Wonkhe
JULY 16, 2023
Jim Dickinson looks back at FE reform and a drive to improve success rates in the 2000s for context over the fresh crackdown on "low value" courses The post The war on “low-value” students continues appeared first on Wonkhe.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JULY 16, 2023
Gloria Difulvio Gloria Difulvio has been appointed associate dean for undergraduate academic affairs in the School of Health and Health Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. DiFulvio holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Binghamton University and a master’s in counseling psychology, an MPH, and a Ph.D., all from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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Wonkhe
JULY 16, 2023
David Kernohan summarises everything we know so far about the HE reform consultation response The post Student number controls for “poor quality courses” are coming appeared first on Wonkhe.
Faculty Focus
JULY 16, 2023
The following is a sponsored article from the Constructive Dialogue Institute. At some point, most instructors were once students, so it’s easy to relate to sitting in a classroom, listening to a lecture, and perhaps feeling your mind wander. The class that impacted you most was probably taught by a lively individual who found ways to turn their students into an active cast, rather than an audience ready to snooze.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JULY 16, 2023
Glenn Gilyot’s research as a doctoral student in organic chemistry at the University of Missouri-Columbia and the recognition he has received, while significant, pale in comparison to the satisfaction he has derived from his work with a STEM program for elementary and middle-school students. Gilyot calls his position as the graduate student coordinator of STEM Cubs at the university “one of the major highlights of the last three years.
Faculty Focus
JULY 16, 2023
The following is a sponsored article from the Constructive Dialogue Institute. At some point, most instructors were once students, so it’s easy to relate to sitting in a classroom, listening to a lecture, and perhaps feeling your mind wander. The class that impacted you most was probably taught by a lively individual who found ways to turn their students into an active cast, rather than an audience ready to snooze.
Economics and Change in Higher Education
JULY 16, 2023
Calvin University intends to acquire Compass College of Film & Media, bringing together two religiously affiliated institutions in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Compass’ programs will be integrated into Calvin’s communications school beginning this fall, pending approval from regulators and the institutions’ governing boards. Compass students will be guaranteed admission into Calvin, and Calvin has committed to honoring credits earned at Compass.
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Economics and Change in Higher Education
JULY 16, 2023
Colleges across the U.S. — from Middlebury College in Vermont to the University of California, Los Angeles — say they’ve been swept up in the cyberattack exploiting a security vulnerability in Progress Software’s MOVEit service, which enables organizations to transfer large data files. Clop, a ransomware group, has taken responsibility for the attacks on the dark web, claiming to have stolen data from hundreds of organizations.
The Guardian - Higher Education
JULY 16, 2023
Greetings from Bury Park author announces initiatives to ‘bang drum’ for town as he is named chancellor of the University of Bedfordshire When he was growing up, Sarfraz Manzoor dreamed of leaving his home town of Luton. Now the author and journalist has become chancellor of the University of Bedfordshire and has one clear mission – to make people think of Luton as “cool rather than crap”.
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