Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 24, 2022

We can create more engaging and inspiring ways to begin a class, write Cathy N. Davidson and Christina Katopodis, who provide some concrete ideas for how to do so. Job Tags: FACULTY JOBS Ad keywords: faculty teachinglearning Section: Teaching and Learning Editorial Tags: Career Advice Teaching Teaching Today Show on Jobs site: Image Source: vinnstock/istock/getty images plus Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Multiple Authors: Cathy N.

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AUGUST 24, 2022

A journey map is one of the most helpful tools you can build to inform your marketing and communications strategy. In a business context, a journey map outlines the process a customer goes through—from their initial encounter with a brand, to purchase, and ultimately to loyalty and advocacy. It captures a customer’s goal at each stage, and informs the messaging and content a company develops by providing this customer-centric insight.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 24, 2022

We read, with interest, Nolan Higdon and Allison Butler’s recent Inside Higher Ed piece, “ Conferencing Critically in a COVID-19 World ,” in which they discuss various drawbacks to remote and hybrid conferences. While we agree with some of the key points in their article, we feel that others underestimate the potential of virtual and hybrid professional development.

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AUGUST 24, 2022

Reading Time: 8 minutes For a parent, choosing the right school for their child is no easy decision. Parents take pride in their child’s education, and when it comes to private schools, they want to know that they’re making a solid investment for the present and the future. With many parents now browsing social media to research options, your school needs a social media strategy to create and deliver content that appeals to their intent. .

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 24, 2022

Image: Increasingly aware of the toll the past two years of political and pandemic-related upheaval have taken on student mental health, college administrators are seeking to provide better support by establishing crisis response teams and adding trained counselors to campus police departments. California State University, Long Beach, recently created a mobile crisis unit staffed with mental health counselors instead of police to respond to student mental health crises.

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AUGUST 24, 2022

Most people will last anywhere between three hours and three weeks when it comes to implementing new behaviors in their lives. Most quit because they do not see the results. Growth happens on the inside before it will show on the outside. Basically, just because you do not see it, doesn’t mean it is not working. Becoming a stronger, more effective leader takes time.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 24, 2022

Image: A frequently trafficked subway line in Boston started a month-long shutdown for maintenance work last Friday, worrying local higher ed administrators ahead of the fall semester. Some community college leaders fear students may struggle to get to class, or delay starting college altogether, because of the disruption to their commutes. The temporary closure of the Orange Line, planned to last until Sept. 18, has been a looming source of anxiety among Bostonians for weeks.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 24, 2022

Cleveland State University violated a student’s privacy when a virtual proctor required a webcam scan of the student’s room before a remote test, a federal judge ruled Monday. Aaron Ogletree was asked to scan his bedroom with a webcam prior to taking an online chemistry test in the spring 2021 semester. He tried to object to the request, citing confidential tax documents in the area, but ultimately complied.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 24, 2022

Harvard University may lose the title of the nation’s wealthiest university, Bloomberg reported. The potential new wealthiest university is the University of Texas, which may overtake Harvard's $53.2 billion endowment, as of June 21. The value of the Texas endowment at that time was $42.9 billion. The source of the new wealth: crude oil and natural gas.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 24, 2022

An EAB survey of 2,330 parents has found that they have become more important to students in deciding where to go to college and that they are more likely than in the past to want direct communication from colleges. Students (in a separate survey) named parents as among their top five sources of information 48 percent of the time, compared to 37 percent in 2020 and 34 percent in 2019.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 24, 2022

John Haynes, a former Troy University football player, is suing a former teammate and three coaches over an alleged pattern of abuse and bullying that he says resulted in him being sexually assaulted with a pool cue, according to CBS42 News. The defendant, Jack Dawson, is now a punter for Jacksonville State University. He was served a summons at practice on July 29 and arrested Monday on multiple assault charges related to his alleged abuse of Haynes.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 24, 2022

The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities has agreed to help spread the use of new low-cost introductory statistics courseware developed by Lumen Learning. The statistics courseware is among the first to emerge from a new initiative funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to build high-quality, low-cost courseware for 20 high-enrollment “gateway” classes that first-year students of color and those from low-income backgrounds disproportionately fail or don’t

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 24, 2022

Faculty members at Louisiana State University are calling for an investigation of former LSU Health chancellor Larry Hollier, who allegedly spent lavishly on fancy dinners, first-class travel and luxury car services, all reportedly bankrolled by funds from the LSU Health Foundation. The spending came into focus following an investigation by local media outlets WWL-TV and the Times-Picayune.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 24, 2022

Pedro Avila , vice president for student services at Santa Rosa Junior College, in California, has been named superintendent/president of the Gavilan Joint Community College District, also in California. Sara Quay , vice provost at Endicott College, in Massachusetts, has been promoted to provost there. Lesley Rigg , vice president (research) and professor of geography at Western University, in Ontario, has been chosen as president and vice chancellor at Brock University, also in Ontario.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 24, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean This week I heard from a friend and former colleague about a job interview in which the interviewer was … uh … let’s go with “awful” and leave it at that. She was so horrified that she withdrew her application. I know we’re supposed to see job interviews as two-way streets, exercises in reciprocity and the like, but there’s often a real asymmetry underlying them.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 24, 2022

The University of Delaware is imposing a two-week mask mandate for all classrooms, research laboratories and university transportation. The university said its action was preventative. “COVID-19 continues to spread across the nation, now with the highly transmissible BA.5 Omicron variant. We know from campus experience over the past two and a half years that COVID-19 cases tend to surge at the beginning of each semester, largely due to the sharp increase in campus density as students arriv

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 24, 2022

Today on the Academic Minute : Elise Springer, associate professor of philosophy at Wesleyan University, explains why the word “evil” doesn’t always mean what it seems. Learn more about the Academic Minute here. Is this diversity newsletter?: Hide by line?: Disable left side advertisement?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 24, 2022

The word “evil” has been getting a lot of play in the media of late. In today’s Academic Minute, Wesleyan University’s Elise Springer delves into why the word doesn’t always fit. Springer is an associate professor of philosophy at Wesleyan. A transcript of this podcast can be found here. Section: Academic Minute File: 08-24-22 Wesleyan - The Paradox of Blaming Evil.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 24, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Twitter and the right-wing and academic press are abuzz with accusations of plagiarism directed against a Princeton professor who allegedly copied and cribbed portions of his dissertation and a 2015 book. These accusations have in turn prompted counter claims: That a flawed or a missing citation or even sloppiness is notetaking shouldn’t be confused with systematic cheating.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 24, 2022

Image: Think higher education can’t “transform” itself? Meet Vermont State University. The newly accredited institution, the result of a merger of three financially challenged public colleges and universities scattered across more than 100 miles in Vermont, isn’t the kind of change many academic idealists might want; the consolidation will eliminate scores of programs and will cost some employees their jobs.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 24, 2022

More than 110 Democrats in the House and Senate sent a letter to the Education Department Tuesday calling for the temporary Public Service Loan Forgiveness waiver to be extended until at least July 2023. The current deadline for the waiver is Oct. 31. “Since the deadline of Oct. 31, 2022 to qualify for PSLF under the waiver program is rapidly approaching, we ask that the Department extend this deadline in order to ensure that all public servants with federal student loans are able to benef

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 24, 2022

Image: The White House is expected to announce its highly anticipated plan on student loan debt today. However, with less than 10 days until the current pause on repayments is set to lift on Sept. 1, the department has yet to communicate its plans to student loan servicers, who are raising red flags about anticipated operational disruptions that will likely lead to a mess of confused borrowers due to the last-minute decision.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 24, 2022

Image: President Biden announced today that he will cancel up to $10,000 in student debt for Americans earning less than $125,000 per year (or $250,000 for couples filing taxes jointly) with additional relief for borrowers from low-income backgrounds who received Pell Grants. He will also extend the current pause on student loan payments, slated to end Sept. 1, for an additional four months, through Dec. 31.

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