Higher Ed Dive
JANUARY 31, 2023
NCI has struggled to lock in leadership, employer partners and students who finish programs. Is this a one-off or a warning about the latest higher ed fads?
Wonkhe
JANUARY 31, 2023
The rest of the HESA student data is out - David Kernohan takes a deep dive into where students come from, where they study, and where they live The post HESA Spring 2023: students and place appeared first on Wonkhe.
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Higher Ed Dive
JANUARY 31, 2023
The ranking member of the House Appropriations Committee calls for an end to OPM tuition sharing based on enrollment.
Wonkhe
JANUARY 31, 2023
Daniel Keirs makes the case for open access research data The post Open data: the path towards greater sharing of research results appeared first on Wonkhe.
Higher Ed Dive
JANUARY 31, 2023
Lumina's newest report found record breaking improvements to degree attainment, but Black and Hispanic adults still lag behind the national average.
Educause
JANUARY 31, 2023
Attending the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference provided two students in the UTS Bold Careers Program at UTSA the opportunity to give a presentation and to network with technology professionals.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 31, 2023
Nearly 54% of working age adults in the U.S. have achieved some kind of postsecondary degree or credential, putting the country even closer to the Lumina Foundation’s goal of 60% attainment by 2025. Lumina, a private nonprofit working to increase learning opportunities for all after high school, has been tracking credential and degree attainment for adults from 25 to 64 years of age since 2008.
University Leadership Central brings together the best content for university leaders and administrators from the widest variety of thought leaders.
ACRLog
JANUARY 31, 2023
Note: The ChatGPT generated content is in a linked Google Doc and labeled as such! As I’m sure anyone in academia is aware, ChatGPT and its AI counterparts are taking us by storm. I’ve seen it rolling around Twitter, in all-faculty emails at my institution, and of course in places like the Chronicle of Higher Education. I know I’m a bit late to the conversation, but it does feel like AI technology has exploded (or maybe I haven’t been paying attention before now).
Inside Higher Ed
JANUARY 31, 2023
Image: Is an ice cream sandwich a sandwich? How about a sushi roll, chicken wrap or sloppy joe? These were some of the prompts included in a classification and model-building assignment in the fall 2022 Knowledge-Based AI course that David Joyner taught at the Georgia Institute of Technology. But when Joyner, executive director of online education and the online master of science in computer science and senior research associate, was scheduled to teach the course again in the spring 2023 semeste
PeopleAdmin
JANUARY 31, 2023
PeopleAdmin’s Faculty Solutions Win Tech & Learning Awards of Excellence: Best of 2022 January 26, 2023 – Austin, TX – PeopleAdmin announced today that our faculty solutions, including Faculty Information System, Course Evaluations, and Duke University’s Teaching Assignment Management System, have won in this year’s Tech & Learning Awards of Excellence: Best of 2022 in the Higher Education category.
Inside Higher Ed
JANUARY 31, 2023
Image: James Madison University in Virginia held an event Thursday to mark the Holocaust—despite all the Jewish members of the planning committee resigning. “You would think that if you’re going to have a Holocaust program, that the community that the Holocaust most directly affected would be represented on that committee,” said Jeffrey Kurtz-Lendner, rabbi of the local Harrisonburg, Va., Beth El Congregation.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
JANUARY 31, 2023
By Francie Diep and Emma Pettit Mike Lang, USA TODAY NETWORK Gov. Ron DeSantis announced his proposed legislation to reform higher ed in Florida at a press conference at State College of Florida, Manatee-Sarasota. Florida’s governor announced a slate of proposed “reforms” that would encroach on campuses’ autonomy.
Inside Higher Ed
JANUARY 31, 2023
The growing numbers of women in the position confront a job with mushrooming demands and stresses yet relatively little institutional support, writes Nazli Kibria. Job Tags: Academic administration Department chairs Editorial Tags: Career Advice Show on Jobs site: Image Source: Martinan/istock/getty images plus Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?
The Chronicle of Higher Education
JANUARY 31, 2023
A boot camp gets autistic students ready for the work force. By Kelly Field Kendra Evans Colleges are enrolling more students on the autism spectrum, but a third of graduates with autism don't find jobs. Here's how one university is aiming to change that.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 31, 2023
The College of Education and Human Development and the School of Medicine at the University of Louisville are launching an online Master of Science degree in Health Professions Education (MSHPE) to fulfill the needs of a growing health care industry. "The goal of the MSHPE program is to magnify the impact of the health professions educator,” said Dr.
University Business
JANUARY 31, 2023
It’s no surprise that college students have it rough. On top of their already burdensome course loads, they’re now battling rising inflation, enrollment costs, and one issue that affects all areas of an individual’s life: mental health. It’s become the number one priority among college students, according to a recent survey by TimelyMD.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 31, 2023
Indiana University Northwest’s administration disregarded standards of academic due process when it dismissed tenured professor Dr. Mark McPhail, according to a report from the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). McPhail, a professor of communication and previously IU Northwest’s chief academic officer, was notified on September 2021 by campus police that he had been dismissed and banned from campus, allegedly for racially charged threats of physical violence, including “words
Academe Blog
JANUARY 31, 2023
BY BILL BERGMAN Recently, I participated in an experiment that had several first-year seminar (FYS) instructors attend each other’s classes. It was an effort to see if we could improve our teaching techniques by observing colleagues. My first visit was to a FYS class in physics.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 31, 2023
Tiffani Dawn Sykes Tiffani Dawn Sykes has been appointed vice president and director of intercollegiate athletics at Florida A&M University in Tallahassee. Sykes is a graduate of Virginia State University. She holds a master’s in sport administration from Grambling State University in Louisiana.
Inside Higher Ed
JANUARY 31, 2023
The next-level artificial intelligence capabilities of ChatGPT, a chat bot released in late November by the research company OpenAI, have inspired many predictions, both drastic and ecstatic, for the end of essay writing, if not education as we know it. While some in higher education view ChatGPT as a learning tool to be leveraged and others consider it a threat to be addressed exclusively through prohibition and plagiarism detection, nearly all agree that the technology’s ability to simul
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 31, 2023
Lauren Obersteadt Lauren Obersteadt has been appointed assistant vice chancellor for alumni engagement and annual giving at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. Obersteadt served as executive director of alumni relations. She holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Vanderbilt University.
University Business
JANUARY 31, 2023
Walden University is offering an innovative new program for working adults who want another go at earning an accredited college degree: the Believe and Achieve Scholarship. The online school will be offering its Believe and Achieve Scholarship starting in February, offering undergraduate, graduate, and flex-learning students a chance at free college credits.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 31, 2023
Recently, when I was asked to appear on a Diverse sponsored panel at the recent AAC&U annual meeting on the best practices of attracting, hiring and retaining diverse faculty and administrators, I approached it from a journalist’s perspective. I simply asked the most senior people I knew among my acquaintances around the country about the subject.
Inside Higher Ed
JANUARY 31, 2023
Image: Student journalists at Laney College in Oakland, Calif., are suing the Peralta Community College District for failing to adequately respond to public records requests. The plaintiffs say the district’s lagging or partial responses stymie their efforts to do investigative work and hold the district accountable. District officials say they comply with the law and do their best to handle the administrative burden of repeated requests.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 31, 2023
The University of Houston (UH) has retracted a policy requiring theater students to wear vests while rehearsing scenes outdoors, a move put in place after campus police drew a gun on a Black student while he was rehearsing, the Texas Tribune reported. Students had criticized the policy and argued that it put the burden of safety on them rather than on police.
Inside Higher Ed
JANUARY 31, 2023
Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean “I am a bill, I am only a bill …” —My first political science lesson, Saturday morning, 1970-something. This week marks the 50th anniversary of the Schoolhouse Rock series of cartoon shorts. For some of us of a certain age, that’s a big deal. For the uninitiated, you are in for a treat.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 31, 2023
More women, as well as Black, Hispanic, American Indian, and Alaska Native people collectively, worked in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) jobs over the past decade and are earning more degrees in science and engineering fields at all levels compared to previous years, according to a recent report from The National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES).
EdTech Magazine - Higher Education
JANUARY 31, 2023
Higher education IT departments have been confronting cloud storage dilemmas since Google established limits on the service last year. Google, which has long offered some of its services free to universities, is now capping the amount of free cloud storage available to institutions at 100 terabytes across Drive, Gmail, Photos and other apps that are part of the Google Workspace for Education suite.
Inside Higher Ed
JANUARY 31, 2023
Blog: Learning Innovation Sarah R. Fitzgerald , an assessment and planning librarian at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, reached out to me after reading my piece “ How Do Academic Libraries Spend Their Money? ” In her email, Sarah shared some fantastic insights on trends in academic library spending. She also had some interesting things to say about the changing structure of academic library careers.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
JANUARY 31, 2023
By Marcela Rodrigues Joseph Cress, Iowa City Press-Citizen, USA TODAY NETWORK The University of Iowa Power Plant The university's 50-year agreement with two private companies has devolved into an alleged breach of contract.
Inside Higher Ed
JANUARY 31, 2023
Katey Stone, for more than 25 years the head coach of the women’s hockey team at Harvard University, has created a “culture of complete fear” and lost 14 recruited players since 2016, including three this season, The Boston Globe reported. The article describes many incidents with Stone, including her interrupting for “an outburst that witnesses described as degrading and dispiriting, Stone accused the players she had recruited of showing her too little respect and devolv
Campus Technology
JANUARY 31, 2023
SMART Technologies is rolling out two new multi-user interactive displays, the SMART Board MX (V4) and the SMART Board GX (V2). The displays are designed to "allow multiple users to freely write, erase, and gesture at the same time, across platforms and applications." The announcement was made at the 2023 TCEA Convention & Exposition, taking place this week in San Antonio, TX.
Inside Higher Ed
JANUARY 31, 2023
Blog: Just Explain It to Me! Ken Burnett’s classic 1992 fundraising text, Relationship Fundraising , taught and touted the value of developing relationships with donors based on the attributes of friendship, such as care, understanding, respect and mutual trust. The term “friendraising” is said to be coined from these concepts. Burnett and his disciples established the friendraising mind-set for successful fundraising over the last 30 years.
LSE Higher Education Blog
JANUARY 31, 2023
In her winning entry to the LSE Higher Education Blog’s Essays in Education Blog Challenge , Teresa Piacentini argues that the classroom is always political and, despite student calls for ‘less bias’, should never be free of discomfort. As researchers, our politics shape which research questions interest us and how we decide to explore those questions; how we describe the social phenomena we study; what we, and our institutions, funders, and community partners consider socially usefu
Inside Higher Ed
JANUARY 31, 2023
Nearly $3.6 billion in Pell Grants wasn’t claimed by eligible high school seniors last year, a new analysis from the National College Attainment Network found. That’s a slight drop from the Class of 2021, which left $3.75 billion in Pell Grants on the table. NCAN’s latest report is the second in a series tracking unclaimed Pell Grant dollars.
EAB
JANUARY 31, 2023
Blogs Developing a budget forecasting model and budget dashboards at Buena Vista University January 31, 2023 Courtney Berg Director of Finance & Administration/Controller, Buena Vista University The views and opinions expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of EAB. Problem: Buena Vista University currently does not forecast a budget for more than one year when it is time for the board of trustees to review a preliminary budget.
Inside Higher Ed
JANUARY 31, 2023
Differences can lead to fear and persecution. In today’s Academic Minute, Brandeis University’s Joel Christensen examines women’s stories from ancient Greece to the recent past. Christensen is a professor of classical studies and senior associate dean for faculty affairs at Brandeis and author of The Many-Minded Man: The Odyssey, Psychology, and the Therapy of Epic (Cornell University Press).
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