The Academic Designer
OCTOBER 5, 2022
Allanté Whitmore started her podcast Blk + In Grad School on an air mattress with her cell phone. Looking forward to a new season of motivation and inspiration for grad students.
Inside Higher Ed
OCTOBER 5, 2022
Certain classroom practices that faculty unconsciously engage in can make students question their intelligence, competence and sense of belonging, writes Angelica S. Gutierrez. Job Tags: FACULTY JOBS Ad keywords: faculty Section: Teaching and Learning Editorial Tags: Career Advice Teaching Show on Jobs site: Image Source: useng/istock/getty images plus Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?
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Academe Blog
OCTOBER 5, 2022
BY JANE S. GABIN Many have read the Chronicle of Higher Education’s latest survey of public university presidents’ salaries and are appropriately horrified: sixteen presidents make over $1 million a year. This underlines the overall problem with US higher education: too many people are making too much money.
Inside Higher Ed
OCTOBER 5, 2022
As the fall semester gets underway, so does another season of cancellation of controversial ideas and speakers and self- censorship. These new campus realities, so goes the narrative, have a chilling effect on learning and research. Solutions for eradicating them range from empowering students to adopting free speech policies. Yet this narrative too often mistakes symptoms as causes.
HEM (Higher Education Marketing)
OCTOBER 5, 2022
Reading Time: 11 minutes A compelling video can do wonders to improve your school’s engagement and brand awareness. After all, it can serve as a visually captivating way to showcase your school and its community. But when it comes to producing these types of promotional videos for schools, you may be picturing a difficult process that requires a lot of time and resources—not to mention complex equipment and tools. .
Inside Higher Ed
OCTOBER 5, 2022
Image: Patty Limerick, co-founder and longtime faculty director of the University of Colorado at Boulder’s Center of the American West, says her firing last week continues to shock her, especially as she had been planning to step down soon anyway. “This has been a process that did not come with transparency, forthrightness and clear and steady communication.
Campus Technology
OCTOBER 5, 2022
Particularly with stresses induced by the pandemic, new and better tech-flavored ways of providing mental health support and care are being fielded in higher ed institutions.
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Campus Technology
OCTOBER 5, 2022
Aiming to help educational institutions digitize their paper-based processes, online form-building provider Jotform has launched a lite version of its enterprise software called Jotform Sign with a no-cost starter plan and 50% discount offer for educational organizations that subscribe to paid plans, the company said in a news release.
Inside Higher Ed
OCTOBER 5, 2022
Image: Federal emergency aid disbursed during the COVID-19 pandemic helped college students stay enrolled in classes, provided stress relief and improved academic outcomes, a new report out today says. The National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators partnered with NASPA: Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education and the consulting firm HCM Strategists to survey students and institutions about the higher education COVID-19 emergency stimulus funds and hear about lessons
Campus Sonar
OCTOBER 5, 2022
In higher ed (like every other industry), brand management is one of a campus’s top priorities. With social media molding the public’s perception of your brand, it’s your job to stay on top of your reputation—creating content that contributes to the conversation and aligns with your strategic goals. How do you know you’re doing that? First you need to understand the conversation about your brand using three key metrics: share of voice, owned vs. earned conversation, and brand attribute conversat
Inside Higher Ed
OCTOBER 5, 2022
Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean. Chelsea O’Brien had a great tweet on Tuesday that got me thinking. She asked “If you are faculty and you have a concern about how an office is functioning, I would like to request you ask to speak to the director of that area privately.” I don’t know the story that prompted that tweet, but it stands on its own as a general rule.
HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)
OCTOBER 5, 2022
How to Build a Digital PR Campaign for Faculty. When you’re in the higher education space, you’ll inevitably hit a roadblock at some point. Maybe your competitor schools achieve higher application rates, star in more news stories, or receive more donor funding. Or maybe they simply have higher levels of faculty engagement, thus making their overall public relations more effective than yours. .
Inside Higher Ed
OCTOBER 5, 2022
Blog: Learning Innovation Have you noticed that some things about higher ed work seem more difficult this year than ever before? Here, I’m not considering the range of challenges related to educating and caring for our students. Those difficulties are numerous and are much more important and worthy of thought and consideration than my list. 1.
PeopleAdmin
OCTOBER 5, 2022
Even when the school year has just begun, hiring should be on your mind. The academic year is well underway for HigherEd and hopefully, your institution was able to hire the faculty and staff needed to start off the semester. Still, the tough thing about hiring season is that it never truly ends. Human resources teams, recruiters, and hiring managers are always prepared for the next open role and thinking about their recruitment strategy for the next HigherEd hiring cycle.
Inside Higher Ed
OCTOBER 5, 2022
President Biden criticized the University of Idaho Tuesday for telling faculty members and other employees to discuss abortion or contraception only when relevant and in “neutral” terms, or they risk dismissal or even jail time, The Hill reported. “Folks, what century are we in? What are we doing? I respect everyone’s view on this—personal decision they make.
The Guardian - Higher Education
OCTOBER 5, 2022
Inquest to be held into death of Harry Armstrong Evans, who was at University of Exeter The parents of a 21-year-old student at the University of Exeter who took his own life after failing final-year exams have called for new legislation to require universities to publish the number of students who have killed themselves at their institutions. Harry Armstrong Evans, from Cornwall, was in the third year of a physics and astrophysics degree at the Russell Group university at the time of his death
Inside Higher Ed
OCTOBER 5, 2022
Howard University is launching an algebra course for college credit at high schools in historically underserved communities created in partnership with Khan Academy, according to an announcement today. The class will be coordinated by the National Education Equity Lab, an organization focused on advancing social mobility, and 11 high schools are participating this semester.
Inside Higher Ed
OCTOBER 5, 2022
Graduate students at Clark University went on strike this week over stalled contract negotiations, MassLive reported. Members of the student union, affiliated with Teamsters Local 170, are seeking what they describe as a living wage and say that the university has not bargained with them in good faith. Strikers formed a picket line on campus starting Monday and plan to protest indefinitely.
Inside Higher Ed
OCTOBER 5, 2022
A former employee of Northeastern University has been charged with fabricating an explosion and threat he reported after opening a package on the Boston campus last month. On Sept. 14, Jason Duhaime, the former new technology manager and director of the university’s Immersive Media Lab, reported being injured by shrapnel after opening a hard plastic case delivered to the lab.
Inside Higher Ed
OCTOBER 5, 2022
The Graduate Record Examination is now accepted at 100 law schools , more than half of the 199 American law schools accredited by the American Bar Association. The Educational Testing Service first promoted the GRE for use in law school admissions in 2016, when the University of Arizona did so. The 100 law schools that now accept the GRE (as an alternative to the Law School Admission Test) include Harvard, Stanford and Yale Universities.
Inside Higher Ed
OCTOBER 5, 2022
The Mississippi University for Women, which has long accepted men, is considering a name change and has formed a task force to weigh the decision and suggest possible monikers. In a letter to alumni, President Nora Miller said there have been calls for a “more inclusive name” but the “historic commitment to academic and leadership development for women” would not change, according to the local newspaper, The Commercial Dispatch.
Inside Higher Ed
OCTOBER 5, 2022
We’ve learned the power of groups after spending time alone during the pandemic. In today’s Academic Minute, the University of Dayton’s Bryan Bardine explores how one music scene sticks together. Bardine is a professor of English at Dayton. A transcript of this podcast can be found here. Section: Academic Minute File: 10-05-22 Dayton - Metal Scenes Around the World Survive and Thrive in the Face of Challenges.
Inside Higher Ed
OCTOBER 5, 2022
Today on the Academic Minute : Bryan Bardine, professor of English at the University of Dayton, explores how one music scene has managed to stick together during the pandemic. Learn more about the Academic Minute here. Is this diversity newsletter?: Hide by line?: Disable left side advertisement?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?
Inside Higher Ed
OCTOBER 5, 2022
Three scholars have been named winners of the Nobel Prize in physics “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science.” The three are Alain Aspect of Université Paris-Saclay and École Polytechnique, in Palaiseau, France; John F. Clauser of J.
Inside Higher Ed
OCTOBER 5, 2022
Image: Plan B in vending machines. Free at-home pregnancy tests. Time off to get and recover from abortions. Better financial support for student parents. These are just a handful of the asks, both big and small, that students will make of their colleges and universities on Oct. 6. On what has been dubbed the Day of Action , students across the country plan to hold rallies, protests, strikes and other on-campus demonstrations that will call on university leadership to take steps to protect repro
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