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College President Says ‘Biden’s Plan to Cancel Student Debt Hurts Colleges like Mine’

University Business

The post College President Says ‘Biden’s Plan to Cancel Student Debt Hurts Colleges like Mine’ appeared first on University Business. “Biden’s plan to cancel student debt hurts colleges that opt out of the federal loan program,” said Dr. Benjamin Merkle , president of New Saint Andrews College. The Idaho -based Christian liberal arts college declines to take federal student loan money.

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MIT and Harvard lift U.S. universities past U.K. in world rankings

University Business

Schools earning one top spot were Notre Dame (Theology, Divinity and Religion), University of Michigan (Dentistry), University of Texas (Petroleum Engineering), New York University (Philosophy) and Colorado School of Mines (Mineral and Mining Engineering).

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Endpoint Detection and Response Solutions Spot University Security Threats

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

When the University of Kentucky was hit by a crypto mining attack in 2020, the school was operating with a “federated” endpoint protection strategy, says Stephen Burr, associate CIO and enterprise CISO at UK.

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Giving Ourselves Grace When Working in Student Housing

Roompact

Mine involves getting multiple humans ready for the day. What does your morning routine entail? Lunch? Check. Clothes? Check. Does everyone smell good? Then it is out the door. Generally you may be able to say that mornings in my home are busy. One of the things that I look forward to as a.

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Interdisciplinary Gamified Teaching of Critical Metals

The Scholarly Teacher

c) Department of Chemistry, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, 80401, United States. Key Statement: Introducing systems involved in sourcing critical metals needed for technology using bingo and mining flash cards can engage science, geography, and economics classes alike. Maxwell H.

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Why the NY Times thinks you should be banking on your facebook likes

Terminalfour

How social media data mining could be the future for universities & colleges

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Breaking Bread in Communities of Learners

The Scholarly Teacher

I reached out to Robin because he has a different lived experience from mine that could teach me. Tanden Brekke , University of St. Thomas Robin R. Bell , University of Northwestern St.

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Puerto Rican Resilience Is a Lesson for the Mainland

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Puerto Rican institutions have been what Santiago calls “canaries in the coal mine” for the crises now facing many U.S. Hurricanes, earthquakes, bankruptcy, and a pandemic. When it comes to catastrophic events, Puerto Rico has experienced its lion’s share in the last decade.

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University of San Diego developing Black student initiative for rising 6th graders

University Business

I wish I had a program like this when I was younger, mine was so much more of fitting the pieces,” said Novien Yarber, PhD. To uplift Black students in San Diego County, the University of San Diego is developing an initiative to better pave the way towards higher education.

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Community Colleges Build Workforce Through Partnership and Student Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Karen Colbert, general education faculty chair and lead math and STEM faculty at Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa Community College (KBOCC) in L’Anse, MI, teaches her math students the skills they need to pick up data-mining jobs in their local, rural area.

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Unapologetic Leadership for Black Learner Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The precipitous, unrelenting decline in Black community college enrollment since 2011 is the canary in the mine for American higher education.

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Top Law Schools Produce Lawyers for Fossil Fuels

Confessions of a Community College Dean

“It’s frustrating to see in real time the ways in which schools like mine create a pipeline into work driving climate injustice. A new report from Law Students for Climate Accountability finds that the top 20 law schools in the U.S. News & World Report rankings have produced fossil fuel lawyers at over three times the rate of the average U.S. law school. Nearly half of U.S. fossil fuel lawyers attended a top-20 law school.

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California Reconnect To Give Some College, No Degree Students A Leg Up

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

IHEP resources like its degree mining tool, which helps institutions identify students eligible for credentials they have not yet been awarded, will be crucial to the process of identifying and re-engaging SCND students.

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Top Law Schools Produce Lawyers for Fossil Fuels

Confessions of a Community College Dean

“It’s frustrating to see in real time the ways in which schools like mine create a pipeline into work driving climate injustice. A new report from Law Students for Climate Accountability finds that the top 20 law schools in the U.S.

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Get the MAX out of your EMS!

MultiFamily Insider

This got me thinking about all the companies offering an EMS, mine included. Thinking about Installing a Boiler Control System? I know, I know… you are thinking that spring is coming and why do I need a heat controller now anyway?

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The Seeds of Diversity Beget a President of Harvard

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A former classmate of mine who never left and stayed to become a distinguished tenured professor, and endowed chair, once told me that Harvard was like an elephant that moves very slowly.

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Five Reasons Why I Vote, and You Should Too

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

While we may all have different rationales for voting, mine are simple and straightforward. The older I get, the less surprised I am by human behavior. Even though I cannot say exactly why, there are two things that surprise and disappoint me the most.

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Aviva Intveld named 2023 Gates Cambridge Scholar

CAPD

She is particularly passionate about sustainable mining of energy-critical elements and addressing climate change inequality in her home state of California.

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ChatGPT a cheating tool? These educators think you’re looking at it wrong

University Business

Ryan Baker, an educational data mining and learning analytics professor at UPenn, believes we should leverage it as a tool as we would any other.

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College cancels classes for career, advising expo

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The future of the event remains up in the air for now as the college mines its data and evaluates the event with stakeholders, Horning says.

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A Gap Year in Costa Rica – Sea Turtle Conservation, Scuba Diving, Spanish and more.

Study and Go Abroad

I’m grateful mine was the Residential Gap Semester program at Outward Bound Costa Rica. Emilia Pantigoso was a participant on Outward Bound Costa Rica ’s Residential Gap Semester program in fall 2021.

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10 Real and Inspiring Examples of Self-Directed Learning in the Classroom

Experiential Learning Depot

Several years ago a student of mine read a book called “Am I Blue?” If you’ve been following along with my self-directed learning series, you know how fantastic it can be for both students and teachers.

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Resilience Inspiring Success

The Scholarly Teacher

Here, I did not get the impression that this challenge (pregnancy) was mine alone to bear, but something I could share with her and get a little relief. Martha Unobe , Masters Candidate at the University of North Carolina - Greensboro. Key Statement: Faculty can provide encouragement and tools so students have the opportunity to strengthen their resilience and find success in challenging situations. Keywords: Resilience, 7 C's, Growth, Success. Introduction Students are struggling.

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Financial Aid at Hope College

Hope College Network

Mine answered a lot of questions that I had, and if he didn’t know the answer, he could find someone that would. When I was applying for college, financial aid was probably one of the things that stressed me out the most. All the new information I was receiving was overwhelming.

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How to Develop a Student Persona: Strategies and Examples

HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

Mine Historical Student Data Existing student demographic data (if available) including age, gender, prior education (degree type and level), and job title can help provide very tangible and relevant information for student personas.

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‘Fight Like Hell’ and the Search for Its Higher Ed Analog

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Told from the perspective of the marginalized workers who are often left out of the labor narrative, the book chronicles the union organizing efforts across industries as diverse as online shopping (Amazon), agriculture, mining, manufacturing, and sex work.

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Design Together: A Future Work Life You Want to Lead

Dr. Laura Pasquini

There might be a few ideas swirling in your own head (as they are in mine). I’ve been thinking about work design for a while. And by “a while” I mean, since I was in high school.

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My Top 5 For Hope

Hope College Network

You may have different ones, or you may disagree with mine and that’s okay. Why did I chose Hope College? What lead me to making this final decision that would control where the next four years of my life would go?

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Gamekeepers, poachers, policy wonks and knowledge

SRHE

Another epistemic view of mine is that HE research in many cases isn’t an objective hard science. by Adam Matthews. I was excited to attend SRHE’s event, Bridging The Gap: Improving The Relationship Between Higher Education Research And Policy on 4 November 2022.

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‘Fight Like Hell’ and the Search for Its Higher Ed Analogue

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Told from the perspective of the marginalized workers who are often left out of the labor narrative, the book chronicles the union organizing efforts across industries as diverse as online shopping (Amazon), agriculture, mining, manufacturing and sex work.

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100+ colleges got an “A” for scholarship transparency. Is yours among them?

University Business

The colleges that rank highest for the most transparent merit scholarships provide clear, easily accessible information on the awards and the criteria they use, according to a new analysis. These leading schools also figure merit scholarships into their Net Price Calculator projections.

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3 Questions for Kelly Heuer, VP of Learning Experience at edX (a 2U Company)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Your research skills and ability to ask big questions would suit you well to a job like mine, in R&D. Blog: Learning Innovation Kelly Heuer and I have been collaborating in the context of my college’s portfolio of online programs on the edX platform.

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On Power and Climate Change

Will Richardson

Emphasis mine.]. At some point in the last couple of months, someone recommended that I read Seth Kreisberg’s 1992 book Transforming Power: Domination, Empowerment, and Education. To whomever that person is, sincere thanks. It’s an amazing read. And it’s connecting really deeply with my recent thinking about the tension between schools as a public and private good and the greatest aspirations we have for students as they experience school.

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Six reasons why HyFlex shouldn't become the norm (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

A friend of mine at a different university had to teach a HyFlex course with no classroom microphone or speaker, making it impossible for the remote students to hear their peers or for the instructor to hear remote students’ questions.

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Burnout and Work-Work Balance

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Overcoming mine meant medical leave and ultimately changing careers and institutions.

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How to Discover Interests with Learning Activities and Interest Surveys for Students

Experiential Learning Depot

Share Your Life: Many of my students' projects have launched because of a story of mine or a project that I myself had going on at home.

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My Wild Adventure to Hope College

Hope College Network

As a high school student, I always volunteered within a lot of different school projects and tried to explore what I really wanted to do and focus on that one passion of mine with the hope that I can pursue such a career in college. “The secret to getting ahead is getting started!”

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How Can We Bring Many More Students to Math, Data and Statistical Literacy?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Facility with analytics, data mining, data visualization, informatics and probability isn’t a luxury.

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Cassandra Teixeira Correia Marsy: A French Girl in Minnesota

Ridgewater College

After that training school week, we all headed to our families, which mine was in Larchmont, about an hour away north from New York City. This is the story of how a French girl ended up in central Minnesota at 21 years old.

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How to Celebrate Your Own Success

College Forward

What strengths of mine did I use? How often do you take time to praise and celebrate small wins and accomplishments? Not very often, right? We all have different definitions of what a win, an accomplishment, and success look like.

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Fun and Challenging Winter STEM Activity Ideas Adaptable for All Ages

Experiential Learning Depot

Older students could do this exact same experiment, and mine have. I don't know about you, but pretty soon here (in Minnesota) it is going to get outrageously cold outside, so I am always on the hunt around this time for fun, but challenging, winter STEM activity ideas to get through it!

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What Does the Teacher do in a Successful Student-Led Learning Classroom Environment?

Experiential Learning Depot

A coworker of mine arranged for him to come in to speak to the school. A student-led learning classroom environment looks different than a traditional learning setting, including the teacher's role. ​But what does that look like? What does a student led classroom look like?

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10 Fun and Easy Plant Science Fair Ideas for Kids of All Ages

Experiential Learning Depot

A great science fair project for younger kids like mine would be showcasing the experience of gathering and sharing data for a citizen science project that has already been created and is in motion, as well as the implications of the data for the species involved.

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