Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 16, 2023

Howard University’s Undergraduate Library will be renamed in honor of Howard President Dr. Wayne A. I. Frederick. Dr. Wayne A. I. Frederick The announcement was made by the university's Board of Trustees Chairman Dr. Laurence Morse during Frederick’s Jun. 8 farewell dinner. “There is, perhaps, no place on the Hilltop more revered than the Upper Quadrangle-Main Yard, known affectionately as “The Yard,” Morse said.

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Creatrix Campus

JUNE 16, 2023

12 ways online curriculum mapping supports competency-based education admin Sat, 06/17/2023 - 02:44 Competency-based education (CBE) is an innovative approach to learning that focuses on students' mastery of specific skills and knowledge rather than traditional seat time. It allows students to progress at their own pace, ensuring they have a deep understanding of the subject matter before moving on.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 16, 2023

The College Board will not be altering its Advanced Placement (AP) classes to accommodate new demands from Florida, The Hill reported. Gov. Ron DeSantis The educational testing company announced this decision in a letter last Thursday. “[College Board] will not modify our courses to accommodate restrictions on teaching essential, college-level topics,” the College Board said.

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Roompact

JUNE 16, 2023

A key component of building out your student life curriculum is the creation of facilitation guides. Facilitation guides (sometimes referred to as lesson plans) are detailed plans that provide all of the information necessary so that anyone with the appropriate level of training and skills could execute the planned strategy. Beyond just the execution of.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 16, 2023

Arizona State University’s (ASU) College of Health Solutions has launched an online community health worker training program (CHW-TP) to strengthen community access to health-promoting services in the state. The program – it was funded by a $3 million grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration – will be available through ASU’s Learning Enterprise and will involve peer groups for collaborative assignments, experiential learning activities, on-the-job training, and monthly mentors

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Roompact

JUNE 16, 2023

What does the future of AI-based technology hold? We’re doing a little experiment, specifically with the AI chat-bot, ChatGPT. This post is part of a series where we ask ChatGPT interesting, unusual, or just plain fun questions related to residence life and college student housing. All answers were generated by the AI. At the end.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 16, 2023

Dr. Julie Kornfeld will become president of Kenyon College, effective Oct. 1. Dr. Julie Kornfeld Kornfeld is currently vice provost for academic programs at Columbia University. She has also served as vice dean for education and associate professor of epidemiology at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health; and assistant dean and director of education at University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 16, 2023

Johns Hopkins University and Health System faced a cybersecurity attack last month. The Johns Hopkins community were notified Wednesday that their personal information may be at risk. Those at risk will be contacted personally if affected. A letter from the school urged community members to monitor bank accounts, consider fraud alerts or credit freezes with major credit bureaus, be wary of phishing attempts, and sign up for credit monitoring.

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CIP

JUNE 16, 2023

For young adults on the spectrum, the journey to living independently can have many steps. At CIP, we find it crucial to help our students to reframe their understanding of who they really are. Generally, our students are very aware of how others react to them, how they are treated, and the ways people talk about them and their diagnoses. Humans aren’t rational, but we are rationalizing creatures.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 16, 2023

Khala Granville Khala Granville has been appointed director of undergraduate admission and recruitment at Morgan State University in Baltimore. Granville holds a bachelor’s degree in communication from the University of Louisville and a Master of Divinity degree from the Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

JUNE 16, 2023

With the race to deploy Wi-Fi 6 everywhere fully underway, many campus IT teams are trying to take a more organized approach to configuring, testing and qualifying networks before opening them to students, faculty and staff. Here are some pointers to help ensure short- and long-term Wi-Fi effectiveness for both end users and IT teams. Tune Channels and Speeds for Wi-Fi 6 Deployment In the U.S., the old 2.4 gigahertz band has only three channels that don’t overlap: 1, 6, and 11.

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University Business

JUNE 16, 2023

(Bloomberg)—Nearly 81,000 students applied to the school for the Fall 2022 first-year cohort, marking a 30% increase from 2019 before the pandemic upended college campuses. The surge in applications caused BU’s student body to balloon as well. The school enrolled about 17,500 full-time undergraduates in the Fall of 2022, compared to 16,635 in 2019. That compares with broad undergraduate enrollment at US colleges, which is down 7% from 2019, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Researc

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Ray Schroeder

JUNE 16, 2023

Budget cuts, low enrollment and layoffs are problems many universities currently face. The University of Toledo is no different as the university has laid off its staff of success coaches. Members of the university's Center for Success Coaching said they were completely blindsided when they heard the news last Thursday. Now, they are figuring out how to move forward as the university figures out its spending.

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University Business

JUNE 16, 2023

Gupta now joins an elite class of just a few thousand other students accepted to Stanford this year. The school had a historically low acceptance rate of just 3.6% of incoming freshmen. The increase in college applications has put pressure on admissions departments. Colleges are now receiving record numbers of applications, and they have to be more selective in order to admit the best students.

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Ray Schroeder

JUNE 16, 2023

One plaintiff is a former law student at Mercer, while another is a professor at Yale School of Medicine who taught a course at Mercer in 2016 and 2018. Another, a former student who stayed anonymous over privacy concerns, said he suffered from fraudulent credit card charges after the data breach. None of the three lawsuits, which contend more than 93,000 people were caught up in the data breach, have been certified as class actions yet.

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University Business

JUNE 16, 2023

Becoming a college president is many academic leaders’ greatest dream. The only thing that could make it better is to serve in a community that one recognizes and loves. Some leaders get to live that fantasy. One new presidential hire gets to serve back in his old stomping grounds; another is taking his leave after serving in his home state. Also notable: An interesting trend among the latest new hires is that some have previous experience serving in either a federal or state position.

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The Guardian Higher Education

JUNE 16, 2023

The fine art of self-promotion is more vital than ever – and crafting a personal statement is apt training for modern life “I didn’t have the time to write you a short letter, so I’m writing you a long one instead,” Mark Twain is supposed to have written on a postcard to his friend. Good writers have always known that distilling one’s thoughts into a limited space takes effort and skill.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 16, 2023

A new study by EAB highlights a trend among students who feel unsure about their commitment to college due to growing concerns about affordability, academic success, and mental health preparedness. These students started their high school career during the COVID 19 pandemic and are currently making the transition into adulthood. The data offers new insight on the contributing factors for the spike decline in enrollment at community college and universities across the country.

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University Business

JUNE 16, 2023

The Lowering Education Costs and Debt Act, introduced on Wednesday by a group of Senate Republicans, would require colleges to provide clearer information about their costs, while prospective students would receive information about their likely loan repayment burden compared with their projected income. The legislation would also cap borrowing for graduate students, with the lawmakers arguing that generous loans have encouraged colleges and universities to ramp up their tuition costs.

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University Business

JUNE 16, 2023

U.S. colleges and universities have long been revered for the space they cultivate to reign in voices of different backgrounds and perspectives. ACE and PEN America recently created a report that preaches how a student’s exposure to different viewpoints, some of which can be difficult to hear, is fundamental to higher education. However, Republican lawmakers in more than a dozen states believe that the office responsible for curating a rich, multi-dimensional campus is “fomenting radical a

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