Fri.Feb 03, 2023

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Higher Ed Corporate Partnerships Part I: Position Your School to Market to Businesses Effectively

MindMax

Corporate partnerships are effective revenue generators for many higher education institutions. But developing successful higher education marketing initiatives to establish these partnerships can be challenging. At MindMax , we’ve spent years honing our approach to helping schools effectively market to not only prospective students but also businesses they’re targeting for corporate partnerships.

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Wealthy colleges should just admit more students, one of their biggest critics says

Higher Ed Dive

In the second of a two-part conversation, Evan Mandery dives into specific reforms he thinks would help higher education — at the top and elsewhere.

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?WEEKEND READING: Shifts in global demand for UK higher education and their implications

HEPI

This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Janet Ilieva, Founder and Director at Education Insight, and Vangelis Tsiligiris, an Associate Professor at the Nottingham Business School at Nottingham Trent University. The big picture: the collapse of EU demand for UK higher education The recent data release from the Higher Education Statistics Agency shows that global demand for UK higher education continued to expand.

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2U says reorienting around edX is putting it on a path to profitability

Higher Ed Dive

The ed tech company made big changes in the past year to lower expenses, but it still has a long way to go before it’s out of the red.

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How HBCUs Foster Digital Literacy with Creative Tools

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

The concept of digital literacy did not arise out of the COVID-19 pandemic. Students were using digital tools to grapple with assignments, develop creative projects and communicate more effectively before it began. But the circumstances of the pandemic, like having to attend class remotely, brought a new focus on developing higher education students’ digital literacy.

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Accreditors struggle to recruit public members, incorporate them into decision-making

Higher Ed Dive

A Council for Higher Education Accreditation survey highlights the time-intensive process of enlisting these officials.

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Report Explores the Aftermath of the 'Great Resignation' and the State of Upskilling

Campus Technology

Ed tech company Cengage Group has released a follow-up to its 2022 report examining why workers quit their jobs during 2021 in what has been coined "The Great Resignation." In this 2023 sequel report, "Where Are They Now? The Great Resigners, One Year Later," the researchers examine in more depth the reasons why workers quit, and provide updates on resigners' new careers, job satisfaction, and recession fears, with implications for higher education.

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Fundraising During Uncertain Times: What Not to Do

EAB

Blogs Fundraising During Uncertain Times: What Not to Do The first two decades of the 21st century have already witnessed several major disruptions with significant economic impacts, from three recessions to the pandemic to today’s hiring crisis. And with the threat of another recession looming, EAB has received requests for guidance on higher-education philanthropy amidst uncertain times.

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Choosing an MSA After Starting With Open Courses

Coursera blog

Meet Flavia Jones. She’s a student in the Master’s of Accounting (iMSA) program from Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Flavia works at the AT&T headquarters in Dallas, Texas. She discovered Coursera through AT&T University, which encourages employees to develop skills and advance their career with online courses.

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Technology layoffs hit international education sector

The PIE News

International education has been no exception to the widely reported layoffs across the technology sector, with a number of digital student recruitment companies and online program management providers cutting staff numbers. Among technology companies that have reduced staff numbers in the past year are ApplyBoard, which laid off some 6% of its global workforce in late 2022 , and Adventus, which saw almost 40 customer success and admissions, sales and HR staff cut.

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Performance-based admissions open the door to a master’s in electrical engineering.

Coursera blog

Allen Xu enrolled in the Master of Science in Electrical Engineering (MS-EE) on Coursera when it was first announced in May of 2019. He started this learning journey by taking the non-credit version of Professor Won Park’s Semiconductor Device course. We asked Allen a series of questions about his experience with the program, and hearing his answers can help you see what you can do with performance-based admissions.

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Strategic Enrollment Planning: A Q&A for Enrollment Managers

Helix Education

For over a decade now I have led strategic enrollment planning work at RNL. It’s my pleasure and feeds my passion to work with colleges and universities of every size, type, and mission to create strategic enrollment plans that help them respond to a turbulent environment and to align with ever-changing academic demands, employment needs, and student diversity.

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Outrage follows Florida college presidents' statement on CRT

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Scholars in Florida are angry, disappointed and divided over a recent joint statement , signed by Florida College System presidents, promising to “not fund or support any institutional practice, policy, or academic requirement that compels belief in critical race theory or related concepts.” Some professors saw the statement as a baffling and infuriating capitulation to Florida governor Ron DeSantis, who’s made no secret of his plans to purge the teaching of critical rac

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Can Literary Scholars Transcend Their Training?

The Chronicle of Higher Education

The field has painted itself into a corner. John Guillory offers a way out. By Eric Bennett Valerie Chiang for The Chronicle The field has painted itself into a corner. John Guillory offers a way out.

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A journal editor advises how best to submit a manuscript (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

Wayne Journell shares his firsthand knowledge and insights into the thought processes that editors go through when deciding whether to accept or reject a manuscript. Job Tags: FACULTY JOBS Ad keywords: faculty Editorial Tags: Career Advice Publishing Research Show on Jobs site: Image Source: ojogabonitoo/istock/getty images plus Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?

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What could virtual reality mean for higher ed?

EAB

Blogs What could virtual reality mean for higher ed? EAB regularly co-hosts an event called the Presidential Experience Lab with an out-of-sector organization or company that has something innovative to teach college and university leaders—past partners have included Zappos, Google, LinkedIn, Slack, and IDEO, each focusing on different lessons uncovered in their growth and potential applications to higher education.

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Could North Idaho College Really Lose Its Accreditation?

The Chronicle of Higher Education

By Dan Bauman An activist board has put the institution on the precipice of a "show-cause" sanction, essentially a final warning before access to federal aid is cut off.

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Kazakhstan explores UK TNE opportunities

The PIE News

A delegation of higher education stakeholders from Kazakhstan visited the UK in a bid to strengthen connections between the two countries and create a base for further cooperation for transnational education opportunities. UK colleagues were given the opportunity to hear about the latest developments in Kazakhstan higher education and international partnership opportunities from a delegation made up of representatives from 17 Kazakhstan universities, as well as the Center of International Progra

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John Guillory's Nonalignment Pact

The Chronicle of Higher Education

Is the prominent critic stuck in the ’90s — or the ’60s? By Bruce Robbins Thomas Allen for The Chronicle Is the prominent critic stuck in the ’90s — or the ’60s?

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Visa delays concern NH NAFSA members

The PIE News

February 1 marked the first State of New Hampshire NAFSA Region XI meeting in three years. Meetings were put on hold during the pandemic, and as the group regathered in Concord, NH, for the first time in person this week, there were many new faces around the table. University representatives included leaders from Dartmouth College, University of New Hampshire, Rivier University, and Franklin Pierce College.

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SHERRIE JOHNSON

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Sherrie Johnson Sherrie Johnson has been appointed vice president for external affairs, communications, and advancement at Prince George’s Community College in Maryland. Johnson holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism and mass communications from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, a master’s in communications from Johns Hopkins University, and a Doctor of Education in organizational leadership from Grand Canyon University.

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U of Oxford earns windfall on COVID-19 vaccine

Inside Higher Ed

Image: The University of Oxford received 143 million pounds ($176 million) in royalties from its COVID-19 vaccine in the past academic year—more than all British universities earned from intellectual property over the preceding 12 months, new figures show. Oxford’s COVID jab, which was created, tested and trialed with AstraZeneca in less than a year, was estimated to have saved 6.3 million lives globally in its first year, with more than 2.6 billion doses distributed in 183 countries

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TAIWO ADEFIYIJU

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Taiwo Adefiyiju Taiwo Adefiyiju has been named dean of students at the Community College of Rhode Island. She earned a bachelor’s degree in health policy and management from Providence College, a master’s in higher education from Loyola University, and is a doctoral candidate in the education leadership program at Johnson & Wales University.

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Journalism schools could help save local papers (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

Travel with me to my not atypical college town, Eugene, Ore., where I’m privileged to labor as a professor at our vibrant University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication. Ours is a fast-growing city of some 175,000 people, straddling the sparkling Willamette River. We’re a cultural, political and economic powerhouse sporting big-city accoutrements such as a magnificent hall for our symphony, a heated mix of blue and red politics, and a thriving business sector producing w

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Irene Schwab obituary

The Guardian - Higher Education

My mother, Irene Schwab, was an archaeologist, academic and teacher who was committed to radical leftwing projects. Born in Colindale, north London, she was the middle child of Mia (nee Hirschberg) and Peter Schwab, Jewish refugees who fled Germany in the 1930s and became co-directors of a small costume jewellery business in London. After attending Copthall County grammar school in Barnet, Irene studied archaeology at Birmingham University.

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Students Sound Off: What Technology Can’t You Live Without?

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

College students have been through a whirlwind in the past three years. After spending most of their educational lives in traditional classroom settings, a once-in-a-generation pandemic interrupted their early university days or their final years of high school and threw everything we, and they, knew about education out the window. Now they’ve come out the other side, wiser to education’s possibilities and more comfortable with once unheard-of ways to attend class, pace out their learning and pr

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How to Close the Staffing Gap

The Chronicle of Higher Education

What can less-selective, budget-strapped institutions do to hire and retain good staff people? Here’s a two-step strategy. By Aaron Basko Anuj Shrestha for The Chronicle What can less-selective, budget-strapped institutions do to hire and retain good staff people? Here’s a two-step strategy.

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It’s not ‘wokery’ or snowflakes strangling free expression in universities – it’s the Conservative party | Kojo Koram

The Guardian - Higher Education

Students and academics know cancelling speakers is trivial compared with the structural collapse in tertiary education Kojo Koram teaches at the School of Law at Birkbeck, University of London It was recently announced that the prime minister, Rishi Sunak, is due to appoint the UK’s first “free speech tsar” in order to combat the apparent epidemic of cancel culture in England’s universities.

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Coming Soon from Epson: New 4K Enhanced PowerLite L Series

Campus Technology

Epson recently announced plans for new higher resolution 4K versions of its PowerLite L Series projectors, which will be available in March, according to a news release.

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Students in England face ‘negative impact’ from refusal to tie loans to inflation, admits DfE

The Guardian - Higher Education

Raising maintenance loans by only 2.8% means students will have to cut back on food and books, says report The Department for Education has admitted students in England face a “negative impact” from its refusal to increase support in line with inflation, saying they will have to cut back on food and books as a result. In an equality analysis of the government’s decision to raise maintenance loans by just 2.8% from autumn, the DfE said student support would have needed to go up by nearly 14% to k

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Study Shows Declining State Aid in Massachusetts

Inside Higher Ed

State financial aid per student in Massachusetts has been steadily decreasing over the last two decades, according to a new study by the Hildreth Institute, a research and policy advocacy center focused on higher education and social mobility. The study, released Thursday, analyzed state Department of Higher Education data to examine how much state financial aid was available to Massachusetts students from 2001 to 2021.

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Using Educational Escape Games to Teach and Engage Students

Today's Learner

Reading Time: 4 minutes Lisa Heller Boragine is a department chair and a tenured associate professor of Communication. She is a member of the board of directors of the North American Simulation and Gaming Association (NASAGA) Chances are you’ve heard of escape rooms. Perhaps you’ve even played one with your family or friends. A typical scenario is where you and your group are “locked” in a room and presented with a series of puzzles and challenges that you have to complete to “break out” before

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State Support for Higher Ed Is Up

Inside Higher Ed

State funding for public higher education in fiscal year 2023 increased by 6.6 percent over last year, to $112.3 billion, according to a new report from the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association, or SHEEO. It's the second time state support for higher education has topped $100 billion. Nearly half of the state funding went to four-year institutions, while two-year colleges received 22 percent; another 13.2 percent was allocated to financial aid, and 11.4 percent went to resea

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Ditch the Degree? Many Employers Are Just Fine With That

University Business

Between 2011 and 2021, the percentage of people aged 25 and older who completed a bachelor’s degree or higher increased by 7.5 percentage points from 30.4% to 37.9%, according to the latest data from the Census Bureau. But the tight labor market, combined with the high cost of college and a pandemic-era re-assessment of work, has led both employers and job-seekers to question the conventional wisdom of higher education for everyone.

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Performance Management: More Than Just a Yearly Review

PeopleAdmin

Performance management is more than just a yearly review – it’s a retention technique and a chance to encourage growth among your staff and faculty. Performance management is often thought of as the annual review process: when employees check in with their managers or leadership to make sure they’re on track with their job duties, goals, or professional development.

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University of Florida students, faculty plan to protest Monday as Sasse begins presidency

University Business

Incoming University of Florida President Ben Sasse will be greeted by protestors Monday afternoon outside the school’s administration building as he officially takes the helm of the top-5 public university. In a press release announcing the protest, which is planned for 2 p.m. outside Tigert Hall at 300 SW 13th St., the coalition of UF students, faculty, staff, alumni and community members are demanding that Sasse commits to a series of initiatives.

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2022 PostbacCAS Applicant Data Report: An Inside Look

Liaison International

Until now, very little comprehensive data has been available about postbaccalaureate programs or about prospective applicants who apply to such programs. Participation in the PostbacCAS community allows us to create a one-of-its-kind report that will ultimately be foundational to a longitudinal analysis of changing trends in both such academic offerings as well as profiles of students who pursue post-baccalaureate degrees.

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