Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 24, 2024

PHILADELPHIA— Despite the ongoing attacks to diversity, equity and inclusion within higher education, more than a thousand educators gathered in-person and virtually late last week to share strategies and brainstorm ways to center equitable outcomes for the students who attend their institutions.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

APRIL 11, 2023

Internet connectivity has long been plagued by accessibility issues. In higher education, students who live in areas with unreliable internet access have a harder time completing schoolwork or attending remote classes. However, this large distance from the earth creates high latency, or…

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

JUNE 15, 2023

If there’s any place that can take advantage of the higher speeds and increased frequencies that Wi-Fi 6 provides, it’s a college campus. This means a lot of demand for high-speed wireless internet with rock-solid uptime. Thousands of students need reliable Wi-Fi to take notes and study or to kick back with video games or Netflix.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 11, 2023

We have no use of internet access. The students – 23 received a certificate of completion or associate's degree – took classes through SLCC's Prison Education Program – which was founded in 2017 and offers job placement after their sentences end. "We Most of our assignments were handwritten,” Bluff said. “We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Average employment by newspaper publishers has gone down 63% since the 1980s, though in recent decades, average employment increased by more than six times in internet publishing, broadcasting, and web search portals. The report also discusses how the industry and profession are transforming as times change.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The modern higher education network landscape is a complex mix. Connections to research and educational networks make a network perimeter harder to define, and the Internet of Things presence is growing as everything from door access to telephony to classroom occupancy monitoring is shifting to the campus data network.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

By now, it’s universally accepted that technology is a vital part of higher education, but how has its growing use impacted the student experience? Unstable internet connections top the list of issues, with 64 percent of respondents having…

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The Scholarly Teacher

MARCH 1, 2023

Not that long ago, the internet burst onto the scene. But faculty were not replaced; they found ways to use the internet to enhance learning. Yes, ChatGPT is going to make us rethink higher education in many ways, but so have the advances noted above, and so many others.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

First-time college students may have difficulties navigating higher ed and may harbor doubts about themselves and whether they belong, said Ruth Bauer White, president of InsideTrack. That is a much bigger issue to resolve in that moment.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The power of AI to target vast bodies of academic work for the most minor errors has higher education leaders fearing the politicization of plagiarism. AI can be used now to help detect plagiarism at a higher rate. When there is less human writing on the internet, what will that mean?

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University Business

OCTOBER 31, 2022

But how do they get there, and what must higher education institutions do to support them in their ventures? Higher education institutions must provide their students with a wide availability of technological resources, in addition to highly engaging instruction. To be set up for success in their future endeavors, of course.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Higher education institutions are in a vulnerable position when it comes to cybersecurity. college and university credentials advertised for sale on the dark web and publicly accessible internet forums. When breaches occur in higher education, more than just grades are at stake. It is therefore vital…

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 12, 2023

Now, as the COVID cohort graduates and gets ready for higher education, a new report shows how the pandemic affected their college and career choices, both positively and negatively. Others doubted their ability to get into college or questioned the need for higher education at all.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 22, 2023

Breonna’s story prompted many companies, organizations, and institutions to flood the internet with statements of solidarity, anti-racism rhetoric, and discussions of racial bias and systemic oppression. student at the University of Michigan in the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education. Brandy Jones is a Ph.D.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

APRIL 18, 2023

IT systems demand storage as well: Internet logs, security events, building systems, security cameras and more all require storage. In addition to storing data for higher education institutions, data warehouses and data lakes can help make data useful. Here’s what higher education IT leaders should consider…

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University Business

OCTOBER 28, 2022

One of the greatest challenges higher education has ever had to face was the pandemic. 220 million students were directly affected globally by the pandemic in April of 2020, according to the Boston College Center for International Higher report.

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Ray Schroeder

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Higher ed funding—and a lot of it—is flowing into AI as institutions make big bets that artificial intelligence will be as universal and disruptive as the internet. Experts urge both action and caution as institutions pour millions into artificial intelligence.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 24, 2023

A new report by the ed tech company Cengage Group shows that, one year later, the great resigners have a strong desire for reskilling and upskilling programs—an opportunity for higher ed. A higher percentage of respondents cited feeling “stuck” in their role as the primary reason for leaving their job than cited inadequate compensation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Detecting and recognizing biases Dr. Inara Scott ChatGPT and other LLMs work at lightning speed to scrape, or gather, as much information as they possibly can from the Internet to produce solutions or answers to a query. And it’s precisely those faculty members who might benefit the most from higher education’s embrace of AI.

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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. The purpose of community colleges is to increase access to higher education for the most vulnerable populations.”

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The Scholarly Teacher

MARCH 29, 2023

Francis Key Statement: DEI: Creating a Classroom Culture Keywords: Diversity, Instructional Practices, Classroom Culture Introduction Inclusive classrooms and equitable instructional practices have been a subject of discussion for several years, particularly within higher learning institutions. link] Garrison, D. Anderson, T., &

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Creatrix Campus

DECEMBER 28, 2023

7 ways Creatrix Cloud Based Platform helps higher education institutions editor Thu, 12/28/2023 - 05:16 College and university campuses are vibrant, complex ecosystems of learning and discovery across disciplines and campuses. What are cloud-based platforms for higher education?

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Campus Sonar

APRIL 10, 2024

It’s a form of market research, using the internet as an always-on focus group. Here are some questions you can answer for presidents and boards in higher education. How can we rebuild the public’s trust in higher education? More surveys about declining public confidence in higher ed aren’t helping us solve the problem.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Byrne to bring her commitment to access and equity to a new area of public higher education. Photo Credit: Macaulay Honors College Finding a lack of diversity Access to higher education has been an important theme in Byrne’s life in academia. Students meet with Macaulay Honors College Dean Dara N. Upon completion of her Ph.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The CDC also reported in September that the AIAN population was at higher risk during the pandemic for COVID-19 infection, hospitalization, and death than other racial and ethnic groups. Home computers and internet service were nonexistent for many students in the department. years was equal to the life expectancy of the total U.S.

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The Scholarly Teacher

JUNE 21, 2023

Growth mindset leads to greater effort and persistence in learners which helps them reach higher levels of achievement (Dweck & Molden, 2017). A meta-analysis of blended learning and technology use in higher education: From the general to the applied. Journal of Computing in Higher Education , 26 (1), 87-122. Borokhovski, E.,

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 20, 2023

“In the long run, it is almost sure that we will have AI systems that will produce text that is almost indistinguishable from human-written text,” Yoshua Bengio, the “ godfather of AI ” and recipient of the Turing Award , often referred to as the Nobel of computer science, told Inside Higher Ed in an email exchange.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 1, 2023

As we begin to assess the potential impact of these powerful communication technologies on higher education, we encourage faculty and administrators to take a collective deep breath and, when they decide to act, to consider students who have disabilities—not also , but first.

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University Business

MAY 5, 2023

Penn’s previous wording regarding its legacy students was that they were “given the most consideration through Early Decision,” according to internet archives collected by The Daily Pennsylvanian. Penn has also quit its exclusive admissions information sessions for legacy families.

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University Business

MARCH 21, 2023

The size of the global edtech market was about $238 billion in 2021, and artificial intelligence, virtual and augmented reality and the internet of things will be the biggest propellants of growth over the next several years, according to the latest analysis by Research and Markets. Edutech, Coursera Inc., Instructure Inc., Udacity Inc.,

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 26, 2023

What are some of the trends related to academic library spending that a student of higher education should understand? Of course, the internet has led to massive changes in information accessibility and the everyday role of the library. Q1: Overall, how do academic libraries allocate their budgets?

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EAB

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Appily represents a major milestone in EAB’s commitment to improving access to higher education by making it simpler for students to find, explore, and engage with the right institutions for them,” said EAB President of Marketing and Enrollment Solutions, Chris Marett. The Appily site is free for students.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

What current enrolled Sora Schools students and their parents think about the future of the school in the school’s most recent “Trends in Education 2024” report can greatly impact their perception of what higher education should be like, too.

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

APRIL 22, 2024

Emails Are Still a Powerful Tool in Higher Ed Marketing In the mid-1990s, a new phrase began triggering internet users’ dopamine receptors: You’ve got mail! When it comes to your higher education email campaigns, you don’t want to be lumped in with the junk. Emails with dense text can be overwhelming and off-putting to students.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 24, 2023

Image: Since the Taliban suspended the rights of Afghan women to pursue higher education last month, many American higher education institutions and leaders have decried the ban. ” IIE has been working to provide Afghan refugees with access to higher education since the Taliban took control in 2021, Kokodyniak said.

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SRHE

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

We hope this new way of working will motivate and stimulate debates around everything digital in higher education. The DU network will, therefore, act as a platform for anyone to contribute to discussions about digital higher education. This session will then open to discussion with the audience.

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Dr. Simon Paul Atkinson

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

I did not mean to imply that it is a fanciful dream that will never have an impact on higher education, but I have reservations. There are billions around the world without internet access, millions without reliable broadband, and millions who do not have the disposable income, time, or inclination, to while away hours as a virtual avatar.

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