Higher Education Whisperer
AUGUST 22, 2023
Greetings from the Melbourne Convention Center, where EdutTech 2023 just started. This is a big conference with many streams, covering pre-school to professional development. One big question being asked, and perhaps answered, throughout many of the streams, is what do we do about generative AI? First up is Dan Hickmott with "Grok Academy - Unlocking the power of Generative AI in education".
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
AUGUST 25, 2023
Massachusetts Governor Maura T. Healey launched MassReconnect, her administration’s new program establishing free community college for Massachusetts residents aged 25 and older and awarded $100,000 to each of Massachusetts’ 15 community colleges to support the quick implementation of the program this fall. Gov. Maura Healey “MassReconnect will be transformative for thousands of students, for our amazing community colleges, and for our economy,” said Healey.
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Great College Advice
AUGUST 25, 2023
What looks good on a college application? If I had a nickel for every time a parent or student asked me this question, I’d be a very rich man. This is the key question, isn’t it? After all, in the United States, our admissions process is very subjective. Colleges talk about how the process is “holistic.” But that’s just a kinder way of saying, “we don’t really have any solid, firm criteria, so we sort of follow our nose and make decisions on each applic
University Business
AUGUST 25, 2023
As it currently stands, no HBCU fits the bill for R1 status, a Carnegie Classification rank that every research institution aspires for. Only 146 colleges and universities—less than 4% of all higher education institutions—have reached this pedestal. But that could all change thanks to a new opportunity announced by the U.S. Department of Education called the Development Infrastructure Grant Program (RDI).
Confessions of a Community College Dean
AUGUST 24, 2023
Only two years after acquiring the coding boot camp, the university cited the rise of AI and increased competition as reasons for the shutdown. Southern New Hampshire University is winding down a coding boot camp two years after acquiring it amid a rise in low-cost competition and the broad adoption of artificial intelligence tools.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
AUGUST 25, 2023
Dr. Marla Frederick will become dean of Harvard Divinity School (HDS), effective Jan. 1. Dr. Marla Frederick She is currently the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Religion and Culture at Emory University. “I look forward to joining the HDS community in developing religious and civic leaders for our increasingly complex and diverse society,” Frederick said.
Great College Advice
AUGUST 22, 2023
Who would be the best college counselor for Ivy League schools? The college application process gets more complicated and more stressful every year, especially for ambitious, Ivy-bound students. With such a high-stakes, complex decision looming, it’s no wonder more and more families are turning to independent college counselors for guidance through the process.
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Confessions of a Community College Dean
AUGUST 24, 2023
Union Institute has been missing payroll and rent payments at facilities in Ohio and Florida. University leaders have offered little reassurance or recourse as employees fear a potential closure. Union Institute & University is in dire financial straits. The nonprofit online institution has been locked out of its headquarters in Cincinnati and faces eviction from its center in Florida.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
AUGUST 24, 2023
Low-energy availability (LEA) and high blood pressure (HBP) in Black athletes may be related, according to findings from a recent study from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (N.C. A&T). Student athletes Jason Ivey, Janorris Robertson, and Zach Yeager, and Dr. Troy Purdom The small pilot study analyzed the self-reported nutritional intake of 23 Black N.C.
Great College Advice
AUGUST 23, 2023
What is the University of San Francisco known for? I seem to have been visiting quite a few Jesuit colleges lately and like them for a lot of reasons. I need to write a post on Jesuit colleges generally. But first, I offer this bit about what is University of San Francisco known for, which I was fortunate to be able to visit yesterday as part of a tour for college counselors.
University Business
AUGUST 24, 2023
In 2021, a former student from USC tried making a purchase on USC’s online bookstore, considering alumni who buy through its website were provided a competitive discount on Apple products for one week of the year. But the discount failed to work. Because the student was a certificate holder and not a “degreed alumni,” according to USC Associate Senior Vice President of Alumni Relations Patrick E.
Clark Nesxen
AUGUST 24, 2023
Magnet schools emerged on the K-12 scene as early as the 1960s to establish a public education option that met multiple goals: attracting a diverse student body from across a school district, supporting students with specific interests, and offering equitable opportunities resulting in high levels of academic success. Today, over 4,300 magnet schools educate more than 3.5 million students nationwide, according to Magnet Schools of America.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
AUGUST 25, 2023
The U.S. Department of Education (ED) has announced settlements with five freestanding law schools accused of improperly disbursing federal financial aid to students in unaccredited program. According to ED, Albany Law School, the John Marshall School of Law in Atlanta, Brooklyn Law School, New England Law—Boston, and New York Law School doled out nearly $2.9 million of federal funding to 92 students between July 2017 and June 2022 that it was not allowed to give.
Great College Advice
AUGUST 23, 2023
A college essay isn’t just an abstract writing assignment. It’s a piece of writing that you undertake for a very specific purpose: to give college admissions officers the evidence they need in order to admit you to their school. In order to write the most compelling essay that you can, it is crucial to ask: what do college admissions look for in an essay.
University Business
AUGUST 24, 2023
The neatly dressed student sitting across from me was in her late teens, not a child and not yet an adult. Her voice was shaky, but her tone was strong. Her presence carried a confident resolve cultivated through years of playing competitive sports. However, Shelly did not come to discuss sports but instead to seek counsel as a survivor of collegiate sexual abuse.
Higher Education Whisperer
AUGUST 24, 2023
David Kellermann from UNSWGreetings from the last day of EdutTech 2023 in Melbourne. The session is on new modalities, this includes on studios specifically design for online learning. David Kellermann from UNSW is talking on what to do with online students post pandemic. His definition of hybrid has every student online and in the room can communicate with each other.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
AUGUST 22, 2023
By Drs. Erik M. Hines, Donna Y. Ford, Edward C. Fletcher Jr, Renae D. Mayes & Tanya J. Middleton Social media is neither honest about nor friendly toward Black males in P-12 and higher education. The hostility is blatant and polemic. Our work challenges these deficit-oriented narratives. We see the brilliance and potential in our Black males at all stages of their academic development, even before entering preschool and kindergarten.
EdTech Magazine - Higher Education
AUGUST 22, 2023
It was the kind of problem that most colleges and universities would love to have. A few years ago, the Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. School of Business at Purdue University, then known as the Krannert School of Management, was struggling to keep up with inquiries from prospective students interested in learning more about its programs. “The first issue was the volume of emails we were getting and the time it took to answer them,” says Dan Gaines, associate director of marketing and analytics at the
University Business
AUGUST 23, 2023
Since the passing of California’s Fair Pay to Play Act in 2019 that allowed college athletes to receive monetary compensation on behalf of their names, images and likenesses (NIL), states were quick to begin considering similar legislation of their own. Just three years later, some college students are racking upwards of a million dollars. The top 100 current NCAA student-athletes making the most money off NIL deals have earned well over $500,000.
EAB
AUGUST 22, 2023
Podcast How MSU Saved Millions Without Cutting Faculty or Programs Episode 163. August 22, 2023. Welcome to the Office Hours with EAB podcast. You can join the conversation on social media using #EABOfficeHours. Follow the podcast on Spotify , Google Podcasts , Apple Podcasts , SoundCloud and Stitcher or visit our podcast homepage for additional episodes.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
AUGUST 23, 2023
After the U.S. Supreme Court ended race-conscious college admissions policies in June, focus turned to searching for alternatives. Seemingly everything from using class-based preferences to ditching legacy admissions to replacing admittance regimes with lottery systems has been suggested. But can these race-neutral means allow colleges and universities to maintain their current levels of diversity?
PUC
AUGUST 22, 2023
Coming from Southwest Michigan is Timothy Robertson, PUC’s assistant professor of data science. When he was given the chance to work at PUC, it was an opportunity he couldn’t pass up. Since January, Timothy has been teaching data science, machine learning, statistics and mathematics, and advises students. Do you have a favorite class to teach?
University Business
AUGUST 22, 2023
An updated report has unveiled the most expensive college towns in the nation. Those unlucky enough to make the list must be wary now of the issues it can create within its student and faculty body and the potential rifts it can develop between the community and school leadership. No other topic on higher education may intimidate parents, students and the general American public more than the issue of affordability.
EdTech Magazine - Higher Education
AUGUST 25, 2023
At Connecticut’s Fairfield University, computer science students do more than read about cybersecurity in the classroom. They also help run the school’s security operations center (SOC). “They extract data from the monitoring tools and format it in a concise way for the security team,” says Mirco Speretta, cybersecurity program director. “They create reports using our network monitoring software, and based on what they see, they can open a task for the security team to continue the investigation
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
AUGUST 23, 2023
The Major League Baseball All-Star Game in Seattle in July marked the launch of the HBCU Swingman Classic, a game that featured 50 Division I HBCU baseball players. Propelled by the MLB-Major League Baseball Players Association Youth Development Foundation (YDF) and Hall of Famer/YDF ambassador Ken Griffey Jr., the televised game enabled HBCU baseball players to showcase their talents on a global stage.
Teaching Matters Academic Communities
AUGUST 21, 2023
In this extra post, Ukrainian student Olena Herasymova shares insights into her experience participating in the innovative hybrid summer school↗️ co-led by the Institute for Academic Development and Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (KNU) in Ukraine. It was the first Ukrainian-British summer school for graduate students of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.
University Business
AUGUST 21, 2023
With classes now well underway this fall for the majority of institutions, colleges and universities are looking to optimize their students’ success, especially among first-year students. But institutions are also looking to optimize campus safety amid a wave of stark reminders about how necessary it is. Last week, Howard University suspended its campus police lieutenant and fired a security officer after a mob of 20 to 50 teenagers kicked, punched and stabbed a group of university student
Higher Education Inquirer
AUGUST 19, 2023
The US Department of Education continues to forecast higher education enrollment gains for 2023 to 2031 despite mounting evidence that it will decrease significantly. For several years, graduate enrollment and online courses kept total enrollment numbers from appearing more dramatic. But we cannot expect these ameliorating factors to continue propping up higher ed enrollment.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
AUGUST 23, 2023
An academic enrichment program at Tallahassee Community College that primarily serves African American men won't have to change its name under a new state higher education law, reported WUSF. Florida's higher education law bans the state's public colleges and universities from spending federal and state money on diversity, equity, and inclusion programs or campus activities that advocate for DEI, with certain exceptions.
Higher Education Whisperer
AUGUST 23, 2023
EduTech 2023 Australia PlenaryGreetings from day two of EdutTech 2023 in Melbourne. The exhibition is buzzing, with plenty of free coffee, I tried to go to a panel on assessment, but it was standing room only. So I am in the plenary session, in a room that can seat thousands. I thought it was a panel on training more tech workers, but AI is being discussed.
EAB
AUGUST 21, 2023
Blogs How to empower student-parents in higher education A conversation with Generation Hope My mom had me at 17, and like many teen parents, had to put her education on hold to care for our family. Due to a lack of available support and resources, it wasn't until her late 30s that she obtained a nursing degree – after missing over a decade of the socioeconomic opportunities that a degree brings.
Ed.gov Blog
AUGUST 22, 2023
The 2023 Green Strides Tour in Northern & Central California will stop at nine U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon Schools to celebrate their achievements. Students at Los Altos High School, a 2021 U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon School, work together to plant trees on their school campus. Year round, the ED Infrastructure and Continue Reading The post Announcing the 2023 Green Strides Tour in Northern and Central California: Schools for Climate Solutions appeared first on ED
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
AUGUST 23, 2023
Joel Munza Joel Munza has been named vice president for enrollment management at Xavier University in New Orleans. Munza holds an associate degree in computer information technology from Daytona State College, bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from Bethune-Cookman University, and an MBA from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.
Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)
AUGUST 23, 2023
Photo by Burst on StockSnap The Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL) has been hard at play this summer. You can keep up with all our meeting notes and minutes. We are definitely leading the charge during a very tense time in higher education where campuses are being forced to change practice due to legislative shifts. During this time, we have grown as an organization and currently have 1,345 members that are all vested in Student Affairs assessment across the nation and globe.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
AUGUST 21, 2023
A former administrator was accused of mishandling sexual assault issues at St. Norbert College. Now he’s a trustee and suing a graduate who publicly criticized his leadership. A former administrator who is now a trustee at St. Norbert College is suing a graduate for allegedly defaming him in 2018 while criticizing his response to sexual assault on campus.
EdTech Magazine - Higher Education
AUGUST 23, 2023
Universities must protect both data and students from theft and unauthorized entry, and biometric building access controls play a key role in this effort. Educational institutions are using biometrics to protect facilities such as residence halls and research facilities that store highly sensitive information. Biometric devices include fingerprint readers and iris or palm scanners.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
AUGUST 23, 2023
Walter “Ted” Carter Jr., president of the University of Nebraska system and former superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy, will become the 17 th president of The Ohio State University (OSU), the school announced Tuesday. Walter "Ted" Carter Jr., incoming president of The Ohio State University "I am immensely grateful for the opportunity to serve as president of Ohio State, an institution founded upon and well known across the globe for research, teaching and an enduring commitment to service,”
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