The Guardian Higher Education

JANUARY 8, 2023

Whether you are stuck in a rut or have ambitions you’d still like to pursue, adult education gives you a second chance. Six people tell Michael Segalov how taking a course inspired them I studied biology in Iraq for my undergraduate degree and worked in a pathology lab. In my 20s, I fled the place where I was born and raised, when Islamic State were advancing.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 8, 2023

Blog: Learning Innovation In a recent Bloomberg column, Tyler Cowen offers his diagnosis of what ails higher education. In a piece titled, Higher Education Is Headed in the Wrong Direction, Cowen gestures toward the “Woke and PC stuff” but then spends the bulk of the less on the “gradual, less visible changes that also contribute to the declining status of the US system of higher education.

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Ray Schroeder

JANUARY 8, 2023

Cash-strapped New Jersey City University is taking a sharpened axe to its list of academic programs and roster of professors, The Jersey Journal has learned. In an effort to cut more than $12 million in expenses to balance its 2022-23 operating budget, university officials announced they’re eliminating 37% of its 171 academic programs and laying off 30 tenured professors.

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Experiential Learning Depot

JANUARY 8, 2023

The benefits of self-directed learning are clear. There are benefits to teachers, parents, and the students that are being asked to design and direct their own learning experiences. Let's dive into some of the benefits of student-led learning. The benefits of self-directed learning in the classroom far outweigh the costs. When I say "costs", I mean those concerns that make educators reluctant to have their students design, lead and manage their own learning experiences.

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Ray Schroeder

JANUARY 8, 2023

Rural young people who aspire to a higher education have long had fewer choices than their urban and suburban counterparts, contributing to far lower rates of college-going. Now many of the universities that serve them are eliminating large numbers of programs and majors. That means the already limited number of options available to rural students are being squeezed still further, forcing them to travel even greater distances to college than they already do or give up on it altogether.

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