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How Colleges Can Help Close K-12 Achievement Gaps

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma. The standardized tests used to assess student learning don’t count toward students’ grades and may therefore provide inaccurate and misleading measures of student knowledge and skills. Those comments deserve a detailed response. As some of my correspondents have pointed out: 1.

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Why one professor would swap tenure for a union (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

We could see it as an opportunity to develop better ways of protecting these rights—ways that work for all teachers and researchers in higher education, not just for the lucky minority. According to Inside Higher Ed ’s reporting , those at Emporia State regard it in the same light.

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Rehumanizing the Research University

Inside Higher Ed

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? I still vividly recall C.

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SRHE News at 50: Looking back…

SRHE

In that time Brexit accounted for much political turmoil but ‘got done’, after a fashion. Undergraduate fees were trebled, to deliver most tuition income via students rather than a funding agency. The Higher Education and Research Act 2017 aimed to enshrine the market with students as customers, and established the Office for Students.

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The Post-Pandemic College Campus as a Design Challenge

Inside Higher Ed

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. On campuses, the challenges are much more mundane, but fraught financially and politically nonetheless. Is that true?

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Boost Your School’s Content Marketing Strategy: Tips For Defining Your USPs

HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

Reading Time: 11 minutes How can you reach more students and parents and get them to consider the programs and courses you offer? Content marketing is a powerful way to drive traffic and leads, but with so much content out there, your school’s content needs to be powerfully impactful to support your marketing objectives.

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Generative AI in universities: what are educators thinking?

HEPI

This HEPI blog was authored by Lucy Haire, Director of Partnerships at HEPI. In a recent Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) report based on a survey of over 1,200 undergraduates, 63% felt that their universities had a clear policy on student use of AI.

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