Higher Ed Dive
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
Meredith Woo started at the women's college in 2017 after alumni refused to close it. She reflects on her tenure after announcing plans to leave in 2024.
Inside Higher Ed
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
Image: Leading international scientists who discovered articles written by artificial intelligence that have been published in their names have backed plans for legal action. In recent months, academics at leading universities in Australia, Europe and North America have been alerted to low-quality scholarly articles—often little more than a page long, probably written by a language-scraping algorithm—appearing under their names in titles published by Prime Scholars, an open-access pu
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Higher Ed Dive
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
Although the company has seen revenue dip for degree programs, officials believe they will pick back up in 2023 as they fill classes for new offerings.
Higher Education Inquirer
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
Sign up for the People's Rally for Student Debt Cancellation to be held outside the US Supreme Court, February 28, 2022. The link is at [link] Stay tuned to this post for more information.
University Business
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
Temple’s ongoing graduate student strike catching national headlines did not happen in a vacuum. Across the country, many graduate programs at prolific higher ed institutions have gone on strike or unionized since fall 2022. Grad student labor organizing has spiked in recent years , according to William A. Herbert, executive director of the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
With state support, Georgia’s historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) could be made into even stronger centers of education and economic opportunity, according to a recent report. Sen. Sonya Halpern The report – from the Georgia Senate Study Committee on Excellence, Innovation, and Technology at HBCUs – included recommendations for lawmakers on how to help HBCUs drive workforce diversity, innovation, and community and economic development.
EdTech Magazine - Higher Education
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
Since opening in 1977, the University of Arizona’s Main Library in Tuscon has served as a central hub for students to study and conduct research, but it hadn’t changed much in four decades. Despite small renovations that included improved computer access and special collections areas, it still looked and felt like an old-fashioned library, with rows of bookshelves, stationary wooden tables and study carrels that didn’t meet students’ needs.
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
Over the past decade, some historically Black institutions have developed women’s and gender studies programs and embedded courses within general education curriculum. When Dr. Adele Newson-Horst was developing a grant proposal, she quoted a 2015 article published in Diverse: Issues in Higher Education that noted HBCU institutions had been slow to introduce gender-related programs.
Helix Education
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
Student-centered colleges and universities have prioritized student success for a longtime, but there has been more buzz around retention and student success in recent years. Institutions are realizing that with the “demographic cliff” looming, they cannot rely on improving recruitment alone to keep their enrollment numbers steady or growing. As the pool of traditional college-bound high school students flattens and shrinks, higher education leaders are working to more intentionally keep the stu
The PIE News
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
Female teachers running undercover schools in Afghanistan say they aren’t afraid of the Taliban because they have ‘nothing to lose’. Girls over the age of 12 are currently banned from attending schools in Afghanistan under strict rules, but women across the country are secretly delivering lessons, ensuring children can continue their education. Each day, up to 100 girls walk to these women’s houses, where they learn maths, English and Dari (the main language in Afghanistan).
Inside Higher Ed
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
Image: College completion rates of Black students are lower than those of any other ethnic or racial group: 34 percent of Black Americans have an associate degree or higher, compared with 46 percent of the general population, according to a recent report from the Lumina Foundation. The reasons for this attainment gap are varied, but Black students say the biggest obstacles they face are cost, a lack of extracurricular support and “implicit and overt forms of racial discrimination,” a
University Business
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
Technology is rapidly becoming an invaluable resource for higher education professionals who want to create inclusive classrooms in the age of digital transformation. More than ever, universities are looking for ways to create an inclusive learning environment for all students, regardless of their backgrounds. Technology is uniquely designed to support educators in fostering a sense of belonging in the inclusive classrooms.
Inside Higher Ed
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
Image: Temple University has cut off striking graduate student workers’ health coverage and is demanding they pay tuition by March 9. “The withdrawal of a tuition waiver is unprecedented,” wrote Andrew Crook, an American Federation of Teachers spokesman, in an email. Temple said its records show that more than 80 percent of the graduate student union members weren’t striking as of Thursday—the day after it emailed the demand to pay tuition.
The PIE News
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
Tech-based international student recruitment marketplace Adventus.io has announced a partnership with London Metropolitan University. The multi-year agreement will see the B2B2C marketplace deliver student recruitment, marketing, admissions and compliance services for the institution in the UK capital. London Met will adopt admissions and compliance servicing arm Adventus Professional Services to initially support student recruitment from South Asia.
Inside Higher Ed
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
Image: Jackie Recktenwald sees her role in student success as one of collaboration and education. As the University of Pennsylvania’s inaugural director of well-being initiatives, she believes creating student success demands equipping students with all the right tools. Working on Wellness Recktenwald’s position is part of the college’s larger division Wellness at Penn Public Health and Well-Being—which, as implied in its name, has two pillars: clinical health and health
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
Kelly Hall Kelly Hall has been named executive vice chancellor for finance and business services at the San Diego Community College District. Hall holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration and an MBA in corporate management from California State University, San Bernardino, as well as a Ph.D. in organization and management from Capella University.
Inside Higher Ed
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
Column: Intellectual Affairs The word “condescension” once had a positive connotation, unlikely ever to be revived. It referred to a variety of gracefulness or tact possessed by some individuals born into the upper echelons of the social hierarchy. Condescension in what we might call the complimentary sense was a knack for dealing well with people of lower standing—not as equals, to be sure, but agreeably enough to spare them any uncomfortable self-consciousness about their low
The Chronicle of Higher Education
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
By Megan Zahneis Metropolitan State U. of Denver Alfred W. Tatum The decision by the board of Metropolitan State University of Denver highlights the tension between two pandemic-driven forces — faculty burnout and financial constraint.
The PIE News
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
Stakeholders in the Netherlands are awaiting elaboration from the government on legislation plans to limit the number of international students Dutch universities can take on. During a parliamentary debate on January 31, minister of education, culture and science Robbert Dijkgraaf said he will propose a new plan in March to lower the number of international students enrolling at Dutch universities.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
By Dan Bauman Illustration by Ron Coddington, The Chronicle After three years of board dysfunction and interference, the college received its last sanction before access to federal aid is cut off.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
Paul R. Watson II Paul R. Watson II has been appointed president of Michigan’s Kellogg Community College. Watson holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Houghton College and master’s degrees in mathematics education from Syracuse University and in teaching and curriculum from the University of Rochester. He earned an Ed.D. in educational leadership and management from Drexel University.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
You’ve been hired to evaluate an academic department. What to say, and not say, especially if the place is a mess. By Dana S. Dunn and Jane S. Halonen Stuart Bradford for The Chronicle You’ve been hired to evaluate an academic department. What to say, and not say, especially if the place is a mess.
ACRLog
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
Recently, I’ve found myself talking and thinking about on-boarding. How do you successfully bring a new colleague into your organization? What types of on-boarding have you experienced that have worked? If you could be in charge of on-boarding, how would you do it? How can every person in an organization be an active participant with on-boarding? I thought these questions might be good to bring to the ACRLoggers group for our February collaborative post.
The Guardian - Higher Education
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
Six days into strike action, Jo Grady, UCU general secretary, demands end to ‘draining’ campus conditions Striking university staff are determined to secure a deal that tackles burnout and makes their working lives more liveable, Jo Grady, general secretary of the University and Colleges Union (UCU) has insisted, ahead of talks at the independent Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas).
Inside Higher Ed
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
Category: Conditionally Accepted Without certain conditions, a search amounts to a public devaluing of scholars who have historically been marginalized within the academy, argues Abena Ampofoa Asare. Job Tags: Academic administration Ad keywords: diversity Section: Diversity Topic: Diversity Editorial Tags: Career Advice Show on Jobs site: Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?
University Business
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
Big-money donors on the right like the Olin and Koch foundations have been establishing “ beachhead ” academic centers in universities across the country since the 1970s, as a means of shoring up academic arguments for right-wing policies, creating a pipeline of conservative talent, and endowing professorships for right-wing scholars—some of whom, more moderate academics suggest, are unemployable on their own merits.
Inside Higher Ed
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
Multiple buildings were evacuated and closed on the University of Delaware campus Wednesday after researchers accidentally created “a small amount of a shock-sensitive explosive chemical” in a campus laboratory, according to the Delaware News Journal. Delaware State Police deployed an explosive ordnance–disposal unit to remove the substance from the laboratory and conduct a controlled detonation on the campus’s South Green.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
Dominique Harrison Dominique Harrison has been named director of undergraduate admissions at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. Harrison served as director of undergraduate recruitment and admissions. He earned a bachelor’s degree in communication studies from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and master’s in adult education specializing in higher education from A&T.
Inside Higher Ed
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
A Georgia Senate committee released a new report on the needs of the state’s 10 historically Black colleges and universities and shared recommendations to better support the institutions at a press conference at the state capitol on Thursday. “This is an opportunity for Georgia to become the nation’s leader in how states fully support HBCUs and maximize their economic and social impact for their graduates and surrounding communities,” State Senator Sonya Halpern, chair of
University Business
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
A new study utilizing North Carolina’s Community College System (NCCCS) found an increase in minority male student retention rates when they had reliable access to a success coach. Watermark, a higher ed tech company, had partnered with the school system in the past to examine the effects of individualized success coaching on student outcomes and found that minority male students were most positively impacted.
Inside Higher Ed
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
Smartphones are everywhere, including the classroom. In today’s Academic Minute, New York Institute of Technology’s Melissa Huey examines how they affect students. Huey is an assistant professor of behavioral sciences at NYIT. A transcript of this podcast can be found here. Section: Academic Minute File: 02-10-23 NYIT - The Psychological Impact of Smartphones in the College Classroom.
Helix Education
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
You may be familiar with the RNL Student Satisfaction Inventory (SSI) as an assessment tool to positively impact student success, as well as to provide the student voice for strategic planning and to document improvements for accreditation purposes. But have you considered the data points that are collected that can be valuable from a recruitment perspective as well?
Inside Higher Ed
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
The Cooper Union reinstated a student show that it initially barred for fears it would offend Ukrainians in the neighborhood, The New York Times reported. The exhibit was apolitical but concerned a Russian response to the Bauhaus. The exhibit is called “Vkhutemas: Laboratory of the Avant-Garde, 1920–1930.” Vkhutemas was dismantled by Stalin.
UIA (University Innovation Alliance)
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
2022: Reemerging, Growing, and Evolving Highlights From the University Innovation Alliance Annual Report (Part 1) bridget Thu, 02/16/2023 - 06:00 Higher Ed Leadership Student Success University Innovation Lab At the University Innovation Alliance, we believe that innovation and change are best sustained through a movement that brings inspiration, community, and purpose to the difficult daily work of redesigning higher education.
Inside Higher Ed
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
A new letter has revealed that Florida officials were in frequent contact with the College Board about the new Advanced Placement course in African American Studies. The New York Times reported on the letter , which contradicts the College Board’s statements that it did not make changes in the AP course to please Florida officials. The College Board responded with its own letter Thursday.
EAB
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
Blogs Is your digital front door open? Tips to optimize your organic website lead generation for adult learners Stealth shoppers, or students who research extensively on their own before “raising their hand” to express interest in your program, have grown to a whopping 80% of adult learner applicants, up from 20% just a few years ago, according to EAB’s latest research.
University Business
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
The University of Arizona has been ranked the nation’s top producer of Fulbright Scholars, setting a new university record for the number of faculty and researchers to receive Fulbright U.S. Scholar awards. A total of 17 UArizona faculty members and researchers received Fulbrights in 2022-2023, besting the university’s previous record of 11, set in 2020-2021.
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