Higher Ed Dive

MARCH 28, 2023

The private nonprofit institution attributed the decision to changing enrollment and the state’s governor refusal to provide federal pandemic aid funds.

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Wonkhe

MARCH 28, 2023

A national equality of opportunity risk register will drive new iterations of access and participation plans. Team Wonkhe chat to EORR and plot the latest dashboard data The post The OfS’ new approach to regulating access and participation appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Higher Ed Dive

MARCH 28, 2023

A new Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce analysis comes ahead of the highly anticipated Supreme Court ruling on the issue.

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Wonkhe

MARCH 28, 2023

A Senedd report is packed with ideas for mental health support for students in Wales – and beyond. Michael Salmon gets across the details The post Ambitious recommendations for student mental health in Wales appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Higher Ed Dive

MARCH 28, 2023

Over two-thirds of faculty positions in fall 2021 did not offer a path to tenure.

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Wonkhe

MARCH 28, 2023

What if the real risks were the ones higher education funding policy were causing? Jim Dickinson goes the swans' way The post Can universities be honest with OfS about external risks to access and participation? appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Higher Ed Dive

MARCH 28, 2023

An independent audit of the university’s safety protocols found threat communications to be decentralized and lacking.

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FIRE

MARCH 28, 2023

UPDATE (April 6, 2023): On April 5, the Belleair Beach city attorney responded to FIRE’s letter and said the city has initiated a process to amend the ordinance to eliminate its unconstitutional defects.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2023

In the age of Google Translate and ChatGPT, one might reasonably ask what the goal of learning foreign languages is. After all, artificial intelligence is more than capable of getting most messages across, typo-free and complete with flawless grammar and punctuation. Why put ourselves and our students through the tedium of verb endings, endless pronouns and the often-stultifying niceties of syntax?

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The PIE News

MARCH 28, 2023

The UK risks a decline in international student numbers if the government drastically changes policy on post-study work and students bringing dependants, stakeholders have warned. In recent years, the UK has had “a privileged position” where an “eager” government introduced a strategy featuring the 600,000 student and £35 billion value targets, as well as opened up the postgraduate work route, according to Lil Bremermann-Richard, chief executive officer of Oxford Internat

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2023

Image: When Julianna Barnes set her sights on a career in academia, she envisioned eventually becoming a vice president of an institution and assumed it would be her pinnacle role in the profession. She couldn’t imagine herself, a Mexican Filipina American, as a college president, much less a university chancellor, because she’d never seen someone like herself in those positions.

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Educause

MARCH 28, 2023

During the COVID-19 pandemic, new modes of teaching took hold, and new instructional tools rose to prominence. The "Changed by Our Journey" series of articles will highlight innovative instructors who pulled from their early pandemic teaching experiences to enrich their current teaching practices.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2023

Image: Going back to school after winter break can be a challenge for students. To ease the transition into spring term, Aurora University in Illinois launched its January Jumpstart, offering prep classes on study and self-help skills. What it is: January Jumpstart runs for three days in early January prior to the start of the spring semester. Faculty and staff teach the one-hour virtual workshops three times to give students multiple opportunities to join across the three days.

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 28, 2023

INSIGHT Into Diversity is pleased to welcome Robin R. Means Coleman, PhD, Vice President & Associate Provost for Institutional Diversity and Inclusion and Chief Diversity Officer, and the Ida B. Wells and Ferdinand Barnett Professor of Communication Studies at Northwestern University, as the newest member of its Editorial Board. Coleman implements diversity accountability processes by working collaboratively with Northwestern’s 12 schools and colleges on three campuses.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2023

By Megan Zahneis Dave Cutler for The Chronicle A graduate student who struggled to balance childbirth, parenting, and academic work figured she wasn't the only one facing such difficulties, so she collected data on what appeared to be a systemic issue. Here's what she found.

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University Business

MARCH 28, 2023

Harvard Law’s departure from U.S. News and World Report’s Best College Rankings list quickly drew the support of schools across the nation and even the Department of Education. One news heavyweight is joining the pushback with the debut of a unique ranking tool that re-envisions the coveted student guide from the ground up. The New York Times’ brand new “Build Your Own Rankings” tool allows students to curate a Top 10 college list based on priorities that are import

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2023

Racial hiring practices in college athletics saw minor improvement but gender hiring practices declined, according to the 2022 College Sport Racial and Gender Report Card (CSRGRC) from the University of Central Florida (UCF). Dr. Richard Lapchick The report card, issued by The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES) at UCF, assessed racial and gender hiring practices of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and member institutions – it excludes historically Black colleg

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 28, 2023

In today’s modern, technology-driven world, faculty are often seeking ways to deliver a more engaging and effective learning experience. Augmented reality (AR) is a powerful tool offering a variety of benefits to university teaching. From providing a lifelike virtual environment to helping students visualize complex scientific concepts, AR can revolutionize the way faculty teach (López-Belmonte et al., 2020).

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2023

Image: The percentage of nonmedical, “instructional staff” faculty members at public and nonprofit private colleges and universities who work full-time but aren’t on the tenure track has almost tripled since 1987, relatively steadily increasing from 5 percent to 13 percent. That’s according to a new American Association of University Professors analysis of federal data, out today.

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University Business

MARCH 28, 2023

Ohio college and university instructors could be barred from teaching climate science without also including false or misleading counterpoints under a sprawling higher education bill that received its first hearing last week. To say climate change is controversial is “simply wrong,” despite efforts to pretend otherwise, said Cyrus Taylor, a Case Western Reserve University physics professor whose work focuses on climate science.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2023

Image: Growing up, Rudy Molina thought he was going to be a doctor. In fact, he found the idea of being a teacher a little insulting. But now, with decades of experience in teaching and higher education under his belt, he’s looking at new ways to shape the student academic experience, leading with equity and access in mind. As vice provost of student academic success and enrollment management at James Madison University in Virginia, Molina approaches student success from a curricular persp

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2023

LGBTQ students at religious colleges are ramping up their fight for recognition. By Sylvia Goodman Colleges across denominations are being challenged on campus and in courts by a student population that is increasingly demanding equal resources and acceptance.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2023

A website full of smiling faces is more appealing than a list of faculty members’ names, writes Jeremy Birnholtz, but unrestricted availability of photos poses risks. Job Tags: FACULTY JOBS Ad keywords: faculty Editorial Tags: Career Advice Information Technology Show on Jobs site: Image Source: aelitta/digitalvision vectors/getty images Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?

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Academe Blog

MARCH 28, 2023

BY JOHN K. WILSON Last week, Stanford Law School announced that it had suspended Tirien Steinbach, associate dean for diversity, equity and inclusion, in the wake of the outrage over the disruption by protesters of a Federalist Society speech by Judge Stuart Kyle Duncan. Stanford must end this suspension immediately.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2023

The anxiety level is rising. Harvard’s class of 2027 will be told if it’s thumbs up or down on March 30. The class based on Early Action admits is already 30 percent Asian American, could that number go even higher to indicate a loosening of a cap on Asian American admissions that may be borderline discriminatory? As we wait to see, did you hear the one about the Filipino in The New Yorker ?

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 28, 2023

In today’s modern, technology-driven world, faculty are often seeking ways to deliver a more engaging and effective learning experience. Augmented reality (AR) is a powerful tool offering a variety of benefits to university teaching. From providing a lifelike virtual environment to helping students visualize complex scientific concepts, AR can revolutionize the way faculty teach (López-Belmonte et al., 2020).

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2023

Another federal appeals court on Monday cleared the way for a lawsuit seeking reimbursement of tuition and fees from a college that shifted to virtual instruction in the spring of 2020 because of COVID-19. Last week the U.S. Court of Appeals overturned a lower court’s ruling to allow a case to proceed against New York University; Monday it was the U.S.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2023

By Sylvia Goodman Wayne State University’s president said the comment crossed a line and reported the professor to police.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2023

Colleges and universities face an “unsustainable” shortfall in deferred capital renewal, according to the 10th State of Facilities in Higher Education report from Gordian, a Building Intelligence Solutions provider. While preliminary data from fiscal 2022 show a 10 percent year-over-year capital investment increase, inflation has greatly expanded the amount of funding necessary to steward existing space, creating a 36 percent shortfall.

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HESA

MARCH 28, 2023

Hello all. As usual, HESA Towers has been hard at work to bring you our budget commentary, which is available here. While there is the odd good news story in here – like more money for applied research in colleges – in the main, this is probably the worst budget for the higher education sector in years. An $800 million year-on-year reduction in money for student grants – long foreshadowed, not by any means a breach of promise (the injection of extra money was never promised to last beyond this J

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2023

At nearly 700 colleges and universities and colleges, the rates paid by low-income students increased by larger percentages than the prices paid by their highest-income ones, according to federal data analyzed by the Hechinger Report and published in USA Today. The study is based on what students actually paid, not tuition rates. The net price for the lowest-income students at Connecticut College rose 235 percent in the last decade, compared to 9 percent for the highest-income students.

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HEPI

MARCH 28, 2023

This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by John Abell, Chief Executive of Coventry University Students’ Union , and is part of HEPI’s current series of blogs with NCEE. On the morning of Thursday, 30 March 2023, HEPI and the UPP Foundation will be running a free event on ’Public Attitudes to Higher Education’ in central London (with an option to watch online).

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2023

Blog: Learning Innovation All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopedia by Simon Garfield Published in February 2023 The only time that I ever worked outside higher education was when I worked for Encyclopædia Britannica. If you are interested, that story is detailed in a blog post I wrote in 2010. My professional connection to Britannica is why I couldn’t wait to read Simon Garfield’s new book, All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary H

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

MARCH 28, 2023

The 100th Innovating Together Podcast A Conversation With Bridget Burns, Founder and CEO of the University Innovation Alliance Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 04/06/2023 - 06:00 Podcast Higher Ed Leadership Inside Higher Ed In February 2023, the University Innovation Alliance (UIA) celebrated the 100th episode of its Innovating Together Podcast. To honor the occasion, UIA founder and CEO Bridget Burns sat in the guest chair, this time answering questions instead of asking them.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2023

University of Arizona president Robert C. Robbins admitted failings in the October murder of a professor, Thomas Meixner, on the campus. “There were systemic issues across our university that should’ve been identified and corrected. I’m angry at myself that I did not do more to prevent this tragedy and most of all I’m angry at this man that took from us our loved one, friend and colleague,” Robbins said at a press briefing, 13 News reported.

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Gray Associates

MARCH 28, 2023

Improve your institution's academic program portfolio with Gray's free Master Class series led by experienced higher-education decision-makers. This four-part series covers data analysis, AI and machine learning, program evaluation, and student success integration. Stay ahead of the competition and ensure success by evaluating programs based on mission, academics, markets, and margins.

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University Business

MARCH 28, 2023

Graduate students at the University of Minnesota are now joining the wave of unionization efforts sweeping across the country in higher education. After collecting around 2,800 union cards since their campaign launch in February , The Graduate Labor Union–United Electrical is now planning an election to determine whether graduate student workers at the U of M will form a union.

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