Tue.Oct 03, 2023

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Are your school’s hidden costs spooking students? Here’s how to tell it to them straight

University Business

The college application process time can be a nerve-wracking time for college hopefuls. However, their chief driver of stress has changed in the past two decades as students nowadays are more preoccupied with the cost of college rather than being denied their first-choice college. But what bugs students about college costs isn’t just that it’s expensive; it’s because they rarely understand by how much.

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Alumnus Chad Jenson ’04 shares about how Thomas Riley Artisan’s Guild spun off one of the top-tier art galleries in Naples

College for Creative Study

The post Alumnus Chad Jenson ’04 shares about how Thomas Riley Artisan’s Guild spun off one of the top-tier art galleries in Naples appeared first on College for Creative Studies.

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Recovering in Residence Life: Self-Care Hacks to Get Your Groove Back

Roompact

When I was younger, September held a different significance for me. It was when the trees would begin changing colors. The nights would get a little bit cooler and bearable from the scorching Summer. School had started up again and I got to see my friends after what felt like a long break. It was.

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Designers from Around the World Connect at Detroit Month of Design

College for Creative Study

Detroit Month of Design is part of what attracted Nishi Bajaj to the city to study, and the emerging international designer was gratified to find a connected design community at the citywide event.

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Abuse of Oxford’s trans students and staff saddens me, says vice-chancellor

The Guardian Higher Education

Prof Irene Tracey tells assembly free speech has been ‘centre stage’ at university during her first year in post Oxford’s vice-chancellor has said she was “deeply saddened” by the abuse and attacks aimed at the university’s transgender staff and students during her first year in the post, including the controversy which surrounded an appearance by Kathleen Stock, a gender-critical feminist.

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How AI Can Empower Instructors, Support Students, and Personalize Higher Education

University Business

Q&A with Nicolaas Matthijs , Vice President of Product Management, Anthology Why is there more interest and discussion about the use of AI in higher education today? Artificial intelligence has been around for a long time in different forms, but there are some new developments today that make AI more applicable and interesting for education. Most importantly, the AI technology of the past 20 years has relied on having access to substantial amounts of very structured data.

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Must do better:  making the Office for Students accountable

SRHE

by GR Evans The House of Lords Committee on Industry and Regulators pulls no punches in Must do better. This Report on its Inquiry on the Office for Students published on 13 September finds the OfS to be underperforming in a number of respects. It criticises its ‘prescriptive regulatory requirements and time-consuming processes’ and its ‘inappropriate micromanagement’, with ‘little regard to the need to protect institutional autonomy’.

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Access Culture: Embracing voices from all

Teaching Matters Online Learning

In this post, Inga Ackermann, Babet Kwofie and Mourine Akasuka discuss an innovative programme geared towards online students that aimed to involve them in cultural activities and share elements of their culture to their peers. This programme was developed to celebrate the diversity among African students in the online Mastercard Foundation Programme.

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SUNY Potsdam announces major restructuring to close budget deficit - WWNY

Ray Schroeder

SUNY Potsdam is taking drastic measures to stop bleeding millions of dollars each year. “We need to find a way to spend $9 million less each year,” President Dr. Suzanne Smith said in address to the campus Tuesday morning. She said there will be no help from Albany to fill the gap. “There will be no bailouts,” she said. “This problem is ours and ours alone to solve.

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Clifton StrengthsFinder Assessment: What is it and How Can it Help?

AIFS Abroad

Have you ever stopped to think about what your strengths are? Here at AIFS Abroad, we use a strengths-based approach to career-readiness to help our internship program participants discover where their talents lie. This way, they can apply them to their internships abroad and on their future journey to finding a career they love. As an AIFS Abroad internship program participant, you’d take the Clifton StrengthsFinder assessment before jetting off to your program overseas.

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New NKU president determined to increase enrollment, dig out of $9.6 million deficit - Madeline Mitchell, Cincinnati Enquirer

Ray Schroeder

Short-Thompson was chosen out of a pool of more than 90 applicants. She officially starts in the role at the beginning of October, when she'll hit the ground running towards two goals: getting more students enrolled in on-campus programs and digging the university out of its $9.6 million deficit. Northern Kentucky University President Cady Short-Thompson plans to increase enrollment during her tenure.

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Sorting Out Priorities in College

PUC

The older you get, the more responsibilities you have. In college, responsibilities come at you from every direction. From school life to your personal life, countless things need your attention. Here are five tips to help you figure out how to sort out your priorities.

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Get to know Pinecone, one of the top 34 most promising AI startups of 2023

CAPD

Pinecone is a gold sponsor of the MIT virtual Fall Career Fair. Pinecone, founded in 2019 by Dr. Edo Liberty, former Head of Amazon AI Labs and a prominent figure behind Amazon’s SageMaker and ElasticSearch innovations, is at the forefront of high-performance vector search technology. Dr. Liberty, boasting a Ph.D. in computer science from Yale and a prolific portfolio of over 75 papers and patents, leads Pinecone’s pioneering efforts.

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Opinion | Without a college degree, life in America is staggeringly shorter

University Business

What the economic statistics obscure in the averages is that there is not one but two Americas — and a clear line demarcating the division is educational attainment. Americans with four-year college degrees are flourishing economically, while those without are struggling. Worse still, as we discovered in new research, the America of those without college degrees has been scarred by death and staggeringly shorter life spans.

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Draft Your Cover Letter: A guide for first year undergraduates

CAPD

A cover letter is a perfect companion piece to your resume. Now that you have a better understanding of how to write your resume , let’s now talk about cover letters. Resumes are really good at capturing attributes about you that you currently have; making your resume a snapshot of your relevant attributes at a specific point in time. However, to provide a complete picture of you as a candidate, it is sometimes helpful to look towards the future—and this is where your cover letter can come in qu

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Fired New College VP blasts hostile atmosphere, attack on higher ed under Richard Corcoran

University Business

New College of Florida fired Ryan Terry, the university’s vice president of communications and marketing. Terry said he saw first-hand at New College a sense of tension on campus and a growing hostility within the broader community. But by his account, he tried to focus on moving past that. But he was called into Corcoran’s office last week, where he said the President has a different communications strategy in mind.

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Meet returning College Possible AmeriCorps service member McKenzie

College Forward

Whether students are enrolled in high school or college, classes have begun, and College Possible AmeriCorps coaches around the United States are busy forming new relationships and learning about students’ academic goals. At College Possible Minnesota , we are lucky to welcome back nine returning coaches and we’re grateful they have chosen to dedicate another year to supporting students.

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We asked 3,800+ graduate and adult students about their program preferences. Here’s what they shared.

EAB

Blogs We asked 3,800+ graduate and adult students about their program preferences. Here’s what they shared. Insights from EAB’s new survey of 3,800 graduate and adult learners Earlier this year, our Adult Learner Recruitment team surveyed more than 3,800 current and prospective graduate students and adult learners to learn more about their motivations and expectations when evaluating program options.

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Meet returning College Possible AmeriCorps service member Gao Shee

College Forward

Whether students are enrolled in high school or college, classes have begun, and College Possible AmeriCorps coaches around the United States are busy forming new relationships and learning about students’ academic goals. At College Possible Minnesota, we are lucky to welcome back nine returning coaches and we’re grateful they have chosen to dedicate another year to supporting students.

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Top 10 Student Recruitment strategies every institution should adopt

Creatrix Campus

Top 10 Student Recruitment strategies every institution should adopt editor Tue, 10/03/2023 - 05:24 In the dynamic world of higher education, recruiting top-tier talent isn't just a process—it's an art. Every institution strives to excel in the recruitment game, searching for strategies that will not only fill classrooms but also elevate their reputation.

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Building a Sustainable Higher Education Model: CSCU’s Partnership for Workforce Readiness: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 175 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Terrence Cheng

The Change Leader, Inc.

3 October · Episode 175 Building a Sustainable Higher Education Model: CSCU's Partnership for Workforce Readiness 34 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton Learn how CSCU’s unification of its once-siloed community college is building a sustainable higher education model and helping improve retention and enrollment. Learn how CSCU’s unification of its once-siloed community college is building a sustainable higher education model and helping improve retention and enrollment.

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What are the most ‘conservative’ colleges and universities in America?

University Business

Among the questions Niche asks students is to report on their own personal political preferences and their perceptions of the political leanings of other students on campus. No standard definition of “conservative” is given in the survey. Sample sizes for each school range from hundreds to thousands. While Liberty University is closely associated with the new brand of conservatism embodied in the Republican Party of Donald Trump, both BYU and SMU are more closely associated with the classic cons

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