Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
DECEMBER 6, 2023
Frank B. Ashley III Frank B. Ashley III has been named acting dean of the Bush School of Government & Public Service at Texas A&M University. He served as the executive associate dean and senior professor at the school. Ashley holds a bachelor’s degree from Louisiana College and a master’s and doctorate from the University of Alabama.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
DECEMBER 6, 2023
Roughly 79 percent of the grades awarded at Yale University in the 2022–23 academic year were A’s or A-minuses, according to a new report by a Yale economics professor, published by The New York Times.
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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education
DECEMBER 6, 2023
Networks boast a wealth of sensitive data — not to mention thousands of connected end users — so it’s no surprise that colleges and universities remain a constant target for cyberattacks. The need for proactive, comprehensive threat hunting strategies and tactics has never been greater. Over the past 20 years, an estimated 2,700 education data breaches have resulted in 32 million compromised records.
University Business
DECEMBER 6, 2023
The higher education sector can relax knowing that employers still greatly value the merit a degree grants job applicants. Despite their respect, market leaders found a lack of proficiency in these candidates’ critical thinking skills. Students’ ineptness in critical thinking—along with oral communication, problem-solving and analytic reasoning—is not a short-term trend.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
DECEMBER 6, 2023
Charlie Baker’s plan would let Division I colleges compensate players directly and give sports powers enormous latitude to set their own rules if they invest significantly in athletes. The National Collegiate Athletic Association was born more than 100 years ago in response to criticism that college sports was out of control in ways that put athletes at risk.
University Business
DECEMBER 6, 2023
In a letter sent to more than 350 Division I schools Tuesday, Baker said he wants the association to create a new tier of NCAA Division I sports where schools would be required to offer at least half their athletes a payment of at least $30,000 per year through a trust fund. NCAA President Charlie Baker also proposed allowing all Division I schools to offer unlimited educational benefits and enter into name, image and likeness licensing deals with athletes.
AIFS Abroad
DECEMBER 6, 2023
Can you hear the sleigh bells ringing? The Christmas season is here, and while people in the United States certainly put their own spin on it, the holiday is also celebrated around the world by people in other countries, who similarly have their own unique flair. Here are some of the ways people in countries around the world celebrate the Christmas season: 1.
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Ray Schroeder
DECEMBER 6, 2023
Public colleges in Nebraska and Ohio and private institutions in Iowa, Ohio and Oklahoma are the latest affected. As financial strain continues to ripple across the higher ed landscape, below is another in a series of round-up articles of colleges and universities imposing financial cuts in recent days.Numerous institutions, including several in the Midwest, announced their plans leading into the Thanksgiving holiday.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
DECEMBER 6, 2023
The chain of action required to turn institutional policy into real change is broken, writes Don Chu, and a new management model focused on professionalized and empowered department leaders is called for. A Gallup poll recently found that public confidence in higher education has fallen to a historic low of 36 percent.
Teaching Matters Academic Support
DECEMBER 6, 2023
In this post, PhD students, Elisa Cardemone, David Vaca Benavides, Godrey Wanok, and Emilie McSwiggan, who are part of the Advanced Care Research Centre Academy (ACRC), discuss how they developed a successful leadership project from receiving a Student Partnership Agreement grant. This post belongs to the Hot Topic series: Student Partnership Agreement 2023↗️.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
DECEMBER 6, 2023
Paul LeBlanc to Leave Presidency of Southern New Hampshire Doug Lederman Wed, 12/06/2023 - 02:21 PM Under his leadership, the university grew from 2,500 to more than 200,000 students and was a driver of competency-based learning and other innovations.
Ray Schroeder
DECEMBER 6, 2023
After a two-year planning process, Brown has revamped and renamed its career center and is more than doubling its number of advisers, from 13 to 28. It’s an example of the new attention being devoted to career services by universities — even top universities, whose students likely won’t have trouble finding jobs — as consumer demand gets louder for a tangible return on investment for a degree.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
DECEMBER 6, 2023
Seven University of Utah students were charged with misdemeanors Monday after having “stormed” a Nov. 1 event on campus that was critical of the transgender community, The Salt Lake Tribune reported.
The Humphrey Group
DECEMBER 6, 2023
The holiday season is a great opportunity for leaders to show their teams how much they appreciate them. Parties, celebrations and certainly bonuses are wonderful, and they absolutely contribute to a positive workplace culture.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
DECEMBER 6, 2023
Though the number of women in higher education leadership roles has increased since 2002, pay equity hasn’t kept pace, according to the Administrators in Higher Education Survey released Tuesday by the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources.
University Business
DECEMBER 6, 2023
As a lack of affordable housing in the state continues to confront low-income residents, many community college students are feeling the brunt of out-of-reach rent. The National Postsecondary Student Aid Study by the U.S. Department of Education found that, nationally, 8% of community college students experienced homelessness in 2020. There are 31 community colleges in the state, including three tribal colleges.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
DECEMBER 6, 2023
A cross-party coalition of representatives introduced a new bill Tuesday that would set aside Pell Grant funding for short-term postsecondary degree programs, with the goal of “aligning education opportunities with workforce needs,” according to an email from a congressional spokesperson.
University Business
DECEMBER 6, 2023
The Higher Learning Commission, an accreditor for many Ohio universities, has put Wilberforce, a local historically Black university, on notice that it is at risk for not meeting certain criteria to remain accredited. The university is at risk of being out of compliance, according to the HLC, with several core components of how the university operates, including: Sufficient faculty and staff; Student enrollment, retention and degree completion; Budgeting and fundraising; Integrated planning and
Confessions of a Community College Dean
DECEMBER 6, 2023
Today on the Academic Minute, part of New York University Week: Natalie Brito, associate professor in the department of applied psychology, explores how the pandemic affected the gut microbiome of infants.
The Scholarly Teacher
DECEMBER 6, 2023
T odd Zakrajsek , University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Director of the ITLC-Lilly Conferences Key Statement: Much can happen on the first day of class—only if we avoid the dreaded syllabuster. Keywords: Syllabuster, First Day, Learning-Centered Environment Introduction It’s been nearly 20 years since I dropped my daughter off on the first day of middle school.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
DECEMBER 6, 2023
The College Board has released a revised framework of its African American studies Advanced Placement (AP) course, a course that has received plenty of criticism from both advocates and critics this year. Dr. Terrell Strayhorn With this Dec. 6 release , the testing company almost bookends 2023 with its AP African American studies framework releases.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
DECEMBER 6, 2023
The American Association of University Professors released a report today saying Ron DeSantis’s words and actions “come from the same playbook of authoritarianism” as those of Donald Trump and the current leaders of China, India, Turkey and Hungary.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
DECEMBER 6, 2023
Dr. Sophia Rahming is single-handedly helping to revolutionize peer-to-peer learning at Florida State University (FSU). As associate director of the university’s Center for Advancement of Teaching, Rahming oversees FSU’s Learning Assistant Program, which has yielded impressive results in helping students excel in some of the school’s high-enrollment, lower-division courses that provide the foundation for learning in late courses.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
DECEMBER 6, 2023
Students first pushed universities to divest from companies with ties to Israel in 2002, though none did. The Israel-Hamas war has reignited the movement. As the war between Israel and Hamas rages on, many college students sympathetic to the Palestinian cause are focusing their protest efforts on a singular goal: getting their institutions to divest from companies with ties to Israel.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
DECEMBER 6, 2023
As a recent truth-averse presidential administration was getting established in Washington, a prominent spokesperson announced that messaging to the public from its representatives would contain “alternative facts.” This contradictory phraseology was then followed by a torrent of intentional misrepresentations, deliberate distortions, calculated disinformation, and outright lies, and the impact of this malevolent strategy profoundly affected the foundational institutions of society, including th
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