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City College of San Francisco struggles to heat classrooms

Inside Higher Ed

Image: The City College of San Francisco Board of Trustees held an emergency meeting Tuesday to approve funds for much-needed fixes to the heating systems on several campuses. “Cold classrooms are not conducive to learning and need to be fixed ASAP,” he said. “That was heartbreaking.

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Designing outreach with people of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller heritage – a lesson in critical unlearning

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This blog was kindly contributed by Dr Emily Danvers, Lecturer in Higher Education Pedagogy (Education), School of Education and Social Work, University of Sussex. Work has emerged from within individual universities driven by the academic, personal or political motivations of individuals and departments, rather than by a national agenda.

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Consider faculty labor in student success efforts (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

I was pleased to wake up one morning last week to find Steven Mintz’s blog post for Inside Higher Ed “ The F Word ” awaiting me in my inbox. The piece argues forcefully for the need to place faculty at the forefront of the student success movement. So where’s the problem?

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Reserve Funds: Stupid Simple, but Super Important

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Just Explain It to Me! Lack of government support? Many institutions have found themselves in the position of not having enough revenue to cover operating expenses because of dwindling enrollment, rising fixed costs, et al. No administration wants to cut programs and lay off employees, though maybe they need to do so.

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ChatGPT sparks debate on how to design student assignments now

Inside Higher Ed

“But ChatGPT’s answer was so precise that I’m pretty sure it was learning from my own best students,” whom he suspected had posted their work online. ” Such efforts, Joyner acknowledges, may be a temporary fix. Some seek to craft assignments that guide students in surpassing what AI can do.

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Solidarity with the Suffering

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma In his autobiography, Mark Twain describes how he received word, out of the blue, that his favorite daughter had died. All of us, some more than others, eventually experience wreck and ruin and a loss that is irrevocable and irretrievable. It said, ‘Susy was peacefully released today.’”

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3 Questions about BU Questrom’s Online MBA

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Blog: Learning Innovation My friend and former colleague Kaitlin Dumont, now director of University Partners at Kaplan, introduced me to her friend Charlotte Wang. In the earliest days, I partnered with faculty, instructional designers, and technologists to create a launch plan and roadmap. Where Kaitlin is getting her MBA).

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