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Should African Americans Trust the College Board with African American Studies?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The College Board's decision to revise its African American Studies curriculum has come under fire from many who argue that the changes are motivated by political pressure rather than pedagogical considerations. The new curriculum, which is stripped of much of the subject matter that the DeSantis administration opposed, has been criticized for erasing the experiences of Black writers and scholars associated with critical race theory, reparations, the queer experience, and Black feminism.

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Seven ways to leverage faculty development for student success

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Maximizing faculty development’s impact on student success and equitable learning requires targeted action. That’s the upshot of a recent report from Every Learner Everywhere, Achieving the Dream and the Online Learning Consortium. The report , which is based on survey and interview data from 95 responding institutions, also draws on evidence-based standards for high-impact faculty development.

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St. Thomas University Law School Named Benjamin L. Crump College of Law

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The College of Law at St. Thomas University will be renamed the Benjamin L. Crump College of Law, making the law school the U.S.’s first to be named after a practicing Black attorney. Benjamin L. Crump The name was formally announced earlier this week. "The naming of the Benjamin L. Crump College of Law at St. Thomas University is the latest step in an effort to encourage bridge-building among the legal profession, law enforcement, and our communities," said David A.

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Education Department hints at possible delay of new FAFSA

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: The new version of the Free Application of Student Aid might not be ready by Oct. 1, Federal Student Aid officials said Tuesday, though the agency is planning to launch the application in the fourth quarter of this year. Melanie Storey, deputy director of policy implementation and oversight for the Office of Federal Student Aid, told attendees at the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators’ leadership conference that the agency wouldn’t commit to a launch

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APLU and Temple University Releases Guide on Higher Ed Completion Grant Implementation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) and Temple University have released a guide for higher ed institutions on how to implement completion grants for their students. Dr. Christel Perkins Completion grants are funds given to students who need them to finish out their degree or academic journey. The APLU and its sister organization, the Coalition of Urban Serving Universities, partnered with Temple University’s Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice for a five-year

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Ep.93: Is For-Profit Higher Education on Its Last Legs?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

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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A Return to the ‘Normal-Normal’: Colleges Ready to Adjust to End of Pandemic Emergencies

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As the COVID-19 pandemic dawned in Spring 2020, the federal government granted institutions of higher education a series of waivers and flexibilities that allowed them to continue functioning under radically different conditions. Schools were allowed to pay work-study wages for students whose employment was interrupted by COVID, for example, and didn’t have to count incomplete classes due to COVID in financial aid calculations.

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KERI KEI SHIBATA

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Keri Kei Shibata Keri Kei Shibata has been named assistant vice president for campus safety and chief of police at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. She served 18 years as a member of the university’s police department. Shibata holds a bachelor’s degree from what is now Bethel University and an Executive MBA from the University of Notre Dame.

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What’s New in SIEM for Higher Education InfoSec Teams?

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

Security information and event management tools have become must-haves for security teams looking to make sense of millions or even hundreds of millions of events each day. While the underlying SIEM concept hasn’t changed much in the past decade, many of the technologies in leading SIEM products have. Let’s review some of the major changes in top SIEM products and see how they affect higher education InfoSec teams.

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Higher ed’s worst free speech offenders of 2022

University Business

The Foundation for Individual Rights and Freedom (FIRE) distinguished the colleges who most egregiously botched a faculty or student organization’s right to tenants that align with free speech in 2022. FIRE ranks the top 10 colleges across the nation in no particular order, and institutions were selected based on some of their head-scratching decisions such as circumventing a teacher’s academic freedom, removing funding from an LGBTQ+ event, instating policies that would streamline f

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Vermont State U Will Make Libraries All Digital

Confessions of a Community College Dean

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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American universities are hiring based on devotion to diversity

University Business

Seemingly everyone must file a statement outlining their understanding of diversity, their past contributions to it and their plans “for advancing equity and inclusion” if hired. Not long ago, such statements were exotic and of marginal importance. Now they are de rigueur across most of the University of California system for hiring and tenure decisions.

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UNC Chapel Hill leaders diverge on what new "school" will be

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill leaders have given mixed messages about what sounded, at least initially, like the university is trying to resurrect plans for a conservative campus center. David Boliek, chairman of Chapel Hill’s Board of Trustees, was rather specific in a Jan. 28 interview on Fox and Friends. “This is all about balance,” Boliek told the network.

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Academic Lens: Understanding Proctor's Math Curriculum

Proctor Academy

How can we do this better? This is a question we are constantly asking ourselves at Proctor because we believe in a growth mindset not just for our students but for our teachers and our curriculum as a whole. Over the last several years, the Mathematics Department has shifted its approach to how teachers teach and how students learn.

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Course helps students manage stress, anxiety and depression

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: With student stress and mental health concerns at the forefront these past few years, campus counseling resources have been stretched to their max. Nearly half of institutions (at least according to an Association for University and College Counseling Center Directors member survey ) have found the need to limit offered one-on-one sessions with counselors.

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Students should be told of university course job prospects, says commission

The Guardian Higher Education

Social Mobility Commission says students should be informed of ‘earnings implications’ of course choices Students should be given more details about how the courses they study after leaving school might affect their employment prospects, it has been suggested, as figures show near-record numbers of 18-year-olds applying to university. A review of research into the employment effects of higher and further education by the government’s Social Mobility Commission showed wide variations in earnings,

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Making space for students in class during troubled times (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Jackson Bartlett describes how to make space for the humanity of students and instructors during troubling national events and crises. Job Tags: FACULTY JOBS Ad keywords: faculty teachinglearning Section: Teaching and Learning Editorial Tags: Career Advice Teaching Today Show on Jobs site: Image Source: Scott Olson/Staff/Getty Images News Image Caption: A demonstrator protests the death of Tyre Nichols.

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PR Newswire: Research Shows Mobile Technology Helps Companies Weather Uncertainty

Hanover Research

Stratix Corporation, a leading provider of Managed Mobility Services (MMS) in the U.S., has partnered with Hanover Research on a new survey of IT leaders that shows companies are investing in mobile technology solutions to get the nimbleness and efficiency they need to succeed as disruption continues and the economic outlook appears recessionary. The post PR Newswire: Research Shows Mobile Technology Helps Companies Weather Uncertainty appeared first on Hanover Research.

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Understanding Higher Education’s Enrollment Cliff, Trough and Recovery

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Blog: Just Explain It to Me! The 2012–13 academic year presented an opportunity of a lifetime for me as an American Council on Education Fellow (#administratorwannabe #becarefulwhatyouwishfor)—a year to study higher education without the burden of a day job (a sabbatical for administrators). I focused on learning about strategic planning—the mechanics, trends and prevalent goals of the day, such as sustainability and diversity.

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As ChatGPT grows, Google hops aboard the generative AI train

University Business

By now, you’ve probably heard plenty about ChatGPT, the artificially intelligent chatbot that’s taken the world by storm, particularly the education world. Whether you’re all for its use in the classroom or terrified of its seemingly endless capabilities, the technology is nothing short of remarkable. And now it has a potential rival.

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Seminary to Merge With East Texas Baptist University

Confessions of a Community College Dean

B. H. Carroll Theological Institute, a small Baptist seminary near Dallas, is merging with East Texas Baptist University. B. H. Carroll will keep its namesake, trading the term “Institute” for “Seminary,” while East Texas Baptist University will add new graduate programs in theological education, according to a joint news release that notes the merger is expected to be completed by or before early 2025, pending the approval of accreditation agencies and other bodies with

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North Dakota higher-ed leaders form task force to combat negative effects of artificial intelligence

University Business

GRAND FORKS — Higher education leaders across the state are convening to tackle the subject of artificial intelligence on campuses, with a renewed focus following the release of ChatGPT software. ChatGPT, or Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer, is a program developed in November 2022 by the research laboratory Open AI. It allows users to pose questions, with an algorithm generating responses.

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St. Joseph’s Cuts 4 Programs Acquired in Merger

Confessions of a Community College Dean

When St. Joseph’s University absorbed the University of the Sciences in June, officials noted that the merger allowed St. Joseph’s to add a number of programs to its portfolio, particularly in the health-care field. Now, less than a year later, St. Joseph’s is dropping four doctoral programs that it acquired from the University of the Sciences, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer : cell and molecular biology, cancer biology, chemistry, and biochemistry.

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Study Abroad Hidden Gems in Fall 2023 

AIFS Abroad

Let’s be honest. With so many incredible options, it can be overwhelming to decide where – and what – to study abroad this fall semester. We’ve rounded up some of our favorite hidden gem study abroad programs that offer you unique cultural (and academic) experiences. Here are our top 6 hidden gem study abroad programs for Fall 2023: AIFS Abroad student in South Africa #1: Global Service Learning | Stellenbosch, South Africa Global Service Learning (GSL) is an experiential learning program offe

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Ex-Dean Sues President and Provost for Racial Bias

Confessions of a Community College Dean

A former dean of Thomas Edison State University sued the university, its president and its provost for discrimination based on his race (Black) and because he has diabetes, NJ Advance Media reported. Joseph Youngblood II said in court papers he was harassed and discriminated against during his 18 years. Specifically, the suit charges Cynthia Baum, provost and senior vice president for academic affairs, and Merodie Hancock, the president, with discriminating and retaliating against Youngblood due

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Moving with the times: The growing need for better graduate mobility data

SRHE

by Tej Nathwani Introduction As SRHE noted in their summary of the theme of the 2022 conference , one of the current areas of discussion is the relationship between student mobility and outcomes. For example, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) have used the Longitudinal Education Outcomes dataset to explore trends in graduate mobility and earnings in England.

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Colleges award tenure

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Bryant University Katayoun Alidadi, history and social sciences Alicia T. Lamere, mathematics Gao Niu, mathematics Cedric Joseph Oliva, modern languages Xiaofei Pan, economics Cathy Zheng, finance Centre College Kristen Fulfer, chemistry Jennifer Goff, theater Prayat Poudel, mathematics Ellen Prusinski, education Jamie Shenton, anthropology Christian Wood, French Editorial Tags: Tenure list Is this diversity newsletter?

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College to Cut Budgets in Coming Year - Ellie Wolre, the Bates Student

Ray Schroeder

In a letter to faculty and staff earlier this month, Vice President for Finance and Administration and Treasurer Geoff Swift announced that the college has asked senior staff to reduce their programmatic budgets by five percent across the board next year. Though he assured employees that the college is “stronger than ever,” he cited a changing economic environment as the reason that departments need to be more frugal.

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Black History Month

UMSL Diversity

The University of Missouri-St. Louis proudly celebrates Black History Month! Check out the c ampus calendar for upcoming events.

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Idaho State U president tells lawmakers proposed budget will leave school in deficit - LAURA GUIDO, Idaho Press

Ray Schroeder

Idaho State University will be facing a significant budget deficit if the state budget writers accept the governor’s proposed allocation to the school. ISU President Kevin Satterlee in his presentation to the Joint Appropriations and Finance Committee on Tuesday said the items recommended for funding wouldn’t fully cover the impacts of inflation on the Pocatello-based university’s fixed costs — from employee health benefits to the eggs served to students on campus.

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Visibility in the Halls of Power

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean I spent Tuesday as part of the New Jersey Council of County Colleges delegation visiting members of Congress as part of the ACCT National Legislative Summit. In English, that means I went from office to office, in a group, trying to convince elected representatives that community colleges are worth supporting financially.

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Alumni Spotlight: Ashlyn Fransen

ISA Journal

Stories that Shaped Us: Life in London Ashlyn Fransen is an ISA London alumna and current ISA/TEAN…

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UF President Ben Sasse to announce university’s new plans in Jacksonville on Tuesday

University Business

University of Florida leaders will join Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry for an announcement Tuesday about a planned collaboration between the university system and the city. The partnership could involve the creation of a campus in Jacksonville that would encompass the technology side of two of the city’s most dynamic economic sectors: health care and financial services.

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How Hate Can Impede the Climate Change Fight: Academic Minute

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Today on the Academic Minute : Emily Huddart Kennedy, associate professor and associate head in the department of sociology at the University of British Columbia, exposes how stereotypes can interfere with fighting climate change. Learn more about the Academic Minute here. Is this diversity newsletter?: Hide by line?: Disable left side advertisement?

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Hybrid Learning Connects More Students With Opportunity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

COVID-19 pushed higher education online almost overnight. The field transformed itself, troubleshooting on the go to make sure students could succeed while quarantining at home. Federal funding was heavily invested in resources that connected students with technology and high-speed internet. As the pandemic has begun to taper, many institutions are transitioning back to fully-in-person education—but not all.

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We Can’t Stop Climate Change by Hating Each Other

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Coming together is crucial to fighting climate change. In today's Academic Minute, the University of British Columbia's Emily Huddart Kennedy exposes how stereotypes keep us apart. Kennedy is associate professor and associate head of the department of sociology at UBC and the author of Eco-Types: Five Ways of Caring about the Environment (Princeton University Press).

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A state's plan to calculate the "economic value" of a degree

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Amid faltering enrollment rates and increased national scrutiny of the price and worth of a college education, Colorado is weighing a new formula to measure the “economic value” of degree programs offered by the state’s public institutions of higher education. In its latest annual strategic plan , the Colorado Commission of Higher Education has proposed a way to calculate that value using not only the return on investment from expected income, but also a number of other