The Scholarly Teacher

APRIL 5, 2023

Todd Zakrajsek , ITLC Lilly Conferences on Evidence-Based Teaching and Learning Key Statement: Self-efficacy and self-regulation are social processes that are critical for successful learning. Keywords: Self-Efficacy, Self-Regulation, Social Cognition, Success Introduction Although “brain-based” learning has captured the attention of educators for the past two decades, much of what has been discussed and implemented would fit much better into the areas of cognitive and social psychology.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2023

The City University of New York’s (CUNY) Graduate Center has announced its 65 Black, Race, and Ethnic Studies (BRES) Fellows. The fellows – 20 CUNY Graduate Center doctoral student fellows and 45 faculty fellows – will be affiliated with CUNY’s BRES Collaboration Hub and will do research and create curricula to improve Black, race, and ethnic studies at CUNY.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 7, 2023

Image: While this academic year saw the largest one-year increase in full-time faculty members’ average salaries in over three decades, that still wasn’t enough to stop their real wages from falling due to inflation, the American Association of University Professors noted this Thursday alongside its latest salary survey data. They are preliminary data for the 2022–23 academic year; AAUP plans to release the final data in July.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

APRIL 7, 2023

Flipped classrooms aren’t a new concept, but they saw adoption at scale during the pandemic as educators looked for ways to keep college students interested and engaged from beyond the classroom. Even with a partial return to in-person learning, many higher education institutions still use flipped classroom models for HyFlex and hybrid instruction. Here’s what that looks like, both in theory and in practice.

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CAPD

APRIL 7, 2023

You’re in the hospital with a serious condition. The doctor is asking you questions. The nurse is explaining your discharge instructions. The problem? You don’t understand or speak English. Or at least not well enough to grasp the complex information being discussed. And not only is there a linguistic gap between you and your medical team, but there is also a cultural barrier that’s preventing you from getting the quality of care you need and deserve.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2023

Dr. Martha Enciso, associate vice president of student affairs at California State University, Fullerton, has won the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators’ (NASPA) 2023 Mena Valdez Award. Dr. Martha Enciso She was given the Outstanding Senior Student Affairs Officer Award, which is given to senior student affairs officers that have provided advice, energy, leadership, and guidance to the Latino community.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 3, 2023

Image: When Turnitin was launched in 1998, the early ed-tech start-up promised a solution to one of the most pressing threats to academic integrity in the nascent internet era: easy plagiarism from online sources. Twenty-five years later, the question on every classroom instructor’s lips has shifted from “how do I know if my student is copying someone else’s work?

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Roompact

APRIL 5, 2023

We’d like to introduce you to our ACUHO-I intern for 2023, Kassidy Giles! Kassidy is helping us out with the development of a professional development curriculum for student staff. She brings a wealth of experience and talent to the team. We’re excited to have her. Kassidy Giles Pronouns: She/Her/Hers Hometown: San Diego, CA Alma Mater: Favorite.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 2, 2023

At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, community colleges across the country saw a decline in enrollment for myriad reasons — financial, family, illness, lack of internet or inability to adapt to online learning. As in-person and hybrid learning resume, enrollment numbers have not returned to pre-COVID levels. Economic issues still impact many community college students, a large number of whom are adult learners or have extensive family obligations.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 6, 2023

Image: DENVER—As snow fell from gray skies on Tuesday, higher education professionals, publishers, librarians, information technologists, government researchers and others met this week for the Coalition for Networked Information spring membership meeting. There, attendees gathered to discuss the use of information technology to advance scholarship and education.

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University Business

APRIL 5, 2023

Medaille University will finalize its merger with Trocaire College on July 31 if approved by the State Department of Education and other related agencies. Medaille Interim President Lori Quigley announced the move Tuesday in her State of the University address. She explained that Medaille, based in Buffalo, was driven to take the action by COVID-19, low birth rates and subsequent poor enrollment numbers in the area’s private institutions.

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Campus Sonar

APRIL 5, 2023

The culminating representation of many years of hard work, exploration, change, and perseverance, graduation is a pivotal moment for grads and their friends and families, one they anticipate all year long. There are high expectations for everyone involved! It’s also one of the most overwhelming and time-consuming parts of the academic year for the campus pros involved in planning it.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 6, 2023

It's normal. That's what most current and former athletes thought about Angel Reese waving her hand in front of her face and signaling towards a ring on her hand. The non-verbal form of trash-talking or trolling is familiar to contact sports like basketball. So why is Reese, in particular, being ostracized for normative behavior? Given the negative attention towards Reese and other Black women in sports, two things come to mind: race and gender.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 4, 2023

Image: For students in Sarah Blackwood’s How to Read Moby-Dick class at Pace University, learning about Herman Melville’s work isn’t confined to lectures, essays or classroom discussions. Blackwood’s syllabus includes a tour of Lower Manhattan locations featured in the author’s novels and stories: the Wall Street law offices where Bartleby, the titular scrivener of one of Melville’s best-known stories, worked, as well as the streets that Ishmael walked in the

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

APRIL 5, 2023

A traditional three-tiered data center architecture with separate infrastructure for networking, processing and storage remains very much the norm. But for organizations looking to modernize their legacy data centers, a transition to a software-defined data center can unlock a number of important benefits. Here are five things to know about SDDCs. 1.

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University Business

APRIL 4, 2023

The fallout of the pandemic and recent economic shakeups has recently reminded graduating high schoolers that the pathway to a high-wage job doesn’t necessarily require a college degree. However, these experts believe higher education is at an inflection point to evolve past its focus on academia and prioritize equipping its students with career skills and that the best way to get there is by partnering with relevant businesses and employers.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 7, 2023

When Brown University released its landmark 2006 report documenting the institution’s historical involvement in slavery, many of its recommendations were one-time fixes: revising the university’s official history, creating memorials, and the like. Some, however, required longer-term engagement, such as the creation of the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice (CSSJ), a research hub focusing on the history of slavery and its contemporary impacts.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 6, 2023

Image: Community college baccalaureate programs in California can help more Black and Latino students earn bachelor’s degrees in a state that badly needs a more educated workforce, according to a new report. The Civil Rights Project at the University of California, Los Angeles, a research effort examining civil rights and equal opportunity issues affecting racial and ethnic groups, today released the report calling for a “strategic” expansion of baccalaureate programs at commun

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2023

The enrollment crisis in higher education shows few signs of waning. Undergraduate college enrollment fell a staggering 8 percent between 2019 and 2022, according to a report in March from The Associated Press, which said that blaming the dip solely on the COVID-19 pandemic was a mistake. Students are questioning the value of expensive college tuition and the wisdom of incurring years of student debt.

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Higher Education Today

APRIL 3, 2023

Title: SNAP Reimagined: Improving Postsecondary Education Access and Completion Source: The Institute for College Access & Success (TICAS) Today’s students must often navigate higher education and its associated costs while facing increased basic needs insecurity and limited need-based financial aid to close the gap. In a new brief, The Institute for College Access and Success.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 7, 2023

The Colorado Community College System has announced transfer agreements with two historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs): Saint Augustine’s University and Texas Southern University. Come Fall 2023, this partnership will make SAU and TSU the only two HBCUs and first out-of-state transfer options in the community college system's Bridge to Bachelor’s Degree Program , which gives new, first-time students admission to participating four-year institutions upon associate degree completio

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 3, 2023

Image: Twenty-three Lafayette College department heads and program chairs say there are serious issues with governance at the college, according to “points of concern” four of them shared with the president and provost. It’s unclear who supported the letter beyond those four, but 23 would represent over two-thirds of the college’s department heads and program chairs.

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Hanover Research

APRIL 6, 2023

When students are prepared to succeed in K-12 institutions, educational attainment increases, and more residents are working in family-sustaining careers. Research indicates that the level a child progresses in literacy is one of the best predictors of success in school, according to a report from Hanover Research. The post Journal Times: Racine County, Higher Expectations Launch Early Literacy Work appeared first on Hanover Research.

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Roompact

APRIL 7, 2023

Occasionally divisions and departments may be called upon to provide a more formal rationale for why they pursue (or why they wish to pursue) the development of a residential curriculum or curricular approach.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 6, 2023

Baylor University has recently dedicated statues honoring its first Black graduates, the late Rev. Robert L. Gilbert, and Barbara A. Walker. The bronze statues – created by renowned sculptor Benjamin Victor – were placed on the walkway to the Tidwell Bible Building. On Jun. 2, 1967, Gilbert and Walker became the first Black students to attain undergraduate degrees from Baylor.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 5, 2023

The humanities might not-too-facetiously be labeled the black sheep of academia. After all, the humanities are frequently characterized as being in crisis and, since 2008, have suffered massive hemorrhaging in the numbers of new majors. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, colleges and universities have made cuts to humanities departments, and the financial exigencies of the pandemic have only made the situation worse.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

APRIL 6, 2023

In this post, Summer Wight, Modelling and Reporting Analyst within the Student Analytics, Insights and Modelling team, discusses the purpose of the University’s student panel through concrete examples. This post is part of the Learning & Teaching Enhancement Theme: Student Voice.

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AIFS Abroad

APRIL 5, 2023

Last Updated on April 5, 2023 by Cat Rogliano One of the perks of studying abroad in Europe is being able to use your free weekends to explore the continent — and with ease! Berlin, Germany is an ideal location for weekend trips, as it’s located in the middle of Europe with hundreds of trains, buses, and flight connections to most major European cities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 6, 2023

In a precedent-setting career in higher education, the late Dr. Alfredo de los Santos Jr. brought innovation, excellence, and inclusion to community colleges. De los Santos, a posthumous recipient of a 2023 Diverse Champions Award, is remembered by colleagues as a great friend, an outstanding mind, and a determined educator who placed access and equity at the center of his work.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 6, 2023

Image: The Texas Supreme Court has ruled 6 to 2 that the University of Texas and the Texas State University systems can revoke degrees that graduates received through academic misconduct. “The only difference between expelling a current student for academic misconduct and revoking the degree of a former student for the exact same academic misconduct is one of timing,” Debra Lehrmann, the court’s senior justice, wrote on the majority’s behalf.

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University Business

APRIL 6, 2023

The academic workforce in the U.S. is slowly but surely relying more heavily on contingent faculty and graduate student employees as tenure and tenure-track faculty positions decline, according to a key summary from the American Association of University Professors. The study identified contingent professors as positions ineligible for tenure that are either part-time, full-time non-tenure-track or full-time no-tenure system.

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AIFS Abroad

APRIL 3, 2023

Last Updated on April 3, 2023 by Cat Rogliano Studying abroad can be a life-changing experience that opens doors to new cultures, perspectives, and opportunities. However, one of the major concerns for many students is the high cost of living in popular study abroad destinations. Fortunately, there are plenty of inexpensive places to study abroad that offer a fantastic education and a low cost of living for budget-conscious students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2023

Faculty at Chicago State University walked off the job Apr. 3 after 10 months of failed negotiations between staff and administrators, WBEZ Chicago reported. The faculty are negotiating and striking for better pay and reduced workloads. For the 2021-2022 school year, Chicago State professors earned an average of $88,000, $7,000 less than the average salary for Illinois public university professors, according to a report from the National Education Association.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 7, 2023

Image: Many students think more flexibility on classroom deadlines, attendance and participation would boost their academic success, a recent Student Voice survey found. About a quarter of students also see strict attendance or participation requirements and unrealistic deadlines as actively impeding their success. But how do students define flexibility?

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Roompact

APRIL 2, 2023

Roompact’s bulletin board competition is now closed and we’re ready to announce the winners. We received 100 entires (!), so picking ten was incredibly difficult. Some boards did an excellent job at educating residents, while others were just beautiful! We tried to select a diverse group of winners that reflected the diversity of the submissions.

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Higher Education Today

APRIL 3, 2023

Title: The Healthy Minds Study | 2021-2022 Data Report Author: Daniel Eisenberg, Sarah Ketchen Lipson, Justin Heinze, and Sasha Zhou (Principal Investigators) Source: The Healthy Minds Network The Healthy Minds Study provides a snapshot of the state of mental health and well-being among the nation’s enrolled college students. The study seeks to “identify needs and.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 2, 2023

In 2022, student leaders launched a campaign to challenge the long-standing stigma associated with attending community colleges. The campaign, initiated by the student international officers of the college honor society Phi Theta Kappa, uses evidence-based statistics and first-hand success stories to spread the message that community colleges offer a smart option for individuals to achieve their educational goals.

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