EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

MAY 1, 2024

What Wi-Fi 7 Brings to Higher Education Hybrid and online courses, robotics and virtual reality, and the sheer volume of users on a college campus all make reliable Wi-Fi critical.

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The Guardian Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Dr Kajal Sharma was only one of 12 senior academics not to be reappointed to her post A university has been found to have discriminated against an Indian lecturer on the grounds of race after it failed to reappoint her for a job she had been doing for five years, replacing her with a white candidate with no experience of the role.

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The Guardian Higher Education

JANUARY 23, 2024

We’re keen to hear from students at UK universities how they’ve been feeling about attending lectures and tutorials We’re interested to hear from university students in the UK about their attitude towards in-person lectures and tutorials, and attending university classes generally. Continue reading.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 3, 2023

Roberto 'Cintli' Rodriguez – award-winning Chicano activist, writer, and educator – died Monday, The Tucson Sentinel reported. Dr. Roberto Rodriguez Rodriguez, who was once a staff writer for Black Issues In Higher Education and later Diverse: Issues In Higher Education, died of heart failure in Teotihuacan, Mexico.

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The Guardian Higher Education

JULY 25, 2023

Joy Alonzo accused by student of disparaging Dan Patrick in lecture on opioid crisis at Texas A&M University The Texas A&M University professor Joy Alonzo criticized the Texas lieutenant governor, Dan Patrick, during a visiting lecture in March 2023 on the opioid crisis at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas.

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Higher Education Whisperer

MAY 1, 2024

"The Secret Lecturer : What Really Goes on at University" (Anon, 2024), is a very annoying book. I would like to say, despite that, it makes some good points, but it doesn't.

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Higher Education Whisperer

APRIL 19, 2023

The ANU College of Engineering, Computing and Cybernetics is looking for guest lecturers:"As an expert in your field, join us and contribute your insights to our program and enrich our student's knowledge through your experience and knowledge in Foundations & Cyber Security, Data Science, AI/Machine Learning, Human Centered Computing, Software Engineering, (..)

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The Guardian Higher Education

JANUARY 13, 2023

Lecturers at UK universities have been urged to review the way in which their courses are assessed amid concerns that students are already using a potent new AI tool capable of producing high-quality essays with minimal human input.

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The Guardian Higher Education

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Then it is time to go to lectures. He has a quick sit-down before he begins a four-hour shift collecting items around the supermarket for delivery. Depending on whether he can afford the £2 fare that day, he will get a bus, or retrace his steps back to campus. Continue reading.

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The Guardian Higher Education

JULY 3, 2023

Lecturers are seen as relatively privileged people. Lorna Finlayson is a philosophy lecturer at the University of Essex Continue reading. Industrial action by (mainly) academic staff is always a hard sell. The students being hit by their latest action have already had their studies disrupted by a pandemic and a series of strikes.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 23, 2024

Charles Toombs The CFA represents some 28,000 professors, lecturers, librarians, counselors, and coaches across the CSU's 23 universities. “I am extremely pleased and deeply appreciative that we have reached common ground with CFA that will end the strike immediately,” said CSU Chancellor Dr. Mildred García.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 20, 2024

"The Cohen Career Collective will be the largest career and technical training facility of its kind in the region, offering programs to prepare New Yorkers of all ages, backgrounds, and educational levels for good jobs in high-growth sectors of our local economy." Adams said the goal is to make a positive difference in people's lives. "I

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Higher Education Whisperer

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The Higher Education Review Terms of Reference, lists seven key areas for consideration (Department of Education, 2022). Here are some thoughts on the topic.

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Ray Schroeder

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Tyler Cowen speaks to students and faculty about “The Economics of Articifial Intelligence” on September 7, 2023, In the Great Hall of the Memorial Union as a part of the Iowa State Lecture Series Higher education has adapted slowest to artificial intelligence (AI), according to Tyler Cowen, economics professor at George Mason University. “We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 14, 2022

More than 600 adjunct professors and lecturers at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago will join the school’s union, the Chicago Tribun e reported. We simply need better contracts,” said Danny Floyd, a lecturer in the school’s visual and critical studies department.

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University Business

JULY 25, 2023

The professor, an expert on the opioids crisis, was placed on paid administrative leave and investigated, raising questions about the extent of political interference in higher education, particularly in health-related matters. Dan Patrick in lecture appeared first on University Business. Read more from The Texas Tribune.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In this extra post, the authors share details about the new Computer Science Education Group; an innovative initiative that aims to bring together staff and students of varied backgrounds involved in Computer Science Education.

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The Scholarly Teacher

MARCH 15, 2023

To meet this challenge, I researched ways to increase critical thinking among my nursing students, as a student myself in an EdD program on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. “An This assumption speaks to the core of many students in higher education. This assignment was due the evening before the live class.

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Higher Education Whisperer

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Our award winning filmmaker set this up in a lecture theatre, as it was raining outside. Last week I was called in at short notice to record a video to promote the university internationally. The camera was pointing out the door into the open plan area to provide some atmosphere. So I was looking to the front of the room.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

At the start of 2020, there was robust availability of online higher education, but no one anticipated that a worldwide pandemic called COVID-19 would soon usher in a new world of distance learning. “The We had some of our colleagues provide advice on using educational technology. I knew we needed to up our usage of it. …

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 16, 2024

She also served as an adjunct lecturer at CUNY, teaching psychology courses. Lopez holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the College of Staten Island, CUNY, and a master’s in disability services in higher education from the School of Professional Studies at CUNY.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 5, 2024

Ellis The ruling highlights the complexities surrounding issues of hair discrimination and cultural sensitivity in educational settings. In addition, the ruling underscores the need for comprehensive education and awareness initiatives to combat racial bias and promote cultural competence within educational institutions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 17, 2023

Those on strike – professors, part-time lecturers, and graduate student workers – had been making demands for improvements such as salary increases, better adjunct job security, and guaranteed funding for graduate students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Simmons busily prepared to deliver the 2023 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. It was the latest on a long list of accomplishments in Simmons’ career as one of the nation’s most prominent Black women in higher education. Dr. Ruth J.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 3, 2024

When McMillan Cottom started graduate school, she had more questions than disciplinary allegiances, which led her to the intersection of the sociology of education and political economy. Then, on the other hand, the fact that a lot of education doesn't work out great for all of us. In 2023, McMillan Cottom won the Joseph B.

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SRHE

JANUARY 13, 2023

Having spoken to colleagues and other lecturers who similarly teach some topics that may be deemed ‘challenging’ or ‘sensitive’, we found that there was very little agreement with regards to how to approach some of these topics and discussions. What does it mean to feel ‘safe’ within the higher education classroom?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Title: CRT Forward Project Director, UCLA School of Law, and Lecturer of Law, University of Southern California Tenured : No Age: 34 Education: B.S., Alexander is a lecturer of law at the University of Southern California (USC) Gould School of Law. legal studies, St. John’s University; LL.M., UCLA School of Law; and J.D.,

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The Guardian Higher Education

APRIL 17, 2024

Accommodations that disabled students had been requesting for years, such as lecture recordings and software that would allow them to take exams from home, were slotted into place so that students could learn remotely. Universities became accessible – or at least, more accessible than they had ever been – practically overnight.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 18, 2024

A college education gave Aracely Bahenat access to a career in health care that enabled her to provide a better life for her three sons and escape violent domestic abuse. One size doesn’t fit all in higher education. Aracely’s return to school 20 years after her first try wasn’t only about earning a degree.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Ferguson, who will serve as an assistant lecturer of management within the Miller College of Business, holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Ball State and an MBA from Indiana Wesleyan University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 22, 2023

This extends to education, employment, public services, and beyond. According to higher education scholar, Dr. Terrell L. Belonging is particularly essential in educational and workplace settings. He is also the director of the Institute on Education Equity and Justice. Dr. Antonio L.

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The Guardian Higher Education

MARCH 5, 2023

Queen Mary accused of ‘turning students into spies’ to gather data on academics who did not reschedule missed teaching A prestigious London university has become the first in the country to use a “student snitch form” to encourage students to report striking staff, while threatening to dock full pay for 39 days if those named fail to reschedule missed (..)

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Higher Education Whisperer

DECEMBER 13, 2022

This covers rethinking lectures and assessment, blended learning, Co-design and Microcredentials. ASCILITE have released their first "Scanning the Australasian Ed Tech Horizon: The 2021-2022 Contextualising Horizon Report" (Campbell, Porter, Logan-Fleming, & Jones, 2022). It is a big title for a relatively short 47 page report.

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University Business

MAY 19, 2023

The pandemic was more than an inconvenient wrinkle to higher education. It may have transformed the sector for good, and those that cannot adapt shouldn’t be surprised when they close, according to a new joint report from Ernst & Young and Times Higher Education. “Are universities of the past still the future?”

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University Business

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

There are many things we can teach through books and lectures but giving students highly realistic, “hands-on” experience through a virtual world isn’t one of them. But that future is coming very soon, and it will revolutionize K-12 and higher education. Read more on Big Think.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Members of the California Faculty Association — a union representing 29,000 lecturers, librarians, counselors, and other employees — voted 95% in favor of authorizing a walkout, CFA said in an Oct. 30 statement. CFA members are emphatic that low pay, growing workloads and systemic inequities are not sustainable,” the statement said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2024

The mission of the law school is to educate lawyer leaders for their communities, our state and nation,” said William Hubbard, dean of the Joseph F. He will teach and give guest lectures at the law school, the Honors College, and the College of Arts and Sciences. Rice School of Law.

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