University Business

DECEMBER 19, 2022

A recent government report suggested cutting enrollment and enforcing higher entry standards to certain fields of study. 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.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Higher education stakeholders have been transfixed by declining student enrollment numbers in the past decade, which were only exacerbated further by the pandemic. The University of Arkansas, for example, has welcomed a record number of students this school year, topping 32,000.

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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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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. So have the changing attitudes toward higher education. It has been, well, an interesting time to be in higher education.

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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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The PIE News

APRIL 10, 2024

One of Africa’s largest international education groups is venturing into health education and training aimed at filling the gap created by increased demand for the health workers in South Africa. The deal included the US education and healthcare investment firm Caerus Capital LLC.

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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. These four traditions co-exist uneasily within the contemporary college and university. 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 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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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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HEPI

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Midlands Innovation is a strategic research partnership of eight research intensive universities in the Midlands. HEPI is running a series of blogs with Midlands Innovation championing the role of technicians in higher education and research. The TALENT Commission report was published in 2022. percentage points, respectively).

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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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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%.

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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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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

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Clark University had been a neighbor to Becker for nearly 135 years. The proposed substantive change was approved by Clark’s accreditor, the New England Commission of Higher Education, in April 2021. Another 11 students in the master of fine arts program enrolled in eight sections and five unique courses.

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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. Encouraging a growth mindset in students is incredibly empowering.

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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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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 2, 2023

2 August · Episode 166 ELEVATE program: Achievement Strategies from Illinois Tech 42 Min · By Drumm McNaughton Higher ed leaders who want to increase inclusion while maintaining affordability can emulate the actions of Illinois Tech's ELEVATE program.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

But those higher figures still won’t bowl you over. 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? But much more needs to be done. ” Harsh, but perhaps true.

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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. Encouraging a growth mindset in students is incredibly empowering.

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Dr. Missy Alexander

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

A series of events last week led me to participate in several conversations about the alignment of our university’s program offerings with Connecticut’s workforce needs. At a four-year university, the pathways to much of this work is through the nursing degree and allied health programs.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

All stakeholders, including international students and education service providers, have been embracing non-traditional approaches to earning foreign degrees. The new trends have opened up several interesting opportunities for foreign universities that are seeking to explore and benefit from large, growing South Asian markets such as India.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Performance on the tests varies substantially among the states, with some, like Massachusetts, reporting much higher rates of student achievement and much smaller gaps in performance. These areas have much lower rates of college attendance, suggesting that higher education is less valued and isn’t a priority.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 27, 2023

Working together, educational institutions can create more accessible and effective pathways for students to enter high-demand career fields. Brian Noller The Show-Me State has a Career and Technical Education (CTE) delivery system consisting of 518 local education agencies.

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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? Graff, an expert on literacy who also writes widely on colleges and universities. 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.

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SRHE

APRIL 20, 2023

by Phil Pilkington In March 2023 Nick Hillman, Director of the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI), wrote a review of Freedom of Speech in Universities: Islam, Charities and Counter-terrorism by Alison Scott-Baumann and Simon Perfect (both SOAS), covering freedom of speech, populism (of the left and right), ‘no platforming’, and students.

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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. To what extent is the university’s leadership aware of the paper? Kothari was a Professor of Accounting at the University of Rochester during my brief stint as an English graduate student there.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

A recent episode of The Key, Inside Higher Ed ’s news and analysis podcast, examined the data and metrics colleges and universities are using—or should explore going forward—to gauge the value they provide to their students and other constituents. An edited transcript of the discussions follows.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Also concerned that Allegheny violated its own tenure policies, as well as the American Association of University Professors’ widely followed tenure policies, Shi reached out to her campus AAUP chapter and the national association. Image: Citing a structural deficit and the need to cut at least $1.5 Unanswered Questions.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

But you wouldn’t know it from listening to Valerie Sheares Ashby, who last year took over the presidency of the University of Maryland Baltimore County from Freeman A. ” An edited transcript of the interview with Sheares Ashby, former dean of Trinity College of Arts & Sciences at Duke University, follows.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Now, there is a new analysis based on the Federal government’s College Scorecard that ranks 4,000 higher education institutions, providing prospective students with a clear and detailed view of their earning potential with specific majors, from which colleges and universities, and how quickly graduates pay off their loans.

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GlobalHigherEd

OCTOBER 4, 2015

Senior Fellow, Institute of Asian Research, University of British Columbia, Canada. Gisèle Yasmeen, University of British Columbia. 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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The Change Leader, Inc.

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Not all news in higher education is doom and gloom. San José State University is shining bright at the heart of innovation, with a spotlight on building public-private partnerships that boost diverse student enrollment and the Spartan brand within the local community and beyond.

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