Deans for Impact

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

“ True social transformations are measured in decades, not years ,” our founder Benjamin Riley wrote in 2017. It’s a maxim that has guided Deans for Impact (DFI) since its formation. This summer, after eight years designing, launching, and leading DFI, Benjamin stepped away from his role as executive director and will pass the torch to Valerie Sakimura , a member of the founding team.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Image: After a two-plus-year pause, Johns Hopkins University is moving ahead with plans to establish a private, armed police force. This week it released a draft of its memorandum of understanding with the Baltimore Police Department, laying out the framework for their division of duties. The two police departments will share the authority to patrol the “campus area,” which includes any buildings owned, operated, leased or controlled by Hopkins within the three Baltimore campuses: th

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Caylor Solutions

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Raising brand awareness and amplifying distinctives are big challenges for higher ed marketing. See how this school successfully did both. The post Amplifying Student Voices for Higher Ed Marketing Success appeared first on Caylor Solutions.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

You can do a number of small things to help publicize it and get your story out to a broader audience, writes Joanne W. Golann. Job Tags: FACULTY JOBS Ad keywords: faculty Editorial Tags: Career Advice Publishing Show on Jobs site: Image Source: Nuthawut Somsuk/istock/getty images plus Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?

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WCET Frontiers

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Welcome to the continuation of the WCET + WCET Steering work group series focused on microcredential initiatives. This series explores microcredential adoption, implementation, and evaluation. Previously, the series has reviewed the importance of understanding the strategic goals of microcredential projects , the value that clarity of terms plays in an emergent area, and considered the inception of a microcredential project.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Williams College announced that it will now allow employees to be reimbursed for travel and lodging expenses associated with accessing an abortion under certain circumstances. Coverage is available to any employee who is located in a state that restricts abortion access and needs to travel over 100 miles to receive that care from a qualified provider.

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Campus Technology

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Mass personalization through data is key to innovation in higher education, according to Anthology Chairman and CEO Jim Milton. Here's how the company is moving forward after last year's Blackboard merger to enable data-informed decisions across the university.

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Campus Technology

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Grammarly is rolling out two features to its AI-powered writing assistance software, aiming to help students writing research papers use citations correctly: citation style formatting and auto citations.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

A series of new reports from the Institute for College Access & Success argue that the lists that colleges and universities purchase to identify prospective students “are structurally racist and classist.” TICAS partnered with a team of researchers to analyze the student lists purchased by dozens of universities from 2016 to 2020 that were obtained via the Freedom of Information Act.

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

How to Use Search Terms to Boost Alternative Education Programs. The only constant society has experienced in the last couple of years is change. Education? Changing. Workplaces? Changing. Our culture as a whole? Changing. With all these shifts, there’s good news and bad news for the higher education market. The Bad News: Enrollments are dropping. According to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, total higher-ed enrollments fell to 16.2 million this spring , a 4.1% decline from la

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Nearly 100 distinguished, endowed chair and distinguished professors emeriti are the latest to publicly voice support for Dr. Samuel Stanley Jr. as president of Michigan State University, The Lansing State Journal reported. They issued a joint letter with their view. “As distinguished professors at the university, and emeriti faculty who care deeply about MSU, we value an environment that allows us to produce our best work,” the professors wrote.

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Campus Technology

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

A new institutional tutoring solution from online tutoring company Tutor.com enables colleges and universities to centralize 24/7 academic support services for students.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Enrollment of first-year students at Virginia Military Institute dropped 25 percent this fall, The Washington Post reported. VMI welcomed 375 freshmen last month, down from 496 freshmen in 2021 and 522 in 2020, which was a record for the college, according to data from the institution. Cedric T. Wins, the superintendent of VMI and a retired Army major general, said at a Board of Visitors meeting Tuesday that college officials had hoped to enroll 520 new cadets.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Fairfield University, in partnership with the Diocese of Bridgeport, will open a new campus in the fall of 2023 in the nearby city of Bridgeport, Conn., offering a two-year associate degree program. The announcement of a new campus comes amid opposition from some locals who have concerns about zoning issues, traffic congestion and a possible negative effect on property values.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

As bills hostile to LGBTQ communities, people of color and women continue to proliferate, associations will increasingly face challenges as they navigate the legislative landscape. The uptick in these discriminatory laws at the state level flies in the face of the values and missions of many higher education organizations. Deciding where to host an annual national conference—and if or when to relocate—has become a much weightier and costlier decision, and one that is going to continu

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Today on the Academic Minute : Dave Smallen, research psychologist and community faculty in psychology at Metropolitan State University, explores some of the many ways we build relationships with other people. Learn more about the Academic Minute here. Is this diversity newsletter?: Hide by line?: Disable left side advertisement?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

How do we connect with others? In today’s Academic Minute, Metropolitan State University’s Dave Smallen examines a few ways. Smallen is a research psychologist and community faculty in psychology at Metropolitan State. A transcript of this podcast can be found here. Section: Academic Minute File: 09-22-22 Metropolitan State - Social Connection Matters – And There are Many Ways to Connect.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

University of Houston at Victoria. Ali Dogan, natural and applied science. Hashimul Ehsan, natural and applied science. Junda Hu, natural and applied science. Saidat Ilo, liberal arts and social sciences. Gen Kaneko, natural and applied science. Chang Lee, education and health professions. Amjad Nusayr, natural and applied science. Nadya Pittendrigh, liberal arts and social sciences.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Image: In his new podcast series, Gatecrashers: The Hidden History of Jews and the Ivy League ( Tablet ), Mark Oppenheimer, writer and co-host of the podcast Unorthodox , examines how elite institutions sought to limit the number of Jewish students a century ago—and how the advent of that quota system has shaped U.S. higher education ever since.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

As recently as a decade ago, the concept of value rarely found its way into discussions about federal and state policy making about higher education. Now it’s unusual to hear a meaningful conversation that doesn’t raise the issue. This week’s episode of The Key, Inside Higher Ed ’s news and analysis podcast, examines how politicians and policy makers are responding to growing public doubt about the value of colleges and credentials by defining and trying to measure whethe

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean Chad Orzel’s piece this week, “ Physics Is a Liberal Art ,” is a must-read. He’s a physicist who attended a small liberal arts college and works at another one, so he’s well acquainted with the various ways in which the term “liberal arts” is used. And he’s right.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Image: As congressional and state Republicans explore ways to block President Biden’s loan-forgiveness plan, one Christian college is touting its benefits for students. Fresno Pacific University officials said in a recent news release that $63.2 million of the $79.3 million in federal loans taken out by nearly 5,300 students since 2018 would be forgiven through Biden’s plan, describing the plan as a “helpful boost.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Clinic for Transgender Health is the latest trans health-care provider to be targeted by right-wing activists. On Monday night, Matt Walsh, a conservative pundit and contributor to The Daily Wire , released the results of what he called an “investigation” into the clinic to his over one million Twitter followers.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

A bill introduced by U.S. Representative Joaquin Castro, a Texas Democrat, would require colleges to release more information about transfer policies, The Texas Tribune reported. The bill would require two-year and four-year colleges to post information about transfer deadlines for admissions and financial aid, as well as a list of all the colleges at or from which a student’s credits are guaranteed to be accepted.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

U.S. Senator Josh Hawley, a Missouri Republican, wants universities to pay for student loans in default and the Congress to make other changes to the Higher Education Act of 1965 as part of a new bill introduced Wednesday. Under the Make the Universities Pay Act, a university would have to pay 50 percent of its students’ loan balances in default.

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