IHEP

DECEMBER 20, 2023

By: Mamie Voight As the year draws to a close, we at the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP) are taking a moment to reflect on the strides we’ve made and the work left to do to advance our mission – building a more equitable and just society through higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 15, 2023

Supreme Court eliminated race-conscious admissions policies at the end of June, colleges and universities began preparing for the inevitable blow to their on-campus diversity. She also referenced the system’s recruitment and pipeline efforts. After the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig The selection of Vasquez Heilig as provost is a game changer for WMU, say higher education leaders who point to his tenure at UK where he strategically increased student enrollment in the College of Education by 63 percent, noting that his efforts have focused on increasing diversity among teachers.

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IHEP

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Like many students across the country, Coleen began her journey to a four-year degree at a community college. When I was 18, I realized that I was going to be paying for college on my own and it hadn’t really hit me before, like exactly how much it costs,” Coleen explained. FOUR-YEAR INSTITUTIONS.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Image: After years of lobbying, the so-called 90-10 loophole that advocates argued encouraged some for-profit institutions to aggressively recruit military service members and veterans is closing under final regulations effective July 1 that were announced Thursday.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

As a policy area, it has evolved to incorporate a wide range of both policy sectors and policy actors on the federal level: GAC; Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC); Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC); and Research and Innovation. Creating consensus among all those diverse actors is difficult.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 13, 2023

The report also makes clear that banning race-conscious admissions will make it nearly impossible for colleges to match their current levels of diversity, let alone the diversity of graduating high school classes. In order to compensate for an adverse ruling, colleges will need to make drastic reforms of admissions policies, the report notes.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas, partners with over 62 high schools across the state, facilitating college access for Latino, rural, and other marginalized communities. The recruitment and retention of Latino faculty is also an element of the Seal, and CSULB has the Latinx Faculty & Staff Association.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

The hostile takeover of public higher education in Florida continues, as seen in the latest higher education bill introduced in the state’s House of Representatives.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 12, 2023

Although 80% of students who enroll in community colleges plan on getting a bachelor’s degree, only around 15% do so within six years. You need to have really clear lines of communication [and] consistent understanding of policies and processes to do everything that we wanted to do,” said Roberson.

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SRHE

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Efforts to widen higher education access have tended to focus on the provision of information and supportto those from under-represented backgrounds. For context, progression rates are generally lower from FE colleges than sixth forms. Neil Raven is an educational consultant and researcher in widening access.

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SRHE

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

by Kat Emms For two years Edge Foundation has been drawing together lessons from past education policies. The polytechnics were designated in the 1960s as new institutions formed from existing technical and other colleges within the English further education system, and with one in Wales.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 7, 2024

“Black kids are underrepresented in gifted services and overrepresented in special education services,” said report co-author Dr. Cassandra Hart, an associate professor of education policy at UC Davis. school system to diversify its educator workforce more, Hart said. “I Most teachers are not Black.”

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HEPI

OCTOBER 22, 2023

The review made a series of recommendations which have provided a reference point for comment on UK Government higher education policy ever since. This article looks back at the report and considers what the lessons might be for politicians, officials and higher education leaders contemplating a future review.

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HEPI

AUGUST 31, 2023

This blog was kindly authored for HEPI by Alice Wilby , Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Access, Participation and Student Experience) at University College Birmingham. There are many FE colleges on the OfS register, with many more delivering HE through franchise arrangements and Institutes of Technology.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The book brings together 55 different authors – including academics, a vice-chancellor and numerous education policy experts (such as Sam Freedman, Lord Lucas, Jonathan Simons , Ann Mroz and Tom Richmond). Why do private school pupils so often fall behind in higher education?

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HEPI

JANUARY 30, 2023

It was a fascinating session because it was the first time that a number of your senior managers had been in a room together, and yet Lancaster University – like higher education institutions more generally – had continued to thrive during the worst of the pandemic.

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SRHE

JANUARY 18, 2023

This year every university and college is putting on its own pantomime. Higher Education Cinderella has been condemned to a life of servitude, enforced by the ugly sisters DfE and the Office for Students (you can’t usually tell them apart). What’s showing near you? We offer these plot summaries to help you choose what to watch.

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WCET Frontiers

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The Framework In 2023, Cecilia Ka Yuk Chan conducted research on perceptions and implications of text generative AI technologies in order to develop an AI policy for higher education. The WCET framework adapts Chan’s framework and categorizes institutional AI policy needs in three areas: Governance, Operations, and, Pedagogy.

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The PIE News

MAY 2, 2024

Such a projection is particularly pertinent after a report this year found that 80% of higher education providers could fall into deficit if there is a gradual or sudden drop in international students. At a sector level the total number of new visa grants is still reasonably high. Nearly 30% of Fleming’s students are international.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 16, 2023

A new study by EAB highlights a trend among students who feel unsure about their commitment to college due to growing concerns about affordability, academic success, and mental health preparedness. According to the survey, more than one in five students (22 percent) have decided to opt out of college because they are not mentally ready.

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SRHE

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Policy had become centralised although institutional autonomy was pledged to be preserved. It is palpably evident that centralisation under an Office for Students (established as primarily a Regulator but replacing the UGC and its successor body, the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE)) is running out of road.

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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 department’s decision to use secret shoppers is “four decades overdue,” he said.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

One of the biggest challenges students face is determining their return on investment for obtaining a college degree. In this podcast, Dr. Drumm McNaughton speaks with the person who generated and crunched these numbers, Michael Itzkowitz , president of the HEA Group and former director of the College Scorecard under President Obama.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 26, 2023

Wednesday for the National Summit on Equal Opportunity in Higher Education to plot next steps after the Supreme Court’s decision against race-conscious admissions. Secretary of Education Dr. Miguel A. Biden administration officials, institutional leaders, researchers, advocates, and students gathered in Washington D.C.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Image: A few things are dependable in higher education, no matter what the high-level trends are. One is that some faculty members are going to do outrageous things, leaders on their campuses are going to get mad and Inside Higher Ed' s readers won't be able to get enough of it. The list below has examples of both.

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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. What Is the ‘Bundled-Services Exemption’?

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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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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 13, 2022

And what is the role of higher education institutions in providing spaces that prepare young adults to vote and otherwise engage in civic life? In a recently published article in the journal Educational Policy , J. Our goal was to understand what aspects of the college campus were related to broader political engagement.

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GlobalHigherEd

JULY 14, 2016

Or might an equivalent of Cornell Tech NYC be worth creating in European higher education and research space? Hearing 2 – Higher Education and Research (A. International Higher Education in Facts and Figures 2016 (International Unit, Universities UK, 2 June 2016). Adams & K.A.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Critics blame the failures on the politics of Florida’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, who has focused on reining in colleges that he believes are bastions of liberalism. “It’s frustrating to be treated in a way that seems to be unprofessional and unbecoming of higher education. Two Failed Searches.

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HEPI

JULY 28, 2023

The speech looks at the state of higher education in summer 2023 and ahead to the next general election, due in 2024 (or, less likely, 2025). First, despite working in higher education policy for well over 15 years and despite having visited nearly every UK university, I have never visited the University of Wolverhampton before.

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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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HEPI

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

This guest post has been kindly written for HEPI by Colin McCaig, Professor of Higher Education Policy in the Sheffield Institute of Education, who has 20 years’ experience in education policy research. The Labour Party is ahead in the polls and has been since December 2021.

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The PIE News

JULY 26, 2023

Now we have the facts to substantiate what higher education officials have often reported: that it is harder for students in certain countries to acquire visas than in other countries. We can and must do better to turn this trend around. Today, China enrols nearly twice as many African students as the United States does.

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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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The Change Leader, Inc.

JUNE 7, 2023

Drumm McNaughton A lot has been happening up on The Hill that affects higher education. It will be integrated into the very culture and core of all institutions that have any relation to federal dollars, including all institutions of higher education. This is a stepping stone to get to NIST 800-171.

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