Higher Ed Dive

JANUARY 5, 2023

Several governors banned the app from state-owned devices over privacy concerns and China. Some public institutions are following suit.

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MindMax

JANUARY 5, 2023

In a 2021 survey conducted by Financial Times , more than 25% of Chief Learning Officers (CLOs) expressed intentions to increase their budgets for executive education in 2021. More than half said they would maintain 2020 spending levels. It’s clear that employers are committed to providing development opportunities for middle and senior managers. So what’s on the horizon for executive education?

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Higher Ed Dive

JANUARY 5, 2023

A final Title IX rule, as well as negotiated rulemaking on topics like accreditation and distance education, are on the horizon.

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MindMax

JANUARY 5, 2023

Summer isn’t what it used to be for higher education institutions and their students. Gone are the days when there was a clear divide between the academic year and summer. Today, colleges and universities everywhere increasingly embrace the concept of a holistic year, and summer programming is an essential component of their offerings. This changing landscape presents significant opportunities for schools to increase revenue, grow enrollments, and boost persistence and graduation rates.

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Higher Ed Dive

JANUARY 5, 2023

Scooters bring risks and benefits, mobility experts say. Dangers are heightened by infrastructure built for cars.

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HEPI

JANUARY 5, 2023

This week, the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak promised to make Maths compulsory to the age of 18, which would need a lot of extra Maths teachers… Here, writing in a personal capacity, Pam Tatlow looks at the current state of teacher training in England. Pam is on Twitter @Pam_Tatlow. The rejection of all appeals submitted by 12 universities in respect of their applications to be accredited as teacher education providers from 2024 may come as a surprise to some.

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Higher Ed Dive

JANUARY 5, 2023

White House lawyers argued a group of six Republican-led states has no standing to sue over mass loan cancellation.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2023

Incoming Ph.D. students have a hard time grasping the true career challenges they face. By David A. Bell. Nate Kitch for The Chronicle. Incoming Ph.D. students have a hard time grasping the true career challenges they face.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2023

As an undergraduate student at the University of Southern California, the Reverend Dr. Joseph Cheah said that he would spend hours at the bookstore, reading about Asian American studies. Dr. Joseph Cheah “The whole notion of Asian American things like that, I've been interested in that for a long time,” Cheah said. “I would just stand there for hours, reading one book after another in Asian American studies.

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Coursera blog

JANUARY 5, 2023

By Zac Rule, Vice President North America, Enterprise. I’m excited to introduce The Job Skills of 2023 report , which explores the fastest-growing digital and human skills on Coursera entering 2023. Of the more than 113 million total learners on the Coursera platform, this report specifically draws on data from Coursera’s 4 million enterprise learners across 3,000 businesses, 3,600 higher education institutions, and governments in over 100 countries.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2023

The Department of Homeland Security's Office of State and Local Law Enforcement partnered with HBCUs North Carolina A&T, Benedict College, Southern University and A&M College, and Florida A&M University in its first K9 Bomb Detection Adoption Program. It started just after the turn of the new year. By the end of February 2022, more than 50 Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) across the U.S. had received bomb threats.

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Academe Blog

JANUARY 5, 2023

BY JENNIFER RUTH “Where woke comes to die.” Let’s call this phrase what it is: fascist propaganda. In “The Collapse of Radical Reconstruction,” the first episode of Princeton professor Eddie S. Glaude Jr.’s podcast “History is Us,” Le Moyne College professor Douglas Egerton says, “Reconstruction did not fail.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2023

Some universities are scrutinizing or blocking usage of the social media platform TikTok on school devices and networks amid cybersecurity concerns surrounding the video-sharing app and its parent company, ByteDance. Dr. Richard Forno TikTok and Chinese company ByteDance has been gaining attention for connections with Chinese state media and potential influence from the Chinese government.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 5, 2023

Image: It took less than 15 seconds for Purdue University Northwest chancellor Thomas L. Keon to undermine a résumé forged over decades in academe. An off-the-cuff joke at commencement that mocked Asian languages now has the chancellor facing faculty demands that he resign. The incident happened in December after a commencement speaker, a local graduate, talked about using a made-up language to calm children, including his granddaughter.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2023

Dr. Keona Lewis will become assistant provost for academic diversity and inclusion at the University of Notre Dame, effective Feb. 1. In this role, she will report to the vice president and associate provost for faculty affairs. Dr. Keona Lewis Lewis will also serve as an assistant professor of the practice in Notre Dame’s Center for Social Concerns.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 5, 2023

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, has asked Florida's public colleges to report on the costs associated with diversity, equity and inclusion programs, The Tallahassee Democr a t reported. He asked last month and his administration released the request on Wednesday. The memo also asked institutions to include the number of positions and amount of funding dedicated to each program as well as how much of that cost is state funding.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2023

University of California (UC) graduate workers agreed to end their strike just before Christmas, coming to terms on deals that raise pay, provide improved benefits for transportation, leave, and health care, and offer protection against bullying and abuse. The stoppage, which lasted 40 days and involved roughly 48,000 workers over 10 campuses and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, was the largest academic strike ever, covering facilities that receive over 8% of all U.S. higher education

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 5, 2023

Image: At the start of 2022, leaders and faculty attached to a brand-new American university in Ukraine were bullish about the future. American University Kyiv, the result of a partnership with Arizona State University and Cintana Education —a private subsidiary of ASU that helps manage international campuses—would be the first institution in Ukraine developed in line with U.S. higher education accreditation standards.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2023

Florida state colleges and universities must report spending on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and projects and initiatives related to critical race theory (CRT), per orders from Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ’s administration, the National Review reported. Gov. Ron DeSantis In a Dec. 28 memo , Chris Spencer, director of the office of policy and budget in the DeSantis administration, asked the Department of Education and the state university system to disclose staff, programs, and campus ac

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PeopleAdmin

JANUARY 5, 2023

2023 is here. What are your priorities? It’s a brand new year and the start of a new semester, which means your team should be thinking about creative ways to tackle the challenges ahead for HigherEd. Here at PeopleAdmin, we’ve been preparing to help your institution take on what’s next. Below are the trends we’re focusing on for 2023. Simplify, streamline, and clarify the application processes.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2023

The U.S. Departments of Education (ED) and Justice (DOJ) remain committed and confident in the Biden-Harris administration’s student debt relief program, filing a legal brief with the U.S. Supreme Court about it, according to a statement from Secretary of Education Dr. Miguel A. Cardona. Education Secretary Dr. Miguel Cardona “The Biden-Harris Administration remains committed to fighting to deliver essential student debt relief to tens of millions of Americans.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2023

The proposed legislation aims to enforce ‘minimum service levels’ in six key public services Starmer says voters looked at Labour again in 2022. And he felt, “for the first time in a while that we could return their gaze with confidence”. But Labour must not rest on its laurels. It needs to push forward, and show it can be a “bold, reforming government”, he says.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2023

Johnson C. Smith University (JCSU) President Clarence Armbrister will retire in June. Armbrister – the 14th president of the historically Black college and university (HBCU) – broke the news in a message to students Jan. 3. Clarence D. “Clay” Armbrister “It is a bittersweet moment for me and my family because we love this university and the unparalleled opportunities HBCUs like ours provide for thousands of students across the country each year,” Armbrister wrote in his message.

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Liaison International

JANUARY 5, 2023

It’s hard to overstate the role that universities have played in the development of our world. They inspire and catalog discovery and exploration, steward the knowledge that defines modern civilization, and facilitate the transfer of new ideas and information around the globe. And in a time of crisis, a time of transition like the one drawing – hopefully – to a close, these institutions play an additional role.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2023

Hillary Clinton will become a professor of practice in Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), effective Feb. 1. Hillary Rodham Clinton Clinton – a former senator, First Lady, presidential candidate, and U.S. secretary of state for then-president Barack Obama – will also hold a joint appointment at Columbia World Projects.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 5, 2023

Image: When the president of the Kyiv School of Economics began to post photos of his daily life to social media in November, it was a gut reaction. A day earlier, Russian air strikes had hit Ukraine’s power grid, plunging the capital city into darkness. “I didn’t have a plan. I realized we had no heating and no water for a while, and somehow I felt it would be interesting for the world to know how people are trying to get through the war,” said Tymofiy Mylovanov.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2023

Dr. Fredrick Muyia Nafukho will become vice provost for the University of Washington Office of Academic Personnel. Dr. Fredrick Nafukho Nafukho will also become tenured faculty in the Department of Management and Organization in the Foster School of Business. He is currently at Texas A&M University, where he is senior associate dean for faculty affairs; professor of educational administration and human resource development; and co-director of the school’s Educational Leadership Research Cent

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 5, 2023

How can college leaders in 2023 begin to re-engage their employees in the midst of increasing disengagement and departures? Brandon L. Wolfe offers some suggestions. Editorial Tags: Career Advice Show on Jobs site: Image Source: zhuweiyi49/digitalvision vectors/getty images Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?

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Campus Technology

JANUARY 5, 2023

In a new report, experience management company Qualtrics found that students, families, and alumni said their experiences at colleges and universities improved in 2022, making them likely to recommend these institutions.

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The PIE News

JANUARY 5, 2023

The m inister of education, culture and science in the Netherlands has written to the boards of all public research and applied sciences universities, urgently requesting a halt to international student recruitment. The letter, dated December 22 2022 and signed by Robbert Dijkgraaf, comes weeks after a parliamentary motion, spearheaded by MPs Peter Kwint and Harry van der Molen, was passed which called on Dijkgraaf to limit international student recruitment efforts. .

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2023

Massachusetts Senate President Karen Spilka began the new state legislative session Jan. 4 by proposing free community college for all state residents, WPRI reported. Sen. Karen Spilka To note, no legislation has yet been filed. However, a spokesperson for Spilka said she looked forward to collaborating to get something drafted. Spikla said she wanted to see legislators figure out how to dedicate more funds to public higher education, including making a two-year program free.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2023

By Marcela Rodrigues. Matt Rourke, AP Bryan Kohberger is accused of killing four U. of Idaho students. Surveillance-video footage was critical in identifying a grad student's whereabouts on the morning of November 13.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2023

Dr. David Doré will become chancellor of the Virginia Community College System (VCCS), effective Apr. 1. Dr. David Doré Doré is currently president of campuses and executive vice chancellor for student experience and workforce development at Pima Community College. A first-generation college student, Doré has led an extensive career in the community college sector, having been in various roles such as instructor, director, department chair, dean, president, and executive vice chancellor.

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WCET Frontiers

JANUARY 5, 2023

By now you’ve likely seen the hubbub over ChatGPT, OpenAI’s new chat bot trained on their large language model AI GPT 3.5. Some of the more provocative announcements about the impact of artificial intelligence include: This is the end of homework as we know it , Students are already using this to cheat and we’ll never know , AI can produce writing as good as a college student , The focus of much of this discussion about AI has been on academic integrity, specifically academic dishonesty.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2023

Onondaga Community College will receive $2 million to renovate and expand a hospital simulation center to train nurses and technicians amid staffing shortages at Central New York hospitals, Syracuse.com reported. The federal funding – announced by Sen. Charles Schumer, D-NY – will go towards renovating and equipping simulation rooms with audiovisual gear capable of virtual reality learning.

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The PIE News

JANUARY 5, 2023

A group of Russian universities hosting more than 200 South African students at the centre of a fees and stipends row through most of 2022, have agreed to start dealing directly South African authorities in settling the dues worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. The move will see the institutions sidestep education agency Racus which had a contract for handling the students’ affairs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2023

William “Rick” Singer, mastermind of college admissions scam Operation Varsity Blues, was sentenced to 3.5 years in federal prison. William “Rick” Singer In March 2019, Singer – who cooperated with the investigation – pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy, money laundering conspiracy, conspiracy to defraud the U.S., and obstruction of justice. The sentence – given on Jan. 4 and is the longest sentence in the case – also includes three years of supervised release and forfeiture of more than $

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