Higher Ed Dive

OCTOBER 6, 2023

More than 120 institutions are participating in the initiative, which aims to remove financial barriers for applicants.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

OCTOBER 6, 2023

By Megan Zahneis Csilla Cseke, MTI, AP Katalin Karikó The 2023 Nobel Prize winner says universities should set aside some funding to back scientists whose work isn't conventional enough to attract grants.

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Higher Ed Dive

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Under the policies, athletes would be required to report to their colleges any NIL deal worth a certain amount.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Waiting for FAFSA Liam Knox Fri, 10/06/2023 - 03:00 AM A major overhaul to the federal student aid form delayed its launch at least two months. That means headaches for everyone from financial aid officers to applicants.

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Higher Ed Dive

OCTOBER 6, 2023

We’re rounding up some of our biggest recent stories, from potential layoffs at Vermont State to financial exigency at Christian Brothers.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Arizona Faculty Threatened After Online Commotion Over Gender Teaching Ryan Quinn Fri, 10/06/2023 - 03:00 AM College of Nursing employees were called "groomers" and received threats in response to Libs of TikTok's posting of two class slides. Faculty members are criticizing the university’s response.

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Higher Ed Dive

OCTOBER 6, 2023

This is the second lawsuit that anti-affirmative action group Students for Fair Admissions has filed against a military academy.

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LSE Higher Education Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2023

What does your email signature say about you? In addition to basic information about your role and institution, educational qualifications, and professional affiliations, email signatures are often where academics take a stand, whether it’s about identity, politics, values, or beliefs. Is it the electronic version of wearing your heart on your sleeve?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Piedmont Community College will be offering a Taylor Swift course next year. Taylor Swift Scott Legato/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management file The course will be taught by Dr. David Townsend, dean of university transfer and general education and a self-proclaimed “life-long Swiftie.” Seeing larger schools with similar offerings inspired him to create the course about the popular artist, he said.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Grand Canyon University Lambastes Federal Agencies in ‘Unusual’ Public Statement Katherine Knott Fri, 10/06/2023 - 03:00 AM One of the nation’s largest Christian institutions claims the U.S. is “coordinating” attacks against it.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 6, 2023

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris will visit the College of Charleston on Oct. 11, as part of her Fight for Our Freedoms college tour. U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images The event will take place at 1 p.m. at the Sottile Theatre. The tour itself is meant to focus on issues disproportionately impacting young people, such as reproductive freedom, gun safety, climate action, voting rights, LGBTQ+ equality, mental health, and book bans, according to a press release.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Federal Grant Proves Elusive for Certain Colleges kathryn.palmer… Fri, 10/06/2023 - 03:00 AM The money is set aside for institutions serving large numbers of Asian American, Native American and Pacific Islander students, but many eligible colleges don’t apply because of bureaucratic hurdles.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

OCTOBER 6, 2023

As academic disparities hurt colleges' retention efforts, advocates are pushing for a way forward. By Adrienne Lu Illustration by The Chronicle; iStock images Academic disparities between student groups are hurting colleges' overall retention efforts. Advocates are pushing for a way forward.

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Educause

OCTOBER 6, 2023

In 2023, the 25th anniversary of EDUCAUSE, the association has updated its vision, mission, strategic priorities, and values. This article summarizes the important changes that will guide EDUCAUSE in the years ahead.

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The PIE News

OCTOBER 6, 2023

International students may be able to work more hours and stay in New Zealand for longer after graduating if the country’s current opposition is elected when voters go to the polls later this month, according to the National party’s manifesto. The centre-right party has promised to revive the international education sector in a bid to boost the country’s economy and improve funding for tertiary institutions.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Pat Fitzgerald, the Northwestern University football coach who was suspended and later fired following allegations of hazing on the football team, is suing the university for wrongful termination, the

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The PIE News

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Canada risks falling behind other countries unless government takes “immediate and significant action” to fund its science and research output, the federal government in Ottawa has been told. Leading higher education and research organisations have come together as the Coalition for Canadian Research. Together, they are pressing the government to “show ambition” and recommit to research after two successive years without any new funding and stagnant levels of support for

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Columbia College plans to cut more than 120 jobs and close 17 of its 45 locations across the U.S. to address a budget shortfall at the private institution headquartered in Missouri, KOMU reported. In all, 122 jobs—some vacant—are expected to be cut, according to KOMU, the local NBC affiliate.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The interest rates on new graduate loans from the U.S. Department of Education now top 7% while those for undergraduate loans have reached over 5%, the highest levels they’ve been in over a decade. That’s partly because the Federal Reserve has been combating elevated inflation by raising its benchmark interest rate to the highest level in over two decades.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The state of Michigan will no longer require a bachelor’s degree for many state jobs if the applicants are military veterans who have completed at least two years of active service at the rank of staff sergeant or above.

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SRHE

OCTOBER 6, 2023

by Sam Elkington and Jill Dickinson Wednesday September 13 th was the final instalment of the three-part SRHE ‘Landscapes of Learning for Unknown Futures: prospects for space in higher education’ symposia series, delivered in partnership with series co-convenors Professor Sam Elkington and Dr Jill Dickinson. This was the final symposium in the series following on from the inaugural symposium event (in April 2023), which used the lens of ‘Networks’ to discuss contemporary evidence of how HE learn

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University Business

OCTOBER 6, 2023

United States Vice President Kamala Harris will visit the College of Charleston as part of her “Fight for Our Freedoms” college tour, the school announced Thursday. The visit will come on Wednesday, Oct. 11. The event will be held in the Sottile Theatre, beginning at 1 p.m. Harris’ tour touches on critical issues such as reproductive freedom, gun safety, climate action, voting rights, LGBTQ+ equality, mental health, and book bans.

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PeopleAdmin

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Recent Product Highlights In August and September, PeopleAdmin rolled out new features and updates to increase efficiencies across campus, enable effective academic workflows, and streamline job postings. Here are highlights of what’s new: Hiring and Onboarding: User interface: Clearly tell when your edits have been made successfully The user interface was improved to help visually differentiate that edits to postings, positions descriptions, and other objects have been successfully completed in

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University Business

OCTOBER 6, 2023

University of Nebraska President Ted Carter, at an NU Board of Regents meeting at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, said the work outlined this summer in a “Five-Point Plan” is ongoing to address a projected $58 million shortfall over the next two years. That plan is not just a drill to find cost savings, Carter said, because without action, the university’s deficit will grow and the risk of losing major programs or even colleges will increase.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The increasing frequency of ransomware threats and attacks have spurred colleges and universities to focus on cybersecurity defenses. However, physical security at higher education institutions is also a major concern and can be just as challenging. Most universities, especially large ones, employ campus police, but they can’t be everywhere at once.

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University Business

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Among the college presidents to come and go in the past two weeks, two positions were indirectly decided by Gov. Ron DeSantis and his plan to re-envision education in Florida. Among the slate of presidents to announce their plans to retire in the next year, all three double as school alumni. Hired Richard Corcoran – New College of Florida Richard Corcoran has officially become the permanent president of New College of Florida after serving as interim president since January.

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Coursera blog

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Meet Olivia, a Richmond, Virginia-based web designer with over six years of professional experience in the creative industry. Read more about Olivia and how she uses UX design to show off her creative skills for her clients. I have successfully completed three courses: Foundations of User Experience (UX) Design , Start the UX Design Process: Empathize, Define, and Ideate , and Build Wireframes and Low-Fidelity Prototypes.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The National Collegiate Athletic Association on Thursday reversed an earlier ruling that had made a football player transferring to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ineligible to compete. That isn’t remarkable: the NCAA makes such rulings regularly. But the language it used in announcing the decision was.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Among the people streaming onto Baker College campuses early this fall were some new faces: federal investigators conducting an unusual review of the marketing and recruitment practices of the Michigan private college. The investigators looked at records and asked questions about admission interactions, including what prospective students were told about cost, financial aid and postgraduation salaries, according to multiple sources with direct knowledge who spoke anonymously because they said th

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The Swedish Academy has awarded Norwegian playwright Jon Fosse the 2023 Nobel Prize in literature “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable.” “While he is today one of the most widely performed playwrights in the world, he has also become increasingly recognised for his prose,” the citation read.

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Educause

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Gartner Group Vice President Steve Wenc talks about ways campuses can harness data for student success.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

OCTOBER 6, 2023

My friend and colleague John Bynner, who has died aged 85, was a social scientist who championed Britain’s birth cohort studies and had a mission to put the evidence to the greater good. John believed that data should inform policy to help people who are disadvantaged. His research on the penalties of the poor literacy and numeracy revealed in young adults by the cohort studies led to a national campaign.

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University Business

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Texas A&M University’s Interim President Mark Welsh III told faculty and staff in College Station on Wednesday that the university will largely stay the course on many unpopular organizational changes initiated by his predecessor. But he said that he and his administration will closely monitor the changes and continue to gather feedback from faculty and staff to make sure the new policies work as they’re intended to and assess if they need to be tweaked or abandoned in the future.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Today on the Academic Minute, part of SUNY Polytechnic Institute Week: Adam McLain, associate professor of biology, travels to Africa to observe one of the natural world’s many secrets.

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totallyrewired

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Babies and Bathwater: How Far Will AI Necessitate an Assessment Revolution?

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Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Community college students in California who transfer to historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) will be eligible for a one-time grant of up to $5,000 thanks to a new bill signed by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom. Since California has no HBCUs, Assembly Bill 1400 is designed to offset out-of-state tuition costs, creating a “California-to-HBCU-to-California pipeline” that will benefit the state when students graduate and return, according to a statement from the California

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Georgia Democratic lawmakers are calling on Gov. Brian Kemp to address funding gaps for state HBCUs. Rep. Sandra Scott Reps. Sandra Scott ,Viola Davis, and Kim Schofield hosted a news conference last week to call attention to funding issue. The lawmakers argued that funding has been a longstanding problem and threatened Kemp with a federal lawsuit if he makes no attempt to fix it.

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