Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 4, 2023

Dr. Tracy Cook will become interim president of Alcorn State University, effective Jul. 8. Dr. Tracy M. Cook Cook is currently vice president for student affairs and enrollment management at Alcorn State. He has previously served as chief of staff at Alcorn State. "Dr. Cook will keep the university moving forward and building on its rich heritage," said Alfred McNair, president of the Mississippi Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 4, 2023

A white woman reportedly said she wished she was Black because it would give her an easier career. The Berkshire Conference of Women Historians is an acclaimed meeting for female historians. It was founded in 1973, and its meetings attract a who’s who of women in the field of history. This year, a racially inflammatory comment by a senior faculty member in women’s history during an opening plenary session on Friday inflamed the meeting.

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The Guardian Higher Education

JULY 4, 2023

Team hope sale of block of rare ambergris, used by perfumers, will help victims of 2021 La Palma volcano When a sperm whale washed up dead on a beach in the Canary Island of La Palma no one imagined a valuable treasure was hidden in its entrails. Heavy seas and a rising tide made it difficult to carry out a postmortem, but Antonio Fernández Rodríguez, head of the institute of animal health and food security at the University of Las Palmas, was determined to find out why the whale had died.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 4, 2023

A more inclusive definition of merit provides an opportunity for higher ed to reinvent itself after the Supreme Court’s damaging decision, Demetria D. Frank, Darrell D. Jackson and Jamila Jefferson-Jones write. Although the Supreme Court’s decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard came as no surprise, its mandate to exclude the consideration of race in college admissions feels like a gut punch, especially to those of us who have been longtime advocates for educational equity.

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Study and Go Abroad

JULY 4, 2023

QS Top Universities has recently released their 2024 world rankings. Find out where Canada stands and what schools made the top 10. It’s that time of year again! QS Top Universities has released their rankings for 2024’s top universities in the world ! This year, QS has implemented their largest-ever methodology for how they rank schools, with the new metrics of sustainability, employment outcomes, and international research network.

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University Business

JULY 4, 2023

Candidates are lining up for the 2024 presidential election, and as sparks begin to fly on the campaign trail, they’re bound to drive a new round of heated exchanges on our campuses, on our social media feeds and in our families. How can higher education leaders support their students and encourage civil discourse during this contentious election season?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 4, 2023

The Supreme Court decision on affirmative action won’t change deeper reasons Asian Americans are disadvantaged in elite college admissions, Leelila Strogov writes. In a 6-to-3 ruling finding race-conscious admissions practices at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to be unconstitutional, the Supreme Court essentially ended affirmative action, upending the elite college admissions landscape.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 4, 2023

Jaime Warburton details six key tenets that can provide many educational benefits. I have a chronic autoimmune illness, an invisible disability, and my institution took its responsibility to the Americans With Disabilities Act seriously, so my COVID-related online teaching time was longer than that of most of my colleagues—I taught online from spring 2020 to spring 2022.

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Higher Education Whisperer

JULY 4, 2023

The University of South Australia and University of Adelaide are merging. This will make an institution with about 60,000 students, & one of the biggest in the country (after Monash). No doubt staff at both institutions have been crunching the numbers to see if the merged institution will go up in national and global university rankings.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 4, 2023

Today on the Academic Minute: Thomas Mennella, associate professor of biology at Western New England University, explores how students feel about ChatGPT.

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Experiential Learning Depot

JULY 4, 2023

What is project-based learning? What is self-directed learning and how is self-directed project-based learning different than standard PBL? Why is self-directed project-based learning important for learners? ​Get your answers! Start here. I facilitate a women's studies seminar every year, and as a seminar finale, my high school students design self-directed project-based learning experiences around a subtopic of their choice. ​ One year a student chose to self-direct a PBL experience

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 4, 2023

We are already halfway through the summer. Now is the time to put into action your resolution to apply the power of AI at work. Generative AI has been around for a few years, but it hit the higher ed scene in a big way in 2022 with GPT 3.5. All of a sudden, it seemed, artificial intelligence was becoming more than science fiction. Useful tools became available to the average person, and the imperative to understand and join the revolution became a reality.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JULY 4, 2023

4 July · Episode 162 Florida v. Department of Education – Accreditation and Quality Control 36 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton The recently filed Florida v. Department of Education lawsuit over accreditation and control could change the face of higher education across the US. The recently filed and highly publicized Florida v. Department of Education lawsuit could change the face of higher education across the US.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 4, 2023

Three groups in Boston—the Chica Project, the African Community Economic Development of New England and the Greater Boston Latino Network—have asked the Education Department to investigate Harvard University’s practice of operating a legacy admissions program, in which the children of alumni are favored.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JULY 4, 2023

In this post, which kicks off a short series reflecting on Postgraduate Taught (PGT) programmes at the Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI)↗️, Kate Orton-Johnson, Director of Education in EFI, takes stock of EFI’s first year of delivering PGT courses, reflecting on the lessons learnt along the way.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 4, 2023

To the Editor: A June 26 IHE news article on Executive Leadership asks "Should College Presidents Criticize Political Candidates?” This is the wrong question to ask. The right question is, “Should college presidents defend the mission and values of their institution?

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Ray Schroeder

JULY 4, 2023

More than a dozen University of Pittsburgh students walked across the stage this spring only to learn they didn't meet graduation requirements months later. The students were notified by email that the university was withholding their diplomas because they didn't meet graduation requirements. How did this happen? The students say a university advisor mistakenly told them they could waive or substitute numerous prerequisite general education courses to enter the CASE program.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 4, 2023

Hampshire College has eliminated the jobs of the entire 10-member IT department and is replacing it with services from Ellucian, MassLive reported.

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Ray Schroeder

JULY 4, 2023

Currently, the most sought-after application of AI video technology is text-to-video AI. The idea is anyone will be able to type a prompt into a text field and within seconds, or more likely minutes, a video will be created using an AI model. As a creator, the idea of my job so quickly being replaced by AI is terrifying, but as a tech nerd, I am intrigued.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 4, 2023

Overlapping and missing expertise. An occasional correspondent writes, I work for an R1 private 4-year institution at our Computer Science department as an academic administrator. I have a master’s degree in higher education & student affairs, if that’s helpful context. I’m writing to see if you or the readers have discussed how academic units make or should make strategic planning decisions that blur the line between academics and business.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 4, 2023

Orthodox students criticize Brandeis ad; Hope College bets on tuition-free program; Louisiana requires “In God We Trust” in classrooms.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 4, 2023

Another way the Biden administration's definition of antisemitism falls short.

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