Higher Ed Dive
DECEMBER 8, 2022
Bachelor's degrees offer solid payoffs, while grad programs post mixed returns, researchers find. But many students don't go on to work in the field.
Wonkhe
DECEMBER 8, 2022
Has artificial intelligence become a legitimate concern for plagiarism? James Bagshaw investigates the discussion around the use of the AI chat tool, ChatGPT. The post What implications does ChatGPT have for assessment? appeared first on Wonkhe.
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Deans for Impact
DECEMBER 8, 2022
Data, when interpreted in context and used appropriately, is a powerful tool for surfacing important trends and issues in education. For example, recent NAEP trend assessments reveal not only the consequences of pandemic-related disruptions on student learning, but also the varying results of education policies, remedial programs, and instructional priorities across state lines to address challenges.
Wonkhe
DECEMBER 8, 2022
As a debate about medical school places continues, Charlie Sellar urges a focus on the social make-up of those medical trainees. The post Why do students have to suffer when taking on a medical degree? appeared first on Wonkhe.
MindMax
DECEMBER 8, 2022
A few months ago, Education Secretary Miguel A. Cardona declared college rankings “a joke.” He made this bold statement in support of a broader point he presented in an article for The Chronicle of Higher Education : elite institutions “spend enormous resources to climb college rankings and compete for the most affluent, highest-scoring students.” Calling for “a new vision for college excellence,” Cardona championed equity, inclusivity, and upward mobility for disadvantaged demographics as new
Higher Ed Dive
DECEMBER 8, 2022
Prestigious institutions employ more graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, giving them a major labor advantage, new research finds.
Wonkhe
DECEMBER 8, 2022
Why are increasing numbers of academic staff reporting lecture theatres and seminar rooms as empty of students these days? Jim Dickinson gets real. The post What if they’re all part-time students now? appeared first on Wonkhe.
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Wonkhe
DECEMBER 8, 2022
This week’s card from Hugh Jones’s postbag shows one of London’s radical higher education institutions. The post Higher Education Postcard: College Hall, University of London appeared first on Wonkhe.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
DECEMBER 8, 2022
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government and higher education institutions have fed the public a steady diet of bad enrollment news. Public health concerns increased responsibilities to care for and educate school-aged children and disrupted jobs and industries. All these factors contribute to recent enrollment declines at institutions of higher education.
Wonkhe
DECEMBER 8, 2022
This week on the podcast the Free Speech Bill has cleared report stage in the Lords and NDAs have been banned in the process - we discuss what happens next. The post Podcast: Free speech bill, Brown review, ChatGPT appeared first on Wonkhe.
Campus Technology
DECEMBER 8, 2022
Starting in January 2023, Amazon Web Services Machine Learning University will offer a free AI educator enablement program prioritizing community colleges, minority-serving institutions, and historically Black colleges and universities in the United States, to help these institutions prioritize teaching database, artificial intelligence, and machine learning concepts to historically underserved students.
Inside Higher Ed
DECEMBER 8, 2022
Image: After a missed bond payment and months of uncertainty, Cazenovia College will close. The small, private liberal arts college in New York announced Wednesday that it would cease operations after the spring semester, citing financial concerns exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic and inflation that irreparably harmed the nearly 200-year-old institution.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
DECEMBER 8, 2022
Williams College faculty voted 81-5 to approve the creation of an Asian American studies (AAS) concentration beginning Fall 2023, The Williams Record reported. The vote – done at a Dec. 7 faculty meeting – will make Williams the first small liberal arts college in New England to establish such a program, according to Dr. Stephen Tifft, chair of the Committee on Educational Affairs (CEA) and professor of English.
Inside Higher Ed
DECEMBER 8, 2022
Image: It started with a casual conversation in a senior-level research methods class. Jennifer Shaw, a research associate in the social work department at Northwestern State University, a public institution in Natchitoches, La., asked a group of seniors if they were looking forward to graduation. One young man’s answer surprised her. “He said, ‘No, I can’t afford it.
Insight Into Diversity
DECEMBER 8, 2022
INSIGHT Into Diversity is pleased to welcome Paulette Patterson Dilworth, PhD, vice president for diversity, equity, and inclusion at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), as the newest member of its Editorial Board. Dilworth has accumulated more than 30 years of experience in higher education, diversity education, consulting and training, recruitment retention, research, teaching, and outreach.
Inside Higher Ed
DECEMBER 8, 2022
Blog: Learning Innovation We are always eager to hear new ways universities are creating affordable online programs at scale. It is the conversation we never tire of having, and this time, we are talking to colleagues and friends, Georgetown’s Kelly Otter and Coursera’s Betty Vandenbosch. These two leaders from Georgetown University and Coursera recently announced a new online bachelor’s completion program.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
DECEMBER 8, 2022
Legalized betting on college sports took center stage on the second day of the Sports Business Journal Intercollegiate Athletic Forum (IAF) Thursday in Las Vegas, with panels focusing on the opportunities and threats for schools from gambling and its effect on the mental health of athletes. Gambling on college sports has exploded since the Supreme Court ruled that states could legalize it in 2018.
Inside Higher Ed
DECEMBER 8, 2022
Given how many workers are planning to quit their jobs, employers must consider welcoming back top performers, writes Jessica M. Nicklin, who experienced it firsthand. 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?: Disable left side advertisement?
The PIE News
DECEMBER 8, 2022
Universities could play a more dynamic role in the admissions process by advising their agent partners on how many CAS allocations remain so agencies have a more realistic picture of whether to direct students to their institution in large numbers or not. This is just one of the suggestions that came from our education agent readers in a snapshot survey we undertook into the state of admissions – following feedback of extreme frustration and long waits for students to find out if they will recei
Academe Blog
DECEMBER 8, 2022
BY RAPHAEL SASSOWER Once upon a time, the administration of a sleepy state university proposed a new budget, offering the rationale that the new budget would “incentivize” departments and promote “entrepreneurial” conduct—couching it in terms of “decentralized” operations and rewarding colleges for increases in their student full-time equivalent enrollments.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
DECEMBER 8, 2022
By Carolyn Kuimelis. Naina Bhalla, The Dartmouth Students at a candlelight vigil to commemorate the lives of four Dartmouth College students who died during the 2020-21 academic year. A new lawsuit against Yale University comes amid increased scrutiny of higher-ed policies for leaves of absence.
Inside Higher Ed
DECEMBER 8, 2022
Image: Two tenured professors at Cuyahoga Community College in Ohio are suing former and current administrators at the college. The faculty members claim they were retaliated against after they raised concerns about course scheduling practices disadvantaging students of color in an interview with a local media outlet last year. The college denies the allegations.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
DECEMBER 8, 2022
Rutgers University faculty held rallies Dec. 6 at multiple campus locations, advocating for new union contracts, NJ.com reported. The largest – there were four – was at the College Avenue location in New Brunswick, which saw the participation of hundreds of supporters and some union leaders, such as American Association of University Professors President Dr.
Helix Education
DECEMBER 8, 2022
In 2022 RNL surveyed high school counselors and parents of high school students, and overwhelmingly they shared that the mental and emotional health of students was their most pressing concern. In addition, counselors said mental and emotional health was their primary job focus, and parents shared their worries about how mental and emotional health issues might impact their students’ lives and transition into college and adulthood. .
EdTech Magazine - Higher Education
DECEMBER 8, 2022
University esports programs have undergone a major evolution in recent years, expanding beyond a niche opportunity for student engagement to full-blown competitive teams that support their own career development programs, curriculums and more. The growth of scholastic esports programs has coincided with a massive boom in the greater esports world — which, according to one estimate, could be a $5.74 billion industry as early as 2030.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
DECEMBER 8, 2022
Chaka Cummings has been appointed the inaugural executive director of The Association for Teaching Black History in Kentucky. Chaka Cummings The association – consisting of Berea College, Kentucky State University, the Muhammad Ali Center, and Kentucky History Resources, LLC – will be in the Carter G. Woodson Center for Interracial Education at Berea College.
Insight Into Diversity
DECEMBER 8, 2022
The largest strike to ever disrupt higher education by teaching assistants, tutors, graduate student researchers, and postdoctoral scholars at the University of California (UC) System is entering its fourth week. Workers on strike are asking the UC System to support its diverse workforce with higher wages, improved leave for parents and caregivers, and childcare support, ABC News reports.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
DECEMBER 8, 2022
More than a third of journalism jobs will be lost 2002-2031 from decades of decline primarily due to newspaper downsizing and closures, a Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce (CEW) report found. Dr. Anthony P. Carnevale “Stop the Presses: Journalism Employment and the Economic Value of 850 Journalism and Communication Programs,” ranked journalism and communications programs at 850 schools in terms of metrics such as payoff for graduates in the labor market, earnings, and d
The Chronicle of Higher Education
DECEMBER 8, 2022
What if colleges paid students' tuition upfront? By James Nguyen H. Spencer. Stuart Bradford for The Chronicle. What if colleges paid students' tuition upfront?
Faculty Focus
DECEMBER 8, 2022
This article first appeared in Maryellen Weimer’s blog in April 13, 2016. © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. “First and last class sessions are the bookends that hold a course together.” I heard or read that somewhere—apologies to the source I can’t acknowledge. It’s a nice way to think about first and last class sessions. In general, teachers probably do better with the first class.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
DECEMBER 8, 2022
Law schools' squabble with 'U.S. News' is not a serious threat to the rankings regime. By Jelena Brankovic. photo illustration by Michael Theis, The Chronicle. Law schools' squabble with U.S. News is not a serious threat to the rankings regime.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
DECEMBER 8, 2022
Dr. Lewatis McNeal Lewatis McNeal has been named vice provost for regional higher education and partnerships at Ohio University. McNeal has a bachelor’s degree in nutrition and dietetics from the University of Arkansas, a master’s in public health education from Western Kentucky University, and a Ph.D. in health promotion and behavioral sciences from the University of Louisville.
Campus Technology
DECEMBER 8, 2022
Integrated text-to-speech provider ReadSpeaker has announced its audio library now features 245 languages and 68 dialects, including some considered threatened and endangered, with new ones continually being developed by on-staff linguists and language experts.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
DECEMBER 8, 2022
Chinese students face harassment for expressing their political views. Where's the outrage? By Jonathan Zimmerman. Josh Reynolds, AP. Chinese students face harassment for expressing their political views. Where's the outrage?
Inside Higher Ed
DECEMBER 8, 2022
A coalition of higher ed organizations is launching a campaign, called California Reconnect, to re-enroll adult learners who stopped out of college in the state. The three-year effort, announced today, will involve working with up to 30 California colleges and universities, with a focus on campuses located in regions that suffered economic losses during the pandemic.
Faculty Focus
DECEMBER 8, 2022
This article first appeared in Maryellen Weimer’s blog in April 13, 2016. © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. “First and last class sessions are the bookends that hold a course together.” I heard or read that somewhere—apologies to the source I can’t acknowledge. It’s a nice way to think about first and last class sessions. In general, teachers probably do better with the first class.
Inside Higher Ed
DECEMBER 8, 2022
A nonprofit operator of several colleges that have since closed is accusing the U.S. Department of Education of waging a hostile campaign against for-profit colleges. The Center for Excellence in Higher Education, a nonprofit, filed its lawsuit Tuesday in the Federal Court of Claims, seeking $500 million in damages for breach of contract, breach of good faith and illegal taking of funds, among other claims.
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