February, 2025

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Howard University Makes History as First HBCU to Achieve Top Research Status

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In a groundbreaking achievement that marks a significant milestone for historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), Howard University has become the first HBCU to receive the prestigious Research One (R1) Carnegie Classification, placing it among the nation's most elite research institutions. The announcement from the American Council of Education (ACE) on Thursday, recognizes Howard's designation as an institution of very high research spending and doctorate production, a status that f

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Is DOGE Digging Around in Student Data?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Is DOGE Digging Around in Student Data? Liam Knox Sat, 02/08/2025 - 09:05 AM Elon Musks government efficiency office may have access to sensitive student information, raising alarms about privacy and threatening to throw the federal aid system into crisis.

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Students Speak: Survey Indicates Students Feel Unprepared to Use AI in the Workplace

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

In the summer of 2024, we had the privilege of working with our fellow CDW interns on an artificial intelligence project. Completed by students from Clemson University, Virginia Tech University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and North Carolina State University, the project explored whether our schools were properly preparing students to use AI in their future workplaces.

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What Classes Should You Take in 12th Grade? 

Great College Advice

In the spring semester of 11 th grade, most college-bound juniors are knee-deep in college visits, building college lists, preparing for the SAT and ACT tests, and trying to keep grades up. But, it is also the time when high school juniors need to sign up for senior year courses. As you look ahead to your senior year, think hard about what classes to take as part of the college admissions process.

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Cambridge risks losing ‘unbelievable talent’ amid PhD funding cut

The Guardian Higher Education

Warning by vice-chancellor Deborah Prentice comes as Silicon Valley planned between Oxford and Cambridge The University of Cambridge risks losing unbelievable talent owing to a drop-off in funding for PhDs, the vice-chancellor has cautioned. Prof Deborah Prentice, who took over as vice-chancellor in 2023, described PhD students as the lifeblood of the universitys research and innovation work, and expressed concern that funding from research councils had dropped off significantly.

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Leaders still at a loss on how to beat AI invasion

University Business

Two years removed from the release of ChatGPT, higher education is still at a loss on how to deal with generative AI in the classroom, suggests a new survey from the American Association of Colleges & Universities and Elon Universitys Imagining the Digital Future Center. More than half of all executive leaders said they’re not harnessing the power of generative AI to prepare students for the future, upskill faculty teaching and empower non-faculty with the tools.

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CUNY’s Black Male Initiative Marks 20 Years of Success Amid National DEI Pushbacks

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As the country witnesses the shuttering of multiple diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) offices and as businesses retract their plans to intentionally diversify their employees and leaders, one college-based program in New York City, originally designed to support the education of young Black men, is celebrating its 20th anniversary with no signs of slowing.

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Notes on a New Semester

Hope College Network

The days between Christmas and New Years are some of my favorites. I love the anticipation of a fresh start, the inclination to take inventory and set goals, and the hope of a new year lingering in the near future. At the same time, coming back for spring semester can be hard. Christmas break isn’t as long as summer, so I don’t ever feel quite as rested or ready to jump back into another semester.

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Are Your RAs Secretly Plotting Against You?

Roompact

Picture this: You walk into your weekly staff meeting, armed with the agenda, a hopeful smile, and maybe a cup of coffee that screams, I havent slept in two days. But instead of being met with enthusiasm, your team seems disengaged. They avoid eye contact, their responses are curt, and theres a weird vibe in.

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HBCUs Use Federal Funding to Connect Students and Communities

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

Historically Black colleges and universities across the U.S. are making creative use of millions of dollars in federal funding to narrow the digital divide and support the upward mobility of both their students and members of the community. Created by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), the Connecting Minority Communities Pilot Program has distributed more than $262 million to 93 colleges and universities.

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The Guardian view on campus cuts: academics pay a high price for Westminster’s mistakes | Editorial

The Guardian Higher Education

The government should not stand aloof as a crisis unfolds in our universities. A new settlement is needed In one of David Lodges famous campus novels, a young English literature lecturer pictures her university as the ideal human community, where people were free to pursue excellence and selffulfilment, each according to their own rhythm and inclination.

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What Dr. Ibram Kendi’s Appointment to Howard Means for HBCUs—and Black Scholarship

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Supporters of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) welcomed Howard University's announcement late last week of Dr. Ibram X. Kendi's appointment Dr. Crystal A. deGregory as a history professor and director of the Howard Institute for Advanced Study. Kendi, a historian and antiracist activist, has made waves since publishing Stamped from the Beginning , which won the 2016 National Book Award for Nonfiction.

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Why the NIH Cuts Are So Wrong

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Christopher Newfield writes that higher ed has a better counternarrative to share. Indirect cost recovery (ICR) seems like a boring, technical budget subject. In reality, it is a major source of the long-running budget crises at public research universities. Misinformation about ICR has also confused everyone about the universitys public benefits.

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The power of genuine relationships: Building support systems beyond the classroom

University Business

Building authentic student connections in higher education isnt just a valuable nice-to-haveits essential for ensuring their success. For college students, particularly those from first-generation or underserved backgrounds, connections with professors, advisors, and peers often determine whether they struggle or thrive. Ive seen this play out firsthand as an educator and someone who benefited from meaningful support throughout my academic journey.

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Camille Guellec (’22 Craft & Material Studies)

College for Creative Study

Camille Guellec fell in love with the art of rug design during her time at CCS. Drawn to the hands-on creativity of tufting, she built her own tufting frame with help from faculty and friends in the Fiber & Textiles program creating a tool for not just herself, but future students to use to explore the craft. Through her minor in Fashion Accessories Design, she gained the skills to land herself a job crafting bags for an iconic design house before finding her way back to where it all began.

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Technology Initiatives Support Student Mental Health in a Modern Higher Ed Environment

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

Mental health has become an increased focus recently for both students and the schools they attend. According to a 2024 U.S. News-Generation Lab report, 70% of students have experienced mental health challenges since starting college. However, only 37% sought mental health resources at their school in some cases, because they were uncertain about how to utilize them.

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The deep cultural cost of British university job cuts | Letters

The Guardian Higher Education

Arts and humanities are being hit hardest by cuts in higher education, write Prof Thea Pitman and Prof Emma Cayley , and Dr Ronan McLaverty-Head and another letter writer comment on cuts at Cardiff and another Russell Group university In response to the shocking news predicting up to 10,000 imminent job losses across the UK higher education sector ( Quarter of leading UK universities cutting staff due to budget shortfalls, 1 February ), we write to flag up a fact that the article largely misses:

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Legacy Admissions Hit Historic Low as More States Ban Practice at U.S. Colleges

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Legacy preferences in college admissions have plummeted to their lowest recorded level, with just 24% of four-year colleges still considering family alumni status in admissions decisions, according to a comprehensive new report from Education Reform Now. The dramatic decline signals a potential end to a controversial practice that critics have long condemned as perpetuating inequality in higher education.

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As the DEI Crackdown Escalates, Faculty Choose Between Silence and Resistance

Confessions of a Community College Dean

As the DEI Crackdown Escalates, Faculty Choose Between Silence and Resistance Ryan Quinn Thu, 02/06/2025 - 03:00 AM While one professor says faculty are pre-emptively censoring themselves in response, others are defiantwhile another is asking himself, What would I be willing to lose my job for?

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Colorado now tied for most educated state in the nation

University Business

Colorado residents are still the most educated in the nation, but Massachusetts now shares the top spot, according to a recently released report. This years Stronger Nation Report found that 63% of Colorado residents aged 25 and older had an educational credential beyond a high school diploma in 2023, matching Massachusetts. Thats above the national average of 54.9% of residents who have earned college degrees or certificates or an industry certification.

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Reconnecting After Break: Building a Better Community in the New Semester

Roompact

~ Blog Posts Written By RAs for RAs ~ Oh joy, you made it through the first semester. Hopefully it went well, and hopefully you were able to build relationships with your residents, and they were able to build relationships with each other. That being said, the Spring semester can be completely different than the.

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How Higher Ed Institutions Are Using Built-In Generative AI Tools

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

With generative artificial intelligence exploding in higher education, students, faculty and staff are eager to get their hands on these powerful tools. To meet the need, some IT teams are leveraging AI in the products they already have. In December 2023, for example, Microsoft made Copilot available to all higher education students and faculty as part of Microsoft 365.

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AI helps researchers read ancient scroll burned to a crisp in Vesuvius eruption

The Guardian Higher Education

Writing on PHerc. 172 papyrus, found at Roman mansion in Herculaneum, revealed after 3D X-rays and software competition Researchers have peered inside an ancient scroll that was burned to a crisp in the volcanic eruption that destroyed Pompeii nearly 2,000 years ago. The scroll is one of hundreds found in the library of a Roman mansion in Herculaneum, a town on the west coast of Italy that was wiped out when Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD79.

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Morgan State University Launches Task Force to Combat Declining Black Male Enrollment

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Morgan State University, Maryland's largest Historically Black University, is taking decisive action to address a concerning trend: the steady decline in Black male Dr. David K. Wilson enrollment. University President Dr. David K. Wilson has announced the formation of a specialized task force to investigate and reverse this downturn, which mirrors a broader national challenge facing HBCUs across America.

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The Doctoral Dilemma

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The Doctoral Dilemma Johanna Alonso Mon, 02/03/2025 - 03:00 AM More than half of those who earn Ph.D.s now decide to leave academia after graduation. Why, then, do so many graduate programs still assume their students will become professors?

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Student engagement and sense of mattering in a large UG course

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

Credit: Pixabay In this insightful post, Dr. Celine Caquineau, a Senior Lecturer at Edinburgh Medical School, tackles the formidable challenge of enhancing student engagement within large undergraduate courses. Focussing on the first-year Medical Biology 1 course, which hosts over 300 students, Dr. Caquineau delves into innovative strategies that foster a sense of ‘mattering’a crucial aspect of academic well-being and engagement.

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Learning by doing

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

Credit: Pixabay In this captivating blog post, Dr. Yoko Matsumoto-Sturt, a Lecturer in Japanese Studies at The University of Edinburgh, introduces an innovative approach to humanities education through her course, “Supernatural Japan: Doing Japanology through Yokai.” Dr. Matsumoto-Sturt explores the transformative potential of experiential learning to deepen students’ understanding of complex cultural concepts by actively engaging them in practical, hands-on activities.

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As An RA, How To Best Prepare for Supervisor One-On-One Meetings

Roompact

Regular meetings with an RA and their supervisor are very beneficial in helping RAs thrive in their roles, help communication to be effective in the workplace, and assist in making the Residence Hall community better. Often these meetings are called one-on-ones because it is a designated time for RAs to individually have an opportunity to.

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UK universities look to open campuses in India amid financial woes at home

The Guardian Higher Education

Branches aim to tap into huge domestic market in face of changing visa regimes and international competition UK universities are aiming to leave their financial woes at home by seeking their fortunes in India, in a higher education version of a gold rush towards a market with more than 40 million students. The University of Southampton has been first out of the blocks, announcing it is opening in Gurgaon, a satellite city of Delhi, and is now enrolling students for what it calls the first campus

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Leading with Purpose: AABHE’s President Charts Path for Black Excellence

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As a teenager growing up in St. Louis, Dr. Shewanee Howard-Baptiste was certain shed become a doctor, but her college years told a different story. Dr. Shewanee Howard-Baptiste After a tough love encounter with science and biology courses, she realized the medical field wasnt her calling. Her pivot from medical school aspirations to a career in health education is now a lesson she shares with young people: life is a journey, not a checklist.

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Ending the Research 1 ‘Arms Race’

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The Carnegie classifications now require only two criteria for R-1 status: spend $50million in annual research and award at least 70 research doctorates a year. A whole new designation also recognizes smaller colleges conducting research. More than 40 new institutions have achieved Research-1 status under a new, simplified Carnegie classification methodology announced Thursday morning.

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Change processes at an Australian university

Higher Education Whisperer

Greetings from the lawn outside the maths building at the Australian National University, where the new Provost is taking about to integrate tech and people. They are qualified to talk on this being an engineer and sociologist. This is opportune with the ANU engineering just renamed "Systems and Society".

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Can this new framework unlock community colleges’ potential?

University Business

Achieving the Dream, the community college advocacy nonprofit, is currently testing a new framework which it believes can help two-year institutions reestablish themselves as community engines for socioeconomic mobilityand win over declining public perception in the sector. The Community Vibrancy Framework demands institutions move beyond current student success measures and instead analyze regional impact on industry, environment and people.

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How can AI play a role in the development of OSCEs?

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Credit: Jingjing Wang In this extra post, 4th year medical student, Jess McKenzie, explores how AI can play a role in the development of OSCES (Objective Structured Clinical Examinations) in medical education. Introduction OSCEs (Objective Structured Clinical Examinations) represent an integral way of assessing skills key for success as a medical professional.

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‘It’s different when they’re in their office’: the disconnect in student perceptions of academic meetings

SRHE

by Stacey Mottershaw and Anna Viragos As we approach the five-year anniversary of the closure of UK university campuses for the Covid-19 pandemic, we thought it might be interesting and timely to reflect on the way that the sector adapted to educational delivery, and which innovations remain as part of our new normal. One key aspect of educational delivery which has remained to varying extents across the sector is the move to online student meetings.

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UNCF Announces UNITE 2025 Summit, Offers Complimentary Registration to All HBCUs and PBIs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

UNCF will host its annual UNITE Summit July 20-24, 2025, in Atlanta, marking a historic first by offering five complimentary registrations to every historically Black Dr. Michael L. Lomax college and university (HBCU) and Predominantly Black Institution (PBI) nationwide. The five-day event at the Signia by Hilton Hotel will feature over 100 sessions focusing on institutional excellence, student success, research, economic mobility, and systems change.

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5 Ways the Education Department Affects Higher Ed

Confessions of a Community College Dean

5 Ways the Education Department Affects Higher Ed Katherine Knott Fri, 02/07/2025 - 03:00 AM Momentum is building around plans to dismantle the department, but what does it actually do for colleges, universities and their students?

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