University Business

JANUARY 16, 2024

On the chopping block were undergraduate majors in music, art and multiple foreign languages; master’s programs in acting, landscape architecture and creative writing; and doctoral programs in mathematics, management, higher education and occupational- and environmental health sciences.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

Image: Villanova University took a new approach on translating major skills into career opportunities for students with its biotechnology boot camp, introducing learners to alumni and employers in a difficult-to-enter field. Employers are also looking at younger talent and hiring STEM major undergraduates instead of just Ph.D.

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Dr. Missy Alexander

DECEMBER 31, 2023

For COVID-19, my colleagues and I worked hard to address the needs of our students. We continuously evolved as we learned about online instruction, gaps in technology access, and the financial and emotional strain on everyone. On this last day of 2023, I am reflecting on my 11 years at WCSU.

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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. However, one participant had an intense reaction to our suggestion.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

million—and also increased their ranking on the National Science Foundation’s survey of Higher Education of Research and Development Expenditures (HERD) from 42 to 22. In just three years, he’s helped increase CSU’s external awards by 227%—it now totals $50.5 Additionally, he’s secured funding from the U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

laid off eight tenured and tenure-track faculty members and froze various programs last month, citing realignment of academics with changing student demands. The college says it froze undergraduate majors with “very low student enrollment.” Current students in affected programs will be allowed to finish their studies.

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HEPI

APRIL 18, 2023

This blog has been kindly written fro HEPI by Professor Marion Thain, Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and Professor of Culture and Technology at King’s College London. However that doesn’t mean humanities disciplines don’t have to change.

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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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University Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Instead, they’re building their own schools that they see better fall in line with 21st-century students and match their needs. While the private online school is still in its embryonic stages since its founding in 2018, it aims to recruit over 100,000 students in the next few years, according to PIX 11.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 9, 2023

Fall transfer enrollment remains in decline in 2022, albeit at a slower rate than before, according to a new report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. The decline was also observed across institutions at all levels of selectiveness, the worst being for students transferring to highly selective institutions (-13.4%).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 5, 2024

Today, student bodies are more age-diverse, employees are working longer, and classrooms and offices are becoming more age-integrated.” Today, student bodies are more age-diverse, employees are working longer, and classrooms and offices are becoming more age-integrated.” Rather, it is often times accepted, according to the study.

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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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University Business

JUNE 23, 2023

Jenny Nagaoka, deputy director of the UChicago Consortium on School Research, adds that the difference between a number one ranked school and a number five is null if the latter’s academic fit, social fit, college outcomes and affordability are better tailored for a specific student. As a result, 736 colleges were considered.

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The PIE News

AUGUST 18, 2023

The State of Globalization in Higher Education report from technology provider, Terra Dotta, also found that 71% of respondents said that the strategic priority of global engagement is needed to expand the total student experience. The company surveyed more than 250 US global education professionals in April 2023.

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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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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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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.” Which leaves the liberal arts, and especially the humanities, where? To ensure that all students acquired transferable soft skills? ” Wait a second.

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Liaison International

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The number of international students enrolled in U.S. Total international enrollment stood at 948,519 students in the 2021-22 school year, compared to 914,095 in the prior year. The rebound still leaves total enrollment of international students below its high-water mark, set in 2018-19 with 1,095,299 students.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The AUCC – comprised of Clark Atlanta University, Morehouse College, Morehouse School of Medicine, and Spelman College – has maintained a longstanding 53-year agreement with Georgia Institute of Technology for this DDEP. million investment from the A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

At Delaware State, students pursuing women's and gender studies are examining the intersection of race, class, gender, ethnicity, and sexuality. At Delaware State, students pursuing women's and gender studies are examining the intersection of race, class, gender, ethnicity, and sexuality. “At

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University Business

JUNE 29, 2023

Anita Olson Gustafson, on the other hand, drew on her decades-long, relentless passion for liberal arts to gain favor at Presbyterian College. 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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University Business

MARCH 14, 2023

John Karl Scholz (Photo: UO Website) With experience as a professor, economist and provost (which he currently still serves at the University of Wisconsin-Madison), his focus at Oregon will be student career readiness and postgraduate success. Other notable mentions: Dr. She is also a first-generation student.

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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

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

It was a blow to the students, faculty and staff of this private college in Worcester, Mass., Clark’s leadership was determined help soften the blow, especially for students who needed continuity of learning to finish their degrees. A total of 179 undergraduate students enrolled in 40 sections representing 27 unique courses.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 11, 2023

Encouraging a growth mindset in students is incredibly empowering. Understanding that one’s success is related to one’s own free will more readily allow students to embrace trials, persist when faced with obstacles, and exert effort when challenged (Dweck, 2008).

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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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Faculty Focus

APRIL 11, 2023

Encouraging a growth mindset in students is incredibly empowering. Understanding that one’s success is related to one’s own free will more readily allow students to embrace trials, persist when faced with obstacles, and exert effort when challenged (Dweck, 2008).

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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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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

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

million in faculty salaries while increasing its student-faculty ratio, Allegheny College in Pennsylvania charged a task force with reviewing its academic programs. That’s what the terminated professor, Xiaoling Shi, and some of her colleagues and students want to know. “Why was Chinese language and culture cut?

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

The topics covered included student success, budget models, change management, and more. Projects addressed topics such as annual giving, student retention, professional and continuing education, academic program planning, and more. All cohorts ended with presentations of the fellows’ capstone projects.

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The PIE News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

In 2022, India overtook China as the biggest sender of students to the UK and demand for international education is unrivalled in the world’s most populous country. “If On an overcast Wednesday morning in Western India, a coach pulls up between a skyscraper and a building site.

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SRHE

JUNE 7, 2023

Julianne : Academic staff should consider how students are connecting with each other and with educators in formal learning spaces. Julianne : Academic staff should consider how students are connecting with each other and with educators in formal learning spaces. How are others using those spaces?

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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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WCET Frontiers

AUGUST 3, 2023

Why this is important Students need transparency when it comes to faculty expectations around AI use in class. Since expectations around AI use will vary from instructor to instructor and discipline to discipline, it is especially important that we provide students with clear expectations at the beginning of the term.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 21, 2023

The types of prospective students higher ed needs to target. Public RSIs are more dependent on state appropriations but receive fewer appropriations per student because state funding metrics focus on enrollment growth, which is more constrained. colleges and universities. How board members should be appointed.

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 20, 2023

From entrepreneurship to fellowship programs, and from high schoolers to graduate students, their initiatives make a difference for first-generation, low-income, and underrepresented student groups who seek effective and innovative pathways to successful careers in business. Studies indicate that a majority of U.S.

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