University Business

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Census Bureau data from 2015 to 2019. Troubling figures for rural areas The healthy data points of America’s rural regions rest almost entirely on its White male workforce. The CEW studied 25-to-64-year-old adults using five years’ worth of U.S.

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The PIE News

AUGUST 7, 2023

International Insurance has become the sector’s first company to obtain specialist data protection certification. “Our priority is to safeguard the data we manage, ensuring it is used only for its intended purpose,” stated Tony Searle, chief information officer of guard.me Insurance provider guard.me

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Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2024

And, banning these tools won’t stop students from using them–when universities tried to ban TikTok, students just used cellular data and VPNs to circumvent the ban (Alonso, 2023). Take a look at UC San Diego’s Academic Honesty Policy (2023) (highlights were added for emphasis). Which of these examples is a violation of the policy?

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Blog: Law, Policy—and IT? No laws protect that information. Through existing cases, we know, for example, that Alphabet’s Google operates large-scale behavioral monitoring of individuals at its main data-intake points. There is not even a federal data-breach notification law! Don’t hold your breath.

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WCET Frontiers

AUGUST 17, 2023

August is Data Protection, Privacy, and Student Agency month here at WCET. This month we’ve set our focus for events and resources on the importance of cybersecurity and data protection. It was discussed well before the invention of modern tech and the practice of big data collection.

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IHEP

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Today, we take the next step in defining the policy priorities that will guide our research and advocacy toward this new organizational vision. Since 2018, we’ve notched several policy wins and made measurable progress for students. We’ve consistently led the field in advocating for higher quality postsecondary data.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Recently, the Data Quality Campaign and the Kentucky Student Voice team worked with the Harris Poll to survey high school students across the country about how they are thinking about data as they navigate high school and making their postsecondary and workforce plans. Safeguard data.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Affirmative action policies have been instrumental in increasing access and opportunities for historically marginalized groups in higher education. These policies aimed to counteract systemic disadvantages by considering race, ethnicity, and other factors in admissions processes. These administrators (e.g.,

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The PIE News

MAY 15, 2024

It leaves the government with very little wriggle-room to justify further policy changes, however data cited in the report evidencing students working as low skilled labour; and popularity of the Graduate Route amongst graduates from low-ranking institutions, will fuel the debate.

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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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Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2024

And, banning these tools won’t stop students from using them–when universities tried to ban TikTok, students just used cellular data and VPNs to circumvent the ban (Alonso, 2023). Take a look at UC San Diego’s Academic Honesty Policy (2023) (highlights were added for emphasis). Which of these examples is a violation of the policy?

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

MARCH 29, 2023

For higher education institutions, the fine print has another name: an acceptable use policy. While often overlooked, AUPs ensure the protection of data, critical and sensitive information, institutional assets, and the online security of faculty, staff and students. What Are Acceptable Use Policies, and Why Are They Important?

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Data b ias and i nconsistencies: The reliance on educational databases and resources for chatbot training data introduces the risk of bias and outdated information. Inaccuracies in the training data, whether reflecting biased perspectives or containing outdated facts, can contribute to the generation of hallucinated responses.

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University Business

MARCH 29, 2023

For higher education institutions, the fine print has another name: an acceptable use policy. While often overlooked, AUPs ensure the protection of data, critical and sensitive information, institutional assets, and the online security of faculty, staff and students. Read more from EdTech.

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EAB

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

These regulations have made it more challenging for businesses to collect and use data and have forced them to adapt their data collection and analytics practices. However, with the introduction of Google Analytics 4 (GA4), a new era of data analysis and insights has arrived.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 20, 2023

Additionally, the bill would require university system boards of regents to create policies to discipline or fire employees taking part in diversity efforts. Many of these programs have been weaponized to compel speech instead of protecting free speech.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 2, 2023

A new study finds that anti-LGBTQ+ policies are linked to depression in Black and Latinx youth in the United States. For Jackson, it was necessary to take a nontraditional approach to this research that often starts with the broadest population and then overtime, hone in on specific subgroups.

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WCET Frontiers

MARCH 21, 2023

Providing uniform consumer protection for distance education students located in all member states is a hallmark of the interstate reciprocity agreement known as the State Authorization Reciprocity Agreements (SARA). SARA Policy is reviewed and revised through the SARA Policy Modification Process. Virgin Islands.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Rachel Burns, senior policy analyst at the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association. These are the findings in a new report by The National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, which gathers data from 97% of U.S. Closures were also found to disproportionately impact students of color and non-traditional students.

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The PIE News

JULY 10, 2023

Taiwan’s government watchdog has accused three ministries of failing to protect overseas students from exploitation as the island sets out plans to attract 10,000 more international students over the next four years.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The withholding of transcripts by colleges to pressure borrowers is abusive, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said Thursday in a new report that examined student loan servicers’ practices as well as colleges that provide loans directly to students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 1, 2024

Kay Ivey’s signature after Alabama’s legislature pushed through bills meant to protect in vitro fertilization (IVF). Sean Tipton, chief advocacy and policy officer for the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, called the ruling and its impact on patients “devastating.” Hopeful parents in Alabama are watching and waiting for Gov.

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WCET Frontiers

MAY 11, 2023

A return to handwritten and oral in-class assignments—a lockdown response—may be the only immediate effective solution as we wait for more robust protections to arise.” Of the more than 600 respondents, only 8 percent indicated that they had implemented policies around artificial intelligence.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Data b ias and i nconsistencies: The reliance on educational databases and resources for chatbot training data introduces the risk of bias and outdated information. Inaccuracies in the training data, whether reflecting biased perspectives or containing outdated facts, can contribute to the generation of hallucinated responses.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Silverman Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania Penn Carey Law School, has had a storied career in the fields of law, bioethics, data protection, and privacy. I would say that I work primarily in the area of data protection and privacy law. Dr. Anita L.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 17, 2022

As colleges adapt to the post-Roe landscape, many have offered students a range of direct, indirect and sometimes outdated messaging about how to protect their virtual privacy. His message is posted on a university webpage titled “Deleting your period tracker won’t keep your health data private.” Direct Messaging.

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Helix Education

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

There are tremendous opportunities to use AI to personalize engagement with students and alumni, analyze data, optimize strategies, and maximize our time and resources more effectively. Provide documentation, training data, and root cause analysis (RCA) when there is a problem, and clearly communicate overall AI governance policies.

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HEPI

MAY 6, 2024

With research being undertaken, and used, in a globalised context it’s vital to protect confidence and trust in research. These statements contain information about practice and policies, as well as (anonymised) information about research misconduct, and might be reused for REF.

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The PIE News

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Canada is also seen most favourably when it comes to post study work visa policies. ” Data obtained by The PIE News has revealed an unexpected decline in UK university enrolment from Indian and Nigerian students. Emmett added it is “essential to protect” important policies to students, such as the graduate visa route.

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WCET Frontiers

AUGUST 3, 2023

That report, Supporting Instruction and Learning Through Artificial Intelligence: A Survey of Institutional Practices and Policies , found that only four percent of respondents reported that their institution had an overall institutional strategy for approaching AI, and only seven percent had strategies at the department or college level.

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The PIE News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

One thesaurus is not enough to describe the folly of the British government’s policy towards foreign students.” In the decade since the government pledged to reduce immigration, it has in fact increased three-fold – signalling some last-minute cramming of policy to stem the tide. “Incoherent. Short-sighted. Cack-handed.

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WCET Frontiers

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Many institutions have struggled to develop institutional-level policies. In a spring survey administered by WCET, only eight percent of respondents reported that their institution had developed and/or implemented at least one AI-related policy. The initial focus of campus policy discussions has centered on academic integrity.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 9, 2023

Many state policies block undocumented students from receiving in-state tuition — even if they completed their K-12 education there — and several states directly prohibit undocumented students from enrolling in many public universities. Research your institution’s policies. Oglethorpe University’s Undocumented Students FAQs ).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2023

Note also that the new policy recommends removing TikTok from personal devices to protect a person’s privacy there as well. The governor’s order addresses the growing risk of intrusive social media applications harvesting data totally unrelated to business use of the platform.” Such concerns are warranted, said Dr. Richard F.

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IHEP

APRIL 5, 2023

of funds from certain Higher Education Act (HEA) programs for data analysis, data collection, and rigorous evaluations. Rather, it is a policy change for which we have long-advocated in our research papers such as The Most Important Door that Will Ever Open and the Postsecondary Value Commission’s culminating report.

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Insight Into Diversity

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The ultimate objective of the Pharmacy Access Initiative is to help policymakers and public health officials prioritize funding and resources to protect “critical access pharmacies” and promote the opening of new pharmacies in shortage areas. We know now that many of these MUAs are not pharmacy shortage areas [and vice versa].

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Degree programs are focused on global and community health, health administration and policy, nursing, nutrition and food studies, and social work. The School of Health will largely focus on policy and public health concerns with an emphasis on addressing historical inequities and disparities in underrepresented communities.

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