Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Pomona College will be preserving the archival collection of alumna and civil rights leader Myrlie Evers-Williams. The collection will be handled by The Claremont Colleges Library. Myrlie and Medgar Evers “I don't want to get too emotional,” said Evers-Williams, who graduated with a sociology degree in 1968. “But it was Pomona College, it was the teachers here who helped me move ahead and come out of this feeling of drowning … And it was my being here at Pomona with the instructors here and the

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Great College Advice

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Consider your audience as you craft the perfect college essay How do you write the perfect college essay? This is a complicated question. In this post, we will focus on your audience. No matter what kind of writing you are doing, you must consider for whom you are writing it. Who’s your audience? This is a good question to ask even as you write your high school papers.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Temple University has withdrawn tuition assistance for graduate students who have been on strike for a week, The Washington Post reported. The students have been striking due to failing negotiations about wages and health-care coverage for dependents, and parental leave duration. This unprecedented move entailed more than a hundred teaching and research assistants being notified Feb. 8 that their tuition remission – worth up to $20,000 a year – had been removed for the spring.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

I, along with faculty colleagues from many different types of institutions, am finding that students are just not as engaged as they have been in the past. In the fall of 2022, more students than I have ever encountered during my 25 years of teaching were tardy or missed classes. Some disappeared altogether. There were students who did not seem to understand the need to take notes, read for class or otherwise engage in the course material.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

When Imperial Valley College (IVC) conducted a student survey seven years ago, they discovered over 200 students experiencing food and housing insecurity. The findings spurred the creation of a basic needs support program on campus, including the IVC Kitchen, which provides emergency food and groceries to hungry students. While visiting the kitchen, then Dean of Student Services Dr.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Image: China’s Ministry of Education will no longer recognize online degrees from overseas colleges, per a Jan. 28 statement from the Service Center for Scholarly Exchange in Beijing. The announcement, which arrived without notice and was effective immediately, impacts Chinese students enrolled at foreign colleges who had been studying online in their home country.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Elizabeth Orehovec Elizabeth Orehovec has been appointed assistant vice president for enrollment management and executive director of undergraduate admissions at the University of South Carolina. Orehovec is a graduate of the University of Miami in Florida. She holds a master’s in higher education administration, an MBA, and a doctorate from the University of South Carolina.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Dr. Hilary L. Link will become president of Drew University, effective Jul. 1. Dr. Hilary L. Link Previously, Link has been president of Allegheny College, dean of Temple University Rome, vice provost at Barnard College of Columbia University, and director of scholar programs at New York University. “I am excited to step into the leadership of Drew University, a strong institution known for providing its students with a truly immersive learning experience and for a faculty distinctively dedicate

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

As she approaches that milestone herself, Susan M. Shaw offers 14 recommendations to help other faculty members leave on their own terms. Job Tags: FACULTY JOBS Ad keywords: faculty Editorial Tags: Career Advice Show on Jobs site: Image Source: olm26250/istock/getty images plus Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?

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University Business

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

From 2023 through 2028, ten community colleges across the nation will have the opportunity to participate in a program that will boost their reputations in a big way. Unlocking Opportunity: The Post-Graduation Success and Equity Network will be working with schools across Texas, Wyoming, Oklahoma, and more to re-tool their programs conducive to valuable degrees.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Artificial intelligence has been a blazingly hot topic in higher education since ChatGPT burst onto the scene in late 2022, stoking early fears that comprehensive, AI-written essays would “blow up” the entire education system. Much of the early panic over ChatGPT has subsided as instructors have realized the limitations of the AI, tools have been developed to detect its use and thought leaders have encouraged colleges to embrace tools like ChatGPT.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

From “devious licks” to vandalizing school property, more districts are becoming aware of the dangerous TikTok trends that students can’t get enough of. But there’s more to be worried about than simply social media trends. TikTok can be a massive cybersecurity issue. Several school districts and universities have pulled the plug and banned the use of the app amidst data privacy concerns.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

In the winter of 2020, while COVID-19 was just beginning to crawl its way across the globe, there was a palpable sense in the United States that the utter catastrophe that COVID has turned out to be, with over one million dead Americans left in its wake (and counting), simply would not happen. Sure, the front pages of newspapers showed Chinese officials in white hazmat suits carrying body bags, but we’d seen such images before with SARS.

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Via's

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Via’s Ease Helps Director Be More Efficient, Feel More Confident By her own admission, Inés Maxit isn’t tech savvy so the study abroad coordinator for Stephen F. Austin State University in East Texas says it was a big step when her office moved from paper to a software system. “It was difficult for me to be really efficient generating reports,” she recalls.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Image: Supporting student success is complex goal. “Every student faces different challenges: first-generation dynamics, lack of resources, debt, housing and transportation, disability, mental health issues, social and pandemic-related issues, even neurodiversity,” says Karen Oehme, director of Florida State University’s Institute for Family Violence Studies, which developed a 20-hour online certification on college student well-being, trauma and resilience that some 2,000 high

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Roompact

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

In this episode of Roompact's ResEdChat podcast, we welcome back Paul to share some of his expert insights on how best to use text messaging in the residence life context.If you have a topic idea or want to engage in the community discussion, use the hashtag #ResEdChat.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Blog: Beyond Transfer Many in higher education talk frequently of how flaws in transfer and credit mobility cost students time and money, but how that plays out is not well articulated. To fill that gap, the Beyond Transfer Policy Advisory Board (PAB) is releasing today a paper that identifies key Affordability Disconnects faced by students as they transition into postsecondary institutions: clear drivers of both increased time to credential and price to students.

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The Guardian Higher Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Research finds that Black students must contend with challenges including high costs and racial discrimination Black students have lower six-year completion rates for any kind of degree or certificate program than students in any other racial or ethnic group, a new study has found. According to the study by Gallup and Lumina Foundation, which was released on Thursday, Black students must contend with various challenges to completing post-secondary programs including high costs and racial discrim

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

After less than eight months on the job, University of Tennessee vice chancellor Carrie Castille is leaving her position as head of UT’s Institute of Agriculture, Knox News reported. No reason was given, but Knox News cited unnamed sources who said Castille “did not enjoy a close working relationship with the Tennessee Farm Bureau,” which is essential to the UTIA job.

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Proctor Academy

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Six sophomores are studying abroad in Monteverde, Costa Rica this winter. Over the past two weeks, students have continued their academic courses while immersing themselves in the biodiversity of the Children’s Eternal Rainforest. Read more from Henry ‘25 and Brenden ‘25 in this week’s blog post from Monteverde.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Vermont State University plans to repurpose libraries on its five campuses and move to an “all-digital academic library” system when it opens as a unified institution in July, VTDigger reported. Parwinder Grewal, who will become president of the new university, announced the decision in an email to students, faculty members and staff Tuesday.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Microsoft has extended an existing partnership with OpenAI, the company behind the much-discussed artificial intelligence-based language processing tool ChatGPT, with an investment that could be worth as much as $10 billion, according to the company and media reports. In a press release issued Jan. 23, Microsoft said it will make a “multiyear, multibillion dollar investment” in OpenAI through the third formal partnership between the two companies, a relationship that dates back to an initial $1

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

As part of a larger redesign of its central Academic Quadrangle, Rice University will move a statue of its founder and namesake, William Marsh Rice, to a less prominent location within the quad, Chron reported Wednesday. The university also recently announced the landscape architecture firm that will lead the redesign: Nelson Byrd Woltz. According to Rice’s announcement of the project last year, the new location of the Founder’s Memorial will include “historical context and inf

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Proctor Academy

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Proctor en Segovia students learn about the Spanish language and culture in history, literature, and Spanish classes and simply by living with a Spanish host family. Powerful learning also occurs during week-long excursions to Spain's diverse regions. In this post, Phuc '23 and Thomas '24 reflect on their cultural immersion experience in Spain's Basque Country region.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Does the possible sale of the University of Phoenix to a public university system signal the demise of the for-profit higher education sector that Phoenix once epitomized? This week’s episode of The Key analyzes the implications of recent news that a nonprofit affiliated with the University of Arkansas system might buy the former giant among for-profit colleges.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Moving quickly as Gov. Ron DeSantis seeks to overhaul New College of Florida, lawmakers next week could funnel $15 million to the liberal-arts school for such things as hiring faculty and providing scholarships. The Joint Legislative Budget Commission, which can make mid-year budget decisions, is scheduled to consider the issue during a meeting Wednesday.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean When someone who reports to you really shines, how do you react? I’ve reported to people who took it as success, or as a sign that they had excellent taste. And I’ve reported to people who were threatened by it. You can imagine my preference. Chad Orzel has a terrific piece this week about different kinds of outstanding basketball players.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Black college students have lower six-year completion rates for any type of degree or certificate program than any other racial or ethnic group because of racial discrimination , the high cost of higher education and a multitude of external responsibilities, according to a new Lumina Foundation-Gallup 2023 State of Higher Education study. The study , released on Thursday, found that Black students in less racially diverse programs are more likely to feel discriminated against, physically and p

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Gray Associates

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Despite concerns about declining enrollment at community colleges, find out how completions have held steady and where growth is happening. From the most popular disciplines to the rise of online programs, dive deep into the data to discover the latest trends and what's driving success in the associate degree world.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

As the cost of education rises, students paying their way through college have to tack on more hours of work to afford an education. A study done by My eLearning World revealed that students have to work four times the amount of hours at a minimum wage job to receive the same education as students 30 years ago. Read more on Spectrum News. The post Students working far more hours to pay for tuition than those 30 years ago appeared first on University Business.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Blog: Learning Innovation You might remember Kaitlin Dumont from the Q&A she and I did when she first pivoted from higher education, as a leader in executive education at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, where she and I were close colleagues, to Kaplan as director of university partners—or that time we discussed her own experience as a working adult learner in Boston University’s low-cost online M.B.A. program through the Questrom School of Business (as I’ve long w

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Ray Schroeder

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Months after revelations of financial turmoil spurred a state investigation at New Jersey City University, legislators want to make sure they’re not caught by surprise the next time a public institution faces a crisis. To that end, they’ve introduced three pieces of legislation designed to beef up financial oversight of the state’s colleges and universities.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The Cooper Union reinstated a student show that it initially barred for fears it would offend the Ukrainians in the neighborhood, The New York Times reported. The exhibit was apolitical, but concerned a Russian response to the Bauhaus. The exhibit is called "“Vkhutemas: Laboratory of the Avant-Garde, 1920-1930." Vkhutema was dismantled by Stalin.

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Ray Schroeder

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Utica University’s president on Jan. 18 recommended ending a dozen degree offerings, moves the institution says were informed by a report it won’t release. The private New York college’s public comment period on the changes ends Thursday. A member of the provost-appointed Academic Program Review Taskforce, which created the report, said the members expected the report was going to become public.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Today on the Academic Minute : Christina M. Frohock, professor of legal writing and lecturer in law at the University of Miami School of Law, shows the unexpected meaning to be found in one classic novel. Learn more about the Academic Minute here. Is this diversity newsletter?: Hide by line?: Disable left side advertisement?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?

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Ray Schroeder

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

We understand that artificial intelligence (AI) resulted in the loss of many blue-collar jobs as smart robots took over the manufacturing process. However, we now know that this generation of AI will have even greater impact in truly creative fields, including art and original authorship. The impact is far-reaching and revolutionary.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Classic novels can carry many meanings. In today’s Academic Minute, the University of Miami’s Christina M. Frohock explores one. Frohock is a professor of legal writing and lecturer in law at Miami’s School of Law. A transcript of this podcast can be found here. Section: Academic Minute File: 02-09-23 Miami School of Law - Reading Lolita as a Sentencing Memorandum.

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