Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean Chad Orzel’s piece this week, “ Physics Is a Liberal Art ,” is a must-read. He’s a physicist who attended a small liberal arts college and works at another one, so he’s well acquainted with the various ways in which the term “liberal arts” is used.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 6, 2022

This is the upshot of a new analysis in Nature Human Behavior that challenges the persistent idea that faculty diversity amounts to a “pipeline” problem. Nathan Matias, assistant professor of communication and information science at Cornell University; Neil A. population in terms of race by 2050. Meanwhile, the U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 6, 2023

This 30-credit block of courses satisfies most, if not all, general education requirements and went into effect in fall 2014. Adding Layers With the foundation of a general education core in place, the Legislature turned its attention in 2017 to investing in a set of multi-institutional agreements in popular majors.

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University Business

AUGUST 11, 2023

has endured a record-breaking heat wave this summer, and with it, a cluster of turnovers in higher education’s top position. Upon assuming American’s highest administrative position, Burwell boasted an ironclad resume despite not serving once in the higher education space. Retiring Dr. Lonnie A. Dr. Lonnie A.

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SRHE

MAY 10, 2024

by GR Evans Should higher education providers foster a ‘research culture’? As the body responsible for research under the Higher Education and Research Act (2017), UK Research and Innovation offers its own definition. The Royal Society adopts the same wording. Nevertheless, agreed definition seems elusive.

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SRHE

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

However, the ‘dog-eat-dog’ culture of Higher Education (HE), austerity measures and more are leading to harmful consequences, and stakeholders with protected characteristics are worst affected ( Berg, Huijbens, and Larsen 2016 ; UKRI 2021 ; Bhopal 2020 ; Blell, Liu and Verma 2022 ). Octopuses and Tentacles. Three Hearts and Nine Minds.

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WCET Frontiers

JULY 28, 2023

Welcome to the second post in our series on higher education enrollment shifts. The work group joins us today to discuss the ways higher education institutions are responding to the shifts in enrollment. However, social sciences and natural sciences are not exempt from being cut.

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WCET Frontiers

JULY 27, 2023

Welcome to the second post in our series on higher education enrollment shifts. The work group joins us today to discuss the ways higher education institutions are responding to the shifts in enrollment. However, social sciences and natural sciences are not exempt from being cut.

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HESA

MAY 16, 2023

I was sitting at home this weekend, reading the UNESCO World Science Report (2021) , as one does, when I started poking around with the actual bibliometric numbers. First: what is the UNESCO World Science Report? It’s through annual publications in all fields except Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, as measured through Scopus.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Houston has fewer educational institutions per capita than the state or national average. When I recently heard about the new Houston University of Science and Technology, I thought progress was being made. It’s the one to two weeks each year the weather’s perfect. Not while the city’s encased in winter fog.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 23, 2023

From my professional experiences in both K-12 and higher education, I have found the secret sauce to effective professional development is ENGAGEMENT. Professional development can be defined as structured professional learning that results in changes in teaching practices and improvements (Learning Policy Institute, 2017).

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Susquehanna President's Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2022

o We were among the initial institutions to join the Liberal Arts College Racial Equity Leadership Alliance. o We were among the initial institutions to join the Liberal Arts College Racial Equity Leadership Alliance. It was an outline of the foundations of our enterprise and my goals for the university.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Joe Tompkins, associate professor of communication and media at Allegheny and president of the local AAUP chapter, told Inside Higher Ed that “what’s happening here is a pretty dangerous development, and it’s not just happening at Allegheny: these kinds of unilateral decisions to close programs from the top down.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 23, 2023

From my professional experiences in both K-12 and higher education, I have found the secret sauce to effective professional development is ENGAGEMENT. Professional development can be defined as structured professional learning that results in changes in teaching practices and improvements (Learning Policy Institute, 2017).

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Edu Alliance Journal

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Yet nearly 40 million people from the age of 18-64 started higher education and did not complete one degree. According to the Federal Reserve Bank of Saint Louis, the US Civilian Work Force from 25-34 as of June 2022 has the following educational attainment. The Harsh Facts on College Dropouts.

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SRHE

JUNE 7, 2023

by Brett Bligh, Sue Beckingham, Lesley Gourlay, and Julianne K Viola SRHE’s ‘Landscapes of Learning for Unknown Futures: prospects for space in higher education’ symposium series, delivered with Professor Sam Elkington and Dr Jill Dickinson, aims to foster continuous dialogue around learning spaces. How are others using those spaces?

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

She co-founded the Women in Science and Medicine Advisory Committee, which proposed and won an on-site childcare center and which continues to sponsor events on women’s issues in science. The institution even erected a multimedia display wall of 60 “trailblazing” female faculty members last summer.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 22, 2023

22 August · Episode 169 Navigating President Turnover: Higher Ed Leadership Challenges 25 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton Discover the impact of president turnover on higher ed leadership. There’s also an unprecedented amount of pushback on DEI when diversity and inclusion were once very much a part of higher ed.

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SRHE

JULY 11, 2022

First, take stock of the damage to the machinery of government, both in the Department for Education and the Office for Students. C arpe diem, quam minimum credula postero [1]. Our text is from Boris and Horace. And it was Horace much longer ago who urged us to seize the day, and put little faith in the future.

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