Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 17, 2022

When I was growing up, my parents would tell me, “Good things come in small packages.” For years, I thought they gave my sister and me this counsel because we were lower middle class and didn’t have all the big things others did. Now, I see this through a new lens as my husband, Richard, and I have made our first big philanthropic investment in higher education: supporting one of our nation’s small liberal arts colleges.

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AUGUST 17, 2022

Reading Time: 8 minutes Despite being popular for years, blogs continue to dominate as a powerful method of attracting and engaging prospective students. By choosing the right blog topics for education , your school can create content that captivates prospects and encourages them to explore what more your school has to offer. . Research shows that companies who use blogs as part of their marketing initiatives produce an average of 67% more leads each month.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 17, 2022

Image: “When was your last period?” health-care professionals ask patients during routine gynecological exams. Menstrual tracking can help a person achieve or avoid pregnancy, understand fertility, anticipate premenstrual syndrome, and detect cycle irregularities that serve as early warning signs of health problems. But when that information is logged on a smartphone app, it could be used as evidence of criminal activity in states where abortion is restricted.

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AUGUST 17, 2022

Every Campus A Refuge is mobilizing colleges and universities to host refugees and support them in their resettlement. The post Every Campus A Refuge: When University Becomes a Home appeared first on WENR.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 17, 2022

Eric Vanden Eykel describes how he learned firsthand how faculty members’ failings can become opportunities for positive change. Ad keywords: teachinglearning Section: Teaching and Learning Editorial Tags: Teaching Teaching Today Show on Jobs site: Image Source: skynesher/E+/getty images Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 17, 2022

Image: Students at Virginia Commonwealth University might run across a new but familiar sight while walking through the Richmond campus this fall: a man on an electric bicycle, the words “free naloxone bike” laser-etched into a wooden lockbox above the handlebars. That man would be John Freyer, an associate professor of cross-disciplinary media at VCU.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 17, 2022

Shivanthi Anandan , vice provost for undergraduate education at Drexel University, in Pennsylvania, has been selected as provost and vice president of academic affairs at LaSalle University, also in Pennsylvania. Nuno Fernandes , president and CEO of Ilumno, in Brazil, has been chosen as president of American Public University System, in West Virginia.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 17, 2022

California community colleges have made progress in reducing remedial math course offerings, but inequities in access to credit-bearing courses persist, according to a new report by the California Acceleration Project, a faculty-driven effort to monitor and guide remedial education reform within the system. The report analyzed fall 2022 course schedules at 115 community colleges to assess the extent to which campuses are complying with Assembly Bill 705 , a state law that sought to increase the

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 17, 2022

The Caring Campus initiative, a national effort to foster a caring culture at community colleges, has yielded positive results by engaging campus staff members, according to a recent study by the Community College Research Center at Columbia University’s Teachers College. The initiative, launched in 2018 by the Institute for Evidence-Based Change, a nonprofit that works with education stakeholders to improve student outcomes, aims to improve the quality of interactions between faculty and

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 17, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean. This one is in hopes that some of my wise and worldly readers know some useful things that I don’t know. Happily, I have the best readers ever, so this approach frequently works. It’s about Prior Learning Assessment, usually abbreviated as PLA. PLA is a catchall term for a set of processes by which students can gain academic credit for knowledge or skills they’ve picked up in other settings,such as through work.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 17, 2022

The Facebook page of Thomas More University, a Roman Catholic institution in Kentucky, has been hacked. Instead of news from the university, the site has since Friday featured photographs of women with messages such as, “Can’t sleep without someone to cuddle with” or “I just rented a room that can accommodate 2 people but I'm alone so if you're looking for a place to stay hit me up.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 17, 2022

Harvard University’s business school, which charges $76,000 in tuition, announced Tuesday that it would award full tuition scholarships to the bottom 10 percent of the class in terms of their ability to pay. The business school will also offer more aid to middle income students. “We know that talent is much more evenly distributed than opportunity,” said the dean, Srikant Datar.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 17, 2022

Today on the Academic Minute , part of University of Miami Miller School of Medicine Week: James Galvin, professor of neurology, delves into how to stop misdiagnoses for one disease. 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

AUGUST 17, 2022

Misdiagnosis is a common problem that can cause havoc for patients. In today’s Academic Minute, part of University of Miami Miller School of Medicine Week, James Galvin delves into how to stop this for one disease. Galvin is a professor of neurology at Miami’s Miller School. A transcript of this podcast can be found here. Section: Academic Minute File: 08-17-22 Miami - Properly Diagnosing Lewy Body Dementia.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 17, 2022

Blog: Just Visiting Sometime later this week – probably Thursday - I will sit down and write six hundred words which will be a first draft of a column that will ultimately appear in the Chicago Tribune a week from Sunday. I have been doing this every single week for over ten years. From the moment I put the first words on the page to when I tap out the 600 th word, I will work diligently and consistently on the task without deviation.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 17, 2022

Image: Picture this: you are a student parent attending a public college. You come from a low-income family, making less than $30,000 a year. Between attending class, studying and parenting duties, you manage to work 10 hours a week making minimum wage. Think you can still afford both tuition and childcare? According to a new report from the Education Trust and Generation Hope released today, across the U.S., a student parent from a low-income background (a household making less than $30,000 a y

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 17, 2022

Image: The Education Department announced Tuesday that a total of $3.9 billion in student debt will be forgiven for all former ITT Technical Institute students. The department will also initiate a process to hold DeVry University, a for-profit that was found to falsely advertise job-placement rates, accountable to recoup $24 million to the department for borrower-defense claims.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 17, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma We need to do a much better job of teaching our students to write effectively. Effective writing is far too important to be left to freshman rhetoric and composition courses or designated writing intensive courses. By ghettoizing writing instruction in distinct courses, we inadvertently send our students a powerful message: That we don’t really value effective written scholarly communication.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 17, 2022

State legislative proposals to restrict the freedom to teach and learn have increased by 250 percent in 2022 compared to last year, according to a report released today by PEN America, the free expression and literary organization. Most of the bills focus on K-12 education, but 39 percent of bills have targeted colleges and universities, compared with 30 percent last year.

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