Wonkhe

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Are our working and learning places safe from Covid-19? Sol Gamsu surveys the state of the campus in 2022. The post Covid-19 safety on campus, in 2022 appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Higher Ed Dive

OCTOBER 31, 2022

A report from think tank Education Reform Now shows a growing contingent of institutions are spurning the practice — though it’s still widespread.

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Wonkhe

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Do early career researchers know about their right to staff development? Mark Whelan finds that many do not. The post Developing early career researchers appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Higher Ed Dive

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Two experts at the Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality outline ways to address growing racial and gender segregation by field of study.

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Educause

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The EDUCAUSE 2023 Top 10 IT Issues help describe the foundation models that colleges and universities will develop next year and beyond, acting on what was learned in the pandemic and framed by the three building blocks of leadership, data, and work and learning.

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Higher Ed Dive

OCTOBER 31, 2022

New regulations set to take effect July 1 are an effort to hold colleges accountable while supporting students, officials say.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 31, 2022

On the same day the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments regarding race-conscious admissions policies, higher education stakeholders gathered to discuss the barriers keeping more women and people of color from becoming college and university presidents. Dr. Estela Bensimon, professor emeritus and founding director of the Center for Urban Education at the University of Southern California, and president of Bensimon & Associates.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 31, 2022

At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, epicenter New York City was a shadow of its former self. The streets were empty. Between July 2020 and July 2021, the U.S. Census found the city lost 15.7% of its population. Housing costs dropped and vacancies grew. In January 2021, the median rent for a one bedroom in the city was at its lowest point in years: $2,300 a month.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Category: Carpe Careers All new experiences involve risks, which you can work to lower through strategic career exploration, advises Chris Smith. Editorial Tags: Career Advice Show on Jobs site: Image Source: salim hanzaz/istock/getty images plus Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?: Disable left side advertisement?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Carol Ashley, lead counsel of the team that wrote the American Association for Access, Equity, and Diversity’s amicus brief The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in two cases expected to determine the future of race-based affirmative action programs in America. The cases have the potential to overturn 40 years of precedent establishing that racial considerations are legal as long as they are carefully tailored, used as one factor among many, and that no race-neutral alternatives exi

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University Business

OCTOBER 31, 2022

What do students look for in a college? To be set up for success in their future endeavors, of course. But how do they get there, and what must higher education institutions do to support them in their ventures? Last week, Instructure, an education technology company, released its findings from “ The State of Student Success and Engagement in Higher Education ” survey, a reflection of 7,500 perspectives from current students, administrators and faculty from diverse public and private

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The National Student Clearinghouse is partnering with OneTen , a coalition that aims to close the opportunity gap for Black talent by working with companies to hire Black Americans without four-year degrees. Rick Torres NSC will help OneTen find opportunities to expand employment pathways, identifying postsecondary institutions where potential candidates self-reported as Black or African American, last participated in postsecondary coursework from 2010-2020, and lack a four-year degree.

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eLiterate

OCTOBER 31, 2022

As I outlined recently in my “ e-Literate’s Changing Themes for Changing Times ” post, I am shifting my coverage somewhat. I’ll be developing and calling out tags I use for these themes so that you can go to an archive page on each one. This one will be listed under the “ changing enrollment ” and “ third-wave EdTech ” tags. Phil Hill recently tweeted out two slides from Coursera’s quarterly conference call.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Jia Osiel will become Achieving the Dream’s (ATD) chief talent and equity officer. Jia Osiel “Jia will support ATD in becoming a more equitable, inclusive and high performing non-profit modeling the expectations we hold for our colleges,” said Dr. Karen A. Stout, president and CEO of ATD. “Her early focus will be on strategic leadership development and career pathing across the organization, especially with our middle leaders, as well as leading the shaping and implementation of ATD’s own racia

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Image: Pell Grant recipients are increasingly finding fewer affordable options for college and higher financial unmet needs, the National College Attainment Network found in a new analysis. Nationally, 24 percent of public four-year colleges or universities were considered affordable for the average Pell Grant recipient, along with 40 percent of two-year public community colleges.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The United Negro College Fund (UNCF) has received $1 million from Wells Fargo to continue supporting students attending historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). Georgette “Gigi” Dixon The grant gives scholarships and emergency student aid for students, funding for UNCF’s Empower Me Tour program, and support for the future HBCU Innovation Summit and Student Leadership Conference.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Image: Given his background in clinical psychology, it’s no surprise that Oglethorpe University president Nick Ladany has made student mental health a priority throughout his 30-year career in higher education. He often jokes that he uses his therapy skills as much as a college administrator as he ever has in any other job. But his experience came in especially handy at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020—soon after he assumed the presidency—when student mental health ta

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HEPI

OCTOBER 31, 2022

This blog was kindly contributed by Dr Andrew Jones, Head of Policy and Research, MillionPlus. Over recent months, the cost of living crisis facing students has quickly become one of the most discussed issues in higher education. Modest rises to student finance have been wiped out by record inflation and students remain largely overlooked in the range of support measures announced by the Government since April.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Blog: Leadership in Higher Education This morning, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral argument in two cases challenging the use of race as a factor in college admissions. The defendants in the cases are Harvard and the University of North Carolina. Virtually all Constitutional experts, myself included, believe that when the Court releases its decisions in spring of 2023, it will eliminate affirmative action by a 6-2 majority (with Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson recused from participation in th

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Dr. Simon Paul Atkinson

OCTOBER 31, 2022

I am not selling anything here. That should be self-evident given that my answer to the question “what is currently possible within the Metaverse?” is, not much. I could even suggest nothing, because ‘it’ doesn’t exist yet, certainly in the form it aspires to. What we have instead are partial experiences, glimpses into the promise of what the future holds.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma I find it quite striking: the most successful unionization efforts have shifted from the traditional working class to the educated class. At tech firms rather than in warehousing. At Starbucks much more fruitfully than at Amazon. Among undergraduates at Kenyon College rather than at Tesla. Yes, and among graduate students at Brown, Harvard, MIT, NYU and, most recently, Yale.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Larry J. Pannell has been appointed interim band director at Jarvis Christian University in Hawkins, Texas. He earned a bachelor’s degree in instrumental music education at Grambling State University, a master’s in instrumental music education from Louisiana Tech University, and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Felician University is starting a B.S. in finance. St. Mary’s University , in Texas, has added a minor and a certificate in Mexican American studies. The College of New Jersey is starting a master of public policy. Teaching and Learning Editorial Tags: New academic programs Is this diversity newsletter?: Newsletter Order: 0 Disable left side advertisement?

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UW Presidential Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Get Engaged! Global Month Events. Nov. 2: Global Perspectives: Women in Leadership in Public Health. Nov. 3: Global Leadership Series: A Conversation With Kevin Shimota. Nov. 7: Worlds of Difference: Equity, Power, and Course Design. Nov, 14-18: International Education Week. Nov. 17: The Myth of the Eternal Return to the Eternal City: A Conversation with Professor Jim Clauss (at the UW Rome Center).

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Academe Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2022

BY MICHAEL SCHWALBE For ten years before I retired at the end of 2021, I regularly taught a course called Corporate Power in America. The course examined how corporations shape politics, culture, and everyday life in the United States.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

OCTOBER 31, 2022

By Katherine Mangan. Courtesy of UCSB A drawing of the original 11-story Munger Hall planned for the U. of California at Santa Barbara. The University of California at Santa Barbara’s massive dormitory project, criticized for its windowless rooms, will shed two floors — and arrive later than expected.

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Educause

OCTOBER 31, 2022

EDUCAUSE community members offer CIO and senior technology leaders’ perspectives on the 2023 Top 10 IT Issues.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Court heard how Harry Armstrong Evans told tutor and welfare team he was struggling after ‘disastrous’ exam results A coroner has strongly criticised the University of Exeter over the suicide of a 21-year-old student, claiming it had failed to respond effectively for his “cry for help” after a “disastrous” set of exam results and in light of his despair over being isolated during Covid.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

OCTOBER 31, 2022

By Nell Gluckman and Eric Hoover. Michael Theis, The Chronicle Activists demonstrate in support of race-conscious college admissions on Monday outside the U.S. Supreme Court. The conservative justices seemed skeptical of the colleges’ longstanding practice. The more liberal minority wondered if a race-neutral strategy would exacerbate the very problem it was claiming to fix.

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Educause

OCTOBER 31, 2022

EDUCAUSE community members offer teaching and learning perspectives on the 2023 Top 10 IT Issues.

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Campus Technology

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The Educause 2023 Top 10 IT Issues, recently announced at the association's annual conference in Denver, emphasize the importance of putting a technology foundation in place for the future of higher education.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 31, 2022

At least nine Black faculty members have left the University of Missouri at Columbia in 2022, The Columbia Missourian reported. The total number of Black faculty members is now 83. The percentage of Black faculty members leaving is greater than for other groups. The percentage of Black faculty out of total faculty is now 3.73 percent, compared to 4.16 percent in 2021.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

OCTOBER 31, 2022

How you cope with the morass of academic politics will be different depending on the person, the department, and the institution. By Elwood Watson. Jon Krause for The Chronicle. How you cope with the morass of academic politics will be different depending on the person, the department, and the institution.

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Educause

OCTOBER 31, 2022

A corporate community leader offers insights and recommendations on the EDUCAUSE 2023 Top 10 IT Issues and the higher education community.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Colleges will soon have a harder time giving a leg up to children of alumni. By James S. Murphy. Martin Leon Baretto for The Chronicle. Colleges will soon have a harder time giving a leg up to children of alumni.

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The PIE News

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Education in Ireland has launched a new advertising campaign across social media encouraging international students to choose the country as their study destination. The one-minute video campaign, dubbed The Making of You, has been shared on social media platforms to entice prospective students from around the world. “We have been working on The Making of You campaign for the last five months and the video is the start of a campaign that will grow across the world over the next 12-18 months,” Gi

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 31, 2022

A new report by the College Futures Foundation can be summed up by its title: “Whiteness Rules: Racial Exclusion in Becoming an American College President.” The report says, “The white man archetype of presidential leadership perpetuates racial inequity by sending racialized messages about who can and should apply for a college presidency” and by “positioning white men as the ‘natural’ choice.

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