Kortext University Leaders' Blog

MARCH 8, 2023

Things are looking up… There have been positive trends and progress in promoting women’s leadership in higher education in recent years. in the area of “engineering and technology”. Breaking this down a little further, the proportion of female professors varies across disciplines, with women comprising 50.5%

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 4, 2023

As a faculty member, I often hear the blatant dismissal of students and their preoccupation with technology. How can we help develop ethical leaders, solid communicators, critical thinkers, and diversity-minded, community-engaged students if students in today’s generation are focused so heavily on technology and their phones?

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Faculty Focus

JULY 2, 2023

Distance learning in colleges and universities is now recognized as more than an alternative to the traditional face-to-face classroom (Higher Ed Partners, 2021), which is how distance learning was largely viewed at the time that institutions turned entirely to virtual teaching and learning during COVID-19 (Suruchi & Dutt, 2021).

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 23, 2022

It’s these long-term developments, processes and trends, which take place under the surface, that even the most powerful politicians or institutions must respond to. This is the case in politics, but it’s also true in higher education. What were the most important events in higher education in 2022?

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WCET Frontiers

JANUARY 25, 2024

This case study offers an innovative educational method and a glimpse into digital learning by students previewing the world of work. Partnering for Real World Experience: University of Mississippi + Forage Forage is a technology startup that connects students with Fortune 500 companies and other organizations. link] Billett, S.,

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University Business

MARCH 10, 2023

With every technological innovation comes the need to educate the next generation of students to ensure they can apply those skills to their future careers. Now, what we thought was the technology of the future is right at our fingertips, and it’s being used in America’s classrooms.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Harvard University, currently ranked 9th and 6th, respectively, in Forbes’ and The Wall Street Journal’s latest college rankings, placed last out of 248 schools and is the only institution to have received an “Abysmal” speech climate rating. Rank School Overall Speech climate 1 Michigan Technological University 78.01

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EAB

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Blogs IGNITED 2023 sneak peek: Key trends shaping higher education today Each year, EAB creates a State of the Sector presentation, leveraging our global perspective to identify the big trends shaping higher education strategy and operational directions. The pandemic has only “poured fuel on the fire” according to U.S.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 2, 2023

Distance learning in colleges and universities is now recognized as more than an alternative to the traditional face-to-face classroom (Higher Ed Partners, 2021), which is how distance learning was largely viewed at the time that institutions turned entirely to virtual teaching and learning during COVID-19 (Suruchi & Dutt, 2021).

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Helix Education

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Research indicates that Hispanic students are more likely to attend underfunded schools with fewer resources, resulting in limited access to quality education. Hispanic families experience higher levels of economic inequality compared to other ethnic groups. The need for information equalized families!

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 4, 2023

As a faculty member, I often hear the blatant dismissal of students and their preoccupation with technology. How can we help develop ethical leaders, solid communicators, critical thinkers, and diversity-minded, community-engaged students if students in today’s generation are focused so heavily on technology and their phones?

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EAB

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Blogs Is Your Institution ‘Gen P’ Ready? My team has worked with an increasing number of institutions that are seeking to re-center their student success strategies around a more holistic definition of the student experience. The results give us visibility into what institutions must do to both enroll and retain these students.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

MARCH 16, 2023

The College of Lake County had this fact in mind when mapping out its strategic plan in 2019. It made sense to consider the role the institution could play in supporting local manufacturing. It’s no stretch to say that the sector’s continued success is vital to the region’s future.

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The PIE News

MAY 30, 2024

The growth in English-taught programs worldwide has been largely driven by a surge in programs from non-traditional destinations, which have tripled since 2014, and grew by 48% between 2019 and 2024. This is despite Germany, Ireland and the Netherlands remaining the top providers of the programs in the European Higher Education Area.

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HEPI

MAY 21, 2024

There is a lot of discussion at the moment about AI and how we navigate this use of technology with our students. However, in having this discussion, we also need to be mindful of our incoming students’ prior experience with technology, including the type of technology used (e.g. Microsoft Word and VLEs).

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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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The PIE News

MAY 2, 2024

Such a projection is particularly pertinent after a report this year found that 80% of higher education providers could fall into deficit if there is a gradual or sudden drop in international students. “Our Just 384 new overseas students have so far enrolled for 2024, 8% of 2019 levels.

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University Business

OCTOBER 4, 2023

If you were to look at the top 10 list on Times Higher Education’s international university ranking in a vacuum, you’d be welcomed by another year of U.S. higher education as a whole. 3 United States Massachusetts Institute of Technology 4 United States Harvard University (Mass.)

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 24, 2024

higher education institutions is finally seeing growth again, according to a new report from the National Student Clearinghouse (NSC). Among the years captured in the report, 2019 to 2022 all faced varying rates of decline, with Fall 2021 being the worst (-3.4%). "We under amounts for Fall 2019.

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

With all these shifts, there’s good news and bad news for the higher education market. According to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, total higher-ed enrollments fell to 16.2 According to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, total higher-ed enrollments fell to 16.2 Workplaces?

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 3, 2024

The pandemic in 2020 accelerated the adoption of learning technologies in education. Inevitably, the quality of student learning has taken center stage, and with it is an emerging focus on changing teaching and learning pedagogy and harnessing technology to deliver new modes of learning (APLU). 2019; Morelot et al.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 3, 2024

Tressie McMillan Cottom McMillan Cottom is an associate professor at the University of North Carolina (UNC) Chapel Hill and a senior principal researcher at UNC’s Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life. McMillan Cottom’s second book, THICK: And Other Essays, was published in 2019. McMillan Cottom received her Ph.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 22, 2023

The award recognizes their innovative solutions which help learners reach their full potential, by advancing the quality of teaching and learning and breaking down barriers to higher education globally. Shai's model reimagines higher education, opening the doors for those who have previously been excluded," said Dorothy K.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 3, 2024

The pandemic in 2020 accelerated the adoption of learning technologies in education. Inevitably, the quality of student learning has taken center stage, and with it is an emerging focus on changing teaching and learning pedagogy and harnessing technology to deliver new modes of learning (APLU). 2019; Morelot et al.,

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EAB

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The need for data-informed decision making in higher education continues to increase. As I discussed in the first blog post in this series , institutions need a sufficient technology infrastructure to facilitate curation, access, and retrieval of data. The optimal structure for an analytics function.

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HEPI

AUGUST 25, 2023

As we navigate these ‘in-between times’, we can forget the extraordinary impact that higher education, as a sector, and HEPI, as a think tank, has had over the last 20 years (as Bahram Bekhradnia and Roger Brown recount).

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SRHE

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

We hope this new way of working will motivate and stimulate debates around everything digital in higher education. The DU network will, therefore, act as a platform for anyone to contribute to discussions about digital higher education. This session will then open to discussion with the audience.

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The PIE News

APRIL 5, 2023

A number of the Asian giant’s universities including the prestigious state-owned Indian Institutes of Technology were keen to set up campuses on the continent as soon as the government publishes enabling regulations in April. “There is huge potential for setting up campuses in African countries.

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The PIE News

APRIL 17, 2024

Leading higher education and research organisations warned the government last year that Canada risked falling behind other countries unless Ottawa took “immediate and significant action” to fund its science and research output.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

A new university consortium aiming to build pathways to higher education for refugees has been revealed in Australia. The consortium will offer displaced students “the chance to re-start their educational journeys and to bring their skill and expertise to Australia”, Parry continued.

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The PIE News

MARCH 26, 2024

The latest DAAD conference focused on reconnecting stakeholders from India and Germany to propel new ideas for academic cooperation and augment the Indo-German Higher Education network. In the 60+ years of Germany has built its engagement with India, stemming from the 1974 Agreement on Scientific and Technological Cooperation.

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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. Of these institutions, six qualified for the $2.5 Of these institutions, six qualified for the $2.5

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ACPA

JULY 11, 2023

Online dropout rates continue to be a severe problem for HEI leaders as low retention rates continue (Muljana & Tian, 2019; Radovan, 2019). and nontraditional online students have higher dropout rates in the first academic year than nontraditional students attending a ground-campus course/program (Ellis, 2019).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 18, 2023

Latino student success in higher education is not where it needs to be, according t o findings from Latino student success organization Excelencia in Education. Santiago "Our mission is to accelerate Latino student success in higher education,” said Dr. Deborah Santiago, lead analysis researcher and CEO of Excelencia CEO.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

In 2019, the US Department of Education reported that one in every three American high school students participates in dual enrollment courses (Shivji & Wilson, 2019), a number expected to rise in the coming years. That’s because dual credit models vary from one institution to the next.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 4, 2023

While hip-hop may not often be referenced as tantamount with higher education, many artists have referenced the academe within their works. John’s University where he graduated magna cum laude , higher education has found its way into the lyrical content of the genre. Dr. Jeremy C.

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University Business

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The higher education president landscape experienced significant leadership changes during the closing weeks of 2023. Moreover, the president of the country’s largest nonprofit provider of higher education is stepping down following his highly successful 20-year run. billion research enterprise.

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