Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 26, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma What if we ranked universities not by inputs but by outputs? I should add that neither US News nor the educated public has much understanding of what a first-tier, cutting-edge English or history or sociology department would look like. Would it be judged on scholarship, influence, or some other elements?

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HEPI

APRIL 10, 2023

This guest blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Philippa Page and Jennifer Richards of Newcastle University’s Humanities Research Institute. HEPI’s recent paper on the state of the humanities in the UK today can be read here. But how do we make this happen in local as well as more structural ways?

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

Image: Manhattanville College in Purchase, N.Y., The college says it froze undergraduate majors with “very low student enrollment.” Other faculty sources said that history has two remaining full-time faculty members. In addition to these cuts, one lecturer was not reappointed.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 29, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Perhaps as an undergraduate you read Oscar Wilde’s mirthful, satiric essay “The Critic as Artist.” Of course, the rise of academic theorists and college-based critics occurred at the very time that public readership of academic literary criticism has fallen precipitously.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 31, 2022

Blog: Beyond Transfer Millions of community college students are pursuing their higher education journeys right now. Many aspire to transfer to a four-year college or university. Now that we can look at data from the fall 2017 cohort, we see just three percent of community college transfer students enrolled at selective schools.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 29, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma As psychological anthropologist Nat Kendall-Taylor recently noted , When the College Board revised the draft African American studies curriculum, it removed the word “systemic.” Even more striking are two striking facts. One is that Black teenagers have lower infant death rates than those in the 20s.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 22, 2023

” A few short months after OpenAI released ChatGPT—a large language model with an unusual ability to mimic human language and thought—the company released an upgrade known as GPT-4. But by OpenAI’s own admission, humans are susceptible to overrelying on the tools, which could have unintended outcomes.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma The Gospel of John opens with one of the New Testament’s most evocative yet cryptic phrases: “In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God.” That’s why NGOs routinely call literacy a human right. But these phrases also allude to words’ immense power.

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Today's Learner

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

History will record the 2020s as not only the decade that ushered in a global pandemic, but also one that generated some of the fastest developments in artificial intelligence. A seamless blending of the human agent with AI The future of higher education is here, and it is no longer going to be hybrid.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma I have been fortunate to have a perch on which to write about a host of highly charged issues that matter a great deal to me. Of course, the entire AP-pre-college industry is problematic. Top colleges often ignore AP scores and require students to take a placement test.

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totallyrewired

JANUARY 27, 2024

This is quite a long blog post, much longer than I usually do but there is quite a lot to reflect on regarding the short course called the 12 Days of AI. The most comprehensive example of this guidance was produced by Kings College London, which I’m sure has influenced how other institutions how developed their own guidance.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 24, 2023

Blog: Just Explain It to Me! the historical origins of many colleges and universities have been closely tied to faith, in particular Christianity. Olaf College), to name a few. These colleges and universities focus on institutional traditions and rituals, supporting service to a greater good via the pursuit of knowledge.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Political interference in higher education, we are told , is increasing. There’s a tendency to forget how few Americans attended college even in the relatively recent past and how low the graduation rate was. The college-going market had not yet been nationalized, let alone nearly universalized.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 23, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean. The Whiggish interpretation of American history was easy enough: over time, the range of people included in public life grew. The fad for declaring the “end of history” in 1989 came from that story. (I’ve They’ll likely end long before history does.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 6, 2023

Blog: Beyond Transfer While Michigan is synonymous with mobility when it comes to manufacturing vehicles of all shapes and sizes, every Michigander knows that a car is only as good as the road it is driven on—and we also know that many of Michigan’s highways have fallen into disrepair. And improvement is needed.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Blog: Just Explain It to Me! History chronicles moments where people pushed, pulled, shoved, harassed, bullied or beaten chose fighting over fleeing. The continuum ranges from stories of quiet personal rebellion to ones of explosive cultural and political movements changing the course of history.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Start spreading the news. ” No longer does the “simple advice to high schoolers to ‘go to college’” suffice. Which leaves the liberal arts, and especially the humanities, where? ” Wait a second. My undergraduates already know that. Which degrees earn the most?

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 30, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma When I was young, I was transfixed by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Even today, his mummified corpse remains on display in a glass case in University College London’s student center. Some of the fallacies that Fischer discusses are history-specific. Potter, and Kenneth Stampp.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 24, 2023

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean “Journalism is paywalled, but disinformation is free.” Yes, it can replace human effort with machine effort, thereby defeating the purpose of student writing. That means some history and civics, so they know some basics of what and why.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Can a research-intensive university also be learning- and learner-centered, as dedicated to the quality of students’ educational experience as it is to scholarship, publication and invention? What, then, would it take to achieve a greater balance between scholarship and teaching?

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma In his autobiography, Mark Twain describes how he received word, out of the blue, that his favorite daughter had died. Human life is suffused with pointless, undeserved suffering. I fear the answer is the latter, especially in the humanities. It said, ‘Susy was peacefully released today.’”

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PeopleAdmin

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

A streamlined candidate experience and customizable platform are key to creating a unique application process that showcases the best of your college or university. Telling our story As many institutions did during the shifts in work environment of 2020 and 2021, Linn-Benton Community College decided to dive into a digital transformation.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Bitter controversy has recently swirled around California’s revised Mathematics Framework, a set of recommendations about how math should be taught in the state’s K-12 schools. So what does this mean for colleges and universities? ” “Do not include homework … as any part of grading.

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Campus Sonar

JANUARY 22, 2024

Serge Otiankouya at Benedictine College , Shea Adams at Louisiana Tech , and Cole Noack at Macalester College all signed with pride this year and shared their unique stories with branded visuals. Their stories of success and persistence can help humanize a higher ed brand.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Perhaps you’ve heard of the Kobayashi Maru scenario, a training exercise at Star Trek ’s Starfleet Academy. The purpose of college, she eloquently argues, is “to carve out space for intellectual endeavors that don’t have obvious metrics or market value.

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ACPA

JANUARY 13, 2023

The 2015 competencies are : Personal and Ethical Foundations ; Values, Philosophy, and History ; Assessment, Evaluation, and Research ; Law, Policy, and Governance ; Organizational and Human Resources ; Leadership ; Social Justice and Inclusion ; Student Learning and Development ; Technology ; Advising and Supporting.

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

MAY 1, 2024

In this blog, we explore how to start a student ambassador program in higher education, exploring best practices, challenges to anticipate, and strategies for maximizing the program’s impact. Start by providing comprehensive training on communication skills, leadership, and your school’s history, values, and offerings.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma I find it quite striking: the most successful unionization efforts have shifted from the traditional working class to the educated class. Among undergraduates at Kenyon College rather than at Tesla. programs, especially in the humanities, are likely to shrink, irrespective of unionization.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 16, 2023

Blog: Beyond Transfer For many students, transferring between community colleges and 4-year institutions is sometimes the only path to a bachelor’s degree. Community colleges provide a valuable service to students due to lower costs, closer proximity to home communities, and more flexibility for non-traditional students.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Today’s customer-centered colleges and universities are not the learner and learning-centered universities we need. A customer-centric college or university prioritizes its brand. Second, it requires a campus to recognize these students’ life challenges and goals and respond accordingly.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma I don’t know whether Outer Space is, as Star Trek tells us, the final frontier, but I know full well that physical space is among campus’ biggest sources of conflict. Me: In our conversation, you called the campus a college’s most valuable asset. It’s appearance is key to its brand.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Somehow, I came across a post on the Conversable Economist blog, which, as a chemist, is not on my reading list. The first refers to the course of studies in medieval universities comprising the trivium—the three arts of the humanities (grammar, logic and rhetoric), and the quadrivium (arithmetic, astronomy, geometry and music).

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Want to know why John Guillory’s Professing Criticism has attracted such widespread attention? Over the course of a single decade, core humanities disciplines have lost half their majors, which has led growing numbers of campuses to reduce the full-time, tenured faculty. The field has fragmented.

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Today's Learner

JANUARY 31, 2024

Our commitment is strongly manifested in our learning materials across the subjects of Psychology , Sociology , History , Political Science and Anatomy and Physiology. It is proven to change the human response to stress, and lower blood pressure. The practice of meditation in Tibet, for example, is not just a cultural practice.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 16, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma The Gartner hype cycle for AI-fueled text and image generation is currently at its peak of inflated expectations. Still others asserted that the tool will devalue writing, undermine faculty-student trust, raise doubts about the authenticity and originality of student work, and compromise the college essay.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 22, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma In 1934, a year after Hitler’s ascent to power, Ernst Jünger, a World War I storm trooper, published an essay rejecting liberal, bourgeois society’s embrace of security, ease, pleasure, and comfort. Pain, like loss, is one of the hallmarks of human existence.

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