Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2024

Lumina Foundation and Gallup's State of Higher Education 2024 Report Lumina Foundation and Gallup While interest in higher education is increasingly high among adults, many perspective students see cost as a hindrance while some current students are dispirited by emotional stress, according to a new study by Lumina Foundation and Gallup. The State of Higher Education 2024 Report documents how current, prospective, and stopped-out students view post-high school education pathways, their access to

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MAY 8, 2024

Beyond the Research Sarah Bray Wed, 05/08/2024 - 03:00 AM Michel Estefan offers a roadmap for helping graduate student instructors cultivate their distinct teaching style.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2024

Dr. Eboni M. Zamani-Gallaher has been named the Renée and Richard Goldman Endowed Dean of the School of Education at the University of Pittsburgh. “I am honored and excited to serve as the Renée and Richard Goldman Endowed Dean of the University of Pittsburgh School of Education,” said Zamani-Gallaher, a professor in the Pittsburgh’s Department of Educational Foundations, Organizations, and Policy.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MAY 8, 2024

Liberal Arts Microcredentials on the Rise Sara Weissman Wed, 05/08/2024 - 03:00 AM Badges and certificates aren’t just for technical fields anymore.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2024

Mary Alexander has been named vice provost for administration and operations at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. She served as vice provost for administration at the University of South Carolina in Columbia. Alexander holds a bachelor’s degree in both finance and operations management, a master’s in public administration, and a doctorate in higher education policy and leadership all from the University of South Carolina.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MAY 8, 2024

Massachusetts Institute of Technology departments will no longer ask for diversity statements as part of applications for faculty positions, the university says.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2024

The global nonprofit Aspen Institute has named 20 semifinalists for the 2025 Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence, a $1 million prize. The award — funded by Ascendium, the Joyce Foundation, JPMorgan Chase, and the Kresge Foundation — recognizes colleges with outstanding performance in teaching and learning, certificate and degree completion, transfer and bachelor’s attainment, workforce success, broad access to the college and its offerings, and equitable outcomes for students of color a

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University Business

MAY 8, 2024

The U.S. Department of Education announced a multimillion-dollar grant program on Monday to help students apply for federal financial aid. It comes after the rollout of changes to the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA, caused delays throughout this year’s college admissions process. The changes were meant to make it easier to fill out and expand access to Pell Grants, which don’t need to be repaid.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MAY 8, 2024

State Higher Ed Funding is Still Rising—for Now Liam Knox Wed, 05/08/2024 - 03:00 AM Even as federal stimulus waned, lawmakers boosted support for public colleges in 2023, with an emphasis on financial aid. Can it make up for falling tuition revenue?

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University Business

MAY 8, 2024

Nationwide, folks are reconsidering the need for a college degree. Their reasons have varied over the years, but most people will tell you cost is their greatest barrier to entry in 2024. That’s according to a recent survey from Gallup and the Lumina Foundation, the latest read on Americans’ perceptions of the overwhelming cost of pursuing higher education.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MAY 8, 2024

For Title IX, Beware Diminishing Due Process Elizabeth Redden Wed, 05/08/2024 - 11:01 AM Colleges should be wary of adopting weaker due process protections permitted under the new Title IX regulations, T. Markus Funk and Jean-Jacques Cabou write. Byline(s) T.

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Ray Schroeder

MAY 8, 2024

About one university or college per week so far this year, on average, has announced that it will close or merge. That’s up from a little more than two a month last year, according to the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association, or SHEEO. So many colleges are folding that some students who moved from one to another have now found that their new school will also close, often with little or no warning.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MAY 8, 2024

Education Department Steps Up Efforts to Combat Antisemitism Katherine Knott Wed, 05/08/2024 - 03:00 AM Amid widespread campus unrest, new guidance from the Office for Civil Rights spells out how the agency is interpreting federal civil rights laws.

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Ed.gov Blog

MAY 8, 2024

By: Abigail Swisher, Rural Impact Fellow, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education Spanning 37,000 miles across Alaska, the Northwest Arctic Borough School District has struggled to hire and retain enough new teachers. The eleven villages within the district – many of them above the Arctic Circle – are sparsely populated and remote. The winters are Continue Reading The post How Mentoring is Reaching New Teachers in Rural Alaska appeared first on ED.gov Blog.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MAY 8, 2024

Fifty-one Texas lawmakers signed a letter of support for University of Texas-Austin president Jay Hartzell after the university’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) criticized his administration’s “militarized response” to campus protests and called for his resignation.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

MAY 8, 2024

In this post, Professor Rachel Muers, from the School of Divinity, describes how a team of academic staff have trialed some new teaching approaches in a first year, first semester course: “Theology and Religious Studies Foundation Seminar” based on reflection and formative feedback.

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Gray Associates

MAY 8, 2024

Today, Gray DI, the leading provider of academic program evaluation software, launched AI Reports: easy-to-understand text reports that summarize dozens of metrics on the markets for academic programs. AI Reports enables leaders from English to Engineering professors to academic deans, provosts, and presidents to understand the markets for programs and make better decisions on academic programs to Start, Stop, Fix, or Grow – decisions that drive enrollment growth and efficiency.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

MAY 8, 2024

In this podcast, three Student Wellbeing Advisers (Douglas, Sibyl and Tessa) introduce the Student Wellbeing Service at the University. They highlight the support available through one-one sessions, drop-ins, workshops and other proactive activities. They also discuss some of the common themes in student wellbeing that they’ve seen over the past 2 years.

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University Business

MAY 8, 2024

Florida and its governor have stirred up plenty of controversy around K12 and higher education in recent years. But Florida still landed No. 1—for the second year in a row—in U.S. News & World Report ‘s top 10 states for education rankings. Florida’s overall No. 1 ranking was driven primarily by “stellar metrics in higher education” though it also performed strongly for K12. “The debate around education in Florida is among the most contentious in America,”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MAY 8, 2024

Today on the Academic Minute, part of Binghamton University Week: Vipul Lugade, associate professor of physical therapy, looks at improving balance for seniors to help them avoid falls.

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University Business

MAY 8, 2024

Chief information officers are struggling to support their institution’s retention and enrollment rates due the difficulties of providing a seamless digital experiences to students, according to a new report by Ocelot , an AI-driven communication platform. “The 2024 Higher Education CIO Trends Report” features survey responses from over 100 CIOs across nonprofit and private two- and four-year institutions to understand their priorities for the upcoming academic year, as well as

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Higher Education Whisperer

MAY 8, 2024

Greetings from Microsoft's Canberra office where I am attending a glitzy GitHub presentation. The bold claim made was that Copilot, Microsoft's implementation of ChatGPT, could end the computer productivity paradox. The paradox is that computers have not increased office productivity. We were invited to photograph the slide of claimed productivity increases.

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University Business

MAY 8, 2024

Police cleared a pro-Palestinian tent encampment at the University of Chicago on Tuesday after administrators who had initially adopted a permissive approach said the protest had crossed a line and caused growing concerns about safety. University President Paul Alivisatos acknowledged the school’s role as a protector of freedom of speech after officers in riot gear blocked access to the school’s Quad but also took an enough-is-enough stance.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2024

Dr. Julie V. Philley has been named president of the University of Texas at Tyler. Philley, who succeeds Dr. Kirk A. Calhoun, serves as the university’s executive vice president for health affairs and vice provost and is a board-certified physician in pulmonary and critical care medicine. Dr. Julie V. Philley “I am grateful for so many experiences provided to me at UT Tyler that offered a valuable understanding of the complexities of higher education and health care, and I am eager to work in th

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University Business

MAY 8, 2024

The college experience for many of the parents of the Class of 2024 did not begin with the quintessential moment of loading up the car to drive to campus. Instead, parents wished their freshly minted college students luck as they logged on to classes online. The pandemic meant that for many, there had been no high school graduation ceremonies. Now, some of the families who had to forgo college traditions are facing a graduation season that has been thrown into chaos by a wave of student-led prot

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MAY 8, 2024

Cardona Tangles With House Republicans Katherine Knott Wed, 05/08/2024 - 03:00 AM In a fiery House hearing Tuesday, the education secretary apologized for FAFSA delays and pressed for more funding to support investigations into campus antisemitism. But many of his answers frustrated Republicans.

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University Business

MAY 8, 2024

The employment landscape has seen dramatic changes over the past few years. A dynamic economy, coupled with the lingering effects of the pandemic, makes it difficult for graduates to leverage the skills they’ve gained during their postsecondary journeys. Seventy-seven percent of graduates say they’re concerned about job security while seeking employment right now, according to Monster’s 2024 State of the Graduate Report.

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The Guardian Higher Education

MAY 8, 2024

Five-day encampment in university grounds that caused the college major loss of income ended in victory for campaigners Students at Trinity College Dublin have ended a five-day encampment after the university pledged to cut ties with Israeli companies. Student leaders claimed victory on Wednesday night for a US-style campaign that had disrupted the campus and blocked access to the Book of Kells.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2024

Student, faculty, and public protestors come together at Washington Square Park near New York University on April 23, the day after NYU leaders directed the NYPD to arrest over 130 protestors. In the spring of protest, two institutional responses to the encampments of pro-Palestine protestors have emerged: peaceful and non-peaceful. The majority of protesting students are calling for their institutions to disclose their investments and to divest from any funding or connections with Israel, wheth

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Dr. Simon Paul Atkinson

MAY 8, 2024

In March 2024, in response to New Governmental mandates that all state schools (publicly funded schools) ban all mobile phones from classrooms and playgrounds during school hours, I wrote a blog piece for the Flexible Learning Association of New Zealand. It was a balanced for-and-against piece, highlights arguments for both perspectives. My actual views, my personal views, are somewhat different.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MAY 8, 2024

After a little-known hemp farmer’s $237 million donation to Florida A&M University raised skepticism this week, the vice chair of the university’s board is calling for an emergency public meeting, The Tallahassee Democrat reported Tuesday.

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University Business

MAY 8, 2024

It may not surprise higher ed leaders that students overwhelmingly back the wave of pro-Palestinian campus protests taking over colleges and universities. What may be startling is a poll that shows how some college students feel about hate speech and violence. Two-thirds of the 750-plus students polled told the college search firm Intelligent that they support the protests against Israel’s invasion and bombing of Gaza while just more than half have experienced a protest on their own campus

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