The Guardian Higher Education

JUNE 12, 2023

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University Business

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

THE considered over 38,000 academics from 166 countries and regions on their opinions of the world’s leading universities. However, when it comes to reputation, other countries will have to wait a little bit longer for any significant power shake-up to take place, according to THE’s latest World Reputation Ranking.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 30, 2023

The presentation also covered the use of race in awarding scholarships, which was not explicitly mentioned in Chief Justice John Roberts’ majority opinion. In July, SFFA sent a letter to 150 colleges and universities saying that race-based scholarships were illegal and advising institutions against keeping them.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

An outside law firm hired by the university's board of trustees ultimately concluded that there was “no evidence to support a finding of discrimination, including but not limited to, terminations and/or demotions; and use of FMLA.” Dr. Jack Thomas Thomas has denied harassing, belittling, and bullying anyone.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 13, 2023

The three-judge appeals panel reversed the trial’s court’s decision, arguing in an opinion authored by Justice Sara Beth Landau that Nayer had not sufficiently shown that his claims were tied to his race, national origin or opposition to discrimination.

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The Scholarly Teacher

APRIL 24, 2024

Ungrading is “a practice which eliminates or greatly minimizes the use of assigned points or letter grades in a course, focusing instead on providing frequent and detailed feedback to students on their work, to the course learning goals” (Kenyon, 2022, para. Through these arguments, the concept of “ungrading” has been developed (Blum, 2020).

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

Blogs Assessing online courses—OSCQR rubric August 9, 2023 George Rus Assistant Dean for Online Education, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs The views and opinions expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of EAB.

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Great College Advice

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

A reader recently wrote in to ask my opinion about dual enrollment courses. Mark’s Opinion. My opinion is that a score of 5 on the AP US History test communicates more about the student’s intellectual capacity and academic proficiency than an A in an introductory US history course offered by my local community college.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 3, 2023

Résumés and cover letters. ” In a recent Inside Higher Ed opinion piece, Martha Coven offered tips to academics for using numbers in papers and reports more effectively. This is another potential assignment add-on. Related assignments can get them into the mind-set of selling themselves as a good fit for the role.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 29, 2023

” University officials did not provide a copy of Wingard’s resignation letter to Inside Higher Ed. Drawing on his corporate experience, Wingard wrote an opinion piece for Inside Higher Ed last year arguing that “ higher ed must change or die.” The board said it aims to move quickly to find his replacement.

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University Business

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Human resources departments and recruiters are looking for more than a résumé and cover letter. Many of today’s college students have an advantage here: They’ve been using social media platforms to communicate their thoughts and opinions for years. . That said, it’s a significant competitive advantage in the job market.

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The Scholarly Teacher

MARCH 20, 2024

In other words, can they articulate their opinions as research-informed perspectives? One practice to help overcome this challenge is to invite student partners to think about their perspectives in the context of research. 2022), and administrative recognition of SaP benefits and demands.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 19, 2023

It wasn’t because he tuned out from the world; he had some pretty clear political opinions and could discuss the news right up to the end. I thought of Grandpa when I read this letter in the Chronicle. ” The letter is a remarkably compact expression of an entire worldview.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The graphic visualization looks like the letter “U”; the left top of the letter indicates peak and the bottom middle a trough (a word also used to describe a long, narrow vessel used to hold food or water for animals). Don’t ignore hints about the future that comes from oddities.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 30, 2023

“Reading a book on a college campus should not prompt formal administrative intervention,” a FIRE program officer wrote in a letter to Stanford University president Marc Tessier-Lavigne. ” In the letter dated Jan. FIRE officials are asking for more clarity on the incident and how the university is handling it.

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EAB

JULY 17, 2023

Perception shifts can also happen quickly; students who felt great about attending your school when they applied may have different opinions today. Accepted Students Celebrate Acceptance and Achievements: Extend personalized acceptance letters or emails congratulating students on their admission.

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SRHE

APRIL 25, 2023

DfE wrote frequent letters to the OfS and the OfS jumped to respond. Nor has OfS shown that it will take any notice of widespread HE opinion, as UUK’s Charlotte Snelling reported in despair in her Wonkhe blog on 31 October 2022. OfS, ‘having regard to ministers’ as statute demands, started to leave HE realities behind.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 4, 2023

” An official of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression wrote a letter to university president Sylvia M. Sabrina Conza, a program officer for campus rights advocacy at FIRE who wrote the letter, reminded Burwell that the U.S. Burwell the very next day voicing concerns about the investigation.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 4, 2023

In his latest podcast episode, Dr. Drumm McNaughton discusses the recent Dear Colleague letter and the upcoming regulation expansion with Michael Goldstein, Managing Director of Tyton Partners’ Center for Higher Education Transformation. Mike talks about: Why the Department penned the letter and what it says.

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EAB

AUGUST 8, 2023

So we have an application in March, because we do require a letter of recommendation, so this truly allows applicants to seek that letter of recommendation from either a teacher or a counselor, so if they choose to do so. So if you have any scholars, please feel free to have them apply, if it's of interest to them. KW: Absolutely.

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EAB

APRIL 18, 2023

I think they thought the dear colleague letters back last summer in this February were sort of run of the mill and just about OPMs. I hope, as I said, everyone participated in that process and had your opinion expressed. CH: Yeah, I don't think the Department of Ed realized they were gonna cause the stir that they did.

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EAB

APRIL 18, 2023

I think they thought the dear colleague letters back last summer in this February were sort of run of the mill and just about OPMs. I hope, as I said, everyone participated in that process and had your opinion expressed. CH: Yeah, I don't think the Department of Ed realized they were gonna cause the stir that they did.

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EAB

MARCH 14, 2023

I can tell you, I've worked in institutions where these three different offices were sending students the same message, same call to action and it's very confusing for a student when they get a letter from the bursar, the admissions office and advising all on the same day and they all kind of say different things.

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Experiential Learning Depot

APRIL 29, 2023

Write Letters and Meet with Legislators: Advocating for legislation is a really powerful learning experience, not only because students make an impact on their communities at the time, but they also develop the skills to continue to do so long after they've graduated.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 2, 2023

In consequence, I believe a big part of my job is to alter their opinion by engaging and motivating them and demonstrating that history isn’t one damn fact after another. That’s a fact of life that I accept. The student success book authors offer valuable advice about how to take advantage of college.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 20, 2023

“The ability of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to spy on Americans using TikTok is well documented,” Gianforte wrote in his letter to Montana’s regents. (TikTok has said that all its data are stored in the U.S. and Singapore.) “Using or even downloading TikTok poses a massive security threat.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 8, 2023

Colin Johnson, a tenured associate professor and president-elect of the IU at Bloomington Faculty Council, signed the letter. Five Indiana University faculty leaders, plus one past Faculty Council president and one president-elect, signed the letter, which was addressed to students, staff and faculty.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 29, 2023

Then, primarily, based on that interview, plus the letters of reference and other things, the board makes a decision. In my opinion, it’s the over-reliance on search consultants. You go around the room, and they all ask a question. These applicants then give short, little answers to these various questions.

Higher Education 52

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EAB

JULY 11, 2023

I don't have the magic wand, but I do feel like race and reparative justice, in my personal opinion, have to always be a part of the conversation, right? But let's think about Penn, 60,000 applications, 2,500 spots. DP: On Thursday you could pull in 2,500 best people, and on Friday you could pull in 2,500 different best people. WL: I agree.

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eLiterate

JULY 10, 2023

Professor Pat doesn’t have strong opinions about any one LMS over the others except that there are three features in Canvas that must be in whatever platform they choose. But at their heart, they help universities expand their ability to spin up, market, and sell more online programs.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 13, 2023

Their letters and diaries reveal that many experienced a “marriage trauma” (in the historian Nancy F. But many mill girls nonetheless regarded their work as a kind of liberation, and found in the mills a sense of sisterhood. Cott’s words ), as they contemplated marriage or decided to remain single.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 17, 2023

Hanson, weighed in with a letter to the editor of The Minneapolis Star-Tribune. Since Hamline’s founding in 1854, faculty have taught within the principle of academic freedom and examined subjects through the lens of open inquiry and respect for the beliefs, rights and opinions of the students they teach.

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University Business

JUNE 1, 2023

Their opinion isn’t unfounded either; Undergraduate students are by far the most likely demographic to attempt imposing sanctions on college professors. In a 10-page open letter to the law school’s community, the dean wrote that some protestors “crossed the line” from protest to disruption.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

What, for example (citing a hypothetical discussed in the already-mentioned NACAC webinar), would it mean for a student to submit a letter of recommendation from her AME church pastor—something that would effectively identify her as a Black applicant? Paraphrase from her dissenting opinion in Gratz v. Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Admissions 52

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 2, 2023

On Monday, the Israel-defending Academic Engagement Network released a letter asking Chicago to publicly condemn “the ongoing campaign to boycott Israeli visiting professors and Israel-themed courses and to do everything possible to prevent the physical disruption of these classes.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 12, 2023

A group of CEOs are demanding Harvard University identify students whose organizations signed on to a letter blaming solely Israel for the deadly attacks by terrorist organization Hamas, CNN reported.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

“The University of Houston System is in receipt of the letter from the Governor’s Chief of Staff reminding us about discrimination laws,” read the system’s statement to Inside Higher Ed. “We recognize and support compliance with all state and federal laws and continue to train our employees in this regard.

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