Wonkhe
DECEMBER 15, 2022
The launch of the International Science Partnerships Fund is an important milestone in post Horizon global research deals. The post A glimpse of post Horizon research partnerships appeared first on Wonkhe.
Higher Ed Dive
DECEMBER 15, 2022
The change comes after the Education Department in 2019 started allowing regional accreditors to recruit colleges outside of their historical boundaries.
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Wonkhe
DECEMBER 15, 2022
There are clear differences in outcomes between A level and BTEC students who in theory have equivalent grades. Mike Kerrigan is basking in the dashboard light. The post Entry tariffs don’t tell us the whole story appeared first on Wonkhe.
Higher Ed Dive
DECEMBER 15, 2022
But higher education still experienced less significant inflation than the U.S. as a whole, according to new data.
MindMax
DECEMBER 15, 2022
What do higher education leaders worry about the most? What gives them hope for the future of our field? I recently hosted an interactive event bringing together leaders and pioneers in the higher education community for an evening of discussion on an important and relevant topic: Reflections & Predictions. The panelists in attendance included some of my personal mentors: Bea Gonzalez , Former VP for Community Engagement, Special Assistant to the Chancellor and Dean of University College a
Higher Ed Dive
DECEMBER 15, 2022
Campbell University revolts against the list for similar reasons as others. But its lower ranking means it could have more to lose.
Wonkhe
DECEMBER 15, 2022
This week’s card from Hugh Jones' postbag tells a tale of bishops and Olympians. The post Higher Education Postcard: St Peter’s College, Oxford appeared first on Wonkhe.
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Wonkhe
DECEMBER 15, 2022
Endless reports have promised progress on access failures for Disabled students – but how much difference has been made? Meg Darroch and Jim Dickinson take some regulatory ideas for a spin. The post How to take strategic action to deliver equality of opportunity for Disabled students appeared first on Wonkhe.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
DECEMBER 15, 2022
Dr. Claudine Gay, president-elect of Harvard University. Dr. Claudine Gay is making history. Gay, dean of Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, will succeed current Harvard President Dr. Lawrence S. Bacow on July 1, 2023. Gay’s appointment marks the first time a person of color will lead the nation’s oldest and one of its most prominent postsecondary institutions.
Wonkhe
DECEMBER 15, 2022
This week on the podcast student finance is back up for debate and there’s new guidance out on student suicide. The post Podcast: Student finance, student suicide, PGR supervision, Disabled students appeared first on Wonkhe.
SRHE
DECEMBER 15, 2022
by Jenna Mittelmeier, Sylvie Lomer, and Kalyani Unkule. We were pleased to lead a symposium of international authors at the 2022 SRHE conference, focusing on Research with International Students: Conceptual and Methodological Considerations. This was an early session linked for our upcoming open access book of the same name, which we aim to publish in late 2023.
Wonkhe
DECEMBER 15, 2022
The post legislative scrutiny memo on the Higher Education and Research Act is finally here. David Kernohan wonders if we really have the system that was asked for. The post Post-legislative scrutiny of HERA begins appeared first on Wonkhe.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
DECEMBER 15, 2022
While the U.S. waits to hear how the Supreme Court will rule in Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) vs. Harvard College and SFFA vs University of North Carolina (UNC) , higher education experts in California already know what the postsecondary world could look like without affirmative action, the consideration of race as one of many elements when deciding admission.
Faculty Focus
DECEMBER 15, 2022
This article first appeared in the Teaching Professor on May 17, 2017. © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. . I continue to worry that we devalue the affective dimensions of teaching—the emotional energy it takes to keep delivering high-quality instruction. Most faculty are on solid ground in terms of expertise. We know and, in most cases, love our content.
Inside Higher Ed
DECEMBER 15, 2022
Blog: Higher Ed Gamma The December 2022 issue of Jacobin , which bills itself as “a leading voice of the American left, offering socialist perspectives on politics, economics and culture,” contains a provocative article entitled “I Love Higher Education. It Isn’t Loving Me Back.” It’s a tough read. It conveys many unsettling truths about the academy that you might find hard to stomach.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
DECEMBER 15, 2022
When Cazenovia College, a 199-year-old private liberal arts school in upstate New York announced last Wednesday that it would close after the spring semester, sophomore Ally Ruetton was shocked. “No one thought it was really going to happen,” she said. “I was talking with my professors Monday and Tuesday, and they just kept saying, ‘It's sounding positive.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
DECEMBER 15, 2022
By Megan Zahneis. The University of Houston removed Alan Dettlaff, who'd led the Graduate College of Social Work since 2015, "to better align the college with the university’s academic priorities.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
DECEMBER 15, 2022
When it comes to inspiring the development of more on-ramps into tech for youth, beginning in areas where many students already spend a lot of their free time is a good place to start and expand. I contend that more on-ramps, defined by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary as “a ramp by which one enters a limited-access highway”, are needed to get more people into a tech sector that can be reasonably described as a limited-access highway to those who are not already in it, have had little exposure to
Inside Higher Ed
DECEMBER 15, 2022
Laurie Fenlason highlights five things communications leaders and their colleagues shouldn’t be grappling with when a lot is on the line. Job Tags: ADMINISTRATIVE JOBS Ad keywords: administrators Editorial Tags: Career Advice Show on Jobs site: Image Source: Ja_inter/istock/getty images plus Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?
Campus Technology
DECEMBER 15, 2022
A new consent decree between the Justice Department and University of California, Berkeley resolving allegations that UC Berkeley’s digital content is not accessible enough may have much broader implications for education institutions with free online content and courses that are not fully ADA compliant — regardless of the platform where the institution’s content exists.
Inside Higher Ed
DECEMBER 15, 2022
Image: Blue Mountain Community College president J. Mark Browning raised eyebrows recently when he expressed concern to a local news outlet about preliminary enrollment numbers released by the state. He said the data in a November report issued by the Oregon Higher Education Coordinating Commission (HECC) differed from his institution’s current data and painted an overly rosy picture of some state higher ed institutions’ recovery from the pandemic.
Insight Into Diversity
DECEMBER 15, 2022
The Colorado Community College System announced it has more than doubled its graduation rates from 2015 to 2020 by supporting students experiencing life challenges. Over five years, the graduation rate rose from 15 percent to 31 percent, according to a report by Complete College America, a nonprofit organization that reports college graduation rates in states, systems, and jurisdictions.
Inside Higher Ed
DECEMBER 15, 2022
Image: One way to spend eight months living in a shipping container is to stow away on a box ship bound for Australia. Another is to enroll at Fisk University, where students will be able to live in residential units made from the refurbished steel crates starting in fall 2023. Fisk’s enrollment has grown by over 63 percent in the past five years, from a total student population of 620 to 1,015—the largest since 1979.
Dr. Simon Paul Atkinson
DECEMBER 15, 2022
Have you got some time for professional development over the holiday period? Or do you have colleagues or design teams working on course designs over the holiday period? Anyone who has ever tried to assess or teach to poorly learning outcomes, and then tried to defend their practices or results, will tell you that getting it right at the offset saves a huge amount of effort and heartache.
Inside Higher Ed
DECEMBER 15, 2022
Image: The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Academic Senate approved guidelines for departmental statements on political subjects earlier this month. The guidance doesn’t—and, as mere advice, can’t—ban statements about social or political issues. But it doesn’t endorse such statements, either. “Departments as such should avoid statements on what we call here ‘external’ matters (state, national, or international policy matters),&rd
University Business
DECEMBER 15, 2022
Graduate school enrollment has been a bright spot for many universities in recent years but leaders may not be able to hang all their financial hopes on continued growth. More than half of university presidents, provosts and enrollment leaders say they have increased the number of graduate and adult programs over the last few turbulent years, according to a new survey by EAB , a higher ed enrollment consultancy.
Inside Higher Ed
DECEMBER 15, 2022
Image: Universities in Singapore find themselves in a tricky position as tensions rise between the United States and China, the head of the nation’s top university has warned. Tan Eng Chye, president of the National University of Singapore (NUS), cautioned that geopolitical rivalry between the world’s two global superpowers could have negative repercussions for researchers in both countries—as well as those caught in the fray, including Singaporean academics.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
DECEMBER 15, 2022
They're pulled in many directions. A refocus on teaching is in order. By Barbara R. Snyder and Holden Thorp. Ricardo Rey for The Chronicle. They're pulled in many directions. A refocus on teaching is in order.
The PIE News
DECEMBER 15, 2022
Winners of the 10 2022 AMBA & BGA Excellence Awards were crowned at a regal ceremony in central London. Held on December 9, the winners – spanning seven countries – were revealed in front of an audience of more than 210 business school leaders, finalists and judges. Six institutions were recognised, with India’s Athena School of Management taking home the BGA Business School Impact Award for its initiatives on stakeholder impact, particularly in the Global South.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
DECEMBER 15, 2022
Finding peer reviewers is harder than ever. So why are women still left out? By Sylvia Goodman. Federico Gastaldi for the Chronicle. Peer reviewers are one of the fundamental checks in the academic-publishing process, but editors report they are becoming harder to find. Women researchers may be an underutilized pool.
University Business
DECEMBER 15, 2022
Oberlin College and Conservatory has fully paid the penalty ordered after it was found liable of defaming a local family-operated bakery in 2019. A college spokesperson confirmed to FOX 8 News that the damages awarded — totaling $36.6 million with interest — have been paid in full to Gibson’s Bakery. The spokesperson declined to make any further comment.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
DECEMBER 15, 2022
By Oyin Adedoyin. The university named Claudine Gay, its dean of the faculty of arts and sciences, its 30th president on Thursday.
The PIE News
DECEMBER 15, 2022
International graduates who were supposed to be on a post-study work visa in New Zealand during the Covid pandemic have been offered a 12-month visa in a new raft of immigration policies. An 1,800-strong cohort of international graduates from New Zealand universities will be eligible. “We are authorising a 12-month open work visa for approximately 1,800 previous holders of post-study work visas who missed out because of the border closures in 2020 and 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic,” said imm
The Guardian - Higher Education
DECEMBER 15, 2022
‘I made a comment that was offensive and insensitive,’ Thomas Keon says after backlash The chancellor of Purdue University Northwest has apologized amid intense backlash, after he mocked Asian languages during a commencement speech last week. Thomas L Keon spoke at the school’s winter commencement ceremony in Hammond, Indiana, last Saturday. Before Keon spoke, graduates were addressed by James Dedelow, a radio host, who said he sometimes used a “made-up” language on air and with his family.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
DECEMBER 15, 2022
In higher ed, the concept has lost all meaning. By Evelyn Alsultany. Joan Wong for The Chronicle. We need more than vague inclusivity.
The PIE News
DECEMBER 15, 2022
Directors of peer-to-peer edtech company The Ambassador Platform have surpassed a target of £10,000 for a charity providing safe accommodation to Ukrainian children. The ‘Higher Ed Stands with Ukraine’ campaign has raised close to £14,000. The Ambassador Platform includes many staff based in Lviv office, set up in 2018. The team selected the Ridni Centre for Social Support for Children and Families for the fundraising effort.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
DECEMBER 15, 2022
By Kate Hidalgo Bellows. As many as 30 tenured faculty members will be laid off in the university's restructuring.
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