Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Image: Faculty members at the College of William & Mary are concerned that the institution is purposely excluding them from conversations about the future. Take the college’s recent announcement that it’s exploring opening a computing and data science school.

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Insight Into Diversity

MAY 24, 2023

New legislation passed by the Illinois General Assembly aims to equalize credit transfers between community colleges and the state’s public four-year colleges and universities, making student transitions smoother between institution types. The bill, which is soon expected to be signed into law by Gov.

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Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 10, 2024

Department of Education recently awarded a five-year, $3 million grant to California State University, Northridge, to increase the participation of underrepresented students and address equity gaps in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) and arts fields. Led by S.K.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

But at the beginning of this new fall semester, colleges across the country are reporting big turnarounds. The University of Arkansas, for example, has welcomed a record number of students this school year, topping 32,000. gain in first-time college students, thanks in part to an 8.9%

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University Business

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Degrees and subsequent jobs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) have long been praised as lucrative and safe pathways for students looking to enroll at a college or university. However, there is one subset of this group that stands out in popularity and workforce prowess: computer and data science.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 9, 2023

The first, which initially arose in Italy and elsewhere on the European continent a millennium ago, offered professional training in law, medicine, and the church and later in such fields as architecture, business, engineering, and the sciences. These four traditions co-exist uneasily within the contemporary college and university.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

INSIGHT Into Diversity 2023 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award winners are recognized for their exemplary and innovative initiatives designed to recruit and retain underrepresented individuals in science, technology, engineering, and math. MS in Business Analytics – STEM-designated Adelphi University Robert B. Read about them here.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 16, 2022

Buffalo State College, of the State University of New York. Eric Dolph, art and design. Theresa Smith, art conservation. Suparna Soni, political science and public administration. McDaniel College. Chloe Irla, art. Chloe Irla, art. Chia-En Lin, computer science. Zajac, English.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Image: When Whitworth University was hit by a cyberattack earlier this year, it faced a public relations nightmare , significant financial strain and a data breach that may have affected thousands of former and current students and employees. The incident was one of an increasing number of cyberattacks against colleges since 2020.

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HEPI

APRIL 18, 2023

This blog has been kindly written fro HEPI by Professor Marion Thain, Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and Professor of Culture and Technology at King’s College London. However that doesn’t mean humanities disciplines don’t have to change.

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University Business

MAY 1, 2024

As STEM drives innovation both inside the classroom and in the workplace, universities are building and renovating facilities curated to the student, professor and researcher experience. Here are four emerging trends in building design as universities and colleges reimagine STEM spaces.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 7, 2023

At a time in academia when STEM is increasingly evolving into STEAM, colleges and universities with intensely driven, career-focused students are endeavoring to create space for arts education. STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) is expanding into STEAM, with the addition of art.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

million freshmen enrolled in a college or university last semester, a 4.3 Freshman enrollment was up across all higher education sectors, with the greatest growth coming from community colleges, which gained 42,000 first-year students since last fall, an increase of 6.1 While the number still remains well below the 2.49

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

Image: Manhattanville College in Purchase, N.Y., The college says it froze undergraduate majors with “very low student enrollment.” laid off eight tenured and tenure-track faculty members and froze various programs last month, citing realignment of academics with changing student demands.

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University Business

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The coursework in the crosshairs isn’t hard to divine, either: liberal arts mainstays such as literature, history, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and psychology. Those with liberal arts degrees took umbrage. Many political science majors do become policymakers—and the degree is a well-trodden stepping stone to law school.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Sean Burke , associate provost of Luther College, in Iowa, has been selected as provost and vice president for academic affairs at Alma College, in Michigan. Richmond Hill , interim provost of the Woodbridge campus of Northern Virginia Community College, has been named to the position on a permanent basis.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The American Association of University Professors announced Wednesday that it has launched an investigation into the cuts at Emporia State University last month, which saw 33 faculty members—including numerous tenured professors—dismissed due to financial issues.

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The PIE News

APRIL 10, 2024

The Advtech group, which owns over 10 different brands with schools and colleges in Southern and Eastern Africa regions, will offer qualifications including in nursing for local and international students, with a focus on feeding overseas markets for healthcare workers including the UK and Australia, according to officials.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics to extend their stays in the United States. Many of the 22 new qualifying fields of study on the updated government list, including general forestry, cloud computing and geobiology, fall within conventional understanding of STEM fields.

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Liaison International

JUNE 30, 2023

More than 40% of students in online programs previously “stopped out” Students who had previously attended college but stopped before graduating account for 42% of those currently enrolled in an online degree-level or certificate program; first-generation students make up 33% of the population.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

It is this technology-enabled ease and efficiency that I thought could benefit my teacher candidates (TCs) in my fine arts for elementary education course during their busy end-of-semester season. in response to user prompts, there is no ignoring the flurry of both concerns and hopes for its use in a variety of professional fields.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

APRIL 6, 2023

This is an instructive moment at University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), where Dr. Valerie Sheares Ashby recently assumed the role of president. I left Duke University, that I loved and still love, where I have friends, colleagues, and students. Do they have the right values, and are they ready to move forward in those values?

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University Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

And at the University of Montana, that’s what sets the foundation for their esports program, Grizzly Esports. I mean English majors, Biology majors, Math majors, Computer Science, we have people from everywhere,” he explains. Gaming is for everyone, no matter your background, where you come from, or what major you study.

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Dr. Missy Alexander

DECEMBER 31, 2023

The perfect storms of COVID-19 and the demographic shifts of New England presented abundant challenges to the academic and university planning processes. The demographic shifts have also been a tremendous challenge and all members of the university community have been trying to find ways to respond.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 14, 2023

Blog: Learning Innovation I’m totally psyched about the newly announced master of science in artificial intelligence (MSAI) degree from the University of Texas at Austin. A $10K master’s degree from a top global university. I’ll give you 10,000 reasons: the degree will cost students $10,000! Totally online.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

” The powerhouse group of five panelists included two longtime campus CIOs, one newly appointed CIO, one vice president for digital innovation at a liberal arts college and one émigré from higher ed who now works for Amazon Web Services. ” She’s now CIO at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Graff, an expert on literacy who also writes widely on colleges and universities. I thought, what with high rates of inflation, a depressed stock market, and lots of reports of crime, the Democratic party was about to face a red wave. I also thought the Russian military was far stronger than it was. Wrong again. I’m not sure.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2023

of the colleges and universities that received the CGS International Graduate Admissions Survey. A report from the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) shows international graduate applications increased for the fourth consecutive year and a shift continued in the countries applying. degree-granting institutions. “In

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University Business

JUNE 28, 2023

More from UB: How 2 college equity leaders advise navigating a changing climate amid backlash International applications and enrollment China and India remain as the two most significant countries whose students are applying for U.S. education are contributing to the trend, according to a new report from the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS).

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HESA

APRIL 5, 2023

I see we’re back into tiresome public debates about the value of “Liberal Arts” and the “Humanities” (not synonyms, even though most people use the terms interchangeably). Devereaux entitled “ Colleges Should be More than Just Vocational Schools ” (where “college” is being used in the American sense of “undergraduate education”).

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 30, 2022

It’s certainly true that college graduation rates have risen sharply in recent years even as student diversity has grown, suggesting that the purported crisis in student learning may be greatly exaggerated. Those comments deserve a detailed response. As some of my correspondents have pointed out: 1.

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The PIE News

AUGUST 31, 2023

Akshit Jain works at T&A Consulting in Delhi where he supports Norwich University of the Arts as country manager for India. Secondly, the holistic experience of Indian students within international universities is another area of concern. What do you like most about your job? What work-related issues keep you awake at night?

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The PIE News

OCTOBER 3, 2023

While the in-out debate had been covered deeply, the article detailed a letter sent to Sunday Times from 103 UK university vice-chancellors, who warned that leaving the EU would mean cutting the UK off from “unique support and established networks” on the continent. I don’t see the value. Who would pay the running costs?”

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 11, 2023

In the college environment an intent to persist is needed, and by promoting resiliency in such a way students are encouraged to understand that their own free will and mindset largely influence their success. In her book, Carol Dweck posits that all people are of two mindsets: a growth mindset and a fixed mindset.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 27, 2023

Twenty-four years later, stakeholders are still seeing evidence of community colleges expanding their role in school reform, especially in the State of Missouri. These agencies consist of high schools, a state technical college, community colleges, four-year institutions, two state agencies and career centers.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2023

What can the arts do to heal and help us see a better future?” As an undergraduate at the University of California (UC), Santa Barbara, Lee was a computer science major. in theater history from The Ohio State University. My class dealing with history, it’s much more real,” she continued.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

In March 2021, the chair of the Board of Trustees of Becker College announced that the institution would close its doors due to financial difficulties accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. It was a blow to the students, faculty and staff of this private college in Worcester, Mass.,

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