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5 Hip-Hop Quotes to Inspire College Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 4, 2023

While hip-hop may not often be referenced as tantamount with higher education, many artists have referenced the academe within their works. McCool Whether you are analyzing Ye’s multiplatinum and highly regarded debut album “College Dropout” or J. Cole’s common references to his days as a college student at St. Dr. Jeremy C.

College

College Students Guidance Higher Education

To Surmount Economic Inequality, Colleges Must Prepare Students for Enrollment

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 24, 2023

Socio-economic status has a strong correlation with whether or not a high school graduate enrolls in college within 18 months of graduating. Sade Bonilla, an assistant professor of policy, organizations, leadership and systems division at the University of Pennsylvania. The findings are even more striking when disaggregated.

Postsecondary Education

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India issues draft rules for foreign university branches

Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 19, 2023

Image: India’s publication of draft guidelines for foreign universities establishing branch campuses in the country has sparked concern among academics about potential infringements on institutional autonomy. They come amid soaring demand for higher education in the world’s fastest growing major economy.

University

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The Resilient Voice of Justice: The Role of the Black Church in Response to the Affirmative Action Ruling

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Shaun Harper, “While the discontinuation of race-conscious admissions policies and practices will negatively affect students of color across a range of racial and ethnic groups at predominantly white institutions (PWIs), Black applicants will be most devastated.” He is also the director of the Institute on Education Equity and Justice.

Equity

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Why not HE? The reasons those from under-represented backgrounds decide against university

SRHE

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

In both instances, the principal aim was to understand better the challenges to HE progression faced by those on advanced level applied and professional courses (including BTECs) at a Midlands based further education (FE) college. For context, progression rates are generally lower from FE colleges than sixth forms. References.

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Assumption U to Counteract FAFSA Delay by Offering Aid Early

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Two of these weeks are likely to fall during winter breaks, during which students who don’t have support at home will lose access to guidance counselors and others who could help them. Applicants who would normally have three or four months to file their paperwork will now have six weeks. Dr. Gregory S.

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Stand Alone: 2015 – 2024: 10 years of changing higher education for estranged students

HEPI

MARCH 14, 2024

In 2015, Stand Alone, a small charity founded in 2013 to offer support to adults estranged from family, embarked on the ambitious project to change higher education for students whose relationship with their parents and wider family network had broken down, i.e. were estranged. As a result, many young people are put off.

Higher Education

Higher Education Education Students Policy

When and how departments should make political statements

Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Image: The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Academic Senate approved guidelines for departmental statements on political subjects earlier this month. The guidance doesn’t—and, as mere advice, can’t—ban statements about social or political issues.

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Affordability Disconnects

Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The TransferBOOST Affordability Financial Tool , developed by rpk GROUP in collaboration with HCM Strategists and the Institute for Higher Education Policy, provides step-by-step guidance on how institutions can understand more about the return on investment of better serving students who transfer and are mobile.

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Oberlin's board seeks to limit faculty power

Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Image: Much about Oberlin College is unique, including long-standing policies guaranteeing the faculty a say in matters that extend well beyond academics. So these faculty members are perplexed—and angry—that the college is trying to change its bylaws to restrict faculty control to academics only.

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Tug-of-War: Bought vs. Brought Credit

Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 30, 2023

Blog: Beyond Transfer In 2021, the Indiana Commission for Higher Education reported that two out of three learners—we call them learners, not students, to dispel the image of the 18- to 22-year-old residential student—come to college with previous credit or prior learning. Is this diversity newsletter?

Policy

Policy Model Equity Degree

Developing Institutional Level AI Policies and Practices: A Framework

WCET Frontiers

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Over the last twelve months, institutions have scrambled to not only better understand generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its impact on teaching and learning, but also to determine the best ways to provide guardrails and guidance for faculty, staff, and students. And it is often institutional administrators who lead this work.

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Higher Education in Ireland

HESA

APRIL 20, 2023

Today we are talking all things Irish higher education, and joining us as our expert guide to the terrain is Ellen Hazelkorn, principal at BH Associates, a Higher Education consultancy in Ireland, a Professor Emerita at the Technological University of Dublin and one of the sharpest all-around minds in European higher education.

Higher Education

Higher Education Education Further Education Policy

All Is Not Lost

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 2, 2024

Department of Education works to fix the broken system, it’s time for community college leaders to remind Americans that these important institutions exist. All is not lost if only we embrace the expansive and flexible opportunities offered by our community colleges. That idea hurts everyone, especially in times like these.

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New funding models explored as UK HEIs “running out of road”

The PIE News

APRIL 11, 2024

Stakeholders in UK higher education are exploring a range of potential funding models for undergraduate education, against a backdrop of financial sustainability concerns, course cuts and redundancies for higher education institutions. “Higher education institutions across the UK are under financial strain. .

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Biden Admin Issues Guidance after Affirmative Action Decision

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 14, 2023

The Departments of Education and Justice have published their guidance on the Supreme Court’s race-conscious admissions ruling, offering clarity to colleges and applicants about the post-affirmative action landscape. Kellogg Professor of Community College Leadership at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Education Department to use secret shoppers to catch colleges lying

Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 15, 2023

Image: The Education Department is planning to use undercover agents—known as “secret shoppers”—to monitor colleges and universities that receive federal financial aid for potentially deceptive practices. The Office of Federal Student Aid has not used secret shoppers before.

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After the Fall of Affirmative Action, Summit Plots the Way Forward

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 26, 2023

Department of Education also pledged to issue guidance to colleges and universities about what admissions practices remain legal, to release a report on admissions strategies for increasing diversity, to consider collecting and publishing more information on application and enrollment trends, and to help states analyze data that they already have.

Guidance

Guidance Community College Equity Recruitment

Challenges facing women in post-study jobs, retraining and skills following the pandemic

HEPI

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Gordon Marsden, former Shadow Higher Education, Further Education, and Skills Minister and a co-founder of Right to Learn, chaired the event and Professor Graeme Atherton from NEON/ University of West London and also a Right to Learn co-founder was in the audience. Again, many of those carers are likely to be young women.

Disadvantaged

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But what do the numbers say? How the movement towards datafication might change English higher education

SRHE

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The simple truth is that the average student leaves university with £45,800 of debt and if they have nothing to show for it then we have failed them” (Hansard, 2021). by Peter Wolstencroft, Elizabeth Whitfield and Track Dinning.

Higher Education

Higher Education Education Disadvantaged Achievement

REF 2021: reflecting on results, rules and regulations, and reform (again)

SRHE

JULY 20, 2022

The mantra was repeated in different forms by the Education sub-panel: “Under the guidance and direction from the main panel and the REF team, the sub-panel adhered to the published REF 2021 ‘Panel criteria and working methods’ in all aspects of its processes throughout the planning and assessment phases.”

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Passionate pleas for and against tuition-sharing agreements

Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 10, 2023

Department of Education hoped the “listening sessions” they arranged this week would provide consensus on whether to stop letting colleges pay outside companies a share of tuition revenue when they help recruit students, they were surely disappointed.

Guidance

Guidance Recruitment Advocate Policy

Jill on the Hill: welcome back, what’s next?

The PIE News

OCTOBER 2, 2023

US college and university campuses have spent the past few weeks busily welcoming students back to campus, including hundreds of thousands of international students who have returned to complete their degrees. Experiential learning through OPT is a key component of US higher education. Doing so will benefit us all.

Policy

Policy Degree Higher Education Guidance

Malaysia’s International Education by 2020 and Beyond: Re-examining Concept, Targets and Outcome

GlobalHigherEd

JANUARY 14, 2018

Morshidi was the former Director-General of Higher Education Malaysia, and is now Director of the Commonwealth Tertiary Education Facility (CTEF) based at Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang. Morshidi is also a Senior Research Fellow at the National Higher Education Research Institute (IPPTN), Universiti Sains Malaysia.

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Jill on the Hill: US visa policy trends – we can do better

The PIE News

JULY 26, 2023

The US Department of State should increase training and guidance for improved adjudication, with tailored outreach to posts with high student visa refusal rates. Congress should modernise immigration law by expanding dual intent to include international students applying for F-1 visas attending US colleges and universities.

Policy

Policy Higher Education Recruitment Achievement

Defending DEI: University Leaders Share Lessons Learned and Strategies for Moving Forward

Insight Into Diversity

JULY 5, 2023

In response to relentless anti-DEI measures, over 200 former college, university, and system heads have joined forces as the Champions of Higher Education coalition, an initiative created by PEN America , an organization that unites writers and their allies to celebrate free expression and defend the liberties that make it possible.

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University Leadership Central

5 Hip-Hop Quotes to Inspire College Students

To Surmount Economic Inequality, Colleges Must Prepare Students for Enrollment

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India issues draft rules for foreign university branches

The Resilient Voice of Justice: The Role of the Black Church in Response to the Affirmative Action Ruling

Why not HE? The reasons those from under-represented backgrounds decide against university

Assumption U to Counteract FAFSA Delay by Offering Aid Early

Stand Alone: 2015 – 2024: 10 years of changing higher education for estranged students

When and how departments should make political statements

Affordability Disconnects

Oberlin's board seeks to limit faculty power

Tug-of-War: Bought vs. Brought Credit

Developing Institutional Level AI Policies and Practices: A Framework

Higher Education in Ireland

All Is Not Lost

New funding models explored as UK HEIs “running out of road”

Biden Admin Issues Guidance after Affirmative Action Decision

Education Department to use secret shoppers to catch colleges lying

After the Fall of Affirmative Action, Summit Plots the Way Forward

Challenges facing women in post-study jobs, retraining and skills following the pandemic

But what do the numbers say? How the movement towards datafication might change English higher education

REF 2021: reflecting on results, rules and regulations, and reform (again)

Passionate pleas for and against tuition-sharing agreements

Jill on the Hill: welcome back, what’s next?

Malaysia’s International Education by 2020 and Beyond: Re-examining Concept, Targets and Outcome

Jill on the Hill: US visa policy trends – we can do better

Defending DEI: University Leaders Share Lessons Learned and Strategies for Moving Forward

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