The Guardian - Higher Education

AUGUST 26, 2023

Compact teaching timetables will allow cash-strapped undergraduates to dovetail jobs with studies Universities are reducing the number of days students are required to be on campus to enable them to work part-time as they struggle to survive the cost of living crisis. Compact teaching timetables, where lectures and seminars are scheduled over two or three days rather than dotted throughout the week, are being introduced by a number of institutions.

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ACPA

AUGUST 26, 2023

ACPA’s Mid-Level Community of Practice (MLCOP) mission is to encourage, develop, and deliver programs and services focused on the needs of mid-level professionals in student affairs and higher education. MLCOP will be providing a scholarship to an individual to attend ACPA’s Donna M. Bourassa’s Mid-Level Management Institute (MMI).

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

AUGUST 26, 2023

The State University of New York at Potsdam plans to phase out four academic programs as it stares down a $9 million budget hole. The public institution intends to discontinue bachelor’s programs in computer science education, geographic information science, and speech communications, as well as a graduate-level certificate in college teaching.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

AUGUST 26, 2023

The learning experience was changing fast in a year when eight new universities were created A new cohort of school-leavers contemplate their options this month, many of which are available thanks to the 1960s university boom that reshaped British higher education. In 1966, a year when eight new universities were created, the Observer investigated two facets of that ‘student explosion’.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

AUGUST 26, 2023

AI Impact assessments are becoming more common, both as a voluntary measure and as a regulatory requirement. Astonishingly, most frameworks for impact assessments largely overlook the impact of AI on jobs. We urgently need tools to effectively evaluate and shape AI’s job impacts. Additionally, we must prepare ourselves for a potential future in which the demand for human labor undergoes dramatic shifts.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 26, 2023

Thousands gathered at the Lincoln Memorial on Saturday to mark the 60 th anniversary of the 1963 March for Jobs and Freedom. They came looking to the organizers of this year’s “ Not a Commemoration, a Continuation ” march to help transform a public demonstration into a robust legislative agenda that can aggressively counter the recent assaults on American democracy.

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