Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 16, 2022
Image: The director of the University of Florida’s honors program, who has been in the role eight years, says he was fired for no apparent reason with two years left on his current, five-year contract. Mark Law, the director, also says he was told that the university’s Board of Trustees insisted on his ouster, against the will of the university’s president and provost.
Community College League of California
AUGUST 16, 2022
The Community College League of California (League) is now accepting nominations for the 2022 California Community College Distinguished Alumni Award. Every year, this is an inspiring experience for all involved and we invite colleges to add an alumnus/alumnae to the impressive list. Complete the Online Nomination Form by 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday, August 31st.
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Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 16, 2022
Blog: Higher Ed Gamma. Who is a Black American? Barack Obama, the child of a Kenyan economist and an economic anthropologist, who was raised primarily by his white maternal grandmother? Kwame Akroma-Ampim Kusi Anthony Appiah, the London-born political and moral philosopher and cultural theorist, who was raised Kumasi, Ghana, and whose parents were a British children’s book author from a family that traced its ancestry to William the Conqueror, and a lawyer, diplomat, and politician from Gh
The Higher Ed Marketer
AUGUST 16, 2022
Many higher ed marketers think that paid media and PPC (Pay Per Click) ads are the answer to their problems, but most fail to realize that this is a long incubation process, and often, decisions won't be made from one ad. Our job as marketers is to create curiosity with our campaigns, and our guest today shows us how to do it. Today we talk with Matt Wszolek , the Senior Executive of Marketing & Media at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 16, 2022
Celina Ramirez describes why it’s important to offer each other grace at the beginning of a new academic year. Editorial Tags: Career Advice Show on Jobs site: Image Source: Yuoak/digitalvision vectors/getty images Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?: Disable left side advertisement?
The Berkeley Blog
AUGUST 16, 2022
Last fall, to little fanfare, the U.S. Copyright Office granted an exemption to a longstanding restriction on digital access to copyrighted books and movies, allowing academic researchers to bypass encryption so they can apply sophisticated datamining techniques to contemporary books and films. These same techniques have yielded powerful insights in the financial, science and medical.
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 16, 2022
Image: University of Missouri system employees are pushing back against proposed changes to the paid time off policy, saying it will mean a cut in benefits and less time off over all. The changes would affect about 13,000 staff members across the system’s four campuses and the university hospital. System officials said the plan, which is still subject to change, is aimed at modernizing the leave policy, boosting recruitment and retention, and saving money.
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Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 16, 2022
Image: For a long time, computer scientists struggled to develop artificial intelligence that could solve difficult symbolic math. At best, it could solve high school math problems—and not even well enough to pass those classes. That disappointed Iddo Drori, a computer science lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, whose 500 students in one of his classes a couple of years ago had more questions than he had time to answer.
HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)
AUGUST 16, 2022
Listen Now: Attention Retention, Episode 5. Together with our friends at Enrollify, Archer Education is bringing you a podcast about attracting and retaining the modern, adult learner. Listen in every other Tuesday this summer for Attention Retention : a six-part series with Angie Mohr, Clayton Dean, and Zach Busekrus. Episode 5: How Marketing & Enrollment Automation Empower Connection in the Student Journey.
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 16, 2022
Blog: Learning Innovation After the Ivory Tower Falls: How College Broke the American Dream and Blew Up Our Politics—and How to Fix It by Will Bunch. Published in August of 2022. Higher ed insiders are talking about Will Bunch’s After the Ivory Tower Falls. I’m hearing rumbles of book clubbing. Should you organize and participate in a campus conversation about After the Ivory Tower Falls ?
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 16, 2022
Judge Matthew F. Kennelly on Monday rejected an attempt by 16 private colleges, all of them well-known, to dismiss an antitrust case against the colleges. Kennelly rejected three separate proposals to dismiss the case. The college involved either are or were members of the 568 Group, which describes itself as “an affiliation of colleges and universities … [that] works together in an effort to maintain a need-based financial aid system that is understandable and fair and will bring g
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 16, 2022
The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, in a decision announced last week, upheld a requirement that many childcare workers in the District of Columbia hold a college degree. The rule, issued in 2016 by the D.C. Office of the State Superintendent, requires childcare workers at daycare centers and home-based childcare businesses of a certain size to have an associate degree in early-childhood education or a related field.
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 16, 2022
The University of California, Los Angeles, has lifted its indoor mask mandate , but the university still “strongly encouraged” people to wear a mask when indoors at UCLA. A statement from UCLA said, “The severity of illness seems to be waning,” so “we are adjusting our campus protocols to better align with current public health conditions in line with the transitions that have already occurred at other academic institutions, and within the county and state.
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 16, 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.
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 16, 2022
Completion rates for the Free Application for Federal Student Aid have increased slightly after a four-year decline, reaching 70 percent in academic year 2021–22, a 2 percent increase from the year prior. However, a report found that misconceptions and confusion about the FAFSA prevented many families from applying. The report by Sallie Mae , a loan servicer, and Ipsos, a global market research company, found that only 53 percent of families know that all students are eligible to send in t
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 16, 2022
Susan Whealler Johnston, president and CEO of the National Association of College and University Business Officers, has died due to cancer, NACUBO announced Monday. Johnston, who had led the organization since 2018, recently announced her retirement , effective later this month. At the time, NACUBO said she was stepping down to focus on her health. NACUBO is now organizing a tribute on the organization’s website.
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 16, 2022
Today on the Academic Minute , part of University of Miami Miller School of Medicine Week: Luanda Grazette, professor of medicine, explores why more patients survive heart failure than ever before. Learn more about the Academic Minute here. Is this diversity newsletter?: Hide by line?: Disable left side advertisement?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 16, 2022
More patients are surviving heart failure than ever before. In today’s Academic Minute, part of University of Miami Miller School of Medicine Week, Luanda Grazette examines why. Grazette is a professor of medicine and director of Advanced Heart Failure, Heart Failure Recovery and Therapeutic Innovation at Miami. A transcript of this podcast can be found here. .
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 16, 2022
Buffalo State College, of the State University of New York. Yew Wah (Jeffrey) Chow, business. Eric Dolph, art and design. Jessica Fitzpatrick, social work. Catherine Mazzotta, social work. Kathleen McNerney, speech-language pathology. Theresa Smith, art conservation. Suparna Soni, political science and public administration. McDaniel College. Chloe Irla, art.
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 16, 2022
In 2011, then Nokia CEO Stephen Elop delivered a poignant and passionate memo to all of the company’s employees. There was no sugarcoating the overarching theme of the sincere but somber and grimly characterized 1,227-word message. Nokia was “ standing on a burning platform.” The reference—to an oil rig explosion and one worker’s choice to either remain on the fiery precipice or jump almost 100 feet into the icy North Sea—illustrated Nokia’s dire future.
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 16, 2022
Column: Letters to the Editor To the Editor; The 8/1/22 Inside Higher Ed article, “Seattle Pacific Sues Washington AG,” contains several errors of fact that need to be corrected and additional editorial decisions that demonstrate bias in both terminology and perspective. In the initial news sub-headline, author Josh Moody incorrectly described the reason Seattle Pacific University (SPU) was compelled to file a federal lawsuit in the Washington Western District Court against the state
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 16, 2022
Blog: Just Explain It to Me! Has our world changed so dramatically that it’s time to revise the tone and tenor of academic year opening speeches? Probably. For years now, decades even, college and university presidents have made predictable, and perhaps rote, speeches welcoming the academic year. The pattern is the same, as if each institution has received a template and instructions for delivery via a CASE conference.
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 16, 2022
Image: Thousands of comments were sent to the Education Department on a new set of proposed regulations aimed to improve “targeted” debt relief programs for some student borrowers. Among the comments sent in before the deadline last Friday were letters from Senate Democrats and congressional Republicans. The department proposed a set of rules in July that would make it easier for students who were defrauded by their college or who attended a college that closed to get debt forgivenes
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