Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 9, 2023

Safa Zaki will become president of Bowdoin College, effective Jul. McCoy Professor of Psychology at Williams College. A psychologist and cognitive scientist, her research centers on the human mind and how people divide the world into categories. “In She will be the first woman to lead the school. McCoy and John T.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Alejandro “Alex” Hernandez has officially been inaugurated as the 10th president of Champlain College. Alejandro Hernandez “Education creates opportunity, and I’ve dedicated my life to the idea that we can build institutions that get students READY, not by luck or privilege, but by design,” Hernandez said.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

For me, ChatGPT is just another in a long line of technology-assisted tools that I accept may become a routine part of my professional/personal life. Early approaches in the field of generative AI are situated within 1950s-60s computer science and AI research and “aimed to mimic human expertise to generate outputs” (ChatGPT, 2023).

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The incident was one of an increasing number of cyberattacks against colleges since 2020. Though college information technology offices have long worked behind the scenes to bolster institutional defenses, their countermeasure efforts, such as installing network threat detection and risk-mitigation systems, are often invisible.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The online Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies program pairs core courses in culture, humanities, natural sciences, philosophy, social sciences, and writing with five concentration options: Business and Entrepreneurship, Humanities, Professional Media and Communication, International Relations, and Individualized Study.

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University Business

APRIL 4, 2023

Lindsey Ash says she likely would have sought a liberal arts degree in speech therapy — until a high school class steered her toward science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Read more from The Washington Times.

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Liaison International

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The partnership combines Liaison’s innovative technology with NAGAP’s graduate enrollment expertise to transform graduate education and enrich professional growth. WATERTOWN, Mass., This partnership will empower NAGAP with the ability to partake in defining, collecting, and disseminating essential graduate enrollment data.

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ACPA

JUNE 9, 2023

How Technology Could Impact the Future of International Education (Part I)?- We are talking about how technology influences our work at higher education and student affairs, particularly in international education. We will also talk about what we can do to stand out as student affairs professionals in the age of technology. #22-How

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 10, 2024

Barabino, president of the Olin College of Engineering. 10 online panel – hosted by the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) – invited a number of scholars in higher ed to weigh in on the potential and challenges that AI tools may bring to the field. ChatGPT launched in November of 2022,” Watson said.

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University Business

MARCH 22, 2023

Academic disciplines were grouped into five categories: Arts and Humanities, Engineering and Technology, Life Sciences and Medicine, Natural Sciences, and Social Sciences and Management. female college presidents shine in international report The post MIT and Harvard lift U.S. universities past U.K.

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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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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. Read about them here. MS in Business Analytics – STEM-designated Adelphi University Robert B.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Terry O’Banion Community college students who are from lower socio-economic backgrounds, are first generation, and who have not been successful in high school are starving to death trying to find educational sustenance at the cafeteria curriculum.

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Dr. Missy Alexander

DECEMBER 31, 2023

We continuously evolved as we learned about online instruction, gaps in technology access, and the financial and emotional strain on everyone. We’ve invested in Public Health, Addiction Studies, and expanded our portfolio of nursing programs to create pathways from community college to the doctorate in nursing practice.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Collaborations between Virginia Tech and historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) or other minority-serving institutions (MSIs) have led to 15 research projects supported by grant funding. This effort is one of several seed investment programs by Virginia Tech’s Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science (ICTAS).to

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University Business

MARCH 14, 2023

Despite recent pushback against diversity, equity and inclusion among several states , a number of colleges have recently hired presidents based on their commitment to that principle. Safa Zaki, Bowdoin College (Williamstown, Mass.) Outside academia, Scholz served the U.S. Treasury Department and the Council of Economic Advisors.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 6, 2023

Similar to our roads and bridges, the pathways between our colleges and universities have often been marked with potholes, roadblocks and lane closures. Currently, all the state’s community colleges and public universities, as well as 18 independent colleges and universities, participate in one or more of the pathways.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 15, 2023

At the Georgia Institute of Technology, gathering data to evaluate how students view their own learning outcomes and how general education courses are targeting those outcomes required creative solutions. Image: Connecting students’ coursework to their future career is seen as an engagement tool and a necessity for career development.

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HEPI

MARCH 24, 2023

I am not suggesting LinkedIn learning is a silver bullet, but the expert-led material on the platform runs the gamut from business to technology-related to creative skills relevant for the world of work. This HEPI guest blog has been written by Obinna Okereke , Project Manager – Student Experience at Coventry University.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

Image: The success rate for new academic programs at colleges and universities depends more on the type of institution launching them than whether a program is in the sciences or humanities, according to a new report identifying what sorts of programs fare better when it comes to growth.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 22, 2022

A data science pathway as an alternative to the standard Algebra II, precalculus and calculus sequence. A data science pathway as an alternative to the standard Algebra II, precalculus and calculus sequence. At stake are hot-button issues involving equity, privilege, socioeconomic class and gender, ethnicity and race.

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The PIE News

JANUARY 26, 2023

Master’s degrees in technology, natural sciences and performing arts will cost around NOK 150,000 (£12,250), while business school, humanities and health masters will cost around £10,200. In the vast majority of cases, Norwegian students have to pay tuition fees to study abroad.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 23, 2022

” No longer does the “simple advice to high schoolers to ‘go to college’” suffice. Which leaves the liberal arts, and especially the humanities, where? Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Start spreading the news. ” Wait a second. My undergraduates already know that. million, well above the median of $3.2

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Clark Atlanta University and Spelman College are the only HBCUs that offer a major or degree program. Hollis, then dean of the College of Liberal Arts. Over the past decade, some historically Black institutions have developed women’s and gender studies programs and embedded courses within general education curriculum.

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#Deaning

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

It’s that wonderful time of year when I start getting messages from people whose children are deciding where to go to university and I get to talk about what is so special about studying arts at U of G. We’re a small arts college on a comprehensive university campus. Arts or Science? Why arts at Guelph?

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Colleges are under growing pressure to prove their value to students, parents, legislators and others. Itzkowitz: Over the past year, we’ve seen an uptick in students and families wanting to know what type of return on investment they’re going to get from the college education. We have data from the U.S.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 2, 2023

“ Technology can become the wings that will allow the educational world to fly farther and faster than ever before – if we allow it (Arledge).” We cannot escape the tremendous impact that advancements in technology are having, and will continue to have on what we consider most important in education. Will we allow it?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

As researchers, practitioners, and healthcare workers reflect on the events of the last two and a half years, programs related to public health have become a priority at many colleges and universities. In response, colleges and universities are seeing increased interest in courses and programs that address issues of public health.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 6, 2023

While the National Endowment for the Arts’ 2017 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts claimed that 28 million Americans (two-thirds women) had read a poem in the last year and CNN proclaims that “Poetry is experiencing a new golden age,” one would have to have a heart of stone not to scoff.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 2, 2023

“ Technology can become the wings that will allow the educational world to fly farther and faster than ever before – if we allow it (Arledge).” We cannot escape the tremendous impact that advancements in technology are having, and will continue to have on what we consider most important in education. Will we allow it?

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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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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

OCTOBER 6, 2022

When President LeBlanc began his first higher ed leadership position in 1996, the year of the dotcom boom, he saw a role for digital technology at Vermont's small, struggling Marlboro College. "I Let's open up something called the Marlboro College Grad Center.' We started a conversation about the impact of technology.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 23, 2023

Stephen Marche tells us “ The College Essay Is Dead ,” while, in a separate essay for The Atlantic , Daniel Herman considers “ The End of High-School English.” ” After all, the chat bot has apparently killed both high school English and the college essay. Who knows what else it’s capable of?

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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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Dr. Missy Alexander

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Over the last few weeks, I have been in several conversations about the impact of career focused education on the liberal arts. This framing reveals deeply held biases about what qualifies as liberal arts (and therefore a quality degree) which are pervasive in higher education.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Considering that enrollment in college is dropping—with higher education losing one million students in the last two years alone and steady year-over-year losses for more than a decade—we must have a frank exploration of how students perceive the value of a degree. Employers are desperate for prepared, career-ready talent.

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