Dr. Missy Alexander

DECEMBER 31, 2023

So have the changing attitudes toward higher education. It has been, well, an interesting time to be in higher education. Our responsive approach is something that I am immensely proud of; we worked together to keep education going, under the direst of circumstances.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

I suspect this pattern of continuous review and adjustment will define all of higher education in this country going forward.” Previously frozen programs are those in African studies, Asian studies, film studies, French, museum studies, music, music education and world religions, professors said.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

To educate for impact, a university evolves and does it within its core values. The concept of expanding the university’s offerings in computing, data science and applied science, detailed in a November 3 article , is not a new one.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Image: Newly available data from the National Science Foundation suggest that the first full year of the pandemic had a major, negative impact on graduate students’ ability to finish their Ph.D.s. Degrees awarded in the life sciences fell 6 percent between 2020 and 2021, and by about 8 percent in the physical and earth sciences.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Notre Dame is one of several institutions experimenting with unconventional cybersecurity awareness training in the form of festivals, art installations and role-playing games. “It’s really important that end users get cybersecurity education.” Cybersecurity Festivals. Cyberthreats are the “No.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2023

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. The report titled, “International Graduate Applications and Enrollment: Fall 2022,” details the responses from 370 institutions, which represents 48.7%

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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. She needed one more general education course to graduate, and wound up taking dramatic structure, a complex course with Dr. Bert O.

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University Business

JUNE 28, 2023

education are contributing to the trend, according to a new report from the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS). is a silver lining for higher education’s overall meek graduate enrollment numbers. From fall 2021 to fall 2022, first-time enrollment increased by 8%, and international graduate applications grew by 26%. While the U.S.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 11, 2023

One of the most foundational books I’ve read as an online educator of nontraditional adult learners is Carol Dweck’s Mindset: The New Psychology of 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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Faculty Focus

APRIL 11, 2023

One of the most foundational books I’ve read as an online educator of nontraditional adult learners is Carol Dweck’s Mindset: The New Psychology of 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 2, 2022

Image: Citing a structural deficit and the need to cut at least $1.5 million in faculty salaries while increasing its student-faculty ratio, Allegheny College in Pennsylvania charged a task force with reviewing its academic programs. Unanswered Questions. So why was Chinese targeted? “Why was Chinese language and culture cut?

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Inside Higher Ed : Michael, you were on The Key last spring talking about the price earnings premium that you and Third Way had developed to measure value in higher education. In 2020, we released a paper about a new way of evaluating institutions of higher education. An edited transcript of the discussions follows.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

” An edited transcript of the interview with Sheares Ashby, former dean of Trinity College of Arts & Sciences at Duke University, follows. My dad was a minister and a math and science teacher. And she describes how Hrabowski was what she calls a “good leaver. Both of my parents were leaders in their own right.

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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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The Change Leader, Inc.

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Not all news in higher education is doom and gloom. Innovative Approaches to Education and Technology Integration At the heart of SJSU’s strategy is the integration of cutting-edge technology into its curriculum, preparing students to thrive in a fast-paced and consistently evolving digital landscape.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 23, 2022

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? What if we were to look back at higher education in 2022 a decade or so in the future? State spending on higher education bounced back; direct expenditures increased by an 8.3

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eLiterate

OCTOBER 25, 2022

I recently ran across a white paper called Ideas for an Affordable New Educational Institution out of MIT’s J-WEL center. This was back in the 1990s, so it was early for a professor outside of an education or computer science department to be thinking about such things. The context of the paper.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Principle 2: An education that is skills and outcomes focused—that does much more to ensure that students become better communicators and can apply critical thinking, close reading and numerical skills in real-world contexts. None of these ideas is original.

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GlobalHigherEd

OCTOBER 4, 2015

My first experience with computers was with a mainframe “Amdahl” where you had to learn complex codes to do simple word-processing! My first experience with computers was with a mainframe “Amdahl” where you had to learn complex codes to do simple word-processing! Innovative and Engaging Communications in and Beyond the Academy.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 9, 2023

How might this precept apply to higher education? As the historian Henry Steele Commager observed six decades ago, American higher education is an amalgam of four distinct educational traditions. But we can learn from experience and draw upon those lessons as we make decisions that will shape the future. Priorities conflict.

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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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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 2, 2023

Higher education leaders who want to increase inclusion while maintaining affordability at their campus can emulate the actions of Illinois Institute of Technology’s ELEVATE program. Because of how the public perceives higher ed , institutions must provide different pathways for students to receive an education.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Why, then, should my thoughts about the future of higher education be any more accurate? His pieces, which appear frequently in Inside Higher Ed and Times Higher Education , focus on a series of issues that our campuses should take more seriously. I also thought the Russian military was far stronger than it was. Wrong again.

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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. Passing the Leadership Torch President Sheares Ashby took office In August 2022, succeeding UMBC's beloved, long-term president Freeman Hrabowaski. I so appreciate his willingness to do that.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

A recent blog posting by Michael Feldstein, one of higher education’s most astute observers, asked a fascinating question: If you were designing Cal State today, what would you do differently? This is an institution that values scholarship, the liberal arts, a physical campus and the teacher-scholar. ” Ugh.

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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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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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Liaison International

JUNE 30, 2023

The largest growth areas across all countries are biological and agricultural sciences and mathematical and computer sciences, although the arts and humanities, business and education also show growth.”

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 16, 2024

16 January · Regulatory Changes and Their Implications for Higher Education Mergers 39 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton Insights on regulatory changes, negotiated rulemaking, NC SARA, and the impact on higher education mergers. Thinking about a merger? Listen in.

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