Deans for Impact
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
In an education industry often defined by promises of quick fixes to thorny problems, Benjamin consistently focused attention on enduring truths: that teaching is a human craft of both art and science; that learning is a social activity; and that the deeply complex work of teaching and learning is worthy, then, of great reverence and inquiry.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
This effort is one of several seed investment programs by Virginia Tech’s Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science (ICTAS).to And another award is being co-funded by Virginia Tech’s Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology (ICAT) on top of the seed investment – a total of $40,000 over two years.
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Liaison International
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
That percentage dropped from 73% in 2016, though China is still the most popular country from which colleges recruit international students.”. The third priority is described as “evolve, adapt, or lose talent,” while the fourth is “using technology, data insight, and agility to create a frictionless student experience.” Source: CNBC.
Faculty Focus
OCTOBER 11, 2022
It has been estimated that college students across the globe devote in excess of a billion hours per year to “disposable” assignments (Wiley, 2016). Students view the work as simply a hurdle to be crossed, and once submitted and assessed, worthy of nothing more than being discarded. What a waste! 2010; Bransford et al., Significance.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 9, 2023
Researchers also found that of the students who transferred to a four-year school from a community college, liberal arts majors were significantly more likely than non-liberal arts majors to change their major (82.0% So this is very concerning." The report’s authors attributed these increases mainly to a rise in returning students.
University Business
OCTOBER 20, 2023
While SVU is technically a secular private liberal arts college, it identifies with the values of the LDS Church. In the last two weeks in higher education, the number of presidents to announce retirement doubled that of confirmed hires. But those who decided to step down are doing so on sound footing.
HEPI
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
Publishing its Second Report in July 2012, the Lords’ Science and Technology Committee said it had ‘received substantial written evidence on the recent HE reforms’. This post was kindly authored for HEPI by Gill Evans, Emeritus Professor of Medieval Theology and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge.
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