Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

In a fast-paced society influenced by various factors, including commercialism, political discourse, technology, social media, and economics, the term self- Dr. Mordecai Ian Brownlee care fails to be a mainstream pillar in culture, practice, and conversations. Instead, a nation desperately in need of skills on how to participate in civil discourse and navigate complex decision-making has found cancel culture, knee-jerk reactions, and manipulative fear-laced tactics to be the best ways to address

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University Business

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Strong leadership is needed now more than ever as higher education faces numerous challenges in 2025, from funding and technology to the changing perceptions of DEI and the continual difficulties of articulating the value proposition of a post-secondary degree. In this informational Q&A, Senior Lecturer on Education James P. Honan at the Harvard Graduate School of Education identifies the core skills that leaders need to help guide their institutions through these difficult times, while prov

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Credit: Jingjing Wang In this extra post, 4th year medical student, Jess McKenzie, explores how AI can play a role in the development of OSCES (Objective Structured Clinical Examinations) in medical education. Introduction OSCEs (Objective Structured Clinical Examinations) represent an integral way of assessing skills key for success as a medical professional.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Achieving the Dream, the community college advocacy nonprofit, is currently testing a new framework which it believes can help two-year institutions reestablish themselves as community engines for socioeconomic mobilityand win over declining public perception in the sector. The Community Vibrancy Framework demands institutions move beyond current student success measures and instead analyze regional impact on industry, environment and people.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

The Common App is inviting a cohort of community colleges to its platform for the first time in the hopes of serving a wider pool of applicants. The Common App allows students to submit applications to more than 1,100 higher ed institutions. But until now, none of its members were community colleges focused on granting associate degrees.

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AIFS Abroad

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

In todays globalized world, interior designers need exposure to a wide range of styles and influences if they want to stand out and find success in the industry. One of the best ways to launch your career and impress future employers is by adding an international interior design internship to your resume. This will help you to stand out in this highly competitive design field and demonstrate that you can collaborate with people from diverse backgrounds.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

The Department of Education is urging the largest organizing bodies in high school and college sports to rescind all records, titles, awards, and recognitions given to trans women and girls, the department

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Representatives of Elon Musks Department of Government Efficiency wont be able to access federal student aid databases until Feb.17 under a federal court order released Tuesday evening.

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Roompact

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Roompact is running a blog series where a variety of authors weigh in on the question, “How can we re-envision REsLife staff training?” Whether it’s student staff training… or professional staff training… how can we think differently? Each author provides a unique insight into their point of view. We’ll be adding more as we go.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Problematic relationships between board chairs and presidents seem to represent a troubling trend, Susan Resneck Pierce writes. In a conversation recently with someone whose presidency and mine overlapped (19922003), we talked about how even though we worked 24-7 and lost a fair amount of sleep, we mainly loved what we did and even had lots of fun doing it.

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Higher Education Inquirer

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Michael Burry, the legendary investor who predicted the 2008 crash, just made his biggest bearish bet ever - a staggering $1.6 billion against the U.S. stock market. He's not just talking about a crash anymore; he's putting his money where his mouth is. Even more shocking? He's completely exited his U.S. positions and is betting big on China.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

The University of Iowa briefly told faculty to halt their applications for research grants through the National Institutes of Health and paused hiring of graduate students after the federal agency m

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Jay Ruderman Amid the ongoing mental health crisis among young adults, it is incumbent upon college administrators nationwide to conduct thorough examinations on the availability and extent of their mental health services and wellness resources for students. According to the CDC , 4 in 10 students have persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness, 2 in 10 seriously consider attempting suicide, and nearly 1 in 10 attempt suicide.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Des Moines Area Community College is planning to reintroduce to its website some materials related to diversity, equity and inclusion that it had removed in anticipation of anti-DEI legislation, The Iowa Capital Dispatch reported.

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The Scholarly Teacher

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Rachel Thelen , The University of Minnesota School of Dentistry Noelle Haight , Occupational Therapist and Educator Julia VanderMolen , University of the Pacific Key Statement: Four helpful tips, including backwards design, for the new instructor looking to (re)design their course. Keywords: Curriculum Redesign, Course Design, New Teacher Background Imagine you are a new instructor whose supervisor has just asked you to take over a course from a retiring colleague in the upcoming academic year.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

The Higher Learning Commission has cleared Mott Community College of breaching accreditation requirements after it received an anonymous complaint about a possible conflict-of-interest issue on the board, MLive Media Group reported.

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Robert Kelchen

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

During the last three weeks, I have thought a lot about the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic in March 2020. By the end of the first full week of March, it was clear to me that colleges would close their physical campuses for a while. I had stepped in as the department chair at Seton Hall just a few months prior, but I immediately stepped into action by trying to prepare my faculty and staff as much as possible for a period of remote operations.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

College and university endowments expanded by 4% in fiscal year 2024 thanks to improved annual returns and gift-giving, according to the annual NACUBO-Commonfund Study. Over 650 nonprofit colleges, universities and related organizations participated. A strong U.S. economy in fiscal year 2024thanks to strong consumer spending, cooling inflation and a robust private and public markethelped institutions net an 11.2% one-year average annualized return on their investment portfolio.

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The Guardian Higher Education

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Lawyer who cleared James Tooley did not have access to WhatsApps and diaries that triggered the investigation A leading barrister who cleared the University of Buckinghams vice-chancellor of wrongdoing over his relationship with a young Indian woman did not have access to evidence relevant to the investigation. The university commissioned Joseph OBrien KC to investigate James Tooley over allegations he had an inappropriate relationship with the woman.

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AIFS Abroad

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Web design is a highly sought-after field around the world, and as such it comes with fierce competition. One of the challenges to a career in web design is that it involves interdisciplinary collaboration. Often, graphic designers, copywriters, IT, and web designers must work together to create, launch, and maintain organizations websites on the front and back end.

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CAPD

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

The Career Exploration Series for the spring is now updated!This series is a collaboration betweenMITdepartments, programs,and employers tohelpallundergraduate and graduate studentslearnabout the different careerand graduate/professional schooloptions available toyou. V isit the events page on Handshake and filter by the label career exploration series to see all events in the series and register for the events you would like to attend.

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AIFS Abroad

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

If you want to find success in the competitive world of jewelry and accessory design, you need to work closely with seasoned designers to gain guided hands-on experience. Doing so will equip you with the skills and techniques required to create designs that catch the eye and invite purchases. Also, its important to keep in mind how difficult starting out in this industry can betons of people want to be successful jewelry and accessory designers.

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Roompact

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Guest Post by Ashley Unmacht, Residence Life Professional If I could time travel and talk to my impassioned-undergraduate-student-leader-self, I think she would be pretty pleased with how things look on paper. With almost a decade of experience at various institutions across the country, Ive worked hard to become a successful mid-level residence life professional, which.

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AIFS Abroad

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Education administration is a field that requires effective communication, often with people from vastly different backgrounds. To be successful in the field, you need to have experience working with diverse groups of people. An excellent way to gain exposure to people from different backgrounds and develop a strong communication skillset is with an international education administration internship.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

The National Center for Education Statistics has been hit hard while researchers say grant review panels have been halted. The Trump administration canceled nearly $900million in Institute of Education Sciences contracts Mondaya massive blow to a U.S. Education Department agency that houses the National Center for Education Statistics, funds research on how to improve higher education and provides publicly accessible data on U.S. postsecondary institutions.

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Higher Education Inquirer

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

The Department of Education is on the Trump chopping block. Details have not been fully released yet, but the president has signaled plans to dismantle it and move some of its key functions elsewhere. The department oversees student loans, federal funds for lower-income students, special education programs and more. Geoff Bennett discussed more with Laura Meckler of The Washington Post.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

One-year returns averaged more than 11percent for fiscal 2024. But the future remains murky for the higher ed sector, which faces funding cuts and a potential endowment tax. Endowment returns climbed in fiscal year 2024, offering a boost to university coffers at a time when even the richest institutions have been gripped with financial uncertainty amid the Trump administrations attempts to freeze federal funding and change research reimbursements.

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Higher Education Inquirer

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

From Neturei Karta: On February 10, 2025, students and activists gathered at the CUNY College Board of Trustees Public Hearing to demand divestment. Rabbi Dovid Feldman stood in solidarity with the students, supporting their call for justice and urging them not to be intimidated by false Zionist accusations. This powerful moment highlights the growing movement for divestment and the unwavering courage of those standing up for what is right.

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AIFS Abroad

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Human resources is all about open and honest communicationespecially in todays global workforce, where youll interact with people from diverse backgrounds. An international human resources internship will give you firsthand experience with a multicultural workforce; its a great way to show future employers that you have the essential communication skills needed to succeed in their organization.

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Higher Education Inquirer

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Here I look into the past month of Trump's actions and see how they might shape long-term trends. Specifically I touch on demographics, climate change, populism, technology, and a bit more. It's a weird way to celebrate my birthday, but hopefully a productive one.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

The U.S. Education Department is scrapping last-minute guidance issued by the Biden administration that threatened to upend colleges plans to pay athletes for their name, image and likeness by making those payments subject to federal Title IX rules. In a move that was largely expected, President Donald Trumps education officials announced the change Wednesday, saying the memo from former President Joe Bidens final days in office had no legal basis under Title IX, the 1972 law forbidding sex disc

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

The Trump administration announced it is overturning Obama-Biden guidance that required colleges to provide equal name, image and likeness (NIL) payment opportunities to male and female student-athletes under Title IX regulations, marking a significant shift in collegiate sports policy that could have far-reaching implications for gender equity in athletics.

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Higher Education Inquirer

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Every day brings revelations about how corrupt the US government is. Every day the Department of Government Efficiency ( DOGE) reports on one agency or another that they have taken over and plan to eliminate or downsize. The first targets were the USAID and the US Department of Education. But this is just the beginning. Every day is a spectacle, with Elon Musk and a handful of young men taking control over federal agencies.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Recent executive actions related to education have colleges and Democrats worried, but key Republican lawmakers remain supportive of Trumps pick to lead the Education Department. Linda McMahona former wrestling mogul and longtime ally of the presidentwill likely experience a smoother confirmation hearing Thursday than some of Donald Trumps other cabinet members have so far, interviews with senators show.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Two students challenging New Hampshire’s ban on transgender athletes on girls’ sports teams will also fight President Trump’s executive order, “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports,” after a judge approved their request. It’s believed to be the first time the constitutionality of the executive order signed by Trump last week is being challenged in court, according to Boston-based GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders, also known as GLAD Law, one of the grou

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