Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 12, 2022
Image: Education Secretary Miguel Cardona has a demand: "We need a culture change in higher education now." In a speech made at a conference attended by university and college presidents and other leaders in higher education on Thursday, Cardona said that elite rankings are a "joke" and that more attention needs to be focused on the institutions that serve the nation's less-affluent students.
eLiterate
AUGUST 12, 2022
Derek Newton called out in his Forbes column that a Cengage organic chemistry author is releasing the 10th edition of his book as OER via OpenStax. Newton is right to call this out as significant. That said, his column contains a lot of speculation about what this could mean or might mean. Fair enough. There’s a lot we don’t know. In this post, I’m going to tease out some of the implications that Newton doesn’t talk about.
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Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 12, 2022
Image: Trust in U.S. colleges and universities by young adults needs to be earned and not taken for granted, according to a recent survey that measured public trust in higher education. About 35 percent of adult members of Generation Z surveyed said they tended not to trust higher education while 41 percent said they tended to trust colleges and universities.
Terminalfour
AUGUST 12, 2022
Trust in professional social media influencers is dwindling. But could nano and micro influencers—those with smaller but equally loyal followings—be ideal for bringing your institution to the attention of prospective students?
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 12, 2022
While not in a position to offer the therapeutic counseling traditionally used to mitigate student stress and anxiety, they can still implement various strategies to help, writes James R. Wickes. Job Tags: Academic advising Ad keywords: administrators Editorial Tags: Career Advice Mental Health Show on Jobs site: Image Source: izusek/E+/getty images Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?
The Berkeley Blog
AUGUST 12, 2022
Since 2020, Asian Americans in the United States have experienced dual existential crises: anti-Asian violence and COVID-19. According to Stop AAPI Hate, nearly 11,500 hate incidents were reported to its organization between March 19, 2020 and March 31, 2022. While the uptick in this violence has been connected to present-day coronavirus-related racism and xenophobia, anti-Asian violence.
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 12, 2022
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has been devastating. More than five months into the war, tens of thousands of civilians and soldiers have died. Numerous Ukrainian cities and villages have been destroyed , and economic experts estimate it will take hundreds of billions of dollars to rebuild the country. Despite this destruction, the war continues without an end.
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Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 12, 2022
Image: Growing numbers of international academics are reporting being denied entry to India, sparking speculation that New Delhi is seeking to keep critical scholars out of the country. Lindsay Bremner, professor of architecture and cities at the University of Westminster, arrived in India last month with a valid research visa but, hours later, was told she couldn't enter the country.
ACPA
AUGUST 12, 2022
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS AND APPLICATIONS ACPA SENIOR SCHOLARS PROGRAM 2023–2028. ACPA implemented its Senior Scholars Program in 1984. ACPA Senior Scholars advocate for the integration of scholarship into the practice of student affairs. Senior Scholars, through the creation of an engaged scholar network, keep abreast of promising work and identify critical issues that could benefit from inquiry and attention.
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 12, 2022
Fort Hays State University is erecting barriers on campus to fend off potential bird attacks. The move may sound like something out of a classic Alfred Hitchcock horror movie but the aggressors on the FHSU campus are a pair of Mississippi kites, a small, protected bird of prey common across the Great Plains. The birds have nested near FHSU's library and one has taken to divebombing people who come too close.
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 12, 2022
Fired for refusing to get a coronavirus vaccine, former Washington State University football coach Nick Rolovich is seeking $25 million for wrongful termination. Rolovich was fired last year for defying Washington's vaccine mandate for state employees. Rolovich, who is Catholic, had asked for a religious exemption for vaccination but was denied leading to his termination and current legal action.
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 12, 2022
Northwestern University selected Michael Schill to be its next president yesterday, 16 months after longtime Northwestern President Morton Schapiro announced his intention to retire. The news comes almost exactly one month after Rebecca Blank, the former University of Wisconsin at Madison chancellor who was chosen to replace Schapiro last October , announced she was stepping down after being diagnosed with an "aggressive" form of cancer.
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 12, 2022
Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean. Wednesday’s conference was so jam-packed that I couldn’t get to it all for Thursday, so a few recaps and some general thoughts follow. A while back – I’d offer an estimate, but COVID has discombobulated my sense of time – Nikki Edgecombe from the CCRC mentioned that they were looking at a project on estimating what it would cost to fund community colleges well enough to do their jobs well.
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 12, 2022
Eastern Gateway Community College can no longer request federal student financial aid funds before disbursing them, according to a U.S. Education Department letter sent on Tuesday to Michael Geoghegan, the college's president. The increased scrutiny follows an Education Department decision last month that restricted the college from disbursing Pell Grants to new students accepted for enrollment in its free online program for union members this fall.
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 12, 2022
The University of California, Davis announced the death of 21,000 fish at its Center for Aquatic Biology and Aquaculture. The deaths appear to be due to chlorine exposure, to which fish are especially sensitive. The fish were green and white sturgeon, as well as endangered Chinook salmon. Davis is studying ways to help the fish. "There are many other facilities where UC Davis conducts aquatic research that were not impacted by this situation.
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 12, 2022
Today on the Academic Minute : Linda Begdache, assistant professor of health and wellness studies at Binghamton University, discusses what you can do right now to help your mental health. Learn more about the Academic Minute here. Is this diversity newsletter?: Hide by line?: Disable left side advertisement?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 12, 2022
What can you do right now to help your mental health? In today's Academic Minute, Binghamton University's Linda Begdache has some suggestions. Begdache is an assistant professor at Binghamton's College of Nursing and Health Sciences. A transcript of this podcast can be found here. Section: Academic Minute File: 08-12-22 Binghamton - Customized Diets and Lifestyle Factors May Optimize Mental Wellbeing.
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 12, 2022
Image: New Jersey City University is facing scrutiny from the state government following a financial collapse that saw a dramatic reversal of fortune with the institution reportedly going from a surplus of $108 million in 2013 to a deficit of $67 million amid plans to expand NJCU's campus. Last week Governor Phil Murphy, a Democrat, called for an investigation into the university's finances.
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 12, 2022
25% of first-generation college students say they never share that information with professors and classmates. Image: Ashley German Soto, entering her third year at Union College in New York, has gotten a lot of support that has helped her find success as a first-generation student, including a full-tuition scholarship, cohort-based leadership training and being matched with a mentor.
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 12, 2022
Blog: Higher Ed Gamma There’s an arresting scene in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels that strikes a familiar chord, even though the book is nearing its 300 th anniversary. On his third voyage, Gulliver, marooned by pirates, spies “an island in the air,” Laputa. With one eye pointed upward and the other turned inward, the island’s inhabitants, anxious and neurotic, are utterly impractical, their clothes ill-fitting, their homes in shambles, their sex drive a
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