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A free, online, global university seeks seal of approval

Inside Higher Ed

Image: When the Taliban banned women from pursuing higher education, they did not simultaneously extinguish half their citizens’ educational ambitions. Saleema is one of more than 126,000 students, including nearly 17,000 refugees, studying at this tuition-free, nonprofit online university with an all-volunteer faculty.

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Direct Admissions Helps Raise Applications, But Not Enrollments

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Part of a direct admissions acceptance letter from the College App and George Mason University Direct admissions are an increasingly popular tool for those looking to entice more people to apply to college and to close racial and financial gaps. A fee waiver is included, to boot. Data was obtained on the choices of almost 32,000 students.

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The health of higher education studies – cause for optimism?

SRHE

A similar increase was evident in relation to the impact case studies submitted for both exercises, with the number of higher education-focussed impact case studies increasing from 15 per cent of all those submitted to the Education unit of assessment in REF2014 to 21 per cent in REF2021 (see Table 2).

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Brown faculty votes to restrict P&T committee to full profs

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Brown University’s faculty voted this month to limit Tenure, Promotions and Appointments Committee (TPAC) membership to full, tenured professors only, starting next fall. Promotion dossiers at Brown are usually assessed first at the department level, then move to the relevant dean, then TPAC, then the provost and president.

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Passionate pleas for and against tuition-sharing agreements

Inside Higher Ed

OPMs “imported the worst features of predatory for-profit institutions into traditional higher education and normalized them through ubiquity,” said Barmak Nassirian, vice president for higher education policy at Veterans Education Success, an advocacy group.