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Free college keeps growing — at the state level

Higher Ed Dive

Elected officials are calling for new programs and expansions. Policy wonks sometimes critique design choices, but free remains a powerful hook.

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How I Got Started Helping Professors With Their Online Presence

The Academic Designer

Jennifer van Alstyne opens up about why she started her company, The Academic Designer LLC. And, how social media has impacted her life most.

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1 in 5 Black students feel discriminated against in their postsecondary programs

Higher Ed Dive

Black students in certification programs or at for-profits are more likely to report discrimination than others, new Lumina-Gallup research found.

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Higher Education Postcard: Newman University

Wonkhe

This week’s card from Hugh Jones’s postbag shows us a memorial to one of higher education’s few canonised saints The post Higher Education Postcard: Newman University appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Temple University comes down hard on graduate students who are striking

Higher Ed Dive

All affected students must pay their tuition bill in full within a month or be fined and face an account hold, the university said.

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How do student governors perceive power?

Wonkhe

Who better to design the university of tomorrow than the students of today? Kevin McStravock explores the experience of students on governing bodies The post How do student governors perceive power? appeared first on Wonkhe.

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House ed hearing highlights areas of division, agreement

Higher Ed Dive

School choice, support for student gender identities and instructional approaches were among points of contention in the Wednesday session.

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Three activities to help make the classroom a more relational space (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

I, along with faculty colleagues from many different types of institutions, am finding that students are just not as engaged as they have been in the past. In the fall of 2022, more students than I have ever encountered during my 25 years of teaching were tardy or missed classes. Some disappeared altogether. There were students who did not seem to understand the need to take notes, read for class or otherwise engage in the course material.

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What sort of feedback do PhDs want and need in the future?

Wonkhe

Should scribbled notes join pipes and tweed jackets in the back of the wardrobe? Stacy Gillis and Chiara Pellegrini explore how PhD students experience feedback The post What sort of feedback do PhDs want and need in the future? appeared first on Wonkhe.

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China bans students from enrolling in foreign online colleges

Inside Higher Ed

Image: China’s Ministry of Education will no longer recognize online degrees from overseas colleges, per a Jan. 28 statement from the Service Center for Scholarly Exchange in Beijing. The announcement, which arrived without notice and was effective immediately, impacts Chinese students enrolled at foreign colleges who had been studying online in their home country.

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New initiative seeks to boost value of community college degrees

University Business

From 2023 through 2028, ten community colleges across the nation will have the opportunity to participate in a program that will boost their reputations in a big way. Unlocking Opportunity: The Post-Graduation Success and Equity Network will be working with schools across Texas, Wyoming, Oklahoma, and more to re-tool their programs conducive to valuable degrees.

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Three reasons professors engage students with music

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Keeping students engaged in class is an age-old struggle. While professors have employed a variety of strategies—creating pop quizzes, offering participation points, facilitating classroom discussions, assigning group work—some have chosen a creative alternative: music. An assistant professor at Yale University who recently tweeted to ask other professors if they're playing music before class, and what students think, got more than 1,000 replies.

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How Can You Engage the Families of Current Students?

Helix Education

To celebrate the release of our 2023 University Family Engagement Report , we held a webinar and were joined by an enthusiastic group of professionals who wholeheartedly answered our polling questions during the webinar ( you can watch the webinar on-demand here ). This poll will offer you some of their answers side by side with data points from the report.

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14 recommendations for professors approaching retirement (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

As she approaches that milestone herself, Susan M. Shaw offers 14 recommendations to help other faculty members leave on their own terms. Job Tags: FACULTY JOBS Ad keywords: faculty Editorial Tags: Career Advice Show on Jobs site: Image Source: olm26250/istock/getty images plus Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?

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Educause Guidance for Higher Ed Leaders: Basics of Data Privacy Oversight, Transparency, and Compliance

Campus Technology

A new Showcase Series from Educause, titled “Privacy and Cybersecurity 101,” offers guidance for higher education leaders on pressing issues of the day: data privacy, information security, and institutional transparency around both.

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Strategies for Increasing Instructor Presence

Faculty Focus

As an instructor, I have always considered myself to be friendly and approachable. I assumed that students would come to me when they were experiencing difficulty with course materials or going through unexpected life events which influenced course performance. However, I have learned that many students tend to be reluctant to reach out for a variety of reasons.

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How Universities Can Use AI Chatbots to Connect with Students and Drive Success

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

Artificial intelligence has been a blazingly hot topic in higher education since ChatGPT burst onto the scene in late 2022, stoking early fears that comprehensive, AI-written essays would “blow up” the entire education system. Much of the early panic over ChatGPT has subsided as instructors have realized the limitations of the AI, tools have been developed to detect its use and thought leaders have encouraged colleges to embrace tools like ChatGPT.

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International security and student safety: Why schools are banning TikTok

University Business

From “devious licks” to vandalizing school property, more districts are becoming aware of the dangerous TikTok trends that students can’t get enough of. But there’s more to be worried about than simply social media trends. TikTok can be a massive cybersecurity issue. Several school districts and universities have pulled the plug and banned the use of the app amidst data privacy concerns.

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Pomona College to Preserve Archival Collection of Civil Rights Leader Myrlie Evers-Williams

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Pomona College will be preserving the archival collection of alumna and civil rights leader Myrlie Evers-Williams. The collection will be handled by The Claremont Colleges Library. Myrlie and Medgar Evers “I don't want to get too emotional,” said Evers-Williams, who graduated with a sociology degree in 1968. “But it was Pomona College, it was the teachers here who helped me move ahead and come out of this feeling of drowning … And it was my being here at Pomona with the instructors here and the

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ChatGPT is a plague upon education (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

In the winter of 2020, while COVID-19 was just beginning to crawl its way across the globe, there was a palpable sense in the United States that the utter catastrophe that COVID has turned out to be, with over one million dead Americans left in its wake (and counting), simply would not happen. Sure, the front pages of newspapers showed Chinese officials in white hazmat suits carrying body bags, but we’d seen such images before with SARS.

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Coursera and Burning Glass Institute Release 2023 Skills Compass Report to Help L&D Leaders Develop High ROI Learning Programs

Coursera blog

By Trena Minudri, Coursera Chief Learning Officer Ongoing economic instability and corporate cost cutting are causing L&D budgets to shrink and every remaining dollar spent is being scrutinized. In 2022, 54% of HR leaders agreed that leadership often sees L&D as a cost and not as an investment. Learning leaders are under more pressure than ever to demonstrate the ROI of their programs.

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One approach to student trauma and resilience training for higher ed

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Supporting student success is complex goal. “Every student faces different challenges: first-generation dynamics, lack of resources, debt, housing and transportation, disability, mental health issues, social and pandemic-related issues, even neurodiversity,” says Karen Oehme, director of Florida State University’s Institute for Family Violence Studies, which developed a 20-hour online certification on college student well-being, trauma and resilience that some 2,000 high

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Franchise and Validation Programs: Opportunities and Challenges in a Post-pandemic World

WENR

More and more, life's daily activities can be conducted at a distance. Franchise and validation programs could even allow a university education to be delivered across borders. The post Franchise and Validation Programs: Opportunities and Challenges in a Post-pandemic World appeared first on WENR.

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Affordability Disconnects

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Beyond Transfer Many in higher education talk frequently of how flaws in transfer and credit mobility cost students time and money, but how that plays out is not well articulated. To fill that gap, the Beyond Transfer Policy Advisory Board (PAB) is releasing today a paper that identifies key Affordability Disconnects faced by students as they transition into postsecondary institutions: clear drivers of both increased time to credential and price to students.

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Finland’s joint application sees record numbers

The PIE News

The National Agency for Education in Finland is lauding the record number of applications in its joint application procedure – with the bulk of them coming from abroad. More than 61,000 applications were made in the country’s joint application round, which occurs nationally every year, soaring over the 2022 figure of over 32,000. International students made up around 53,000 of the joint applications, where students can apply for up to six study programs with one application.

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My Fight for Tenure

Academe Blog

BY HANK REICHMAN Tenure and the tenure system are again in the news. It is therefore fitting that the latest issue of Academe is devoted to tenure—what it is, what it isn’t, how to defend it, and how we can and must improve it.

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China and India still dominate international scholars field in US

The PIE News

While still not nearing the all-time high of over 136,000 scholars in 2018/19, the number of international postdoctoral students and visiting lecturers and researchers in the US increased by 6% to 90,891 for the 2021/22 year, new data has revealed. The findings of the Open Doors international scholars research shows that China and India are still the leading places of origin for international scholars in the US, with the two countries making up over 38% of all international scholars in the count

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California's Community Colleges See the Benefits of Student Housing

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

When Imperial Valley College (IVC) conducted a student survey seven years ago, they discovered over 200 students experiencing food and housing insecurity. The findings spurred the creation of a basic needs support program on campus, including the IVC Kitchen, which provides emergency food and groceries to hungry students. While visiting the kitchen, then Dean of Student Services Dr.

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Uninsured students hit by school closure

The PIE News

At least 13 students who had paid money to International House Galway were not covered by learner protection insurance, leaving them in limbo when the language school went into liquidation at the end of January, it has emerged. The Irish Council for International Students raised concerns about the closure of International House Galway after being contacted by students and recruitment agencies who had not been refunded or offered places at alternative schools, including from Spain and Turkey.

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Temple University Strips Tuition Assistance and Health Insurance for Grad Students on Strike

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Temple University has withdrawn tuition assistance for graduate students who have been on strike for a week, The Washington Post reported. The students have been striking due to failing negotiations about wages and health-care coverage for dependents, and parental leave duration. This unprecedented move entailed more than a hundred teaching and research assistants being notified Feb. 8 that their tuition remission – worth up to $20,000 a year – had been removed for the spring.

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Why the British Council is investing in certifying agents and school counsellors

The PIE News

Researching options and applying to university in your own country is a complicated and often stressful, for both students and parents. Imagine how much more complicated the process is when the goal is to study abroad: evaluating the options in different countries and in different languages, understanding how your local qualifications fit in a different education system, working out what preparation or additional tests you might need to take, and that’s before you even start with the application

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Black students have lowest completion rates in higher education, study finds

The Guardian - Higher Education

Research finds that Black students must contend with challenges including high costs and racial discrimination Black students have lower six-year completion rates for any kind of degree or certificate program than students in any other racial or ethnic group, a new study has found. According to the study by Gallup and Lumina Foundation, which was released on Thursday, Black students must contend with various challenges to completing post-secondary programs including high costs and racial discrim

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After an Enrollment Spike, a University Tells Current Students: No Campus Housing for You

The Chronicle of Higher Education

By Julian Roberts-Grmela More students are coming to Cal Poly Humboldt. That's good news for the campus after years of enrollment decline. But where will everybody live?

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ELIZABETH OREHOVEC

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Elizabeth Orehovec Elizabeth Orehovec has been appointed assistant vice president for enrollment management and executive director of undergraduate admissions at the University of South Carolina. Orehovec is a graduate of the University of Miami in Florida. She holds a master’s in higher education administration, an MBA, and a doctorate from the University of South Carolina.

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Strategies for Increasing Instructor Presence

Faculty Focus

As an instructor, I have always considered myself to be friendly and approachable. I assumed that students would come to me when they were experiencing difficulty with course materials or going through unexpected life events which influenced course performance. However, I have learned that many students tend to be reluctant to reach out for a variety of reasons.

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Dr. Hilary L. Link Appointed President of Drew University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Hilary L. Link will become president of Drew University, effective Jul. 1. Dr. Hilary L. Link Previously, Link has been president of Allegheny College, dean of Temple University Rome, vice provost at Barnard College of Columbia University, and director of scholar programs at New York University. “I am excited to step into the leadership of Drew University, a strong institution known for providing its students with a truly immersive learning experience and for a faculty distinctively dedicate

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For Black Students, 2 Obstacles to Graduation Loom Large: Discrimination and Responsibilities

The Chronicle of Higher Education

By Kate Marijolovic More than one in five Black students say they feel discriminated against “frequently” or “occasionally” in their programs, a new survey finds.