media outlets to engage in organic conversation about higher education and some of today’s most pressing issues. Seeing that the presidents attending predominantly hailed from selective, well-endowed private colleges with a student enrollment of fewer than 5,000 students, Doug Lederman, editor and co-founder of Inside Higher Ed, suggested defining certain institutions as “elite”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

A Blueprint for Graduate Student Leadership Sarah Bray Tue, 09/12/2023 - 03:00 AM It’s challenging to balance it with academic commitments, write William A. Repetto and Ioannis Vasileios Chremos, but there are ways to do so successfully. Byline(s) William A.

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Higher Education Whisperer

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Professor Sharon FrielProfessor Sharon Friel, chair of the "climate change, social equity and health symposium at the ANU argues that consumption by the rich has to be reduced to combat global warming. The Professor suggests that social movements can accomplish this. However, asking rich powerful people to give up what they have has not proved successful so far.

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Roompact

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

We signed up to work with students. At least, the majority of us did. Why, then, are we haunted by the lurking voicemails of parents? Many of them are miles away from our buildings. Some are as close as a hop onto the highway. All of them just want the best for their child.

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College for Creative Study

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The post CCS Alum Elena Esposito Wins The Stanislav Libenský Award 2023 Special Prize appeared first on College for Creative Studies.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

University of Maryland, Eastern Shore, a historically Black university, and the University of Maryland Baltimore are contesting a proposal by Johns Hopkins University to offer a physical therapy doctoral program. Campus leaders at the two institutions claim the proposed program duplicates their programs, The Baltimore Sun reported.

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Ray Schroeder

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Dr. Tyler Cowen speaks to students and faculty about “The Economics of Articifial Intelligence” on September 7, 2023, In the Great Hall of the Memorial Union as a part of the Iowa State Lecture Series Higher education has adapted slowest to artificial intelligence (AI), according to Tyler Cowen, economics professor at George Mason University. “We stand at a very unusual moment in human history,” Cowen said.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

A state court in Washington on Monday granted a temporary restraining order that precludes the Pacific-12 Conference’s board from meeting tomorrow to potentially make decisions about the league’s future.

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EAB

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Podcast Will the SCOTUS Ruling Influence Financial Aid Strategy? Episode 165. September 12, 2023. Welcome to the Office Hours with EAB podcast. You can join the conversation on social media using #EABOfficeHours. Follow the podcast on Spotify , Google Podcasts , Apple Podcasts , SoundCloud and Stitcher or visit our podcast homepage for additional episodes.

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The Guardian Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

KCL study finds many leading UK institutions remain highly dependent on Chinese students UK universities would be hugely damaged by a sustained diplomatic rift between Britain and China, according to a report that predicts difficulty in replacing the Chinese students who now take up more than one in four PhD places. The study , co-authored by the former universities minister Jo Johnson, found that many leading institutions remain highly dependent on Chinese students for tuition fee income as wel

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

In this post, Zohra spotlights a Student Partnership Agreement (SPA)↗️ funded collaborative project that offers additional support and outreach to mature students most often at risk of feeling lonely and isolated at the University. Zohra O’Doherty is a Project Manager and Business Analyst on Learning, Teaching and Web projects.

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The Guardian Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

James Churchill says the Tory replacement scheme is a poor substitute, Ray Kirtley says Boris Johnson’s decision to take us out of the programme was an act of cultural vandalism. Plus letters from Michael Anderson and Chris Hughes While the U-turn on rejoining the EU’s Horizon scheme is welcome, spare a thought for the Erasmus Plus scheme, less well-financed but much more influential among young people ( EU diplomats hope Horizon deal could be first of many with UK, 7 September ).

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The move from one of the US’s largest private universities, whose endowment totals over $5bn, represents a significant win for the climate movement, organizers said. The university first formalized the commitment in an August letter from William R Berkley, chair of NYU’s board of trustees, which was seen by the Guardian, addressed to a student activist group.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Which Path Forward? mprutter@mit.edu Tue, 09/12/2023 - 03:00 AM Toward a conception of college that is spartan and transactional or that is developmental and transformative?

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CU Work-Life Balance

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The University of Colorado will administer a self-funded and self-administered paid family leave program to provide benefits outlined by Colorado’s Paid Family and Medical Leave Insurance (FAMLI) program. State law allows employers to offer a self-funded and self-administered paid family leave program with benefits that meet or exceed the state’s FAMLI program, instead of participating in the state insurance program.

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ISA Journal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

I'm spending the month of July studying abroad in Rome, Italy, and over the past two weeks, I've already met some of the most amazing people on my program. I had decided to come alone for this study abroad experience. I didn't know anyone upon arriving here, and, at first, I was pretty nervous.

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CAPD

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Take advantage of the Institute holiday on September 22 and join us at the in-person Fall Career Fair! Kick off the academic year with some career exploration, learn about different opportunities, and get exposure to what recruiting is like at MIT. The annual in-person MIT Fall Career Fair is on Friday, September 22, 2023 from 10 – 4pm in the Johnson Athletic Center and Rockwell Cage W34.

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EAB

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Press Release PowerSchool and EAB Partner to Simplify College Admissions and Expand College Access for Millions of Students Users of the Naviance platform will now have easier access to offers of college admission and financial aid via EAB’s Concourse technology September 12, 2023 FOLSOM, CALIF. AND WASHINGTON, DC – September 12, 2023 – PowerSchool (NYSE: PWSC), the leading provider of cloud-based software for K-12 education in North America, and EAB , the leading provider of higher education re

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The enhanced focus on mental wellbeing can be seen at Frostburg State, too. After a shooting during the university’s homecoming weekend in October 2022 only two blocks away from campus and another in May across the street from school property, many students and faculty are voicing their concern for the stability of mental health on academic performance.

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The Guardian Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Adopted children experience many of the same issues in education as children in care, notes Kimberly Clarke Ten cheers for Floella Benjamin, Civitas and the cross-party group of peers behind the report Breaking the Care Ceiling ( Young people leave care, then are hung out to dry. Why don’t we help them get to university instead?, 11 September ). However, I would urge them – and anyone who is considering the issues involved – to expand their work to explicitly include adopted children.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The brain drain is particularly prevalent in Iowa, as each of its neighboring states has a higher retention rate, according to the Washington Post. When comparing college graduates produced in a state versus college graduates living in the state, Iowa falls negative, sitting at -34.2% This statistic took the percentage of college graduates produced in Iowa against the percentage of college graduates living in Iowa, meaning that Iowa is losing over 34% of the college graduates produced in the sta

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Today on the Academic Minute: Judith DeSena, professor of sociology at St. John’s University, discusses how two iconic neighborhoods in Brooklyn responded to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

12 September · Episode 172 How Post University's Career Readiness Model Can Help Not-For-Profit Universities and Graduates 36 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton Learn how Innovative Career Readiness Strategies from For-Profit Post University Can Be Used as a Blueprint for Not-for-Profit Campuses. Although a for-profit institution, Post University employs a unique and effective two-fold approach to its career readiness model to ensure graduates are career-ready with lifelong learnin

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

It’s a safe bet that there are more women on your campus than men. With women peaking past men in college enrollment by the 1980s, this isn’t breaking news. But what’s concerning is the fact that this trend isn’t slowing down. For every six women on campus today, there are roughly four men. As higher education lost 1.5 million students between 2016 and 2021, men accounted for 70% of the exodus, The Atlantic reports.

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