U.S. News & World Report reworks law school rankings, but Yale won’t return
Higher Ed Dive
JANUARY 3, 2023
Other law school deans aren’t satisfied, either. The magazine also said it has no intention of ending its rankings system.
Higher Ed Dive
JANUARY 3, 2023
Other law school deans aren’t satisfied, either. The magazine also said it has no intention of ending its rankings system.
Faculty Focus
JANUARY 3, 2023
The November newsfeed heralded the arrival of AI essay writing. AI (or Artificial Intelligence) essay writing recruits online software that sifts through information and generates a thoughtful written analysis. Enter a prompt, and AI can turn out a reasonable essay on everything from utilitarianism to the Krebs cycle…for free. In truth, AI authorship hardly qualifies as “news.
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Higher Ed Dive
JANUARY 3, 2023
We’ve rounded up five links to our best-read opinion pieces.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
JANUARY 3, 2023
By Emma Pettit. The move is likely to heighten fears among advocates of academic freedom in the state who worry that the governor is bent on curtailing professors' speech in the classroom.
Campus Technology
JANUARY 3, 2023
As higher education moves into the second wave of Dx — aligning digital efforts with institutional success — here are five key trends to watch.
The PIE News
JANUARY 3, 2023
Australia, the UK and New Zealand are leading study destination preference among prospective international students, a survey of more than 14,000 individuals across 147 countries has suggested. The AECC Insights student survey found that prospective international students have changed their study destination preferences over the last 12 months. It noted that the 3,169 respondents (22.4%) who changed their intended study destination in the year up to November, did so in favour of the Australia, U
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 3, 2023
Dr. LaVar Charleston had a crush on Dr. Sherri Charleston from the moment he met her in ninth grade. Dr. LaVar Charleston is the deputy vice chancellor for diversity & inclusion, vice provost and chief diversity officer at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. “She was Claire Huxtable—beauty, brains, and personality,” said LaVar Charleston. While the two were friendly, they had opposite interests at the time.
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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education
JANUARY 3, 2023
1. What Network Capacity is Needed? Classrooms are high-density environments, and you should estimate one to two devices per user on the Wi-Fi network. As a starting point, you’ll likely need one access point for every 50 devices. If your calculations call for more than four APs, have a specialist help with placement and product selection. Invest in the newest technologies; Wi-Fi 6 is specifically designed for high-density deployments.
Campus Technology
JANUARY 3, 2023
National University (NU) in San Diego, a private, nonprofit Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI), has been awarded a five-year, $3 million grant by the U.S. Department of Education (ED) to help foster Hispanic student success through enhancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, teaching, advising, and transfer practices.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
JANUARY 3, 2023
Teaching composition shouldn't require so much jargony pseudoscience. By Blake Smith. incamerastock, Alamy. Teaching composition shouldn't require so much jargony pseudoscience.
Inside Higher Ed
JANUARY 3, 2023
Image: December was a whirlwind month for members of the North Idaho College Board of Trustees. They held four meetings, admitted three violations of open meetings laws, faced two lawsuits and named a new interim president after abruptly placing President Nick Swayne on administrative leave. The board’s rapid-fire actions did not go unnoticed by North Idaho’s accreditor.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
JANUARY 3, 2023
At the English Institute, long a citadel of prestige, our correspondent finds egalitarianism in the face of collapse. By Katie Kadue. At the English Institute, long a citadel of prestige, our correspondent finds egalitarianism in the face of collapse.
Inside Higher Ed
JANUARY 3, 2023
The predictable routines of teaching, writing and contributing to campus life I’ve developed over the past two decades were dislocated last fall by the largest strike in U.S. higher ed. Preparing for the start of winter quarter across the University of California system feels different in 2023, both because fall fizzled out without the usual closures and because my sense of the relationships I’ve cultivated with students through years of practiced intentionality is frayed.
Higher Education Inquirer
JANUARY 3, 2023
During the past two years, administrators at storied Manhattanville College have removed 46 full-time faculty--by paying then to retire or laying them off. Last month, for the first time in Manhattanville's history, tenured faculty in the arts and humanities were pushed away. Since the 1840s, Manhattanville College was famous for its caring faculty.
Inside Higher Ed
JANUARY 3, 2023
It’s one of the most cost-effective investments that community colleges can make to ensure effective instruction and increased student achievement, writes Anna Conway. Job Tags: Academic administration Section: Community Colleges Editorial Tags: Adjuncts Career Advice Show on Jobs site: Image Source: designer491/istock/getty images plus Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?
The PIE News
JANUARY 3, 2023
Universities and education agents are confident that new testing requirements for travellers from China will have a minimal impact on international students as Beijing scraps restrictions on outbound travel. . The Chinese government is set to resume processing passport applications, which had been suspended during the pandemic, making it easier for citizens to travel abroad. .
Faculty Focus
JANUARY 3, 2023
The November newsfeed heralded the arrival of AI essay writing. AI (or Artificial Intelligence) essay writing recruits online software that sifts through information and generates a thoughtful written analysis. Enter a prompt, and AI can turn out a reasonable essay on everything from utilitarianism to the Krebs cycle…for free. In truth, AI authorship hardly qualifies as “news.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 3, 2023
Illinois State University will be launching an online seminar series to help teach faculty how to create inclusive and equitable classes. Dr. Deneca Winfrey Avant The seminar series – through the school’s Center for Integrated Professional Development – will include five seminars over 2023, starting with three in the spring: “Equitable and Inclusive Course Materials;” “Equitable and Inclusive Student Interaction and Participation;” and “Equitable and Inclusive Assessment, Learning Activities, an
Educause
JANUARY 3, 2023
The final version of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 excludes a proposed Senate amendment that would have required federal contractors and grant recipients to report cyber incidents involving their contracting/granting agency's data or systems to the agency.
The PIE News
JANUARY 3, 2023
Australian businesses and higher education suppliers will have “greater access” to the Indian market, the Australian government said as the Australia-India Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement came into force on December 29. “Australia and India are natural trading partners – this agreement will unlock the enormous potential in our trading relationship,” Australian minister for Trade and Tourism, Don Farrell, said in a statement. “This agreement reflects the g
Academe Blog
JANUARY 3, 2023
POSTED BY THE AAUP Volume 14: Landscapes of Power and Academic Freedom The 2023 issue of the Journal of Academic Freedom seeks original articles that investigate the links between landscapes of social power and the historical development and contemporary status of academic freedom.
The Guardian - Higher Education
JANUARY 3, 2023
Bank says changing minimum qualification policy opens scheme to 64,000 more candidates each year Santander UK will no longer require graduates applying to work there to achieve a 2:1 degree or higher, as part of efforts to boost the socioeconomic diversity of its recruits. The bank said the change would lead to an extra 64,000 more applicants being eligible for its annual graduate scheme and reflected the fact that university performance did not guarantee success in the workplace.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 3, 2023
Rochelle A. Conley Rochelle A. Conley has been named general counsel at Alabama A&M University. She served as a deputy attorney general in Huntsville, Ala. Conley has a bachelor’s degree in history and political science from Alabama A&M University and a J.D. from the University of Alabama School of Law.
Campus Technology
JANUARY 3, 2023
Instructure has acquired LearnPlatform, an ed tech company that provides real-time, evidence-based data on the effectiveness of digital ed programs chosen by universities and K–12 schools.
Inside Higher Ed
JANUARY 3, 2023
Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean Ever have a manuscript take on a life of its own? I’ve started writing something that I hope will be long-form. I had a vague idea of where to start, but it quickly started writing itself and going in directions I didn’t anticipate. At this point, I want to keep working on it just to see where it goes.
Campus Technology
JANUARY 3, 2023
The American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) and the American Council on Education (ACE) have transitioned the Virtual Exchange/Collaborative Online International Learning (VE/COIL) Transformation Lab from ACE to AAC&U.
Inside Higher Ed
JANUARY 3, 2023
Holy Names University , a 154-year-old institution in Oakland, Calif., announced last month that it will close after the spring semester. The university “has struggled to remain open as it faced rising operational costs, declining enrollment, and an increased need for institutional aid. Both COVID-19 and an economic downturn disproportionately impacted HNU students,” the university said in a statement.
University Business
JANUARY 3, 2023
Hope College, a private four-year Christian liberal arts school in Holland, Michigan, is facing its second class-action lawsuit over a cybersecurity threat in September that may have compromised confidential information belonging to more than 155,000 people. The first lawsuit was filed on Monday, Dec. 26, according to the Holland Sentinel. The second was filed just a day later in the U.S.
Inside Higher Ed
JANUARY 3, 2023
The Juilliard School has placed a professor on leave and commissioned a new investigation into charges that he harassed students, The New York Times reported. A spokeswoman for the school said it had previously investigated the professor, Robert Beaser, who had been chair of the composition department. The spokeswoman did not say what those investigations found.
HEPI
JANUARY 3, 2023
This blog was kindly contributed by Sarah Stevens, Director of Policy at the Russell Group (@ RussellGroup). Many would say that the UK higher education system dodged a bullet at the recent Autumn Statement , with the deferral of significant fiscal restraint until after the next election meaning no immediate shift to austerity-style cuts. During an otherwise turbulent year, we should celebrate the fact we have at least short-term stability on the funding settlement for R&D and higher educati
Inside Higher Ed
JANUARY 3, 2023
The nearly two-month-long search for a suspect in the gruesome homicides of four University of Idaho students came to an end Dec. 30 with the arrest of Bryan Kohberger, a 28-year-old Ph.D. student at Washington State University, who was arrested in Pennsylvania. Kohberger, a criminology student at WSU , allegedly used a fixed-blade knife to murder Ethan Chapin, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Madison Mogen in the early hours of Nov. 13 at the home in Moscow, Idaho, where three of the four vi
Gray Associates
JANUARY 3, 2023
Where are they now? Our 2022 emerging academic program predictions included the rise of AI and cannabis programs. Take a look at how successful our predictions were last year and see how to tap into our best picks for 2023. Our team of experts scours the latest trends and breakthroughs to identify new and exciting academic programs with the highest potential for success.
Inside Higher Ed
JANUARY 3, 2023
A controversy has broken out over University of Minnesota president Joan Gabel’s role on a corporate board. A complaint has been filed with state and federal agencies against Gabel’s work on the board of Securian Financial by a regent, a law professor and the former governor Arne Carlson, according to WIZM News. They say the work raises questions because the university pays $4.6 million to the company to cover employees’ life insurance.
The Change Leader, Inc.
JANUARY 3, 2023
Dr. Drumm McNaughton, CEO and Higher Education Consultant at The Change Leader and Deb Maue, Senior Vice President for Enrollment and Marketing at Aurora University, discuss what has happened in 2022 and predict trends in higher education for 2023. Dr. Drumm McNaughton, CEO and Higher Education Consultant at The Change Leader and Deb Maue, Senior Vice President for Enrollment and Marketing at Aurora University, discuss what has happened in 2022 and predict trends in higher education for 2023.
Inside Higher Ed
JANUARY 3, 2023
Lake Superior State University has released its annual list of 10 words and phrases that it thinks should be banished “for misuse, overuse and uselessness.” First place goes to “GOAT.” “The acronym for Greatest of All Time gets the goat of petitioners and judges for overuse, misuse, and uselessness,” said the university’s announcement.
University Business
JANUARY 3, 2023
Sports betting is surging across America—with flashy ads and easily accessible apps encouraging wagers both at home and in stadiums—and has slinked its way over to several college campuses as well. The New York Times recently uncovered that at least eight universities have partnered with online sports-betting companies, while at least a dozen athletic departments and booster clubs have signed agreements with brick-and-mortar casinos.
Inside Higher Ed
JANUARY 3, 2023
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