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Cybersecurity Roundtable: Defending Against the New Threats in Higher Ed

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Survey: Faculty teaching style impedes academic success, students say

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How USC Aiken's CIO Used Regional Cybersecurity 'Buzz' to Launch a Student-Staffed Security Operations Center

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Navigating Hard Times in the Higher Ed Landscape

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We’ve been experiencing some staffing issues on my team in recent months. While these issues have been difficult to navigate, they are (fingers crossed) temporary and the end is in sight. Maybe I’ll knock on wood, too, for good measure.)

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Ready Veggie Go! WHAC Radio Thursday 30th April 8pm

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Marshall University baseball gifted $10 million—of CARES Act funds

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West Virginia’s governor is honored to play a small part in building Marshall University’s new baseball stadium, but one official believes he is “grossly” misappropriating a huge chunk of COVID-related emergency funding to do so.

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Asian American people can feel and be truly invisible in academe (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

Category: Conditionally Accepted While some people may dismiss the phenomenon as no big deal, it is so strong that it’s as if a person does not physically exist, writes Keith Nabb.

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It may be time to rethink the college minor (opinion)

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It may be time to rethink the college minor.

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Stress is a key deterrent to enrolling in higher education

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Image: Nearly two-thirds of people who have never enrolled in higher education cite emotional stress as a key deterrent, a new report from Gallup and the Lumina Foundation finds.

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U of South Dakota TRIO program offers first-year experience

Inside Higher Ed

Image: The University of South Dakota’s TRIO Student Support Services is like all other federally funded TRIO SSS programs in that it serves low-income, first-generation or disabled students.

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House hearing highlights partisan divides over student loans

Inside Higher Ed

Image: House Republicans who want to stop President Biden’s student loan policies used a hearing Thursday to outline why they think those policies are harmful to the economy and what changes they would prefer.

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House weaponization subcommittee seeks records from universities

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Disinformation researchers at several U.S. universities are getting swept up in House Republicans’ investigation into the “weaponization” of the federal government.

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Faculty can help Ph.D.s explore jobs beyond the professoriate (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

They can take steps to help position graduate students for different careers, writes Jocelyn Frelier, starting with moving away from a “just focus on your dissertation” approach.

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Burnout and Work-Work Balance

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: University of Venus Burnout has been the focus of much of my work life for the last five years—first experiencing it as a tenured faculty member, then writing about it as a researcher and memoirist, and now coaching about and facilitating workshops on it as well as burnout resilience for faculty across the country.

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DEI statement nixed after professor complains, links to racist article

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Image: Last month, “After nearly two years of my resistance,” wrote a University of Houston Downtown professor, his department published an “anti-racist statement” on its website.

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New network calls for spotlight on Black student enrollment

Inside Higher Ed

Image: A new network of academics, college presidents, bipartisan policy makers and business leaders released a report Wednesday calling attention to a decade-long decline in college enrollment among Black students and its ripple effects on the country.

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Engineering success center opens at Boise State

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Boise State University opened its Micron Student Success Center earlier this year and will formally induct the space in April, offering a consolidation of resources for its engineering students to promote a sense of belonging and create a resource center.

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Survey: Faculty teaching style impedes academic success, students say

Inside Higher Ed

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Data disaggregation reveals gaps in students served

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Attracting students to various institutional resources remains a challenge for all higher education professionals. Muhlenberg College’s career center dug through the data to understand which of its students were not visiting the office or attending its programs and adjusted accordingly.

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Survey: Faculty teaching style impedes academic success, students say

Inside Higher Ed

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Why a college president wears Chuck Taylors (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

In my position as a community college president, a large part of the work is showing up as my authentic self. I can only do my job if I can be me; that is where strong, effective leadership comes from. Becoming a strong leader takes work, and classic Chucks are part of my daily uniform.

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New FAFSA won't launch until December

Inside Higher Ed

Image: The new version of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid won’t be available to students until December, the Education Department confirmed this week.

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Faculty mental health program supports students

Inside Higher Ed

Image: The University of Rochester launched a training program and research study for faculty member mindfulness in January, promoting self-care, stress relief and wellness so professors can put their best foot forward in the classroom.

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Appeals Court Says Student Can Sue NYU for COVID Refund

Inside Higher Ed

A deeply divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Thursday resuscitated a class action that seeks to require New York University to reimburse students for tuition and fees they paid when it pivoted to remote instruction in spring 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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How online teaching can promote empathy and student success (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

The approaches and tools that emerged during the pandemic could help lay the groundwork for a new driver of academic success, writes Lisa J. Anderson.

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GPT-4 is here. But most faculty lack AI policies.

Inside Higher Ed

Image: “No.” ” “Nope.” ” “Not at this time.” ” “Not yet!” ” “Just discussing it now.” ” “I have not.” ” “I will do this in the future.” ” “Yes.”

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A Problem From Hell

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Ask any registrar: optimizing a departmental or course schedule is among the most thankless tasks there is. The goals of course scheduling are obvious: To ensure that no student is closed out of classes essential for graduation. To make it easier for students to balance their studies with their work and caregiving responsibilities and be able to participate in extracurricular activities.

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How Gross Inequalities in Institutional Wealth Distort the Higher Education Ecosystem and Shortchange the Vast Majority of Middle- and Lower-Income Undergraduates

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Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Ask yourself: Would the $20 million gift that Bloomberg Philanthropies gave to Princeton in 2021 to support the university’s first-generation and low-income students have a greater impact at Tougaloo College, an HBCU with a $10 million endowment?

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A president proposes steep job cuts to save his institution

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Facing a budget deficit of $5 million, Southern Oregon University is considering a realignment plan that will include deep cuts, which its president says are necessary to right the ship financially.

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Queens College debuts virtual neurodiversity hub

Inside Higher Ed

Image: College leaders and educators are seeking ways, big and small, to support the growing number of neurodivergent students on their campuses.

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Courses offer career exploration to undeclared students

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Students who enter college with undeclared majors are considered a high-risk group. In addition, many decide on a major and then have doubts about their choice.

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New graduate program at Gustavus Adolphus College

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Gustavus Adolphus College went 161 years without any graduate programs.

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Journal places warning on flawed abuse-homosexuality study

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Last month, more than 20 years after the Archives of Sexual Behavior published research surveying gay people about whether they were molested as children—and whether they identified as gay before or after—a note appeared online.

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Universities use TikTok to attract Gen Z students

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Higher ed institutions are beginning to get the hang of TikTok.

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Congress considers family farm and small business FAFSA exemption

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Image: Higher education administrators say a change in the federal student aid formula could mean lower levels of financial aid for children whose parents run family farms or small businesses, and they want Congress to take action.

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3 Questions for Catherine Breen, Managing Director of Harvard’s Office of the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Learning Innovation Cathy Breen and I have been getting to know each other through an IVY+ online directors group and the edX/2U University Partner Advisory Council ( UPAC ). I always learn new things whenever I spend time with Cathy.

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New database on minority-serving institutions launched

Inside Higher Ed

Image: A new research initiative seeks to expand access to clear, precise data about minority-serving institutions.