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Insight Into Diversity Honors Legacy of DEI Innovator, Former Board Chair

Insight Into Diversity

APRIL 4, 2024

Metzler, a true visionary in academia, healthcare, and diversity, passed away on Saturday, March 23, at his home in Grenada. His sudden departure leaves a void not only in the lives of his loved ones but also in the fields of higher education, social justice, and diversity advocacy. Christopher A.

Academia

Academia Inclusivity Equity Humanities

From Likes to Learning: Enhancing Classroom Culture through Social Media Engagement

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

In this piece, we explore how social media, as a pervasive cultural force, impacts the educational journey and engagement of undergraduate students while shaping their persistence and success in academia. These skills are worrisome for some educators due to the informal nature of online social spaces.

Academia

Academia Learning Experience Environment Humanities

From Likes to Learning: Enhancing Classroom Culture through Social Media Engagement

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

In this piece, we explore how social media, as a pervasive cultural force, impacts the educational journey and engagement of undergraduate students while shaping their persistence and success in academia. These skills are worrisome for some educators due to the informal nature of online social spaces.

Academia

Academia Learning Experience Environment Humanities

The importance of academic mental health

SRHE

APRIL 10, 2024

Increased workloads, pressures of research funding, lack of work-life balance and lack of management support are universal trends globally ( Kinman and Jones , 2008 ) leading to many university academics leaving the profession ( Heffernan et al , 2019 ; Ligibel et al , 2023 ).

Higher Education

Higher Education Retention Policy Academia

Why we need applied humanities approaches (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 5, 2023

The humanities might not-too-facetiously be labeled the black sheep of academia. After all, the humanities are frequently characterized as being in crisis and, since 2008, have suffered massive hemorrhaging in the numbers of new majors. To put it simply, an applied humanities approach is needed in STEM education.

Humanities

Humanities Engineering Technology Academia

What Should We Do About Undergrads Who Want to Pursue a Humanities Doctorate?

Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma The December 2022 issue of Jacobin , which bills itself as “a leading voice of the American left, offering socialist perspectives on politics, economics and culture,” contains a provocative article entitled “I Love Higher Education. It Isn’t Loving Me Back.” ” It’s a tough read.

Humanities

Humanities History Liberal Arts Faculty

The interplay of occupational subcultures and HE curricula changes how and what student professionals learn

SRHE

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

At the same time, I was reminded of Walford (2008), whose opinion highlights the danger of the emic researcher going native – I was keen that my position would not compromise my research findings. He has a professional doctorate in Education (EdD) and is a Fellow of the College of Paramedics. O’Reilly, K. 1 st edn, London: Sage.

Students

Students Environment Disadvantaged Academia

PhotoVoice: Using Technology to Impact Student Learning and Assessment

Faculty Focus

APRIL 4, 2023

We’ve done the same thing in the context of higher education. Another thing I’ve observed in higher education is a fishbowl, where students come and swim around in our courses and in our academic curriculum, but they fail to do anything with that knowledge outside of the context of the learning environment itself. Clover, D.

Technology

Technology Arts And Sciences Students Environment

PhotoVoice: Using Technology to Impact Student Learning and Assessment

Faculty Focus

APRIL 4, 2023

We’ve done the same thing in the context of higher education. Another thing I’ve observed in higher education is a fishbowl, where students come and swim around in our courses and in our academic curriculum, but they fail to do anything with that knowledge outside of the context of the learning environment itself. Clover, D.

Technology

Technology Arts And Sciences Students Environment

The State of EdTech: OPMs, Risk Planning, and Generative AI: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 189 with host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and guest Phill Hill

The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 9, 2024

Technology’s Role in Enabling Enrollment Growth Franklin University exemplifies how technology can be leveraged to enhance enrollment and streamline educational processes. Therefore, technology is playing an important role in addressing these broad megatrends and reshaping the landscape of higher education.

Technology

Technology Guidance Higher Education Schooling

My Marking Life: The Role of Emotional Labour in delivering Audio Feedback to HE Students

SRHE

MARCH 28, 2024

Despite written feedback being the norm in Higher Education, the literature highlights the benefit of audio feedback. King et al (2008) contend that audio feedback is often evaluated by students as being ‘richer’ than other forms of feedback. She is a Doctoral College Departmental Lead for PhDs in Education.

Environment

Environment Students Academia Humanities

There is no such thing as a safe return to student number controls – because the Treasury is too powerful

HEPI

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

There were a lot of warm words expressed about both HEPI and Wonkhe at last week’s Society for Research into Higher Education ( SRHE ) event on bridging academia and policymaking. As David Kernohan says in his best piece on the issue : ‘Would it limit some access to higher education – yes, it would.’

Students

Students Higher Education Policy Disadvantaged

Autonomy Scorecard

HESA

APRIL 13, 2023

This week’s guest on The World of Higher Education podcast is Enora Bennetot Pruvot, Deputy Director Governance, Funding & Public Policy Development at the European University Association and she joins me today from Brussels to talk about the EUA’s recently-released University Autonomy Scorecard, of which she was a co-author.

Model

Model Educational Systems Engineering Higher Education

New Book Traces Shirley Chisholm’s Radical Embrace of Black Feminism

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Jesse Louis Jackson’s historic presidential runs in 1984 and 1988 and the election of a virtually unknown political figure — Barack Obama — in 2008. 30, 1924, in Brooklyn, New York — was deeply influenced by Eleanor Roosevelt and educator and civil rights leader, Mary McLeod Bethune. Chisholm paved the way for the Rev.

Liberal Arts

Liberal Arts Academia History College

Addressing the Changing Perceptions of Higher Education: The Challenges in Public Perception and Exploring Solutions to Ensure Sustainability

The Change Leader, Inc.

JULY 20, 2023

Higher education has long been regarded as a pathway to success and the “middle class,” promising personal and professional growth opportunities. Clark Kerr’s California Experiment exacerbated this in the 1960s, transforming higher education in California and the United States.

Higher Education

Higher Education Education Degree Academia

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Insight Into Diversity Honors Legacy of DEI Innovator, Former Board Chair

From Likes to Learning: Enhancing Classroom Culture through Social Media Engagement

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From Likes to Learning: Enhancing Classroom Culture through Social Media Engagement

The importance of academic mental health

Why we need applied humanities approaches (opinion)

What Should We Do About Undergrads Who Want to Pursue a Humanities Doctorate?

The interplay of occupational subcultures and HE curricula changes how and what student professionals learn

PhotoVoice: Using Technology to Impact Student Learning and Assessment

PhotoVoice: Using Technology to Impact Student Learning and Assessment

The State of EdTech: OPMs, Risk Planning, and Generative AI: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 189 with host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and guest Phill Hill

My Marking Life: The Role of Emotional Labour in delivering Audio Feedback to HE Students

There is no such thing as a safe return to student number controls – because the Treasury is too powerful

Autonomy Scorecard

New Book Traces Shirley Chisholm’s Radical Embrace of Black Feminism

Addressing the Changing Perceptions of Higher Education: The Challenges in Public Perception and Exploring Solutions to Ensure Sustainability

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