The Academic Designer
AUGUST 30, 2022
Dr. Lisa Munro talks about how to kickstart your journal article. Did you know she has a private community for academic writers on Mighty Networks?
Cisco blogs - Education
AUGUST 30, 2022
The higher education sector has a major role to play in the journey to Net Zero – both in terms of reducing its own environmental footprint and by helping to develop new climate technologies through applied research and co-innovation with industry. The convergence of digital and Net Zero is a new frontier for innovation and is another major driver for Universities digital transformation.
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Higher Ed Ethics Watch
AUGUST 30, 2022
Expectations and Realities. I have blogged before about how to teach ethics to college students. There is no one best way to do so and a variety of methods have been tried. But first, we need to consider what the goals should be of teaching ethics to college students. Here are some of my thoughts. Goals of Ethics Education. Relate education to moral issues that college students may face in their personal and professional lives.
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 30, 2022
There has to be a better approach, one that doesn’t involve leaving academe or staying yet simply slogging through each day with little to no enthusiasm, writes Rebecca Vidra. Editorial Tags: Career Advice Show on Jobs site: Image Source: dickcraft/istock/getty images plus Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?
WCET Frontiers
AUGUST 30, 2022
It’s Back to School time and while the season is filled with its typical excitement for new beginnings, this year there are certainly additional considerations when it comes to heading back to campus. Today we welcome back Kara Monroe, who continues her excellent list of guest appearances with a focus on returning to campus and remote work. Does your campus have a remote work policy?
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 30, 2022
Image: Classes and other meetings sometimes have problems in execution. An instructor or leader may arrive unprepared. Students or attendees may check phones or talk among themselves. Discussions that are intended to flow freely sometimes have lulls. Even those who engage may dominate or remain silent. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit and meetings migrated to Zoom, everything got worse.
Campus Technology
AUGUST 30, 2022
Pearson has added Channels, a curated library of educational videos, to its Pearson+ e-textbook subscription service.
University Leadership Central brings together the best content for university leaders and administrators from the widest variety of thought leaders.
Campus Technology
AUGUST 30, 2022
If you're looking for software and services to augment online and blended instruction, start here.
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 30, 2022
A new peer-reviewed study published Monday found that when colleges that went online during the coronavirus pandemic reopened in the fall of 2020, COVID-19 case counts increased in the surrounding community as students returned to campus. The paper, titled “College openings in the United States increase mobility and COVID-19 incidence,” analyzed data from a college reopenings database from the College Crisis Initiative at Davidson College, coronavirus case count data from the CDC and
Rena Seltzer, Leader Academic
AUGUST 30, 2022
Join us for this dynamic ten-week group for faculty members as we address how to survive and thrive in academia. “I am a happier, healthier, higher-impact, and more productive academic, thanks to Rena’s coaching and book.” – Dolly Chugh, Associate Professor, NYU Stern School of Business The fall session will start in September, 2022 and will meet for ten weeks, with the day and time determined by early registrants.
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 30, 2022
The American Association of University Professors said Monday that it is investigating Indiana University Northwest in Gary over the summary dismissal of Mark McPhail, a former tenured professor of communication who was the institution’s chief academic officer. According to the AAUP, the university “banished” McPhail from campus and “terminated his appointment based on allegations of misconduct that Prof.
The Higher Ed Marketer
AUGUST 30, 2022
Since the pandemic, many higher ed marketers have gone to pay-per-click ads to generate leads. In the near future, Google is changing its cookie-based metrics andthe playing field will change significantly. Today’s guests have a new approach to generating leads for institutions. . PJ Wenzel and Marty Gray are the President and Vice President of Ring Digital , and their goal is to help their clients efficiently and effectively reach their target audience without the reliance on PPC.
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 30, 2022
Sir Big Spur is the name of the rooster who has attended University of South Carolina athletics events since 1999. Actually, there have been six Sir Big Spurs, who have been brought to games by Mary Snelling and her husband, Ron Albertelli. An article in The Post and Courier discusses their anger over Beth and Van Clark, who have succeeded them in providing a rooster.
The Change Leader, Inc.
AUGUST 30, 2022
Brandon Busteed is the Chief Partnership Officer and Global Head of Learn-Work Innovation at Kaplan. In his recent article published by Forbes, Busteed cites data showing a monumental shift in Americans’ perspectives about the quality of online education. According to a New American survey, 55% of Americans now rate the quality of online education as being equal to or better than in-person education.
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 30, 2022
Blog: Higher Ed Gamma When I was young, I was transfixed by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! As I viewed and reviewed the drawings that appeared in the newspaper, I learned about a great many jaw-dropping oddities. But of all the shocking and bizarre marvels that I encountered, one curiosity stood out: The fate of Jeremy Bentham, the pioneering reformer and utilitarian philosopher who held that the most ethical policy choice was the one that produced the greatest good for the greatest number of
Higher Education Inquirer
AUGUST 30, 2022
The US Department of Education (ED) continues to paint rosy projections about higher education enrollment despite harsh economic and demographic realities--and increasing skepticism about the value of college degrees. Image from Digest of Education Statistics (2022) Since 2011, higher education enrollment has declined every year--a more than decade long trend.
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 30, 2022
Retraction Watch reported that all four editors in chief of the journal Aging Cell resigned, citing workload issues and lack of support. The editors, Peter Adams, Julie Andersen, Adam Antobi and Vera Gorbunova, along with John Sedivy, a reviews editor, said in a now-public resignation letter that they’ve struggled to manage an increasing number of submissions, some 540 already this year, and that they haven’t been allowed to pay volunteer section editors based on the number of manusc
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 30, 2022
A controversial “intellectual freedom and viewpoint diversity” survey issued to students and employees at Florida public universities elicited a remarkably low number of responses given its reach. Just over 2 percent of the 368,000 students who received the survey—or about 8,000 students—submitted a response. The response rate among employees was slightly higher: just over 9,000 out of 73,000, or about 12 percent.
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 30, 2022
The Department of Education announced today that it will discharge all remaining federal student loans for borrowers who enrolled in any location of Westwood College (including enrollment in Westwood’s online program) between January 1, 2002 through November 17, 2015 when it stopped enrolling new borrowers in advance of its 2016 closure. The department said that it has analyzed the evidence related to Westwood and concluded that the for-profit college "engaged in widespread misreprese
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 30, 2022
Harford Community College. Claudia Brown, mass communications. John Donahue, sociology. Ben Fisler, theater and performing arts. Regina Johnson, English. Cynthia Kelly, health and physical education. AnnMarie Profili, paralegal studies. University of Hawai‘i at West O‘ahu. James C. Burrell, business administration. Carina A. Chernisky, librarian II, academic support.
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 30, 2022
Today on the Academic Minute : Vikash V. Gayah, associate professor in the department of civil and environmental engineering at Pennsylvania State University, discusses one way to save drivers’ time and reduce traffic. 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 30, 2022
Hate waiting to make a left turn at a busy intersection? You’re not alone. In today’s Academic Minute, Pennsylvania State University’s Vikash V. Gayah explores how to fix these time wasters. Gayah is an associate professor in the department of civil and environmental engineering at Penn State. A transcript of this podcast can be found here. Section: Academic Minute File: 08-30-22 Penn State - Improve Traffic Flow in Cities By Banning Left Turns.
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 30, 2022
Image: A group of five Black students at Brigham Young University, who call themselves the Black Menaces, started a TikTok account earlier this year where they post videos of themselves posing questions to their mostly white classmates about race and identity. Questions range from what Juneteenth commemorates to whether students have queer friends on campus and whether institutional racism exists.
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 30, 2022
Blog: Learning Innovation 3 years ago , CU Boulder announced its first performance-based degree on Coursera, a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering (MS-EE). This degree removed applications entirely. Any students who maintain a B average in a series of gateway courses are automatically admitted. My friend, Dr. Quentin McAndrew , current academic strategist at Coursera and former Assistant Vice Provost at CU Boulder, who helped archetype the degree, says, “When we were creating the p
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 30, 2022
Image: Mixed-gender research teams remain significantly underrepresented in science. At the same time, male-female teams are more likely to produce novel and highly cited research than are same-gender teams. Both findings are from a new study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The paper focuses on academic medicine, as its authors started writing it during COVID-19 and academic medicine is a funding behemoth.
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 30, 2022
Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean. In this one I’ll outline a dilemma I’ve seen, and hope that some wise and worldly readers have found elegant ways around it. In dual enrollment programs, high school students take college classes that count for both high school credit and college credit. Programs come in various styles and are funded in different ways, but the curricula need to be built in ways that allow single courses to serve two sets of requirements.
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 30, 2022
Blog: Just Visiting In the aftermath of President Biden’s action on reducing the student loan debts of millions of Americans, like a lot of others, I’ve been wondering, what’s next? At this point, the question as to whether or not our debt-financed system of individuals financing their educations makes any sense is all over but the shoutin’ That shoutin’ is coming from those on the right who are demonizing the action for political purposes (often looking foolish in
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 30, 2022
Blog: Leadership in Higher Education To preserve our democracy, the time has come for American colleges and universities to center the concept of truth in undergraduate education. Americans today are bombarded daily with inflated advertising claims, false statements from political leaders, television propaganda masquerading as news and misleading toxic sludge on social media.
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 30, 2022
Image: The latest bill targeting wealthy colleges and universities would require those with endowments over $1 billion—around 136 public and private colleges nationwide—to cover a certain percentage of all students’ cost of attendance. The Changing Our Learning, Loans, Endowments, and Graduation Expectations (COLLEGE) Act was introduced in the Senate at the beginning of August by Republican senator Rick Scott from Florida.
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