EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Offering courses on subjects ranging from chemistry to linguistics, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s College of Liberal Arts & Sciences encompasses 37 academic departments. We discovered that our…

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University Business

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Bolstered by state and national workforce needs and their promising return on investment, the STEM track represents a gold mine for colleges and universities that want to ensure credentials from their institution are providing students with good job prospects and gainful employment.

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University Business

MARCH 28, 2024

There’s new momentum building on college and university campuses to rescue and reinvigorate diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs, vital initiatives that have been the target of a coordinated national assault for over a year. The best way is to keep it simple and keep it focused. The best way is to keep it simple and keep it focused.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Hussain said because DEI functions as a primary point of contact between students with disabilities and the university, it ensures that students are able to access accommodations needed for their learning. Removing DEI offices would then have an impact on the positive gains made to support student success, according to Hussain.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

DePauw University has received its largest gift yet in the form of $200 million in support of its strategic plan. higher ed institution. Adding in this substantial gift, the university’s strategic plan has raised $240 million in major gifts. The school is set to launch this coming fall. “We White said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 30, 2024

Kenro Kusumi Kenro Kusumi has been named university senior vice provost and dean of The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University. He serves as a professor of life sciences and dean of natural sciences. in biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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The PIE News

JANUARY 4, 2024

A liberal arts and sciences college from New York has pledged to support 425 refugee and displaced students in the next four years as the UN seeks to reach its 15by30 target. The 15by30 commitment from the intergovernmental peace organisation is aiming to get 15% of young refugees enrolled in higher education by the year 2030.

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University Business

MAY 3, 2024

Two presidents have been hired at small private colleges in the past two weeks and one leader is choosing to retire after four decades in higher education. Bates has a proven track record as a higher education leader around Ohio, as well as in the private sector. William Pieczynski – Nichols College (Mass.)

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures will give Howard University a replacement of actor Hattie McDaniel’s Best Supporting Actress Academy Award. Boseman College of Fine Arts – Howard will host a ceremony titled “Hattie’s Come Home” at its Ira Aldridge Theater Oct.

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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).” ” ChatGPT has given the field of higher education another opportunity to fly farther and faster. Will we allow it?

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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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University Business

MARCH 14, 2024

As colleges and universities try more than ever to engage with those outside of their walls, leaders are looking for ways to do so genuinely and with care. Here is how Notre Dame and one prestigious California university reflect that in their building construction. “This is a way for you and me to become a ‘we.’

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 15, 2023

Leonard Taylor will become director of the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) at Indiana University Bloomington, effective July. NSSE is part of the IU School of Education’s Center for Postsecondary Research. in organizational leadership and policy development from the University of Minnesota; an M.S.

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University Business

JANUARY 16, 2024

State universities in West Virginia have an uphill struggle to resuscitate interest in higher education. Ravaged by a poor economy, declining population and an understated opiate crisis , it has the lowest bachelor’s degree level educated percentage of all 50 states.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

DECEMBER 17, 2023

At 41, I’ve returned to university, an experience which, first time round, totally changed my life. It is 20 years later, and I am having my first week at university again. The idea is to look at what might work alongside cold, hard science, in order to communicate new ways of thinking about the planet. This time, I am 41.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 18, 2023

Dr. Nemat “Minouche” Shafik, an economist whose career has focused on public policy and academia, has been named as the next president of Columbia University in New York City. Dr. Nemat “Minouche” Shafik Shafik who is currently the president of the London School of Economics, will become the first woman to lead the Ivy League institution.

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University Business

JUNE 1, 2023

Nazareth is the latest in a string of former colleges in New York to transition to university status since the state Board of Regents changed its definition of the types of higher education institutions that can claim the designation. The post Nazareth College becomes Nazareth University appeared first on University Business.

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University Business

JUNE 1, 2023

Nazareth is the latest in a string of former colleges in New York to transition to university status since the state Board of Regents changed its definition of the types of higher education institutions that can claim the designation. The post Nazareth College becomes Nazareth University appeared first on University Business.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Then, seven years ago, the university launched the ATLAS Care program, which refreshes departmental devices using a bulk pricing model… But keeping the older equipment in use, Wood says, often equated to increased support time and costs. But keeping the older equipment in use, Wood says, often equated to increased support time and costs.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The University of Wyoming (UW) and five community colleges in the state are building a faculty network to share best practices and make science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education more inclusive. The IE3 initiative will function similarly to a pilot program instituted by UW and NWC in July 2022.

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SRHE

MAY 11, 2023

By Rachel Brooks How healthy is the area of higher education studies? Higher education research has also been critiqued for occupying a relatively marginal place within the wider discipline of educational research. When we look at the extant literature, there seems to be cause for concern.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

Howard University, an anchor institution in our nation’s capital, also took strides to address this matter. Harris-Teeter, which pledged $50,000 to the university to support food access , donates over $3,000 in gift cards annually to NourishHU to support graduate and professional students with families. Blackburn University Center.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2024

The conference attendees were a mix of students, faculty, donors, education administrators, and edtech professionals. Groups were assigned an activity to discuss possible solutions for increasing capacity for educational technology and digital learning. Higher education as a whole has recently been scrutinized for its value.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The University of San Diego (USD) has launched a master's program for restorative justice. The Master of Arts in Restorative Justice Facilitation and Leadership – from USD's School of Leadership and Education Science – seeks to teach students how to guide restorative justice processes and foster healing in response to incidents of harm.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 13, 2023

Ray Jayawardhana will become provost of Johns Hopkins University (JHU), effective Oct. Dr. Ray Jayawardhana Jayawardhana is currently dean of Cornell University's College of Arts and Sciences. He has also written books such as Strange New Worlds ; Neutrino Hunters ; and Child of the Universe.

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University Business

MARCH 22, 2023

When it comes to university prestige, no other country seems to hold a candle to the United States, according to the most recent international rankings by higher education analyst Quacquarelli Symonds. was the University of Pennsylvania, with two bests in Nursing and Marketing. University of Oxford (U.K.)

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University Business

OCTOBER 26, 2023

It’s no secret that the commercialization of generative AI tools is deeply impacting higher education. Higher ed leaders everywhere are urging community members to use AI ethically and responsibly in the face of its seemingly limitless potential. As powerful of a tool as it is, so is its risk of being misused.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 11, 2024

Earning a college degree is still a sound investment, although the rate of economic return varies across college majors and student demographics, according to a new American Educational Research Association (AERA) analysis of 5.8 million Americans. It relied on 2009–2021 data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey for 2.9

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University Business

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The University of Minnesota Morris is excited to share with potential students that they could potentially save $20,000 on tuition costs for a bachelor’s degree, which may appease a public and federal government pushing for a more affordable higher education. More from UB: Lawmakers, donors disagreed on DEI in 2023.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Then, seven years ago, the university launched the ATLAS Care program, which refreshes departmental devices using a bulk pricing model the university established with vendors such as Lenovo and Dell. But keeping the older equipment in use, Wood says, often equated to increased support time and costs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 12, 2023

The department – housed in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences – is making the change to better reflect the range of its scholarship and teaching, according to the formal name change proposal. The change will become official in the next few months, pending final trustee approval. specific. “We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 10, 2024

Earlham has an important and longstanding place within the distinctive liberal arts tradition in the United States. Levin Family Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. Sniegowski holds a bachelor’s degree in music from the Indiana University School of Music; an M.A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 5, 2024

Age is not a factor that is often prioritized when it comes to DEI efforts, according to a new study from Washington University in St. Increases in life expectancy call for educational systems to change orientation toward age and the longer life course,” the report read. “As Rather, it is often times accepted, according to the study.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 9, 2023

In Safa Zaki, Bowdoin has found a distinguished scholar and leader with a global perspective who believes deeply in the transformative power of a liberal arts education,” said Scott Perper, chair of the Bowdoin board and a member of the Presidential Search Committee. “In in psychology from Arizona State University.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

In his 2011 The New Yorker essay , Harvard professor Louis Menand conceptualized the function of higher education in three ways: to develop life skills, enhance career prospects and improve social status. “It takes courage to be an institution of education, and it takes courage to develop it in other people,” she says.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 3, 2023

Ben Vinson III will become president of Howard University, effective Sept. Dr. Ben Vinson III Vinson – a historian of the African diaspora in Latin America – is currently provost at Case Western Reserve University. Howard, as a school, has “serious momentum,” and will rise to the upper echelon of research universities, Vinson said.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Hired Morakinyo Kuti – Central State University (Ohio) Central State University has found its 10th president in Morakinyo Kuti, the HBCU’s current vice president for Research and Economic Development and director of Land-Grant Programs. ” Steven Tepper – Hamilton College (N.Y.)

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