Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Football Hall of Famer Ed Reed will become Bethune-Cookman University’s head football coach after the school announced that it had agreed for him to step into the role, Yahoo Sports reported. Ed Reed “Bethune-Cookman University Athletics has entered an agreement in principle with Pro Football Hall of Famer Ed Reed to be its 16th head football coach,” according to the historically Black college and university (HBCU) in Florida.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma A recent correspondent shared a memorable quotation from the Nobel prizewinner Ernest Rutherford: “That which is not Physics is stamp collecting.” In other words, that which isn’t science is a trivial and inconsequential waste of time. Bored out of his mind by box checking introductory courses in the humanities, my correspondent wrote: “To many STEM students the truly “Great Books” were written by Physicists and Mathematicians.

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Terminalfour

DECEMBER 28, 2022

The pivot for higher education marketing since 2020 has been significant, and the bar is set higher than ever before when it comes to the expectations of prospective students. Register for our free higher education webinar on Wednesday, January 25 to find out how to break through the noise.

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Ray Schroeder

DECEMBER 28, 2022

When companies as widely recognized and well established as Boeing, Walmart, and IBM start moving in a similar direction on something, it’s safe to say the idea has legs. In this case, companies are looking towards skills-based hiring in tandem with degree-based hiring. The idea here is for companies to remove “must-have” barriers around hiring—such as “must have an MBA” or “must have a four-year degree”—in favor of hiring for the skills they need in a specific candidate.

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Ridgewater College

DECEMBER 28, 2022

As Hanukah and Christmas pass, and we enter the third day of Kwanzaa (today is dedicated to the principle Ujima, or Collective Work and Responsibility), it is a good time to share with the Ridgewater community a project that has been in development for several months, and is the result of partnership between the Marketing and Communications team and the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI): a multicultural recognition calendar.

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Ray Schroeder

DECEMBER 28, 2022

The administration has eliminated the Title IX coordinator position in an effort to deal with the University’s $13.4 million budget deficit. Over the summer Ethan Snyder was hired as Title IX coordinator, but has recently left UP. Tammy Herdener, associate vice president for student development, will be acting as the interim Title IX coordinator while the program undergoes restructuring.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

DECEMBER 28, 2022

It’s "Best Of" Week on the Academic Minute. In our third most listened-to segment of the year, Joseph P. Laycock, associate professor of religious studies at Texas State University, explained why how exorcisms are not going away anytime soon. Find out more about the Academic Minute here.

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The Guardian Higher Education

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Over 26m student loan borrowers are waiting for the country’s highest court to decide if they can receive debt relief Debt-laden borrowers will be nervously watching the US supreme court come February when the justices hear arguments for two cases that will ultimately decide the fate of over 26 million student loan borrowers who have applied for loan forgiveness.

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