Confessions of a Community College Dean
JANUARY 3, 2024
The New FAFSA Is Here. Or Is It? Liam Knox Wed, 01/03/2024 - 03:00 AM After a frustrating year of delays, the new federal aid application launched Dec. 30. But maintenance pauses, glitches and other obstacles have led to a rocky start.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 5, 2024
The recent announcement of Dr. Claudine Gay’s resignation as president of Harvard University swiftly spread through the news and has been an ongoing conversation, particularly among those within higher education academic communities. Gay had been widely criticized for her responses alongside two other college presidents, also women, at a congressional hearing on antisemitism, after which, she clarified the institution’s stance.
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Robert Kelchen
JANUARY 3, 2024
As a department head, I typically only teach one class per year. This spring, I get to teach my PhD class in higher education finance again—the eighth time that I have taught it in my eleven-year faculty career. Each time, I have updated the readings considerably as the field is moving quickly and I figure out what works best for the students. I use articles, working papers, news coverage, and other online resources to provide a current look at the state of higher education finance.
Dr. Laura Pasquini
JANUARY 5, 2024
I am curious career explorer. I’ve always wanted to know what drives people in their world of work, and what meaningful things are they doing in their lives. A couple of years ago, I took my curiosity to embark on my own journey as a coach. I love partnering with clients who want to think deeply their “career” and how they impact others with their skills and talents.
The Scholarly Teacher
JANUARY 4, 2024
Todd Zakrajsek , Director, Lilly Conferences on Evidence-Based Teaching Key Statement: There is an almost infinite number of things a teacher can do to help those who have been too often left behind by the current educational system. Start by simply thinking about learners in our classes, areas of struggle they may face, and how we might mitigate those areas.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 2, 2024
President Claudine Gay’s resignation is a thunderclap echoing from the halls of Harvard, leaving a bitter taste of injustice and a deafening silence from those who should be howling in outrage. The president, the first Black woman to lead the institution, stands cast aside, not by her own hand, but by the very forces Harvard claims to oppose: prejudice, cowardice, and a grotesque disregard for basic fairness.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
JANUARY 3, 2024
Are Professors Really Fleeing Universities in Red States? Ryan Quinn Wed, 01/03/2024 - 03:00 AM Some academics have publicly announced resignations, but evidence of a mass faculty exodus from states like Florida is thin, at least so far. Media hyped a brain drain regardless.
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University Business
JANUARY 3, 2024
Colleges are always looking for new ways to increase their alumni’s enthusiasm to give back in a variety of different ways. But at the end of the day, cash is king, and institutions are always ready to accept monetary gifts that can potentially help increase the student experience. Among the 15 colleges in the nation U.S. News & World Report found with the highest number of alumni opting to donate, the average donation rate tripled the national average.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 5, 2024
The budding Black studies department at the University of Rochester will fast-track their hiring of faculty with the help of a $3 million grant from the Mellon Foundation. Dr. Jeffrey Q. McCune, Jr. University of Rochester Though the school and department had initially planned to cluster-hire faculty for the department over the next five years, the new influx of funding – via the foundation’s Higher Learning program – will allow them to expedite their schedule, said Dr.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
JANUARY 5, 2024
George Washington University has reached a $5.4 million settlement with former students who allege the institution broke its contract with them when it abruptly switched to online-only classes at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
EdTech Magazine - Higher Education
JANUARY 5, 2024
It’s no secret that higher education institutions must continue prioritizing cybersecurity in the face of new and emerging threats. What’s less obvious is which threats to focus on, particularly because not all threats are readily apparent. Cryptojacking is one such threat that’s rapidly emerging, but it isn’t new. While cryptojacking attempts passed the 100 million mark for the first time in 2022, there have been well over 50 million attempts each year since 2018.
University Business
JANUARY 2, 2024
College leaders interested in recruiting traditional-age students may be trying to understand how these cohorts may differ from those who came before them, thanks to disruptions from the pandemic. As reports gather swaths of data to uncover the core tenants of the upcoming college student , one may not need to look any further than the habits of their adult learners as a source of inspiration.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 5, 2024
An American Bar Association plan to strengthen job protections for untenured law faculty has been received positively by legal writing and clinical professors. The American Bar Association has proposed changes to standards to strengthen job protections for untenured law faculty. Reuters reported that a proposal under consideration by the ABA’s Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admission to the Bar would require law schools to hire full-time legal writing instructors and other untenur
Confessions of a Community College Dean
JANUARY 4, 2024
Claudine Gay, who resigned as president of Harvard University Tuesday, defended herself and condemned the attacks against her and the university in an opinion article in The New York Times Wednesday.
EdTech Magazine - Higher Education
JANUARY 4, 2024
While virtual private network technology has been around in one form or another for over a quarter century, many people’s first encounters with VPNs were during the pandemic, when the ability to remotely access secure campus networks became a necessity for people working and studying from home. Post-pandemic, the need for remote access has slowed from its frantic 2020 pace, but hasn’t stopped.
University Business
JANUARY 4, 2024
Complete College America, the nonprofit dedicated to improving equitable student outcomes, has long championed its model its outcomes-based funding model to help bolster graduation rates. However, it believes its next “evolution” has arrived: completion-goals funding. After over a decade of implementation, CCA has found outcomes-based funding to be a crude method.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 4, 2024
Racquel Oden is the first woman in Thurgood Marshall College Fund’s 37-year history to assume the role of Board Chair, announced the organization, which was founded in 1987 by Dr. N. Joyce Payne as a bastion of support for Black students seeking higher education. Racquel Oden Thurgood Marshall College Fund, Inc. Oden takes the new role with extensive experience in finance and a highly regarded reputation in the wealth management business, according to TMCF .
Confessions of a Community College Dean
JANUARY 2, 2024
Harvard President to Step Down Amid Controversy Josh Moody Tue, 01/02/2024 - 01:39 PM Besieged by charges of plagiarism—on top of a disastrous appearance before a congressional hearing on antisemitism—Claudine Gay resigned after the shortest presidency in Harvard history.
Symplicity
JANUARY 3, 2024
In November, the UK Office for Students (OfS), in partnership with Nous Group, released it's report on a 10-month project to understand how higher education providers (HEPs) can better engage and work with the NHS and healthcare professionals. Participants from 45 HEPs and 19 regional healthcare providers engaged in monthly meetings to explore the challenges facing this collaboration.
University Business
JANUARY 3, 2024
The long-awaited Simplified FAFSA form, delayed three months from when students and parents traditionally receive it, made its official launch on New Year’s Eve. However, glitches, crashes, and extremely limited available windows to use the website have caused some experts to claim the Department of Education missed the deadline and advise families to wait up to another month before trying again.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 5, 2024
Michigan State University tenure and tenure-track faculty members are on track toward forming a union, according to reporting from the Lansing State Journal. A group of tenure and tenure-track faculty members at Michigan State University are seeking union recognition from the Board of Trustees. MSU Photography Services The group, which campaigned last fall to form a union , is seeking recognition from the university’s board of trustees.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
JANUARY 5, 2024
Tackling the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in the Classroom Johanna Alonso Fri, 01/05/2024 - 03:00 AM Professors who teach about the Middle East report increased interest in their spring courses—though not necessarily from the biggest activists on campus.
The Guardian Higher Education
JANUARY 3, 2024
US hedge fund manager Bill Ackman posts 4,000-word screed decrying ‘racism against white people’ after Gay’s departure Chief among the campaigners celebrating the resignation of Claudine Gay as president of Harvard University was a man who arguably did the most to push Gay, Harvard’s first Black president, out of the door: Bill Ackman, a billionaire hedge-fund manager and Harvard alumnus.
EdTech Magazine - Higher Education
JANUARY 4, 2024
Higher education leaders are familiar with difficult conversations. They’re an important part of leadership, after all, and administrators need to make hard choices every day as part of the delicate balance of institutional priorities, student success, employee welfare, budgets, security and so much more. In the higher ed IT world, one ongoing difficult conversation revolves around managing cloud storage.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 4, 2024
Dr. Jennifer Wells-Marshall Jennifer Wells-Marshall has been named associate director of the Alabama Cooperative Extension Service at Alabama A&M University. Marshall holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Tuskegee University as well as a master’s in human development and family studies and a doctorate in educational psychology from Auburn University.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
JANUARY 5, 2024
Retaining Students of Color in Grad School Sarah Bray Fri, 01/05/2024 - 03:00 AM Systematic change must be made to ensure they succeed in academe, writes Robert W. Fernandez, who suggests some specific interventions. Byline(s) Robert W.
The Guardian Higher Education
JANUARY 4, 2024
Her resignation is merely the latest episode in the right wing’s assault on education – a project that has increased in its virulence in recent years Any political observer who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that the resignation of Claudine Gay, the president of Harvard University who was driven from her job this week, had nothing to do with plagiarism.
Roompact
JANUARY 4, 2024
Black women make up 64.1% of bachelor’s degrees earned by Black college students. When it comes to masters degrees, the figure becomes 71.5%. As for doctoral, medical, and dental degrees, 65.9% of them have been obtained by black women. In other words, Black women have arrived on the scene of higher education, and we have.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 4, 2024
Two major New York state universities are collaborating with a teacher-run organization seeking to teach communities and students about civil resistance in local history, creating an online platform to display the organization’s curricula and local resistance efforts. Kesha James Now going into its third year of operations, the Antiracist Curriculum Project (ACP) has been working diligently to develop social studies curriculum that teaches students about the systemic injustices and historical re
Confessions of a Community College Dean
JANUARY 4, 2024
What’s Next for Ed Tech in 2024 Lauren.Coffey@… Thu, 01/04/2024 - 03:00 AM Coming soon: advances in VR and high-tech classrooms, plus even more AI.
The Guardian Higher Education
JANUARY 3, 2024
Some UK applicants forced to quit Turing scheme when places not confirmed or they failed to receive funds Students taking part in the government’s post-Brexit replacement for the EU’s Erasmus+ student exchange scheme were forced to drop out because places were confirmed too late, while others failed to receive funding until after their return, according to analysis.
Roompact
JANUARY 2, 2024
Every year, Roompact puts out a ton of content on topics of interest to college student housing and residence life professionals. This year included nearly 200 new posts, including 45 new podcast episodes and 4 webinars. Come take a look at our most viewed content of 2023. Our top two most popular new posts of.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 5, 2024
Jeremy Toulon Jeremy Toulon has been appointed director of student transition and success at Binghamton University in New York. He served as a senior consultant for the National Institute of Student Success in Atlanta. Toulon holds a bachelor’s degree in Afro-American/African Studies and an MSW from Binghamton University.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
JANUARY 4, 2024
Put Your Teaching Evaluations in a Jar Sarah Bray Thu, 01/04/2024 - 03:00 AM You can just ignore them, or you can take some positive steps to ensure that they will push you forward in your teaching, writes Constanza Bartholomae.
The Guardian Higher Education
JANUARY 2, 2024
Gay confirms she is stepping down following plagiarism accusations and backlash over Harvard’s response to antisemitism Claudine Gay resigns – live updates Full report: Claudine Gay resigns as Harvard president Dear Members of the Harvard Community, It is with a heavy heart but a deep love for Harvard that I write to share that I will be stepping down as president.
Ray Schroeder
JANUARY 5, 2024
Innovation and disruption are building a new world, but what if they disrupt your career? Technology—especially AI—is causing some roles to become irrelevant. And even workers in the most stable industries could experience consequences of economic downturns or just poor leadership. To avoid being blindsided, it’s important to have a backup plan that helps you navigate the waters if something happens outside of your control.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 5, 2024
Destiny Duron Deas Destiny Duron Deas has been appointed vice president for advancement at Evangel University in Springfield, Missouri. She serves as an attorney, author, entrepreneur, and ordained minister affiliated with the Assemblies of God. Duron Deas holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and international studies from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, a master’s in East Asian Studies from Duke University, and a juris doctorate from Duke Law School.
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