August, 2019

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Grad Students Should Consider Administrative Work

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This article originally appeared on Inside Higher Ed on August 5, 2019. Colleges and universities are great places to work. Many Ph.D. students who are no longer are attracted to faculty careers are still interested in working in higher education. They are drawn to the teaching and learning mission of the institution, its organizational values, and the opportunity to collaborate with smart people.

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Neg Reg 2019 Washington Update with Tom Netting | Changing Higher Ed 025

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Neg Reg 2019 Washington Update Podcast with Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Tom Netting. Federal legislators and policymakers continue to try to work through policy and legislative changes that will have significant impacts on higher education. These include efforts by the U.S. Department of Education to alter rules developed during the Obama Administration.

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Ed Tech Spotlight: GoCulture

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Go Culture International (GCI) exists to provide the most reliable intercultural competency assessment tool. With a reliability score of 93% (Cronbach’s Alpa.93), GCI offers industry-leading data accuracy for global citizenship aptitude. Began as a research initiative in 1998 by leading Intercultural scholar Dr. Carley H. Dodd, the GCI assessment and coaching program spent eight years in development, followed by 13 years of testing. .

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Pop the new social app designed for students comes to campus

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A new social media network has launched aimed at becoming the go-to messaging platform for students. Can it prosper where the likes of Yik Yak failed?

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What a Tech Company’s Big Shift Portends for the Future of the Master’s Degree

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This article was originally appeared in The Chronicle for Higher Education on August 7, 2019, written by Goldie Blumenstyk. The end of the master’s degree as we’ve known it? 2U’s stock plunged last week after its executives announced some business changes in response to shifts they were seeing in the market. Lots of higher-education leaders and faculty members should be paying attention to that, even if they don’t care about the future of OPMs, or even know what those initials mean.

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Achieving Innovation: How Three College Leaders Have Created Change on Their Campuses

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Colleges and universities need to change. On this there is widespread agreement. The challenge, of course, is how to make changes at institutions steeped in venerable traditions and, at times, resistant to transformation. To explore how to solve this problem and spur campus wide innovations, The Chronicle of Higher Education joined with Arizona State University and Salesforce to hold a forum with presidents, provosts, and other senior administrators.

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The Do's and Don'ts of recruiting a digital design partner

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How do you choose the right digital design agency to transform your website? And what should you do to make a digital design project run smoothly?

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Web Accessibility: What do the latest standards mean for your university?

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WCAG 2.1 are the latest set of standards to be enforced by law. We look at what you need to do to comply with them.

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Top 8 social media updates your university cannot afford to miss this summer

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Here is a short and sweet round-up of the changes coming through this summer to the platforms you use most.

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Racial and gender biases plague postdoc hiring

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This article originally appeared in Science magazine on June 3, 2019. Bradley Miller is more likely to be hired than José Rodriguez. Zhang Wei (David) is more competent than Jamal Banks. And both Miller and Zhang are more competent and hirable than Maria Rodriguez or Shanice Banks. These postdoc job candidates are fictional. But the differences in how they’re viewed based on name alone—despite identical CVs—by a sample of professors are real.

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