Higher Ed Dive
MARCH 10, 2023
Hampshire College has promised matching tuition for these students, who say Gov. Ron DeSantis has marred their liberal arts experience.
Inside Higher Ed
MARCH 10, 2023
A new version of the Graduate Management Admission Test will debut this year. The Graduate Management Admission Council, which runs the test, announced the change Thursday without providing much detail. It said the GMAT Focus “is more efficient, flexible, and insightful by honing in [ sic ] on the higher-order critical reasoning skills and data literacy especially relevant and applicable in the business environment of tomorrow.
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Higher Ed Dive
MARCH 10, 2023
The proposed legislation would tie a majority of the state's junior college funding to performance and student outcomes.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
MARCH 10, 2023
Ever since Thoreau headed to Walden, our attention has been wandering. By Caleb Smith Wikimedia Commons Ever since Thoreau headed to Walden, our attention has been wandering.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 10, 2023
Hurricanes, earthquakes, bankruptcy, and a pandemic. When it comes to catastrophic events, Puerto Rico has experienced its lion’s share in the last decade. With these events have come economic vulnerability and population decreases. Yet despite the chaos, nothing has stopped Puerto Rican postsecondary institutions from working to achieve their educational missions.
Inside Higher Ed
MARCH 10, 2023
Image: Campus climate work affects all members of an institution’s community—but also requires a buy-in and intentional effort from all parties. Officials at Oxford College of Emory University, one of the university’s two liberal arts colleges, in 2019 identified a need for a more positive campus climate. With the introduction of their Oxford principles, leaders have created a new vocabulary for the campus community to address student needs.
Educause
MARCH 10, 2023
Many higher education leaders are beginning to discern the need to improve IT support for research across the college or university. The creation of a personalized portal for researchers is one way to do so.
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The Chronicle of Higher Education
MARCH 10, 2023
History is facing a jobs crisis. Why doesn't the field talk about it more? By Jacob Bruggeman Illustration by The Chronicle, Getty Images History is facing a jobs crisis. Why doesn't the field talk about it more?
Inside Higher Ed
MARCH 10, 2023
Image: After a gunman killed three students and seriously injured five more at Michigan State University on Feb. 13, university officials canceled classes for a week. Students needed time to process and grieve, they said. But after that, everyone was expected to return to their academic routines. Many students were upset by this decision. A petition started by junior Kameron Cone asking MSU administrators to move to hybrid or online classes for the rest of the semester had garnered over 25,000 s
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 10, 2023
Candace Byrd-Vinson, Calhoun Community College head women's basketball coach, is the school’s first African American female basketball coach, FOX 54 reported. Candace Byrd-Vinson This comes as Calhoun returns to men's and women’s basketball after a 21-year hiatus. Byrd-Vinson – a Tanner, Alabama native – was a 4-time All-State player and 2A State Player of the Year at Tanner High School in Limestone County and played at the collegiate level at Birmingham-Southern College.
Inside Higher Ed
MARCH 10, 2023
Image: Understanding a student’s “Why?” can be a first step in nurturing their success. At Rochester Institute of Technology’s Academic Success Center, staff and student employees work with students to find their intrinsic values and inspire them to work in accordance with those values. In partnership with the Career Services and Cooperative Education Office, RIT students can explore their motivations to learn and work, as well as plan for a future of values-based living.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 10, 2023
Dr. D’Andra Mull will become vice chancellor for student affairs at University of Colorado Boulder, effective Jun. 1. In this role, she will report to the provost. Dr. D’Andra Mull “As educators, we must deliver a multifaceted and innovative supportive structure for our increasingly diverse student population through creative, strategic and innovative leadership if we are to prepare the next generation of students to learn, live and lead in an evolving global community,” Mull said.
Inside Higher Ed
MARCH 10, 2023
Column: Intellectual Affairs The latest catalogs from scholarly presses are full of reminders—were any more needed—that a new presidential election cycle is grinding to a start, if indeed the last one ever really ended. I started to compile a list of electoral-adjacent books for this column, only to feel an urge to go outdoors and forget about what the next 20 months have in store.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 10, 2023
Manhattan College has established a new School of Health Professions (SoHP), which will officially launch Jul. 1. The school will offer in Fall 2023 pre-existing undergraduate programs in physical education, allied health, exercise science, nuclear medicine technology, radiation therapy technology, health care informatics, public health and graduate programs in marriage and family therapy, mental health counseling, and school counseling.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
MARCH 10, 2023
By Julian Roberts-Grmela Matt Rourke, AP Striking graduate students and their supporters picket the Temple U. campus in February. The six-week walkout will end if union members approve a tentative agreement. But some at the Philadelphia university say the deal won’t fully resolve the recent unrest.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 10, 2023
Kristi L. Anderson has been appointed chief strategy officer at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Anderson holds a bachelor’s degree in kinesiology and a master’s in clinical exercise physiology from Louisiana State University. She earned a Ph.D. in systemic studies from the University of Louisiana at Monroe.
The PIE News
MARCH 10, 2023
Companies offering students short-term loans to prove they have enough money to study abroad continue to operate in Nigeria, leaving agents concerned about students applying to universities without the funds to support themselves once they arrive in the country. Last year, The PIE News reported that Nigerian companies were offering would-be international students short-term loans to prove to immigration officers that they have the minimum funds needed to support themselves on arrival in country
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 10, 2023
Dr. Stuart Rayfield will become president of Columbus State University, effective Jul. 1. Dr. Stuart Rayfield Rayfield is currently vice chancellor for leadership and institutional development of the broader University System of Georgia (USG). “I’m thrilled to return to Columbus State University as its next president,” Rayfield said. “With its deep ties to the Chattahoochee Valley community, including Fort Benning, Columbus State is the driver of the region’s workforce and is poised to lead and
The PIE News
MARCH 10, 2023
At University College Dublin, International Women’s Day was even more significant this year with the historic appointment of the university’s first woman president in its 169-year history. UCD is Ireland’s largest university with over 38,000 students and is ranked within the top 1% of higher education institutions worldwide. On February 21, Marie O’Connor, chair of the UCD governing authority, announced the appointment of Orla Feely as president of UCD for a 10-year term.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
MARCH 10, 2023
You can opt to bore your audience silly with dense PowerPoint slides — or, you can adapt a popular business technique to better make your case. By Rachel Toor You can opt to bore your audience silly with dense PowerPoint slides — or, you can adapt a popular business technique to better make your case.
The PIE News
MARCH 10, 2023
German universities should expand English language courses to recruit more international students and help fill labour shortages, the country’s academic exchange service has said. Germany is suffering from a skills shortage while simultaneously attracting increasing numbers of international students , according to DAAD president Joybrato Mukherjee.
Inside Higher Ed
MARCH 10, 2023
Category: Conditionally Accepted While, optimally, such courses would be part of the entire humanities curriculum, they can’t be taught by just anyone without the proper training, writes Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo. Job Tags: FACULTY JOBS Ad keywords: faculty teachinglearning Editorial Tags: Career Advice Race and ethnicity Show on Jobs site: Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?
The PIE News
MARCH 10, 2023
There is a global push to increase the number of women pursuing careers in STEM fields. This challenge was underscored at the World Assembly for Women Conference held in Tokyo this winter. This month, to coincide with International Women’s Day, the office of global communications within the prime minister of Japan’s cabinet, hosted a webinar aimed at highlighting the gender disparity in STEM careers and to showcase accomplishments of leading females in the sector.
Inside Higher Ed
MARCH 10, 2023
Latinas are enrolling in and graduating from Hispanic-serving institutions at higher rates than Latinos, according to a new analysis from Excelencia in Education, an organization focused on Latina and Latino student success. The analysis, released Thursday, found that almost half, 48 percent, of the women attending Hispanic-serving institutions in fall 2020 were Latinas.
EdTech Magazine - Higher Education
MARCH 10, 2023
Device graveyards are everywhere. They’re stuffed in the bottom drawer of a desk or nightstand, pushed to the back of a forgotten closet, piled in the corner of a utility room or stacked floor-to-ceiling in a warehouse full of long-forgotten computers, servers, monitors, printers, cameras, copiers, desk phones, fax machines and more.
Inside Higher Ed
MARCH 10, 2023
Another undergraduate institution has dropped out of the undergraduate rankings of U.S. News & World Report. Bard College president Leon Botstein announced the change. “The educational character and comparative merits of colleges cannot be distilled into a uniform numerical ranking,” said Botstein. “Particularly one that does not take into account the curriculum and faculty and is based on flawed and irrelevant metrics, many of which concern only institutional wealth.
idfive agency
MARCH 10, 2023
Baltimore, MD Baltimore-based integrated marketing agency idfive is proud to announce that Kathe Flynn, idfive’s Creative Director, has been named the next President of the American Advertising Federation Baltimore, taking over for Courtney Black of GKV, who has served for four years. Flynn currently serves as the 1st Vice President and has been chair for the Social Networking & Programming committee since 2015, hosting several successful flagship events such as Never Saw the Light of Day—
Inside Higher Ed
MARCH 10, 2023
A new report from Law Students for Climate Accountability finds that the top 20 law schools in the U.S. News & World Report rankings have produced fossil fuel lawyers at over three times the rate of the average U.S. law school. Nearly half of U.S. fossil fuel lawyers attended a top-20 law school. The report finds that, among the top 20 law schools, the top producers of fossil fuel lawyers are (1) the University of Texas Law School, (2) the University of Virginia School of Law, (3) Yale Law S
ACPA
MARCH 10, 2023
by Kim Cleary (Community Engagement Program Manager, Montana State University) and Mark Dochterman (Assistant Vice Chancellor, University of Illinois – Springfield) As Black History Month (BHM) comes toward its end, your mind and your work may be entering an evaluation mode. You are likely to be considering how you can plan future heritage months and awareness weeks that engage students in leadership development and provide them with concrete tools that they can carry into their post-colle
Inside Higher Ed
MARCH 10, 2023
Temple University and its striking graduate students have reached a tentative agreement to end a strike that started Jan. 31, the Associated Press and NBC Philadelphia reported. Union members, who rejected a first tentative agreement, will vote on the measure today. The union said it made “meaningful, material gains on every major issue we set out to address in bargaining,” including wages, dependent care, leave policies and working conditions.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
MARCH 10, 2023
Appointments, resignations, retirements, awards, deaths By Julia Piper Garry W. Jenkins will be Bates's first Black president, and Sonya Christian will be the first woman and first person of South Asian heritage to lead the 116-campus California system.
University Business
MARCH 10, 2023
Valparaiso, a Lutheran university in northwestern Indiana that is struggling with the declining enrollment seen at many schools , is planning to sell several works from the collection of its Brauer Museum of Art to raise $10 million for the renovation of two freshman dormitories, which it sees as key to securing its future. The announcement angered many arts organizations and has divided the university: Last week the faculty senate approved a nonbinding resolution that sought to halt the sale
Economics and Change in Higher Education
MARCH 10, 2023
The governor’s response shocked students. It feels as though we’ve been pulled into a political tug of war and I frankly don’t know whose word to take as truth, or if one truth even exists. What I do know is that I would greatly appreciate more transparency regarding budgets when it comes to UConn. This is not the first time confusion has caused protest.
University Business
MARCH 10, 2023
C ollege students are increasingly turning to crowdfunding to help cover their education expenses, according to new data from the fundraising platform GoFundMe. GoFundMe fundraisers for tuition money are up more than 50% compared to last year, and both college and trade school fundraising are up 30%, a GoFundMe spokesperson said. The average published price for tuition, fees, room and board at a four-year private college is $53,430 for the 2022-23 school year, up from $51,690 in 2021-22, accordi
Higher Education Inquirer
MARCH 10, 2023
The Cost of Overestimating Cost What harm is done when people overestimate university costs? Does this overestimation matter for any practical purposes, especially because it seems to affect both lower-income and higher-income families? The most obvious effect is that people may be less likely to attend college themselves or may be more likely to recommend against attending college when they talk to their children or friends.
Economics and Change in Higher Education
MARCH 10, 2023
Saint Leo University informed student-athletes last week that six of the university’s NCAA DII teams will be discontinued after the Spring Semester. Student-athletes are receiving support through this transition, retaining their academic merit scholarships and receiving additional scholarships that will help toward their tuition. A total of 72 student-athletes compete on the following six discontinued teams: men’s and women’s swimming, men’s and women’s cross-country, men’s and women’s track.
Inside Higher Ed
MARCH 10, 2023
The University of Iowa will pay the full amount of a legal settlement that ended a racial bias suit filed by former members of the university’s football team. The university’s president announced Thursday that the payment would be made after an uproar among state lawmakers over an earlier plan to use taxpayer funds to cover $2 million of the $4.2 million settlement, The Des Moines Register reported.
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