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Americans’ trust in higher ed has reached a new low. Here’s how to navigate the ongoing confidence crisis.

EAB

Gallup’s most recent poll revealed a concerning trend: only 36 percent of Americans have “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in higher education. What sets this year’s results apart is that, for the first time, a majority of survey respondents expressed a lack of confidence in educational institutions.

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Rising higher ed leaders tackle campus challenges in EAB’s fellowship

EAB

The topics covered included student success, budget models, change management, and more. The culminating experience for the EAB Rising Higher Education Leaders Fellowship was the capstone project that substantively contributed to the fellows’ professional advancement and helped solve a pressing challenge facing their home institutions.

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Georgetown University’s Trek to Turn Refugees into Students

WCET Frontiers

Today WCET Frontiers welcomes Kelly Otter, Dean of the School of Continuing Studies at Georgetown University, to discuss the University’s program to assist refugees in the Middle East. This outstanding work will have an incredible impact for refugee students, and future work will impact the lives of students around the globe.

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Assessing online courses—OSCQR rubric

EAB

Blogs Assessing online courses—OSCQR rubric August 9, 2023 George Rus Assistant Dean for Online Education, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs The views and opinions expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of EAB. Learn more about the program and future cohorts.

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Oberlin's board seeks to limit faculty power

Inside Higher Ed

“The limitations that we’re going to have on us as faculty to make important decisions, and to really shape the institution as it develops into the future, will profoundly influence the student experience.” ” Faculty members, Neilson continued, “are on the ground.

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Assessment and evaluation of microcredentials: What success looks like and to whom

WCET Frontiers

Today, we conclude the WCET blog series on microcredentials which set out to address the inception, implementation, and evaluation of microcredentialing approaches across the higher education industry. Shireman also invited us to consider how microcredentials impact students.

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Assessment is fun?

Dr. Missy Alexander

In 2006, when I was an assistant professor on the tenure track, I wrote an essay that was published in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Those were the early(ish) days of the assessment movement in higher education and I was feeling the pain. Still, there are some things that students must know.