Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 10, 2024

Barabino, president of the Olin College of Engineering. Lynn Pasquerella, the discussion comes at a time when the topic of AI tools continues to make its rounds through public discourse nationally and internationally, particularly in sectors such as art, writing, and labor. ChatGPT launched in November of 2022,” Watson said.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

A new analysis of federal Survey of Earned Doctorates data by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences finds a substantial racial divide in who is accumulating debt in doctoral studies: from 2015 to 2020, approximately 55 percent of Native American and Black students with a Ph.D. History Ph.D.s Humanities Ph.D.s

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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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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 28, 2022

” In other words, that which isn’t science is a trivial and inconsequential waste of time. Bored out of his mind by box checking introductory courses in the humanities, my correspondent wrote: “To many STEM students the truly “Great Books” were written by Physicists and Mathematicians.” Retractions.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 22, 2022

In 2019, during the last statewide assessment prior to the pandemic, just 34 percent of California students over all and 18 percent of Black students and 20 percent of Latino students met or exceeded the state’s math standards. ” “Do not include homework … as any part of grading.

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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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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. That may be what we are seeing in the NSF survey in the decline of doctorate recipients, and that students just need more time.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 15, 2023

John Hope Franklin Award was created in 2004 to pay tribute to Franklin, a historian, writer, educator, and humanitarian who made significant contributions to shaping the perspective of American history in the 20th century. Jackson said her mother was more inclined to the language arts. Early inspiration Her father was an inspiration.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 23, 2022

In most programs, business students’ median annual earnings two years after graduation are roughly 10 times their monthly debt payments.” Or to take some other examples of high ROI fields: “Those with a bachelor’s degree in #architecture and #engineering have median lifetime earnings of $3.8

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 9, 2023

But if we turn the question around and ask what novels, in this case science fiction, can tell us about artificial intelligence, the answers are far more weighty. But if we turn the question around and ask what novels, in this case science fiction, can tell us about artificial intelligence, the answers are far more weighty.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 5, 2023

Blog: Learning Innovation Sue Lorenson , vice dean for undergraduate education at Georgetown’s College of Arts and Sciences, is a close colleague and good friend of Eddie’s. Our jobs necessarily demand that we’re triangulating between students, professors and others (parents, support offices, health providers, etc.)

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

On the opening day, academics shared findings on student success at Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs), while others tackled issues of pay inequity in internships. These values run contrary to systemic oppression. In order to enact human values, we have to start with ourselves. Critical self-reflection is a radical form of resistance.”

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

From the strategic and smart use of technology, to the need for data fluency across all disciplines (and yes, that includes liberal arts institutions), and the changing modes of online and in-person instruction, universities have been watching, and some embracing, what employers expect from graduates in today’s rapidly changing workforce.

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Insight Into Diversity

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Prop 209 — and its counterparts in other states — impacted all areas of admissions, outreach, and recruitment, not only by limiting tools to create thriving and inclusive campuses but also by chilling climates for many students from marginalized communities. Our newer faculty ranks are at their most diverse in UC history.

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University Business

OCTOBER 20, 2023

While SVU is technically a secular private liberal arts college, it identifies with the values of the LDS Church. Serving a nearly 1,000 student body, her focus as president of SVY will be on fundraising and investment opportunities, Deseret News reports. But those who decided to step down are doing so on sound footing.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Image: Harvard University announced its 30th president Thursday, drawing from within to hire Claudine Gay, the first Black president in the institution’s nearly 400-year history. Gay, currently the Edgerley Family Dean of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, was hired after a search that began in July to replace Lawrence S.

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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? See [link].

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Image: Living-learning communities are common in the sphere of higher education as intimate, specialized spaces for students looking to establish community in on-campus residence halls. A majority of LLCs are centered around academics: prehealth, engineering, business, honors , ROTC or music and performing arts.

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University Business

JUNE 29, 2023

Milo Riverso, for example, has leveraged his esteemed background in construction and engineering to win over Manhattan College’s Board of Trustees. Anita Olson Gustafson, on the other hand, drew on her decades-long, relentless passion for liberal arts to gain favor at Presbyterian College. With level-headedness, Clarence D.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 29, 2023

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. It should be read not only by the English professoriate, but by its counterparts in art and music history, history and philosophy.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 3, 2023

” Lafayette, a private Pennsylvania liberal arts college with roughly 2,700 students, currently has no deans supervising its four academic divisions: humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and engineering. “Trust and institutional culture are broken,” the first of the five points said.

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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. ” The study listed a failure rate of 39.4

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 11, 2022

I’m talking about a new forms of educational disruption that have their gun sights set on those non-traditional students who are looking for “ a path to a career rather than a four-year pit stop. Typically, proprietary institutions, like barber colleges and beauty schools, that serve very few students. It’s not alone.

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University Business

JULY 31, 2023

said Raymundo Arroyave, professor of Materials Science and Engineering, in a special Faculty Senate meeting. “I However, three institutional leaders managed to escape national headlines and step down prematurely under either peculiar or contentious circumstances. We don’t exhibit a very good image of competence to the outside world.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 6, 2023

Misalignment between courses, accumulation of excess credits and seemingly dead-end degree options have impeded momentum for students aspiring to transfer for too long. Governor Gretchen Whitmer famously ran on a campaign promise to “fix the damn roads,” and today, orange barrels are sprouting seemingly everywhere in response.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

JUNE 17, 2022

Academic Regalia During formal academic gatherings, faculty and often students will appear in academic regalia. Academic Regalia During formal academic gatherings, faculty and often students will appear in academic regalia. I thought it would be timely to share some of the arcana that arises most frequently in those conversations.

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University Business

JULY 5, 2023

“Appealing to a principle of ‘color-blindness’ at odds with history and law, the Court’s conservative majority says, ‘trust us’ while it imposes its will on higher education’s admission policies,” Roth and Gonzalez wrote in an email. But Wesleyan University President Michael S.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Image: The first time Stefan Duma offered his in-person Concussion Perspectives course at Virginia Tech, 50 students enrolled. The next time, 100 students enrolled, followed by 250 and later 500. More than 1,000 students signed up. That is, the online format may provide students with opportunities to engage.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 31, 2022

” Variations of that classic line can be found in the Marx Brothers’ nihilistic comedy Duck Soup , a 1948 column by the syndicated advice giver Dorothy Dix and more recently by Richard Pryor and Cher. Much of what people claim to know rests on trust and deference. On many issues, our identity determines our personal truth.

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Creatrix Campus

JUNE 12, 2023

It entails a methodical and comprehensive process of designing, planning, and executing a curriculum that fulfills the requirements of students and coincides with educational goals. It entails careful consideration of many elements such as educational standards, student needs and skills, instructional resources, and intended learning results.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Drumm McNaughton explored how she’s spearheading innovative initiatives to create a more student-centric and business-ready higher education landscape and provide an update on her latest collaboration, REP4, which stands for Rapid Education Prototyping for Change.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 8, 2023

Consider the following examples: Wealthy colleges have found a new way to separate potential students from their dollars. 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.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

6 February · Episode 193 SJSU Public-Private Partnerships Boost Enrollment and Community Relationships 35 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton President Teniente-Matson shares insights on utilizing public-private partnerships to develop meaningful student, community, and brand experiences.

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Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 18, 2022

It provides students, faculty, staff, and alumni with a single place to report nonemergency complaints or concerns, including those involving harassment and sexual misconduct. Adelphi also introduced Students Beyond the Binary, a new student organization focused on transgender and gender-nonconforming issues.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

No longer is a degree in English regarded as a signal that a student is exceptionally literate culturally, a superb writer and superior intellectually. Because it’s widely read as a eulogy for a discipline that has lost its audience and lost its way. As the field has fractured, its mission and purpose have grown increasingly unclear.

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Today's Learner

OCTOBER 16, 2022

I remember the groans students gave me when I first started teaching and dared to say those detested words, “Get into your groups.” I’d wear an intentional smile while students grudgingly picked up their things and shuffled slowly across the room to meet in their new groups. A History major might collaborate with archivists.

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Today's Learner

MAY 8, 2023

In honor of Teacher Appreciation Week 2023, we polled faculty, students and Cengage employees about their favorite class. In honor of Teacher Appreciation Week 2023, we polled faculty, students and Cengage employees about their favorite class. She loves rock climbing, mountain biking and coffee—not necessarily in that order.

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