Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Political interference in higher education, we are told , is increasing. I was a bit surprised to read a piece in The Chronicle by the country’s foremost authority on McCarthyism and the universities entitled “ The 50-Year War on Higher Education. Campuses “ are driving political division.”

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma There are harsh truths—lies and secrets, guilt and shame—that we generally don’t want to admit. Impatience is destructive; it fractures relationships, makes us rude and petulant, degrades performance, and leads to rash decisions. That our family or our marriage is dysfunctional. Adapt or die.

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eLiterate

OCTOBER 4, 2022

As an antidote, I thought it might be helpful to provide snapshot analyses of different applications of AI/ML I’ve seen in EdTech. They have limitations that are both technology- and problem-domain-specific. It’s never quite what we imagined… Courseware. and directly impacting learner success. This is bad.

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EAB

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Blogs A Beginner’s Guide to AI in Annual Giving What you need to know and how to start using it in your advancement strategy With each passing day, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming a more prominent topic of discussion for advancement leaders. Most of us have already been utilizing forms of AI , even if we don’t realize it.

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SRHE

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The benefit of the SRHE and its Blog has been in providing a sense of community for those who have to and do think about the purpose, the benefits and the travails of higher education. It is the stuff of academia. My interest in the student experience has been accompanied by an enormous increase in research in this area.

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HEPI

MARCH 19, 2023

In this blog, HEPI Director Nick Hillman takes a look at a book on the contentious issue of free speech inside universities. It also means giving thought to the potential consequences of events before they happen rather than in a crisis at the time. In short, the goal is risk awareness rather than risk aversion.

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SRHE

APRIL 17, 2024

In 2024 fifty or more universities have declared or are likely to declare redundancies , as their funding position becomes ever more perilous. Student fees have been frozen at £9250 for a decade, and their real value has declined to the extent that they are now worth no more than the £6000 which applied in 2012 before the fee went to £9000.

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HEPI

JANUARY 2, 2023

As HEPI has itself found out in the past , it is generally a thankless task to write about the educational underachievement of boys but it is an important issue nonetheless. It is so they will be a year older when they get to middle and high school.’ And if the government won’t do it, universities should.’

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eLiterate

JULY 12, 2023

A friend recently asked me for advice on a problem he was wrestling with related to an issue he was having with a 1EdTech interoperability standard. It was the same old problem of a standard not quite getting true interoperability because people implement it differently. It’s an import/export standard.

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HEPI

JUNE 19, 2023

This blog is an extract from a speech that the Director of HEPI, Nick Hillman, recently made to the Board of Sheffield Hallam University. It is (just) not too late to book a place and institutions that support HEPI’s work are entitled to more than one free place. I have been given a wide brief for this speech.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 4, 2023

Although it is possible, though difficult, to determine an institution’s graduation rate for first-time, full-time undergraduates, much essential information about institutional outcomes, quality and cost remains unavailable. Issue 3: Student learning and employment outcomes.

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Echo Delta

JANUARY 12, 2023

Jennifer Holland: It really taught me that you’ve got to build a team that is capable of delivering on your brand promise. Think about it, the frontline staff are responsible for the brand experience. So I would say it’s right back to the people, right? They believe it. Isn’t it the same thing?

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Image: Recent issues at Yale Law School are back in the spotlight after a conservative judge called on his peers to abstain from hiring Yale Law graduates as clerks because of free speech concerns. The panel ultimately proceeded, but it was marked by protests that later spilled out of the room and into nearby hallways.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 31, 2023

Blog: Just Visiting Ron DeSantis wants people to believe that the nation’s public universities have gotten away from their core mission of education and become bastions of wokeness run amok, but in Florida, “where woke goes to die” he’s just not going to let that happen. It is government speech.”

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HEPI

MAY 25, 2023

This guest blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Professor Wendy Alexander, Vice-Principal International at the University of Dundee and Scottish Higher Education Trade and Investment Envoy. Three years on there was much to repair for a generation of transnational education (TNE) students whose education had been disrupted by COVID.

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SRHE

JULY 11, 2022

Boris Johnson had Churchillian aspirations, and it was Churchill who supposedly first said in the 1940s: “never let a good crisis go to waste”, in the context of the formation of the United Nations. And it was Horace much longer ago who urged us to seize the day, and put little faith in the future. by Rob Cuthbert.

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GlobalHigherEd

JULY 14, 2016

Post-EU Referendum turmoil in the UK (and the EU) continues, for all sorts of reasons, but soon more serious and sustained assessment of the post-Brexit landscape for UK universities will occur. This blog entry is an exercise in thinking future-forward, brainstorming-fashion (so all caveats apply!)

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 18, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Colleges pay tribute to diversity yet largely offer a cookie-cutter approach to education. Work colleges like Berea and Paul Quinn require all students to perform campus jobs to defray part of their education’s cost. Because it makes it easier for students to transfer credits.

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HEPI

JULY 28, 2023

This is an extract from a speech delivered this week by HEPI Director, Nick Hillman, to the Board of the University of Wolverhampton (with apologies to local band Slade for the title and to Alice Cooper for the subtitles). It is a huge pleasure for three particular reasons.

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HEPI

MARCH 12, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Professor Tom Lawson, Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost at Northumbria University. This blog is an adapted version of remarks delivered at the HEPI and Advance HE event ‘Has the higher education sector got it right on freedom of speech?’

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The billionaire owner and self-described “free-speech absolutist” has, among other controversies, floated the idea of reversing the ban on former president Donald Trump. ” Few think that the 16-year-old Twitter will remain the same in the wake of recent changes. A Platform in Transition.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 15, 2023

Blog: Law, Policy—and IT? “There is a lot of political fervor over TikTok and its connections to the Chinese government, and this is coming out in the form of these perhaps symbolic bans,” said Kurt Opsahl, general counsel for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Censorship has its requisite foe. and the P.C.R.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Blog: Leadership in Higher Education As the nation heads to the polls today, one trend in American politics is very clear. Consider a speech in this election cycle by Ohio Republican Senate candidate J.D. One major focus will be the curriculum of public colleges and universities. What does this look like on the ground?

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