EAB

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

EAB experts Caylie Privitere and Matthew McAloon examine the benefits to students and institutions from the restoration of Pell Grant funding for incarcerated persons who want to pursue a college education. Our guest today discuss the restoration of Pell Grant funding for incarcerated students. What does that do for them?

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Michael Shattock, Visiting Professor at the UCL Institute of Education. Alongside this Policy Note, HEPI has also marked the anniversary of the Robbins Report with a blog series – you can access all the material here. It reviews a HEPI Policy Note by Nick Hillman: you can read that piece here.

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HESA

MAY 24, 2023

In the final scenes of the 1991 movie The Russia House , as Sean Connery is about to give “the shopping list” – a comprehensive list of questions about Soviet rocket technology – to what MI6 and the CIA believe is a potential Russian defector, there’s a conversation between a young agent and Edward Fox, who plays Sean Connery’s handler. “

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HEPI

JANUARY 30, 2023

Today’s HEPI blog is the text of a speech by Nick Hillman, Director of HEPI, to a joint meeting of the Senate and Council at Lancaster University. It is a great pleasure to be back at Lancaster University. You have given me a lengthy list of issues to cover.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 29, 2023

Blog: Learning Innovation In an email response to my piece “ How Do Academic Libraries Spend Their Money? To make amends and to learn some things, I wrote these questions about academic libraries and librarians and asked if David would consent to share some of his thoughts. First, I’d like to ask you about careers.

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HEPI

JUNE 1, 2023

This guest blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Professor Ken Sloan, the Vice-Chancellor and CEO of Harper Adams University. I welcome the recent paper by Edward Venning Size is Everything: What Small, Specialist and Practice Based Providers tell us about the Higher Education Sector (HEPI Report 160).

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

This guest blog has been written for HEPI by Fiona Walsh, Partnerships and Development Director at Student Hubs , which is a national charity, working in partnership with universities to deliver social action programmes which support higher education students to engage with social and environmental challenges. But is this surprising?

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

Blog: Learning Innovation Cathy Breen and I have been getting to know each other through an IVY+ online directors group and the edX/2U University Partner Advisory Council ( UPAC ). Q: Can you give us the elevator pitch on what Harvard’s Office of the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning ( VPAL ) does?

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

OCTOBER 6, 2022

A Conversation With Paul LeBlanc, President, Southern New Hampshire University. I was passionate about technology," he recalled, "so I was able to persuade the board and the faculty and my colleagues to open up a new graduate center. We started a conversation about the impact of technology. Thu, 10/06/2022 - 06:00.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 2, 2023

Blog: Learning Innovation I hate to agree with Scott Galloway. Mostly, because Galloway says lots of things about higher ed that are smart, provocative, interesting — and almost always wrong. In this case, Galloway wrote a piece called More Babies that is both not wrong and not about higher ed. A TFR of 1.64

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HEPI

MARCH 4, 2024

This blog was kindly authored for HEPI by Dr Helena Lim , Head of Opportunities at evasys. So, what early takeaways can we glean from the 2023 process? Of these students, 52% said that it had made them more likely to choose a university with a higher TEF rating.

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HEPI

JUNE 28, 2023

This guest blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Professor David Phoenix, the Vice-Chancellor of London South Bank Universit y. The universities brief has never sat easily within government. The Department’s focus is not on how universities could better foster innovation or train the next generation of researchers and academics.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Midlands Innovation is a strategic research partnership of eight research intensive universities in the Midlands. Funding was awarded by Research England in 2020 for ‘TALENT’ – a transformation programme to advance status and opportunity for technical skills, roles and careers. The TALENT Commission report was published in 2022.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Blog: Learning Innovation Meta, the parent company of Facebook, is laying off 13,000 employees. Higher ed people may think we are insulated from the layoff contagion spreading to our campuses. Labor costs, which comprise the vast majority of every university budget, continue to increase rapidly. We aren’t. Three ideas.

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HEPI

MARCH 14, 2023

This guest blog in our series on leadership with the National Centre for Entrepreneurship in Education, NCEE , has been kindly written for HEPI by Professor Abigail Woods, Pro Vice Chancellor / Head of College of Arts at the University of Lin coln. Things are not getting any easier for the arts and humanities in Higher Education.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Blog: Learning Innovation The hardest job in all educational technology is that of the university partner manager. Partner managers are usually different from the people in companies who negotiate contracts (engagements) with a university. 1: Partner Managers Must Bridge Corporate and University Cultures.

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totallyrewired

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The following blog post was created entirely by AI (MS Teams/Claude/ChatGPT/DALL-E). Their research, involving a survey of approximately 500 UK academics, offers a critical perspective on the integration of AI in academic practice and thinking.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

Sharrelle Barber Title: Inaugural Director of the Ubuntu Center on Racism, Global Movements and Population Health Equity and Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and the Urban Health Collaborative, Drexel University Age: 38 Education: B.S., James, Duke University; and Dr. Chandra L. and Brazil.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Blog: Just Explain It to Me! Last week Matt Reed (“Confessions of a Community College Dean”) lamented unused funds given by donors in his post “ Dead Money.” ” He wondered what could be done about funds (especially scholarship dollars) whose restrictions make them impossible to use.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Blog: Beyond Transfer Knowing there is no easy way to “fix transfer,” the Beyond Transfer Policy Advisory Board (PAB) seeks to tackle the complicated problems and hidden complexities associated with credit mobility and transfer. The math department may benefit by denying the credits and making the student retake calculus.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

This blog was kindly authored for HEPI by John Raftery, Principal of John Raftery and Associates and former Vice-Chancellor at the University of Wolverhampton and London Metropolitan University. The cumulative effect of this is to move English universities assertively to a ‘marketised’, demand-led sector.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Blog: Beyond Transfer Katie Giardello, director of ASAP/ACE national replication strategy, City University of New York. Last fall, I wrote about the promise of leveraging structural change in transfer systems to address institutional infrastructure failings that inhibit equity in student success.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 16, 2022

Blog: Learning Innovation After the Ivory Tower Falls: How College Broke the American Dream and Blew Up Our Politics—and How to Fix It by Will Bunch. Higher ed insiders are talking about Will Bunch’s After the Ivory Tower Falls. Should you organize and participate in a campus conversation about After the Ivory Tower Falls

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Blog: Learning Innovation Should top university leadership roles be open to non-PhDs? The thinking goes that only someone who has internalized the core values of cultural touchstones of academia, through the rigors of completing a doctoral degree, will be sufficiently prepared for top university leadership roles.

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WCET Frontiers

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Department of Education created its own rumblings by releasing new guidance with rules about any contracted services and a series of questions about companies helping institutions with online learning. Some think that the Third-Party Party Servicers wording is focused only on OPMs. Did you hear that loud noise last Wednesday?

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

APRIL 1, 2024

President Sacks talked to us about the view on the ground versus the big picture, her personal leadership journey, some of her proudest accomplishments, strategies for decision making, and the power of both information and knowledge. And what I got told was, ‘How about I give you three?’ Department of Education.

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Kortext University Leaders' Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In this blog we delve into the survey findings, highlighting the importance of equitable access to AI in education and suggesting practical approaches to bridge the gap. Students’ use of AI The use of generative AI tools by higher education students is now widespread , following the public release of ChatGPT on 30 November 2022.

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HEPI

APRIL 27, 2023

This blog by HEPI Director , Nick Hillman, looks at two new books that touch upon higher education and ‘wokeness’, including Matthew Goodwin’s Voice, Values and Virtue. These are reserved for those who either haven’t been to university or who have dropped out of higher education.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Midlands Innovation is a strategic research partnership of eight research intensive universities in the Midlands. Funding was awarded by Research England in 2020 for ‘TALENT’ – a transformation programme to advance status and opportunity for technical skills, roles and careers. What is happening to improve research culture?

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HEPI

JANUARY 25, 2023

This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Professor David Phoenix, Vice-Chancellor of London South Bank University (LSBU) and CEO of LSBU Group. You would be hard pressed to find someone in either the higher education sector or Westminster willing to argue that the current funding system for universities is working well.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Garnett Stokes , President at University of New Mexico. She joined us on the Weekly Wisdom Podcast to talk about the mindset of accepting new leadership challenges, the responsibilities of institutional leaders as employers, required skills for effective leadership, and navigating the small world of higher ed.

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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.” Systemic and structural bias are often manifest in disparities in education, healthcare, housing, employment, and criminal justice.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

This guest blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Professor Judith Lamie, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for International Engagement at Swansea University. It is the second in a new series of HEPI blogs produced jointly with the NCEE – the first is available here. I was teaching in Okinawa, Japan at the time.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 18, 2023

Image: Recently released federal higher education data show community college enrollment trends during the first two years of the pandemic differed based on the age of the students, according to a new analysis by the Community College Research Center at Columbia University’s Teachers College.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Blog: Just Explain It to Me! Reading about Western Connecticut State University’s financial trammels and its president’s ouster provoked thought and questions. How much do people understand about higher education finance? Or a real crisis will occur, and there won’t be funds available to handle it.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

JUNE 9, 2022

Brian Blake, President, Georgia State University. Brian Blake on the Weekly Wisdom Podcast as he approached his one-year anniversary of becoming President at Georgia State University. Thu, 06/09/2022 - 06:00. Weekly Wisdom. Student Success. Higher Ed Leadership. We spoke with M. Similarities Between Industry and Academia.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 5, 2023

Eroding public confidence in higher education. Universities bracing for enrollment about to fall off a demographic cliff. Or are concerns publicized by a sensationalist press overblown, consisting of relatively isolated issues that are far less general than we think? It will change higher education forever.

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