Wonkhe
DECEMBER 12, 2022
For Nick Isles, recent ministerial comments about international students have been dangerously underinformed. The post International students and specialist courses appeared first on Wonkhe.
Higher Ed Dive
DECEMBER 12, 2022
Harvard Business School's Project on Managing the Future of Work and the American Association of Community Colleges suggest ways to reboot the system.
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Wonkhe
DECEMBER 12, 2022
Student engagement in the quality of teaching has been proven to work. Eve Lewis from sparqs shares Scotland's experiences. The post Quality enhancement needs student engagement appeared first on Wonkhe.
Higher Ed Dive
DECEMBER 12, 2022
Most students still submit fewer than five applications, the Common App finds. But a growing handful submits as many as 20.
The Berkeley Blog
DECEMBER 12, 2022
Many German corporations benefited enormously from supporting and advancing Nazi persecution, particularly through the use of abusive forced labor often entailing torture and frequently leading to injury, illness, and premature death during World War 2 and the Holocaust. While some German corporations have acknowledged their crimes fully and sought to direct funds towards public education.
Higher Ed Dive
DECEMBER 12, 2022
Paul Pastorek, president of the University of Arizona Global Campus, explains why his institution cut ties with Zovio, a former online program manager.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
DECEMBER 12, 2022
As institutions wrap up their fall semesters, many faculty, staff, and students look forward to a chance to go home to familiar stomping grounds and family traditions. But for students who identify as LGBTQ+, particularly those who identify as non-binary, going home for winter break can paint a more complicated picture. Holiday stress impacts almost all students, according to a new survey of over 1,200 students from TimelyMD, a virtual health and wellbeing company that partners with almost 250 h
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Campus Technology
DECEMBER 12, 2022
Why is learning about the metaverse important to first-year college students? Here, two Bentley University faculty meet with CT to explain how their unique course offering on the metaverse supports the goals of the institution's new undergraduate core curriculum.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
DECEMBER 12, 2022
The University of Dayton (UDayton) will launch a fellowship program to provide paid internships, mentoring, and professional development to underrepresented students from the Dayton region. The three-year Health Equity Fellows program will see fellows participate in two yearlong paid internships; mentoring with Dayton Children’s Hospital and the Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine; specialized education focused on health policy, social determinants of health, and medical ethics;
The PIE News
DECEMBER 12, 2022
UK universities have established plans to move into Indonesia, following a higher education mission led by the government’s international education champion Steve Smith. . Representatives from 13 UK universities visited Jakarta at the end of November to meet with Indonesian academic institutions and discuss future collaborations and transnational education partnerships.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
DECEMBER 12, 2022
To have the best chance of revealing their strengths, would-be Ph.D.s need a clear idea of what we’re looking for. By Roman Feiman. Keith Negley for the Chronicle. To have the best chance of revealing their strengths, would-be Ph.D.s need a clear idea of what we’re looking for.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
DECEMBER 12, 2022
Morgan State University, a Historically Black university in Baltimore, has been awarded the 2022 ETS/CGS Award for Innovation in Promoting Success in Graduate Education: From Admission through Completion from The Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) and ETS. The award applauds promising and innovative proposals to improve student success and degree completion at master’s and doctoral levels while promoting inclusiveness, with the winner receiving a two-year, $20,000 matching grant.
Inside Higher Ed
DECEMBER 12, 2022
I’m a strong supporter of affirmative action. It has helped generate student bodies that are vastly more diverse than the ones I encountered in college. My own students learn much more than I did about different ethnic and racial groups, and they’re also less likely to exhibit biases against people who don’t look like them. But affirmative action has sometimes reflected and reinforced biases, too.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
DECEMBER 12, 2022
Meharry Medical College and Nashville Metro government have come to an agreement that will give millions of dollars to the college for housing Nashville General Hospital, The Tennessean r eported. The plan – pending Metro Council approval – involves the city paying Meharry $6.3 million in rent this year to house the hospital, with costs increasing by 2.5% each year thereafter, through the end of the lease in December 2027.
Inside Higher Ed
DECEMBER 12, 2022
Category: Carpe Careers Joseph Barber provides a roundup of career advice from this past year to help guide you in the new one. Editorial Tags: Career Advice Show on Jobs site: Image Source: bymuratdeniz/istock/getty images plus Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?: Disable left side advertisement?
The Chronicle of Higher Education
DECEMBER 12, 2022
A professor recounts its physical, emotional, and intellectual toll. By Megan Zahneis. Niki Williams. Rogério Meireles Pinto lost his bid at Columbia University in 2015. The experience still haunts him.
Inside Higher Ed
DECEMBER 12, 2022
Image: Tensions escalated last week between the University of California system and the New School and their respective striking academic workers. As both labor actions entered their fourth weeks, more than two dozen UC workers were arrested at two protests in California, and the New School in New York started withholding pay and benefits from part-time faculty strikers and told student workers to sign work attestations.
University Business
DECEMBER 12, 2022
The past couple of years have without a doubt proved difficult for students as they continue to navigate the murky waters of higher education amidst inflation and crippling tuition costs. But colleges aren’t turning a blind eye to the issues. Zaneta Encarnacion, chief of staff to the superintendent/president of the Southwestern Community College District, shared with University Business how Southwestern College is investing in its students through impactful student resources such as emerg
Inside Higher Ed
DECEMBER 12, 2022
Image: A new report , released today, concludes that community college leaders and employers are failing to partner with each other in ways that meet both of their needs. The findings are based on November 2020 surveys of employers and community college leaders, conducted by the Harvard Business School Project on Managing the Future of Work and the American Association of Community Colleges.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
DECEMBER 12, 2022
Dr. Anne McCall will become the 13th president of the College of Wooster, effective July 2023, which will make her the second woman in the role. Dr. Anne McCall "I'm honored and thrilled to be chosen as the next president of the College of Wooster," McCall said. McCall is currently provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at Xavier University of Louisiana.
UIA (University Innovation Alliance)
DECEMBER 12, 2022
The University Innovation Alliance's Three Playbooks for Student Success. bridget. Thu, 12/15/2022 - 06:00. Advising. College to Career. Completion Grants. The University Innovation Alliance (UIA) operates as a multi-campus laboratory for student success innovation. Since launching in 2014, UIA institutions have increased the number of graduates of color produced annually by 93% and the number of low-income graduates produced annually by 50%, resulting in 118,000 more graduates than projected.
The PIE News
DECEMBER 12, 2022
A boom in professional short course numbers has indicated that six month visitor visas were at a bottleneck in the spring, and could be at the same time in 2023, according to stakeholders. Independent HE said that the idea of having both study and tourism stints that are under six months in one visa may not be viable – especially when it is affecting movement of students altogether.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
DECEMBER 12, 2022
Khalilah Shabazz Khalilah Shabazz has been appointed vice president and chief diversity officer at Butler University in Indianapolis. Shabazz holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees and an educational doctorate from Indiana University/Purdue University Indianapolis.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
DECEMBER 12, 2022
By Emma Pettit. The sole finalist for the job is Amy Parsons, previously a Colorado State lawyer and administrator. Some faculty members have questions.
The Guardian - Higher Education
DECEMBER 12, 2022
Dr Kajal Sharma was only one of 12 senior academics not to be reappointed to her post A university has been found to have discriminated against an Indian lecturer on the grounds of race after it failed to reappoint her for a job she had been doing for five years, replacing her with a white candidate with no experience of the role. Dr Kajal Sharma was one of only two senior lecturers at the University of Portsmouth who were not reappointed to their jobs when their contract came to an end, while 1
UW Presidential Blog
DECEMBER 12, 2022
As our autumn quarter draws to a close and we look ahead to the start of a new year, I am deeply grateful for the rekindled sense of community and togetherness that has marked these first months of our academic year. Togetherness arises in many ways across our three campuses – it happens in gatherings like W Day and Family Weekend , in celebrating the UW men’s soccer team’s Pac-12 championship or in Husky Stadium where our Husky football team was unbeatable this season.
ACRLog
DECEMBER 12, 2022
It’s hard to believe that my first semester as an academic librarian is nearly over. Scheduling the reference desk and hiring a new student worker for spring semester have taken a lot of my attention these past few weeks. I’ve started a personal project based on my work in the meantime though, which was inspired by this book chapter by McDonough and Lemon.
Inside Higher Ed
DECEMBER 12, 2022
Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean Last week, following up on an excellent program by New America, I asked my wise and worldly readers if they had better names for noncredit programs than “noncredit programs.” It’s a term that doesn’t mean much to most people who aren’t already in higher ed, and it defines programs by what they are not.
University Business
DECEMBER 12, 2022
Higher education in the U.S. is in the midst of a sea change, forcing schools to adapt with the times. It suggests that there’s a broader question about the value of college and particularly concerns about student debt and paying for college and potential labor market returns,” Doug Shapiro, the executive director of the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, said earlier this year, per the New York Times.
Inside Higher Ed
DECEMBER 12, 2022
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago has revoked an honorary degree granted in 2015 to Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, The Chicago Sun-Times reported. “The School of the Art Institute of Chicago condemns and repudiates Kanye West’s (now known as Ye) anti-Black, antisemitic, racist, and dangerous statements, particularly those directed at Black and Jewish communities.
SRHE
DECEMBER 12, 2022
by Jacqueline Stevenson, Tom Power and Alison Fox. There are good reasons why institutional human research ethics committees (RECs) or research ethics boards (REBs) are needed in higher education institutions – namely, to ensure research participants are treated in accordance with a set of agreed standards and principles. This includes, for example, avoiding harm, ensuring informed consent, clarifying how any data collected will be stored and used, and ensuring transparency in relation to
Inside Higher Ed
DECEMBER 12, 2022
South Dakota’s higher education system will uphold the state’s new ban on using TikTok on state-issued devices, the Argus Leader reported. That means public institutions will delete any TikTok accounts they currently operate, Brian Maher, executive director of the state’s Board of Regents, announced Thursday. On Nov. 29, Governor Kristi Noem announced the ban in an executive order, expressing concerns about security given the Chinese government’s influence on ByteDance, t
HEPI
DECEMBER 12, 2022
This blog was kindly contributed by Liz Shutt, now Programme Director for the new Insights North East initiative at Newcastle and Northumbria Universities. Until recently Liz was Director of Policy for both the University of Lincoln and the Greater Lincolnshire Local Enterprise Partnership. The blog refers to work undertaken in this previous role. [G]overnment, states, local communities, schools, colleges, companies, families, and personal and professional networks all help form the infrastructu
Inside Higher Ed
DECEMBER 12, 2022
Kay Ellis, vice president of administration and finance at Bronx Community College, has resigned from her position, effective Dec. 31, The Bronx Times reported. She resigned the day before a vote of no confidence was scheduled. Despite her resignation, the College Senate passed the measure, 47 to 7. The college went without heat for more than a month this fall.
PeopleAdmin
DECEMBER 12, 2022
Why PeopleAdmin? Ann Robinson, Human Resources Systems Administrator at Montana State University , manages the PeopleAdmin platform across four different MSU campuses: Montana State University, MSU Billings, MSU Northern, and Great Falls College. The HigherEd platform has made processes across several campuses easier and faster for a number of teams at MSU, and Ann appreciates how PeopleAdmin supports her complex role.
Inside Higher Ed
DECEMBER 12, 2022
The Common Application limits the number of applications a person may file to 20. The Common App recently did a study on those who apply to many colleges and found they are a growing minority. The average number of applications was 4.63 in 2013–14, rising to 6.22 in the 2021–22 season. The proportion of applicants applying to more than 10 colleges in the Common App has increased from 8 percent to 17 percent during that time.
University Business
DECEMBER 12, 2022
A month into the nation’s largest strike involving higher education, the work stoppage by University of California academic workers at 10 campuses is causing stress for many students who are facing canceled classes, no one to answer their questions and uncertainty about how they will be graded as they wrap up the year. Some 48,000 student employees walked off the job on Nov. 14 to demand higher wages and better benefits.
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