Wonkhe
NOVEMBER 20, 2022
Lecturer and UCU member Sol Gamsu sets out how decisions made by sector leaders over the past few years have led to this latest round of industrial action. The post A toxic culture is harming university staff appeared first on Wonkhe.
Higher Education Inquirer
NOVEMBER 20, 2022
This space has been created to lend a voice to the 48,000 academic workers from the University of California system, which includes more than 19,000 members of UAW 2865 currently on strike. These folks are not the first or the last group of academic workers to strike, but their struggle may become a model (or lesson learned) for other academic union campaigns.
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Wonkhe
NOVEMBER 20, 2022
Handshake's Clare Adams shares research findings that indicate students need support in understanding the graduate job market and presenting their skills in an impactful way. The post Exploring the changing expectations of employability appeared first on Wonkhe.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 20, 2022
Spelman College is partnering with Spotify for NextGen, Spotify’s program to foster podcast culture and careers on campuses. The initiative – supported by the Spotify Creator Equity Fund – will involve creation of a d edicated on-campus podcast recording space; co-creation of student-led original content; consideration for a Spotify internship program; and potential academic scholarship support.
Wonkhe
NOVEMBER 20, 2022
With industrial action planned for this week, we set out what staff and employers are looking for. The post What are this week’s strikes all about? appeared first on Wonkhe.
Faculty Focus
NOVEMBER 20, 2022
This article first appeared in the Teaching Professor on December 13, 2017. © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. . Teachers and students can give each other priceless gifts. “Professor Jones changed my life!” The comment is usually followed by the story of a teacher in love with content, students, and learning. How many times have I told the story of my advisor who was the first person to suggest I could be a college professor?
Wonkhe
NOVEMBER 20, 2022
With half of the last decades national pay rounds ending in dispute, UCEA's Raj Jethwa shares the next steps in addressing the way the system works. The post What is the future for pay bargaining? appeared first on Wonkhe.
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Dr. Simon Paul Atkinson
NOVEMBER 20, 2022
Press coverage of recent cryptocurrency disruptions and the significant staff reductions at Twitter and Meta is giving pause for thought amongst investors and futurists, as well as university leaders considering the future of the Metaverse. The fact that you may feel like you cannot keep up with the news is understandable. The collapse of the cryptocurrency platform FTX , the apparent meltdown underway at Twitter and the 11-year sentence handed down to Elizabeth Holmes for the Thanos fraud do al
HEPI
NOVEMBER 20, 2022
HEPI is running a series of blogs on the changing faces of academia in collaboration with the British Academy. This post was kindly contributed by Chi Zhang, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, School of International Relations, University of St Andrews. ‘ Kill the Chinese ’ is a piece of racist graffiti found on a flagpole outside the University of Glasgow in September 2022.
Inside Higher Ed
NOVEMBER 20, 2022
Blog: Learning Innovation The hardest job in all educational technology is that of the university partner manager. These are the ed-tech company professionals who maintain the primary, day-to-day, on-the-ground relationship with schools. Partner managers are usually different from the people in companies who negotiate contracts (engagements) with a university.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 20, 2022
Shannon Bradley Shannon Bradley has been named chief diversity and inclusion officer for Keck Medicine at the University of Southern California. Bradley holds a bachelor’s degree in business management from Emporia State University in Kansas and an MBA with a health care administration specialization from Baylor University in Waco, Texas.
Faculty Focus
NOVEMBER 20, 2022
This article first appeared in the Teaching Professor on December 13, 2017. © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. . Teachers and students can give each other priceless gifts. “Professor Jones changed my life!” The comment is usually followed by the story of a teacher in love with content, students, and learning. How many times have I told the story of my advisor who was the first person to suggest I could be a college professor?
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 20, 2022
Dr. Andrea A. Hayes Dixon Andrea A. Hayes Dixon has been appointed dean of the Howard University College of Medicine. Hayes Dixon was the surgeon-in-chief and division chief of pediatric surgery at the University of North Carolina Children’s Hospital. She earned her bachelor’s degree in religion from Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H., and her M.D. from the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College.
Economics and Change in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 20, 2022
What has shone as exemplars of leadership in that time may be different to what has led to success in the past. This is in response to the cultural challenges in the sector, which had been evolving and surfacing for years, being brought to a head under the pressure cooker of the pandemic. The need for empathy and compassion has been thrown into much stronger focus.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 20, 2022
As an urban planner, Dr. Malo André Hutson believes that harmony and collaboration between entities — be they on the local, state, national, or even global level — are needed if we are to tackle the broader issues of our time. Such issues include food systems, water use, energy use, and land use, says Hutson, an expert in climate resilience, environmental justice, and urban health.
Economics and Change in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 20, 2022
After a summer of layoffs and budget cuts, the online learning company 2U shared a more upbeat outlook in its third quarter earnings call on Monday. A year after its acquisition of the online learning platform edX last year, 2U is starting to see benefits, including a greater number of learners moving from edX’s free online courses to 2U’s paid online degrees and alternative credentials, said Chip Paucek, the company’s CEO.
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