Wonkhe
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
Graduates are looking for interesting jobs and universities are looking to recruit a diverse workforce. Emily Owen asks whether professional services at universities should be looking to recruit recent graduates The post Why graduates should work in higher education professional services appeared first on Wonkhe.
Higher Ed Dive
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
Kathy Hochul wants to burnish some institutions’ research profiles and reverse the system’s declining enrollment to grow to 500,000 students.
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The PIE News
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
International graduates who stay and work in Australia earn lower salaries than their domestic counterparts, although the wage gap has reduced since 2021. Non-Australians working full-time who studied undergraduate courses earned AUS$60,000 on average in 2022 compared to AUS$68,000 for Australians. The salary difference was less pronounced than in 2021, when the variation was AUS$10,700 between the two groups, according to the 2022 International Graduate Outcomes Survey.
Higher Ed Dive
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
Credentials’ promise and possible pitfalls weigh on students and employees alike, finds survey based on 14,000 interviews in 13 countries.
Educause
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
Generative AI is arriving in higher education, but stakeholders are uncertain about its potential opportunities and challenges. One thing is clear: there is work to be done, and there’s no time to waste.
Higher Ed Dive
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
RISD’s rejection of the controversial lists is the first since law and medical schools began a recent exodus.
Campus Technology
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
Plagiarism detection company Turnitin announced that the AI writing detection tool it teased in January will be available as a feature of its existing products as soon as April.
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Insight Into Diversity
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
Along with their overarching goals of improving racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic diversity, several Ivy League institutions have ramped up their efforts to recruit and support students from rural communities, especially those outside the Northeast region where they are located. The leaders of these programs cite the need to further expand geographic diversity within their student populations.
Educause
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
An effective institutional analytics program has become essential to providing proactive student services and informing strategic actions. Leveraging a modern framework that describes the elements of a mature data and analytics program can help colleges and universities obtain actionable insights.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
The recent Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies report on the steep enrollment declines of Black male students at community colleges is a stark reminder that our sector must accelerate the crucial work to ensure the academic success of Black male students. In the light of decades-long enrollment declines and historic low enrollment numbers among Black, Latinx and Indigenous students, our work is an uphill battle but not insurmountable.
Insight Into Diversity
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
A hands-free “wheelchair of the future.” A lightweight, comfortable, and collapsible personal aisle chair. Custom-made, 3D-printed wheelchair racing gloves. These are a few of the innovative designs developed by researchers for people with disabilities at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).
WENR
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
Studying at a U.S. university has become an elusive dream for many international students due to worsening economic conditions. The post Rising Costs in the U.S. Spark Concern Among International Students appeared first on WENR.
Insight Into Diversity
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
All too often, LGBTQ+ people experience discrimination, stigma, and prejudice when seeking and receiving health care, but a new project called the Eidos LGBTQ+ Health Initiative, housed in the School of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), aims to change that. Operating like a consulting agency, Eidos, which UPenn calls “a first-of-its-kind academic social entrepreneurship lab,” engages students and faculty across disciplines and from different UPenn schools, outside businesses, an
Inside Higher Ed
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
Image: Students cite faculty teaching styles, overly difficult coursework and balancing schoolwork and other obligations as the top three barriers to their academic success, according to Inside Higher Ed ’s first Student Voice survey of 2023. Professors’ unclear expectations and mental health issues round out the top five challenges. Here’s a sneak peek at some findings, on which readers are invited to comment.
Insight Into Diversity
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
The University of Wyoming (UW) and five community colleges in the state are building a faculty network to share best practices and make science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education more inclusive. The partnership program is made possible through a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Inclusive Excellence 3 (IE3) grant. The grant will provide $8 million over six years to allow the institutions to develop learning communities through long-term partnerships.
Inside Higher Ed
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
Image: Richard Bland College of William & Mary is an anomaly in Virginia higher education. The public two-year college is slightly more selective than its peers across the commonwealth; it is not a member of the Virginia Community College System, and it is the only junior college in Virginia with residential housing. Most notably, it has a unique governing structure: Richard Bland shares a board of visitors with the College of William & Mary and is governed by a committee of William &
Insight Into Diversity
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
Creating equity in the classroom requires that educators anticipate individual student needs, consider the delivery and presentation of their content, assign coursework that has real-world meaning, and prioritize skills development — efforts that result in greater student success, according to experts and research. Alex Lange “Inclusive teaching really requires proactive change from instructors,” says Alex Lange, PhD, assistant professor and coordinator of the Higher Education Leadership Special
Faculty Focus
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
In the last few weeks, ChatGPT has been one of the main topics of conversation for most people working in education. The bot has raised many questions, to name just a few: how ChatGPT will affect exams, how to help students use it critically and within the boundaries of academic integrity, how to talk about it in class, and whether it can help faculty plan activities or even generate content like examples or cases.
Insight Into Diversity
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
With a $1.74 million grant from the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, the Santa Fe Community College (SFCC) Foundation in New Mexico is creating a Student Parent Resource Hub to expand its support systems for students who are pregnant or have young children. Through the hub, SFCC will gather data to track the effectiveness of the home visitation model administered by the New Mexico Early Childhood Education & Care Department, a program provided free to families of all income levels that are expec
Inside Higher Ed
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
When intercollegiate athletics goes from the sports page to the front page, it is big news, but not always good news. Nowhere has this been more evident than in a Nov. 23 article in The New York Times , “ How College and Sports-Betting Companies ‘Caesarized’ Campus Life ,” which chronicled how universities have signed lucrative contracts with sports betting companies to promote online gambling to their students and campus communities.
Insight Into Diversity
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
More than 450 students at health professions schools around the world are measuring how effectively their institutions address climate change using the Planetary Health Report Card (PHRC). Developed in 2019 by a group of students at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, the PHRC is an advocacy tool intended to increase the planetary health awareness and accountability of medical schools.
University Business
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
New College of Florida’s interim president will be making double the salary of his predecessor, the school’s board of trustees voted this week. Richard Corcoran will receive a $699,000 base salary plus an annual housing stipend of $84,000. The school’s recently fired president Patricia Okker had a base salary of $305,000 and a $40,000 housing stipend.
Insight Into Diversity
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
Businesses seeking to hire recent college graduates expect a high level of expertise and skill. To meet workforce demand and increase job opportunities, partnerships between community colleges and employers are essential, yet these collaborations can fall short. In a recent Harvard Business School study , “The Partnership Imperative: Community Colleges, Employers, and America’s Chronic Skills Gap,” 80 percent of educators surveyed agreed with the statement “My college is producing the work-ready
EAB
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
Podcast Will ChatGPT Ruin or Improve Higher Education? Episode 138. February 14, 2023. Welcome to the Office Hours with EAB podcast. You can join the conversation on social media using #EABOfficeHours. Follow the podcast on Spotify , Google Podcasts , Apple Podcasts , SoundCloud and Stitcher or visit our podcast homepage for additional episodes. EAB’s Michael Fischer and Ron Yanosky discuss whether ChatGPT represents an existential threat to higher education.
Inside Higher Ed
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
Institutions often promote academic leaders who rise until their skills prove insufficient in their new positions, writes Stefan Niewiesk. What can be done? Job Tags: Academic administration Editorial Tags: Career Advice Show on Jobs site: Image Source: tommy/digitalvision vectors/getty images Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?
Insight Into Diversity
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
While conversations that touch on worldview identities — including secular, spiritual, and religious beliefs — are prickly subjects on college campuses, discussion of these topics is essential to promote religious diversity and affirm student self-identity. Higher education institutions can assess how well they support students with varying worldview identities using the newly created Interfaith, Spiritual, Religious, and Secular Campus Climate Index (INSPIRES Index).
Inside Higher Ed
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
Image: It might seem an unenviable position to succeed a long-standing, widely admired college president who is credited with practically building the institution. But you wouldn’t know it from listening to Valerie Sheares Ashby, who last year took over the presidency of the University of Maryland Baltimore County from Freeman A. Hrabowski III, who over 30 years helped transform the public university from a sleepy commuter institution into a research powerhouse known especially for produci
The Chronicle of Higher Education
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
By Eva Surovell The state's chief budget official says the money that’s poured in over the last three years was always temporary, and colleges should have planned accordingly.
Inside Higher Ed
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
Blog: Learning Innovation Mark Rudnick , vice president of learning partnerships at Guild Education , and I first became friends a few years ago when he was in a similar role at edX. The other day, Mark and I Zoomed to catch up, and he filled me in on what is going on over at Guild. In listening to Mark talk about Guild and his role, I thought that our Inside Higher Ed community would be interested to learn more.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
Dr. Ruth Simmons, president of the Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU), will be stepping down at the end of the month, four months earlier than her expected resignation date on Jun. 1, The Texas Tribune reported. Dr. Ruth J. Simmons The sudden change of plans appears to be due to a conflict about hiring powers with Texas A&M University System Chancellor John Sharp during the rest of Simmons’ tenure.
The PIE News
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
Now is the time for like-minded partners and countries with common principles to collaborate in education, speakers said at an event celebrating a decade of the transCampus partnership between King’s College London and Technische Universität Dresden. Speaking on February 13 – the anniversary of the bombardment during WWII of Dresden – minister president of Saxony, Michael Kretschmer, reiterated the importance of international collaboration. “What you have managed in the past 10 years, I f
The Chronicle of Higher Education
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
By Sylvia Goodman Carlos Osorio, AP A student places flowers at the Rock at Michigan State University. In the aftermath of violence that killed three students, members of the campus community reflected on their roles in a nation struggling with what to do about guns.
Inside Higher Ed
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
Image: Tranquilino “Kino” Hurtado became Salt Lake Community College’s inaugural Hispanic-serving institution initiatives director in November 2022, poised for the challenge and opportunity of preparing the college for HSI designation. SLCC is the first emerging HSI in Utah, and Hurtado shared his vision for equipping Hispanic students while also preparing the community for the new Title V designation.
The PIE News
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
More than 50 Indian students have been identified as potential victims of modern slavery and labour abuse in the UK over the last 14 months, according to UK authorities. It follows the arrest of five people suspected of exploiting Indian students working in Welsh care homes between December 2021 and May 2022. The defendants – Mathew Issac, 32, Jinu Cherian, 30, Eldhose Cherian, 25, Eldhose Kuriachan, 25, Jacob Liju, 47 – are all originally from India but now live in the towns of Abergele and P
Academe Blog
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
POSTED BY HANK REICHMAN This blog has regularly posted items in support of faculty and students resisting attacks on academic freedom at universities in Turkey (see, for examples, here, here, and here; see also from Academe magazine, Fall 2019, here).
The PIE News
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
International students from Spain who are returning to the country to find work are coming up against bureaucratic roadblocks trying to get their degrees recognised by the state. According to a recent report by El PAÍS, a decree that was announced in 2021 trying to streamline the process was only implemented last October – and currently has little to show for helping move the process along.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
Universities say these developments are engines of social mobility. Skepticism is warranted. By Laura Wolf-Powers Universities say these developments are engines of social mobility. Skepticism is warranted.
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