Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma A recent correspondent shared a memorable quotation from the Nobel prizewinner Ernest Rutherford: “That which is not Physics is stamp collecting.” ” In other words, that which isn’t science is a trivial and inconsequential waste of time. Americans once revered science and scientists.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 9, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Ask ChatGPT why you should read fiction and it will spout literature’s many benefits: entertainment, increased empathy, cognitive stimulation and learning about different cultures, historical events and social issues. asked what, if anything, distinguishes a human from an android.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

Manhattanville hasn’t publicly announced which programs are frozen, but faculty sources say they are art history, world religions, philosophy, film studies, music, music education, French, Spanish and chemistry. Image: Manhattanville College in Purchase, N.Y., In addition to these cuts, one lecturer was not reappointed.

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Coursera blog

MARCH 6, 2023

These latest courses, Professional Certificates, and degrees cover everything from accounting and IT to data science and software engineering. Computer science programmes from BITS Pilani are highly regarded across the industry. What will you learn next?

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Academe Blog

JANUARY 13, 2023

BY RODOLFO ROSALES Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowship recipients have formed a community in which we can share the products of our knowledge, our talents, our research, and our work in the arts, humanities, and sciences—along with many other intellectual accomplishments across the disciplines that have been significant in establishing our footprint (..)

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HEPI

MAY 2, 2023

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Professor Andy Salmon – Pro-Vice Chancellor External, Bath Spa University ‘The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real.’ Wallace Stevens, The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination This short article is designed to provoke thought.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Somehow, I came across a post on the Conversable Economist blog, which, as a chemist, is not on my reading list. Schelling won the 2005 Nobel Prize in economic sciences with Robert J. This is where the liberal arts education gains considerable value. Merriam-Webster’s dictionary gives two definitions of the liberal arts.

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HEPI

MARCH 24, 2023

This HEPI guest blog has been written by Obinna Okereke , Project Manager – Student Experience at Coventry University. Further, the discourse on poor-quality courses can be turned on its head if more SHAPE (Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts for People and the Economy) graduates left university with additional hard and soft skills.

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HEPI

MAY 11, 2023

This guest blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Professor Warren Manning, Provost for Innovation and Research at the University of Derby, and Dr Jenna Townend, FHEA, Principal Adviser to the Vice-Chancellor at the Uni versity of Derby. For more details, including how to book a free place, see here.

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Coursera blog

JULY 15, 2023

These latest Professional Certificates, courses, and degrees cover everything from accounting, IT, data science to software engineering and more. You will learn how to identify and analyze user and client needs while gaining the skills necessary to implement and create software-based solutions. What will you learn next?

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#Deaning

MARCH 19, 2023

Ajay Heble (Humanities) See this story in The Canadian Press, [link] And the U of G story is here, [link] Congrats Ajay! ◾ The Bachelor of Arts and Science Degree Program is having a belated celebration for it’s 20th Anniversary on March 22nd. link] The building is open all weekend. Very March out there. Best, Samantha

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Spend a Grinch-Free Holiday with Greensboro’s School of Health and Human Sciences UNC Greensboro is a regular on our HEM holiday video highlights list, and this video puts the spotlight on its School of Health and Human Sciences. But, what is a video highlight? And, what is a highlight video for an event?

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Start spreading the news. Which leaves the liberal arts, and especially the humanities, where? As Georgetown’s Center for Education and the Workforce says : “Majoring in business pays off. ” Wait a second. My undergraduates already know that. million, well above the median of $3.2

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

Our second cohort concluded in December 2021, our third cohort wrapped up in spring 2022, our fourth occurred in fall 2022, and our fifth occurred in spring 2023. All cohorts ended with presentations of the fellows’ capstone projects. The topics covered included student success, budget models, change management, and more.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 6, 2023

Blog: Beyond Transfer While Michigan is synonymous with mobility when it comes to manufacturing vehicles of all shapes and sizes, every Michigander knows that a car is only as good as the road it is driven on—and we also know that many of Michigan’s highways have fallen into disrepair.

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Leader of Learning

DECEMBER 5, 2022

” Erik has also written numerous blogs about growth mindset and grading. Erik earned a Doctorate in Educational Leadership, Education Specialist Degree, and Master of Science in Education from Northern Illinois University and a Bachelor of Arts from Augustana College. Want great content delivered right to your inbox?

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 6, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma A freshman dormmate won the Pulitzer Prize in poetry nearly a decade ago. His book sold, according to the last count that I saw, 353 copies. The days when school children were required to memorize long passages from Romantic and Victorian poetry are, alas, over. I can still quote passages on demand.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 29, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Perhaps as an undergraduate you read Oscar Wilde’s mirthful, satiric essay “The Critic as Artist.” Ironically, it’s the essay’s major source of satire—the primacy of criticism over the art that it interprets and evaluates—that has, to a surprising extent, been realized.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 20, 2023

readers of this blog will be excluded altogether. But as the sources are generally from the US, the book provides a reminder that these lessons are not limited to the UK or to our own labour market and productivity challenges. Indeed, we are told Grow with Google online certificates ‘aren’t intended to prepare people to work at Google itself.’

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Bitter controversy has recently swirled around California’s revised Mathematics Framework, a set of recommendations about how math should be taught in the state’s K-12 schools. A data science pathway as an alternative to the standard Algebra II, precalculus and calculus sequence.

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Coursera blog

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Since then, he’s taught thousands of learners on the platform with the University of North Texas (UNT) in both the Bachelor of Applied Arts and Sciences and the Bachelor of Science in General Business. I started teaching professional courses, career courses, human resources and organizational behavior courses.

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HEPI

APRIL 29, 2024

This longer HEPI blog was kindly authored by John Raftery, Principal at John Raftery & Associates , and Susan Lea, Founder and Principal at Sagewood Consulting. HEPI is hosting a webinar on student maintenance support next Thursday 9th May to mark the launch of a major new report. You can sign up here.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 29, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma As psychological anthropologist Nat Kendall-Taylor recently noted , When the College Board revised the draft African American studies curriculum, it removed the word “systemic.” Systemic and structural bias are often manifest in disparities in education, healthcare, housing, employment, and criminal justice.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Can a research-intensive university also be learning- and learner-centered, as dedicated to the quality of students’ educational experience as it is to scholarship, publication and invention? What, then, would it take to achieve a greater balance between scholarship and teaching?

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ACPA

JUNE 9, 2023

How Technology Could Impact the Future of International Education (Part I)?- With Hanna Lee Description: In this episode, we have our old friend Hanna back! We are talking about how technology influences our work at higher education and student affairs, particularly in international education. We will have two episodes talking about this topic.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

JUNE 17, 2022

Pomp and Circumstance Throughout graduation season, I have had a variety of conversations about the traditions, pageantry, and symbolism connected to commencement ceremonies and the trappings of the academy. I thought it would be timely to share some of the arcana that arises most frequently in those conversations.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Blogs 5 career services to support your professional and adult learners Build these services to aid your current students and stand out to prospects Career services are going to be especially important to your graduate and adult students in 2024. Read on for ways to support your adult learners through career services.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 31, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma A now forgotten turn-of-the-20th-century song, “Do You Believe Your Baby or Your Eyes?” ” apparently gave birth to one of that century’s most famous witticisms. If you are caught red-handed in an undeniably awkward, embarrassing or illicit situation, one way out is to beg for trust.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma David Copperfield (1850), the most autobiographical of Charles Dickens’s novels, begins with one of literature’s most famous lines: “Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.”

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EAB

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Blogs The 6 most in-demand topics for district leaders last year AskEAB's 6 most popular research requests in 2022-2023 Each year, EAB’s Dedicated Advisors pass hundreds of questions from district leaders and school administrators to our AskEAB team. PE, science): 7.5% Secondary-level English language arts: 7.5% Other (e.g.,

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 30, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma When I was young, I was transfixed by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! As I viewed and reviewed the drawings that appeared in the newspaper, I learned about a great many jaw-dropping oddities. You perhaps recall that Bentham asked that after his death his remains be preserved, dressed in his own clothes.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 9, 2023

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean. Already we know that associate degrees in most liberal arts fields don’t have much payoff in themselves – that is, absent transfer, which is what those degrees are for – and those at least have reasonably expansive gen ed requirements. And should it?

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

OCTOBER 6, 2022

And we did the first full degree program in e-commerce, the first master's of arts in teaching with the Internet. Disruption, Evolution, and Leadership. A Conversation With Paul LeBlanc, President, Southern New Hampshire University. Thu, 10/06/2022 - 06:00. Higher Ed Leadership. Inside Higher Ed. Weekly Wisdom.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Want to know why John Guillory’s Professing Criticism has attracted such widespread attention? Over the course of a single decade, core humanities disciplines have lost half their majors, which has led growing numbers of campuses to reduce the full-time, tenured faculty. The field has fragmented.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Perhaps you’ve heard of the Kobayashi Maru scenario, a training exercise at Star Trek ’s Starfleet Academy. Cadets who are being considered for leadership positions are confronted with an unwinnable situation in order to test their command capabilities.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Blog: Just Visiting Last week, without putting much thought into it, I put up a Twitter poll asking: “In your opinion would more students major in the humanities if college was tuition free?” Computer science, STEM and medical majors have gobbled up the share that used to belong to the humanities.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 8, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Not a day goes by that I don’t read something that shocks me, annoys me, frustrates me, rouses me, or inspires me. ” Or I don’t know whether to laugh for cry. Consider the following examples: Wealthy colleges have found a new way to separate potential students from their dollars.

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