Roompact
MARCH 30, 2023
This blog series features different writers responding to the prompt, “What is the future of the RA role?” Guest Post by Danielle Jones, Professional Staff Member The question of the future of the RA role is not one that is new or original. This question has found itself posed by residence life professionals again and.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 13, 2023
News of bell hooks’s death came as a shock to many. The feminist, author, activist, and professor died Dec. 15, 2021, at age 69. But those who knew hooks personally were aware her health had been waning after years of fighting white supremacy and patriarchy. Dr. M. Shadee Malaklou “hooks said a few years ago, ‘I felt like a balloon that had been popped and deflated,’ because of the way she was so committed to writing and teaching, to her own detriment,” said Dr.
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Dr. Josie Ahlquist
MARCH 3, 2023
It still kinda blows my mind that America may have been founded in 1776, but it wasn’t until (almost) 200 years later that women started to receive “equal” treatment. It was… And, unfortunately, the race is not over. We didn’t always have a month dedicated to celebrating women. The National Women’s History Project was founded in 1980 and lobbied congress to designate a month to celebrate women.
The Scholarly Teacher
MARCH 22, 2023
Marina Smitherman , Dalton State College Key Statement: Use your teaching philosophy statement to reflect on, reevaluate, and reinforce your commitment to your students and your professional goals. Keywords: Teaching Philosophy, Framework, Self-Reflection Introduction Without reflection, we often fail to fully realize who we are and what we most value.
University Business
MARCH 24, 2023
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s recent legislation is not only fiercely unpopular among current and prospective college students, but it also may drive them out of the state’s public higher education system, according to a new report by Intelligent. Among 1,147 students who either currently attend an undergraduate public college in Florida or intend to upon graduating, only 147 agreed with DeSantis’ policies.
EdTech Magazine - Higher Education
MARCH 31, 2023
Here’s a fun game: Say the word ChatGPT to a friend or colleague, then watch what happens. There’s a lot of drama swirling around this groundbreaking artificial intelligence chatbot, released in November by the startup OpenAI. A few months later, in early March, OpenAI’s GPT-4 was introduced and has already stunned many by easily outperforming its older AI sibling.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 17, 2023
The Internet Archive, a nonprofit library in San Francisco, has grown into one of the most important cultural institutions of the modern age. What began in 1996 as an audacious attempt to archive and preserve the World Wide Web has grown into a vast library of books, musical recordings and television shows, all digitized and available online, with a mission to provide “universal access to all knowledge.
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Edu Alliance Journal
MARCH 21, 2023
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – March 21, 2023 — Dean Hoke, of Bloomington, Indiana, has been chosen to serve as the next President and Chief Executive Officer of the American Association of University Administrators ( AAUA ), currently based in Glen Mills, Pennsylvania. His appointment is effective July 1st when the current President & CEO, Dan L.
The Scholarly Teacher
MARCH 15, 2023
Anne Marie Welsh , Doctoral Student, Gwynedd Mercy University Key Statement: Flipping case studies lets students practice critical thinking in real-world scenarios while also imparting knowledge required for licensure. Keywords: Critical Thinking, Applied Health, Case Study, Clinical Judgement Introduction There is an increased demand for new registered nurses (RNs) to make complex decisions (NCSBN, 2022).
University Business
MARCH 2, 2023
When students and faculty were forced to migrate online during the pandemic, that included disabled students with learning impairments. Since then, students and faculty—and therefore, curricula—have changed the way they look at learning in higher education. “I think the pandemic accelerated the trend that was there, and the trend that’s there is more and more training going online,” said Tim Springer from Level Access , an accessibility compliance service.
EdTech Magazine - Higher Education
MARCH 23, 2023
Lately, artificial intelligence chatbots like ChatGPT are getting all the attention, but there’s another type of bot posing an immediate and serious threat to your university’s cybersecurity. Old-school bots are pieces of malware that infiltrate your environment and infect devices on your networks. Attackers can then remotely control the bots on those devices to steal data and launch a staggering variety of additional attacks directed at either other university systems or third parties.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 31, 2023
Image: As Florida’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, seeks to enact sweeping reforms to dramatically reshape higher education in the Sunshine State, students and faculty alike have protested legislation that would ban teaching certain topics, limit institutional authority and undermine tenure protections. But one group has remained conspicuously silent: Florida’s college presidents.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 3, 2023
It’s taken months of collaboration across institutions, but east Tennessee’s only Historically Black College and University (HBCU) is on track to regain accreditation. The college is anticipating submitting its application for approval in April. Knoxville College (KC), a private institution, lost its accreditation in 1997. Since then, it has regained authorized status in Tennessee, which allows them to confer credentials.
Parchment
MARCH 24, 2023
Image: Parchment, a leading digital transcript sharing company, expanded into new territory this week by acquiring Quottly, a company that sells software for course and program sharing, managing dual enrollment, and automating and streamlining transfer agreements. Leaders of the companies say combining their operations—transcript exchanging and credit transfer—can help institutions better handle the many moving parts of the transfer process and make students’ transition from on
Roompact
MARCH 15, 2023
We’d like to introduce the Roompact Blogging Team for the upcoming year! Roompact hires bloggers to further increase our contributions to the field through the free dissemination of ideas and knowledge. Every year we refresh our blog team with a new cohort of writers. Earlier this spring, we did a search for part-time bloggers, professionals.
University Business
MARCH 21, 2023
West Virginia’s governor is honored to play a small part in building Marshall University’s new baseball stadium, but one official believes he is “grossly” misappropriating a huge chunk of COVID-related emergency funding to do so. In a letter to the Treasury Office of the Inspector General , West Virginia Senate Finance Chairman Eric Tarr details Gov.
EdTech Magazine - Higher Education
MARCH 15, 2023
Google’s most recent storage policy shift — limiting higher education institutions to 100 terabytes of stored data in Google Workspace for Education — has caused plenty of consternation and policy shifting in higher education. EdTech has covered these changes in depth, and I wrote about how universities could potentially respond to those storage restrictions back in December.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 31, 2023
Image: University of Michigan graduate student instructors and staff assistants began striking Wednesday, seeking to raise their minimum annual salaries from $24,000 to about $38,500 and win easier access to health care for transgender members, an emergency fund for international students and other benefits. The Graduate Employees’ Organization (GEO) acknowledges that its strike in Ann Arbor is illegal under its own collective bargaining agreement with the university.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 29, 2023
The Black Men’s Research Institute (BMRI) at Morehouse College hosted its first Spring Symposium addressing health issues for African American men. Taken place at the Atlanta University Center’s Woodruff’s Library, the “Changing the Paradigm” symposium began its two-day conference with a discussion on mental health. Dr. Walter M. Kimbrough , Interim Executive Director for BMRI, wants the symposium to dive deeply into mental health and how it affects Black men and their communities.
Hope College Network
MARCH 2, 2023
Dear Parent of an Incoming Freshman, Whether you’re on your tenth college visit or you’re on your very first one, I’m confident you’re rolling through a number of emotions–the excitement for your son or daughter to undertake new adventures of their own, a slight awkwardness realizing that you feel older than you hoped to feel walking around a college campus, nostalgia as you remember your own college memories or life’s journeys, and the undeniable weight that your own life is changing.
Roompact
MARCH 26, 2023
This blog series features different writers responding to the prompt, “What is the future of the RA role?” Guest Post by Kendra Sherman, Professional Staff Member, Seton Hall University Lifesaver. Friend. Resource. These and many others are the expectations of Resident Assistants everywhere. The variety of hats that RAs wear means that these individuals develop.
University Business
MARCH 6, 2023
After a 29-4 sweep on West Virginia’s Senate floor and Gov. Jim Justice’s signing last Wednesday , permit holders are now allowed to carry concealed guns onto public college and university campuses. West Virginia joins Texas and ten others to promote concealed campus carry, such as Georgia, Utah, Colorado and Oregon, to name a few, signaling other states take the lead.
EdTech Magazine - Higher Education
MARCH 16, 2023
The manufacturing industry in Lake County, Illinois, just north of Chicago, employs nearly 100,000 of the county’s 700,000 residents and is responsible for nearly $50 billion of the county’s economy. It’s no stretch to say that the sector’s continued success is vital to the region’s future. The College of Lake County had this fact in mind when mapping out its strategic plan in 2019.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 30, 2023
Joya Misra, Dawn Culpepper and KerryAnn O’Meara offer four strategies for ensuring workload and rewards systems equitably recognize the efforts of women faculty of color. Job Tags: FACULTY JOBS Ad keywords: diversity faculty Section: Diversity Editorial Tags: Career Advice Faculty Show on Jobs site: Image Source: Drazen Zigic/istock/getty images plus Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Multiple Authors: Joya Misra Dawn Culpepper KerryAnn O'Meara Is this diversity newsletter?
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 29, 2023
Over the past three decades, U.S. academic employment has dramatically shifted from mostly full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty to mostly contingent positions. That's according to a new report from the American Association of University Professors (AAUP)which provides data depicting the shift away from tenure to contingent faculty at most U.S. colleges and universities.
Terminalfour
MARCH 3, 2023
Want to know which are the most interesting higher education and digital marketing conferences taking place this year? We’ve compiled some of our favorites to get excited about, covering a broad list of highly relevant topics to higher education.
Roompact
MARCH 19, 2023
This blog series features different writers responding to the prompt, “What is the future of the RA role?” Guest Post by Brett Connors, Professional Staff Member Three years later, campuses have begun to return to the “normal” operations we blissfully took for granted in January and February 2020, before the COVID-19 pandemic dramatically changed our lives.
University Business
MARCH 1, 2023
The largest HBCU in Alabama is no novice to adversity. Alabama A&M University and HBCUs at large are some of the most underfunded state universities in the nation, fighting year after year for supplemental grants, scholarships and business partnerships to keep their students competitive in the workforce. Jobs for the Future , a nonprofit focused on the American workforce and education systems, recently identified a skill and career gap among Black learners and job seekers.
EdTech Magazine - Higher Education
MARCH 9, 2023
As short-staffed higher ed IT departments continue to feel overburdened, colleges and universities could face challenges when deploying and managing devices among faculty and staff. In some cases, the COVID-19 pandemic reduced the size of IT departments as employees took other jobs for a variety of reasons — including, in some cases, to work remotely.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 24, 2023
Image: James Walsh, an education major at the University of South Carolina at Aiken who’s been recognized for his ability to creatively teach middle schoolers math, has some strong opinions about college teaching: “The notion that everyone learns the same way is ridiculous, but professors tend to stick to what they know and what they have always done.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 22, 2023
Community colleges are designed to serve and meet the needs of the communities where they reside. That’s why Hudson County Community College (HCCC) has decided to offer a certificate of proficiency in social justice and an A.S. degree in Human Services, Social Justice Advocacy. “We provide an education for a diverse group of people, and many of them are part of groups that have been experiencing social injustices,” said Dr.
Campus Sonar
MARCH 15, 2023
It’s no secret that online spaces provide students with opportunities to connect to others and build community, but do you know how often that’s happening on your campus’s Reddit page? A quick peek at your page will often reveal questions, comments, and potential concerns—all right on a public page that anyone can see. Higher ed communicators are community builders, and understanding what happens on forums could help your campus grow a stronger real-world and digital community.
Roompact
MARCH 14, 2023
In our field, there are a lot of buzz words that we use. While some are helpful, some dictate how we move about in the work. I want to explore some of those sayings and how they land for me. As you read through, think of a time when you have used or heard these.
University Business
MARCH 23, 2023
Studying student responses year over year, those who’ve considered withdrawing from classes for at least one semester continue to escalate despite COVID restrictions waning, according to a new report by Gallup and Lumina Foundation. Stressed out and Stopping Out: The Mental Health Crisis in Higher Education finds that among students who’ve considered withdrawing, more than half (55%) are driven by emotional stress, but specifically bachelor’s students, who fare worse at 69%.
EdTech Magazine - Higher Education
MARCH 24, 2023
In the early days of collegiate esports, way back in the mid-2010s, smaller universities plunged into the world of competitive gaming. They created programs that could challenge other institutions for national prestige in an arena that was far less crowded than traditional intercollegiate athletics. Larger universities soon caught on, and before long, competitive esports teams were popping up across the country.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 27, 2023
Image: On Friday, a federal judge in New York ruled that the Internet Archive violated U.S. copyright law when it digitized countless physical books from four major book publishers and offered them online. The highly anticipated verdict concerning the nonprofit’s behemoth online lending operation —3.6 million books protected by copyrights, including 33,000 of the publishers’ titles—was swift, landing days after the March 20 hearing.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 29, 2023
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has announced awards totaling $5.5 million to create or strengthen Centers of Excellence (COE) conducting housing and community development research. Marcia Fudge The money – for historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) – was split between two schools. Texas Southern University (TSU) received $3 million and North Carolina A&T University (N.C.
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