Higher Ed Dive

JUNE 5, 2023

Creating internships and focusing on short-term experiences has a big impact, the longtime undergraduate dean at the University of Chicago says.

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Wonkhe

JUNE 5, 2023

Ifedapo Francis Awolowo explains how a personalised mentoring scheme could be increasing Black students' participation in postgraduate study. The post How ASPIRE is changing the narratives for Black students appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Higher Ed Dive

JUNE 5, 2023

Although the newest figures suggest enrollment losses are stabilizing, a deeper look reveals a more complicated picture.

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JUNE 5, 2023

A recent parliamentary committee report called for the REF to incentivise reproducibility – but more fundamentally the issue is about promoting openness and transparency. Grace Gottlieb explains The post Transparency is the key to trusting researchers appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Higher Ed Dive

JUNE 5, 2023

The end of the repayment freeze was part of the debt ceiling legislation President Joe Biden signed Saturday.

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Wonkhe

JUNE 5, 2023

Revised guidance is out from the CMA that significantly strengthens students' rights as consumers. Jim Dickinson wrings the changes The post Making major changes to courses just got a lot harder appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Higher Ed Dive

JUNE 5, 2023

Public college governing boards have lacked political diversity, critics say, arguing that proposed legislation might make that worse.

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Inside Higher Ed

JUNE 5, 2023

The proposed ban comes as more states are restricting colleges and universities from withholding transcripts when a student owes money to the institution. The planned federal ban would only apply in some cases. A proposed ban to limit when colleges and universities can withhold a student’s transcript could help thousands of students, if not more than a million, access their credits and resume their college education, experts and advocates say.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2023

Mendocino College has achieved the highest percentage of Native American students among all California Community Colleges, The Ukiah Daily Journal reported. Mendocino College hosts the Native Learning Symposium, a speaker series with local tribe representatives, Native American experts, elders, and educators to teach about the tribes in the Mendocino-Lake Community College District.

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Insight Into Diversity

JUNE 5, 2023

Two-thirds of Americans oppose banning the consideration of race and ethnicity in college and university admissions processes, according to a new survey conducted by the Associated Press (AP) and NORC at the University of Chicago. This key finding is true for both Democrats (65 percent) and Republicans (60 percent), according to the AP-NORC survey analysis.

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Inside Higher Ed

JUNE 5, 2023

Many Ph.D. students struggle to identify such positions outside the professoriate, writes Jocelyn Frelier, who recommends a few key questions to help get started. When I began writing recently for Inside Higher Ed about career opportunities beyond academe, my first essay mentioned a sentiment that is pervasive among Ph.D. students: “I don’t know how to pick a new career path.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2023

Morgan State University’s marching band, the Magnificent Marching Machine, will be the first from a historically Black college or university to participate in the international D-Day Normandy Parade in Normandy, France, on June 6, 2024. Morgan State University’s Magnificent Marching Machine plans to fundraise to cover costs associated with the band’s appearance in the international D-Day Normandy Parade in Normandy, France, on June 6, 2024.

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Inside Higher Ed

JUNE 5, 2023

Multiple outlets reported that a diversity, equity and inclusion task force’s recommendations at UNC’s School of Medicine aren’t moving forward. The truth appears more complex. Mark Twain famously almost said, “Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.” “Greatly” wasn’t in Twain’s actual quote, and he only referenced one premature expiration report.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2023

By Julian Roberts-Grmela Getty Images While some residential colleges have held firm on returning to fully in-person learning, others are embracing a flexible future.

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Inside Higher Ed

JUNE 5, 2023

North Idaho College president Nick Swayne has won a lawsuit allowing him to be permanently reinstated to his position after a majority of the Board of Trustees removed him earlier this year for unclear reasons.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2023

Meharry Medical College’s School of Dentistry is launching an innovation center for dental technology and education to establish five new examination rooms. Meharry Medical College’s School of Dentistry will be launching a new innovation center for dental technology and education, slated to open in the next year. The center – partially funded by the Center for Research and Education Technology’s 2023 Innovation Center Award – will allow Meharry to establish five new examination rooms, each consi

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University Business

JUNE 5, 2023

Pennsylvania is facing a double-edged sword in funding its higher education system next year, so much so that Gov. Josh Shapiro proclaimed his state’s public higher education system “isn’t working. ” Since then, he has commissioned his Acting Education Secretary Khalid Mumin to create a task force to develop a statewide reform plan for next year.

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Insight Into Diversity

JUNE 5, 2023

As part of its efforts to return Indigenous remains to their tribes, the University of Montana (UM) has hired Courtney Little Axe to serve as its inaugural repatriation coordinator. Little Axe, a member of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe, interned at UM’s Anthropology Department in 2015, where she began working on the repatriation of Indigenous remains and artifacts.

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The PIE News

JUNE 5, 2023

One of the topics highlighted during sessions at spring conferences, such as NAFSA , ASU +GSV and DETcon , was AI and its implications on the international education sector. While some stakeholders indicated early AI conversation fatigue, particularly around ChatGTP, others asserted that the sector has just scratched the surface. Global engagement education technology provider Terra Dotta , announced plans to integrate generative AI into its global engagement platform.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2023

The career goals and objectives of business students have evolved greatly over the past decade. While there are many undergraduates and graduate students aiming for careers in banking or finance, there are also entrepreneurs, innovators, people interested in hospital administration, and others seeking positions at nonprofit organizations. We take a look at institutions that have excelled at graduating a diverse student base.

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University Business

JUNE 5, 2023

Over the past decade, we have heard the steady message that higher education is at a crossroads. Student frustration over the high cost—and lack of transparency—of earning a degree has clashed with the ever-increasing costs of operating an academic enterprise. Yet, change has happened in pockets, and slowly. Trends facing higher education suggest that we may finally be approaching the tipping point at which institutions must accelerate, transformation or face significant financial headwinds.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2023

Shannon Walls Shannon Walls has been named interim vice president for institutional advancement at Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri. Walls served as the college’s Title IX coordinator, special assistant to the president, and staff liaison for the trusteeship committee for the board of trustees. Walls earned a B.F.A. in Theatre Arts from Stephens and began working at the college.

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Inside Higher Ed

JUNE 5, 2023

Conversations around AI in the classroom need to be more explicit about addressing the opaque nature of technologies such as Chat GPT.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2023

Dr. Leah P. Hollis will become associate dean for access, equity, and inclusion in the Penn State College of Education, effective Aug. 1. Dr. Leah P. Hollis Hollis is currently faculty in the Department of Advanced Studies, Leadership and Policy at Morgan State University; senior researcher at Boston University’s (BU) Wheelock College of Education and Human Development Center for Character and Social Responsibility; and senior research associate in the Samuel Dewitt Proctor Institute in the Rut

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2023

A system that encourages anonymous snitching is intrinsically abusive. By Christopher J. Ferguson Joyce Hesselberth for The Chronicle A system that encourages anonymous snitching is intrinsically abusive.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2023

Richie C. Hunter Richie C. Hunter has been appointed vice president for communications at the University of Michigan. She served as vice president for communications at the University of Oregon. Hunter earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Southern California and an MBA from Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2023

Advice for a department head who is uncertain whether a pattern of cc’d emails is well-intentioned or toxic. By Kevin Dettmar Sam Kalda for The Chronicle Advice for a department head who is uncertain whether a pattern of cc’d emails is well-intentioned or toxic.

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Inside Higher Ed

JUNE 5, 2023

Reputation, Affordability, Location and… Mental Health? Featured Image at Top of Article GettyImages-515842475.jpg colleen.

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The PIE News

JUNE 5, 2023

International students are falling victim to sexual exploitation and are being used to traffic drugs in the Greater Toronto Area, Canada, an NGO has said. Sunder Singh is the executive director of the Elspeth Heyworth Centre for Women, an organisation that supports women in the Toronto community. She told The PIE News that Canada’s high cost of living paired with tuition fees have made female students enter the sex trade out of desperation.

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Inside Higher Ed

JUNE 5, 2023

Some new trustees at the University of Virginia are pushing for the university to collect information about the political views of the faculty and students, The Daily Progress reported.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2023

Debra Hanken Kurtz Debra Hanken Kurtz has been named associate dean of technology and digital scholarship for Florida State University Libraries. She served as director of data governance at Arizona State University. Kurtz holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Arizona State University and a Master of Library Science degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Inside Higher Ed

JUNE 5, 2023

A jury has awarded $240,000 in damages to two blind students who sued the Los Angeles Community College District. The jury concluded that the district violated the Americans With Disabilities Act in 14 different ways, according to a press release from Brown, Goldstein & Levy, the law firm representing the students.

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The PIE News

JUNE 5, 2023

Universities in Wales and Canada have reached a new agreement to strengthen educational cooperation between the two countries. Institutions have committed to developing long-term relationships and promoting collaboration between the nations under a new Memorandum of Understanding signed by Universities Wales and Universities Canada on May 30. Under the agreement, the organisations plan to increase short-term staff and student exchanges as well as enhance research and development collaborations

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Inside Higher Ed

JUNE 5, 2023

A visiting history professor at New College of Florida who criticized NCF’s Board of Trustees and interim president—as well as Governor Ron DeSantis’s efforts to reshape higher education in the state—is out after the administration decided not to renew his contract, Miami New Times reported.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2023

One of the nation’s largest Hispanic serving institutions will unveil a new virtual campus for select students later this year, using virtual reality and augmented reality tools to provide enhanced teaching, learning and engagement opportunities. National University announced the new campus this spring via press release, saying some of its more than 40,000 students will have access to the virtual environment as early as this year.

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Inside Higher Ed

JUNE 5, 2023

Some new trustees at the University of Virginia are pushing for the university to collect information about the political views of the faculty and students, The Daily Progress

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The Guardian - Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2023

Matt Cook, who has written on queer urban life and the Aids crisis, takes up the new post at Mansfield College The renowned cultural historian Matt Cook is to become the UK’s first fully endowed professor of LGBTQ+ history in a newly created post at Mansfield College, Oxford. Cook, who has written extensively on queer urban life, the Aids crisis and queer domesticity, will become the first Jonathan Cooper chair of the history of sexualities later this year.

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