Kortext University Leaders' Blog

JANUARY 4, 2023

With the door to 2022 shut firmly behind us, it’s time to step off the doorstep, out into the open that is 2023 and explore four things that we think will be on the horizon for higher education in 2023. Equality, Diversity and inclusion will still be important. Change the landscape of higher education as we know it.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

Blogs Trauma-informed practices in higher education: Building support communities from the top down August 9, 2023 Joanna Krueger Associate Professor of Chemistry, UNC Charlotte The views and opinions expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of EAB.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

University of Utah is showcasing the value of academic diversity after the state’s passing of HB 261 , which “prohibits an institution of higher education from establishing or maintaining an office… [that] is referred to or named diversity, equity, and inclusion.”

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

AUGUST 14, 2023

She spoke about how she went from avoiding to embracing administrative leadership, the pandemic's lessons about collaboration and community, and her view of what it will take to reenergize higher ed. The UIA was developed during Bridget’s tenure as an American Council on Education (ACE) Fellowship at Arizona State University.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The proposals of the Robbins Report on Higher Education considered the role of providers of tertiary education. It concluded that to ‘confer degree-giving powers on all the existing’ Further Education Colleges ‘would be inappropriate because of the number involved, the variation in their sizes and the diversity of standards’.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 14, 2023

Even more distressing is the one in 20 college students who had created a suicide plan in the past year (Higher Education Today, 2022).” Use strategies that provide clarity Both UDL and trauma-informed pedagogies document the importance of clarity (CAST, 2022; Hanover, 2019).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 9, 2023

Les has deep experience in higher education leadership and a strong understanding of Connecticut College through his Board of Trustees service and committee-related work,” said Debo P. As a member of the Board of Trustees since 2019, Les is well known to many in the Conn community. Adegbile, chair of the Board of Trustees. “As

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Johnson Today, these crucial efforts find themselves under siege, facing opposition from conservative politicians and think tank organizations who argue, albeit erroneously, that investments in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) policies and programs constitute a form of racial discrimination.

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The PIE News

OCTOBER 24, 2023

A new report is calling for internationalisation at home to be a central part of the UK’s next higher education strategy, as it warns of a decline in international diversity within universities. The report , released by the International Higher Education Commission, in its title asks ‘ Is the UK developing global mindsets?’

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HEPI

JANUARY 22, 2024

In early 2019, the University of Hull launched Transforming Programmes , an institution-wide curriculum review across our undergraduate and postgraduate taught programmes. Competence-based higher education responds to many global needs. We suggest that competence-based higher education is crucial to graduate success.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 27, 2024

When Dr. Ericka Armstrong Dunbar first got the call in 2019 to proofread scripts for accuracy in Julian Fellowes’ new series The Gilded Age on HBO, she was surprised. She and other scholars underlined the critical importance of HBCUs and an inclusive, expansive history curriculum being taught to students K-12 and beyond.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2023

” In the current learning environment, students with disabilities encounter significant challenges due to the lack of inclusivity and accessibility in the education system. ii] Contrary to common belief, neurodiverse students represent a significant proportion of the higher education population.

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SRHE

APRIL 10, 2024

It is also well evidenced that poor mental health of students is strongly related to poor academic outcomes such as achievement and retention ( Pascoe et al , 2019 ; Thomas et al , 2021 ). She is the editor of the Research into Higher Education Abstracts journal. But what do we know about academic mental health?

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Education was a significant theme. Our report found that many young people we interviewed failed to get to higher education, or even had the option to go, as a result of their estrangement. They, amongst the interviewees, recollected the experiences that can make higher education so difficult for EYP.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2023

” In the current learning environment, students with disabilities encounter significant challenges due to the lack of inclusivity and accessibility in the education system. ii] Contrary to common belief, neurodiverse students represent a significant proportion of the higher education population.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 14, 2023

Even more distressing is the one in 20 college students who had created a suicide plan in the past year (Higher Education Today, 2022).” Use strategies that provide clarity Both UDL and trauma-informed pedagogies document the importance of clarity (CAST, 2022; Hanover, 2019).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 29, 2023

Consider this: The World Health Organization’s (WHO) 2019 updated definition of burnout includes three dimensions: “Burnout is a syndrome conceptualized as resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed. However, in higher education, many institutions already employ these strategies.

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Insight Into Diversity

DECEMBER 22, 2022

million through the Driving Change initiative , a project that supports building more inclusive learning environments in the subjects of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in higher education. The project will also advance inclusive syllabi and teaching methods at UAlbany. ●. The post $2.5

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

To whom and for what are students accountable in higher education? I offer Accountability Partners as a structure within which students can practice accountability as Schall and Mingus (2019) describe it and within which we as faculty can support and witness that practice. Cambridge: Harvard Education Press, 2022.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

While student sanctions are relatively common across higher education and are a leading reason faculty choose to self-censor, Harvard’s low ranking can also be attributed to administrators’ lack of support for free speech. Specifically, FIRE recorded four times administrators sanctioned scholars between 2019 and 2023.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 3, 2023

Dr. LaVar Charleston is the deputy vice chancellor for diversity & inclusion, vice provost and chief diversity officer at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Eventually, both became Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) leaders. Dr. Sherri Charleston is the first chief diversity and inclusion officer at Harvard University.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 9, 2022

HyFlex has been around since 2005, designed to increase enrollment (Beatty, 2019). Additionally, all of the course materials are available on the school Learning Management System (LMS) (Binnewies, 2019; Wang, 2019). There is a need found for inclusion, maximizing learning, and providing various learning methods (Dell et al.,

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Raimondi, 2019). Although we generally tend to view the classroom as the oasis away from other personal and professional challenges and responsibilities we may be facing (Saucier, 2019), the classroom itself may be more challenging during the grumpy time. having a more inclusive, safe environment for learning) but also ourselves (e.g.,

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MindMax

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

After the 1965 Watts Rebellion, CSUDH was strategically located to bring educational opportunities to underserved communities in South Los Angeles. Throughout higher education, concerns have taken root over the growing population of stopout students—those with “ some college, no credential ” (SCNC). Why Students Stop Out.

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University Business

JULY 17, 2023

Specifically, the upward social mobility rate for students moving from the bottom two income quintiles to the top two is 10% higher at HBCUs than in non-minority serving institutions. Identify opportunities to market achievements and highlight the central role HBCUs play in higher education.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 22, 2022

In collaboration with EACES , a network by and for care experienced and estranged students in the UK and ROI, we have produced a resource that offers guidance on how to support, and be inclusive of, your estranged and care experienced students during the winter period and Christmas. You can find it here. Eluned Parrott, ‘Study from home?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

A champion of diversity, equity and inclusion, Dr. Eanes is the ideal person to lead Cal State LA and continue to drive its powerful engine of social mobility,” said CSU Trustee Jack B. Dr. Berenecea Johnson Eanes Eanes will become the university's first woman president. “A Clarke, Jr., chair of the Cal State LA Presidential Search Committee.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2024

Some of the topics include literacy and math, advising Black male engineering majors, socio-emotional development, leadership, community college experiences, Black male veterans, athletes in P-12 and higher education, and the recruitment and retention of Black males in educator preparation programs. Emerald Publishing Limited.

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SRHE

JANUARY 24, 2024

Our collaboration to publication research story This recent piece of work started with a joint seminar at the 2019 SRHE Conference at Celtic Manor. We were encouraged to suggest a follow up session, and by the time we left the room we had agreed to investigate the production of a special issue of Higher Education Quarterly (HEQ).

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The Change Leader, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2023

31 October · Episode 179 Beyond Ideas: Implementing Innovative Structures in Higher Education 38 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton Implementing innovative structures in higher education is not an option; it's a necessity. President Mantella's approach is a how-to guide.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

2019), faculty can embed feedback into their courses in the following ways: Student commits to feedback as improvement. 2019) discusses using feedback to not only improve a score on an assignment, but also to improve a skill. Student perceptions of quality feedback in teacher education. Embedding effective feedback.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 6, 2023

“I would describe it as a nationwide attack on public education and on public school educators,” said Danielle Davis, staff counsel for the National Education Association, one of the country's largest teacher unions. But we've seen this groundswell of law and policymakers who are doing the opposite.” Dr. Ivory A.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Across the higher education landscape, the challenge of attracting adult learners to higher education has become universal. As a college based in the UK, the choice and opportunity for adults reentering education tends to be limited. And in the past decade, they’ve begun to turn away from higher education.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

To whom and for what are students accountable in higher education? I offer Accountability Partners as a structure within which students can practice accountability as Schall and Mingus (2019) describe it and within which we as faculty can support and witness that practice. Cambridge: Harvard Education Press, 2022.

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The PIE News

APRIL 3, 2023

The contribution of Darcie, Amy and their peers so valuable to creating a thriving, inclusive and outward-looking Wales. “In 2019, the Welsh Government announced that Wales would become the world’s first Nation of Sanctuary” But international education is about values. Darcie and Amy are by no means alone.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

MARCH 22, 2022

Top Threats to Higher Ed 2022 Edition In 2019, I wrote a series of posts on the leading threats to higher education. In 2019, I wrote: In the absence of war or pestilence, we know how many 18-year-olds there will be for the next 18 years, which is why we know there will be a marked decline seven years from now.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Even more so for those who face additional barriers to accessing higher education. Providing a home at university for care experienced and estranged students create a solid foundation for experiencing all the great things higher education has to offer. Starting university can be daunting.

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