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An avalanche really is coming this time

Wonkhe

The model of academics as all-rounders may be impossible to sustain in a mass higher education system bedevilled by generative AI, argues Jim Dickinson The post An avalanche really is coming this time appeared first on Wonkhe.

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5 charts breaking down demographic trends in college transfer enrollment

Higher Ed Dive

National Student Clearinghouse Research Center data shows mostly across-the-board declines — though there are hints of recovery.

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Higher education postcard: solvitur ambulando

Wonkhe

This week’s card from Hugh Jones’s postbag reminds us that student debt is not a new phenomenon The post Higher education postcard: solvitur ambulando appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Undergraduate credentials earned hit four-year low in 2021-22 academic year

Higher Ed Dive

The drop stemmed from a loss of first-time graduates, the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center found.

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Podcast: Secret Life of Students special

Wonkhe

This week on the podcast we’re live at our Secret Life of Students event in London where we hear from OfS' Director for Fair Access and Participation John Blake The post Podcast: Secret Life of Students special appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Amazon-powered convenience store opens at Virginia college

Higher Ed Dive

Marymount University opened a 24-hour shop last week that marks the first campus location to integrate Amazon’s frictionless checkout technology.

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EDUCAUSE and Third-Party Servicer Guidance

Educause

A recent guidance letter from the U.S. Department of Education applies “Third-Party Servicer” regulations to higher education institutions and to their content, software, systems, and services providers. Given the disruption this would cause, EDUCAUSE has asked the department to rescind the letter, fully consult with institutions and their stakeholders, and revise its guidance.

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Northeastern and Northwestern Law Centers Seek Posthumous Pardon for Black Man Executed After 1908 Springfield Race Riot

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In the early 20th century, Joe James, a Black man, was convicted and executed for the murder of a white man in Springfield, Illinois, after the 1908 Springfield Race Riot. Now, 115 years after his death, lawyers and law students from Northwestern and Northeastern Universities are seeking a posthumous pardon. on his behalf. Margaret A. Burnham A petition filed from the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law’s Center on Wrongful Convictions (CWC) and Northeastern University School of Law’s Civil Righ

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A public university wants to privatize advancement jobs

Inside Higher Ed

Image: More than 100 employees in the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Advancement Office may soon not technically be working for the university at all. UMass officials announced last month that the vast majority of advancement positions would be transferred to the University of Massachusetts Amherst Foundation, a private nonprofit affiliated with the university.

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Involving Students in Satisfaction Survey Action Steps

Helix Education

Students can be great ambassadors for the satisfaction assessment process. Gathering student satisfaction data by administering a survey, such as the RNL Student Satisfaction Inventory (SSI) , is a regular assessment activity for hundreds of colleges each year. Institutional research or student affairs determines whether the fall or the spring is the best time to survey students.

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Case Study: How One College Brought a Technology Training Center to Life

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

The manufacturing industry in Lake County, Illinois, just north of Chicago, employs nearly 100,000 of the county’s 700,000 residents and is responsible for nearly $50 billion of the county’s economy. It’s no stretch to say that the sector’s continued success is vital to the region’s future. The College of Lake County had this fact in mind when mapping out its strategic plan in 2019.

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Minnesota Catholic colleges cut languages, other humanities

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Two linked Minnesota Roman Catholic institutions are reducing language and other humanities offerings, including nixing all its ancient Greek and Chinese classes. The provost of the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University has cited overall enrollment decreases and specifically low enrollments in these courses. In its fall newsletter, the Modern Language Association noted combined undergraduate and graduate course enrollments in languages other than English declined 15.

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Faculty Members Still Aren't Sure What to Make of ChatGPT

The Chronicle of Higher Education

By Eva Surovell Illustration by The Chronicle, iStock A survey of more than 900 professors found that the vast majority hadn't developed artificial-intelligence guidelines for their classrooms.

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Swiss journal publisher raises eyebrows with special issues

Inside Higher Ed

Image: The open-access Swiss publisher MDPI has rejected criticisms that its rapid expansion of journal “special issues” poses a threat to quality, despite having almost 56,000 such issues receiving submissions this year. The rise of the Basel-based publisher, which was founded in 1996, has gone largely unnoticed despite its remarkable growth.

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Why Doctoral Programs Should Require Courses on Pedagogy

The Chronicle of Higher Education

The case for paying far more attention to developing teaching skills in graduate school. By Benjamin Rifkin, Rebecca S. Natow, Nicholas P. Salter, and Shayla Shorter The case for paying far more attention to developing teaching skills in graduate school.

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How two-way texting aids in student support and retention

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Last spring, when the institutional effectiveness team at Moorpark College conducted student surveys and focus groups as well as data analysis to evaluate the efficacy of student communication, an issue with volume became clear. “Our students were overwhelmed by the number of emails they received each week and were eager to connect more with counselors, instructors and student support professionals in a one-on-one capacity,” says Jamie Whittington-Studer, a communication resea

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Survey: Students and parents stress cost and career prep when picking a college

University Business

It’s no secret applying to college is a stressful time in both the applicants’ and parents’ lives. A recent report by The Princeton Review considered the perspectives of 12,225 people—with a 72/28% split between student and parent respondents—to understand what colleges they’re interested in and why they’re motivated to apply.

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New curricular modules will highlight role of race in health sciences

Inside Higher Ed

Image: As part of a new $560,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation, humanities scholars at Wheaton College in Massachusetts are developing 10 curricular modules on the role of race, cultural backgrounds and global perspectives in health and medicine—and professors beyond Wheaton will be able to incorporate them into existing courses. Ready-to-use format: The modules will help professors across fields better understand inequities in health and medicine and facilitate class discussions about

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Building an Action Plan for Enrollment Success at the Strategic Enrollment Planning Forum

Helix Education

What if you could spend two days laying the groundwork for the long-term success of your institution? Two days not just discussing strategies with other higher ed leaders but creating a framework for success that you can take back to your institution? Would you say that was time well spent? Every year for more than 15 years, campus presidents, chief enrollment officers, and other senior leaders have taken two days to attend the RNL Strategic Enrollment Planning Executive Foru m.

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How to recover from pandemic learning loss (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

We knew recovering from the learning loss of the pandemic would be hard. The reality is it might require us to rethink education altogether. We might all be better off for it. To help our students move forward, America’s schools and colleges need to turn away from constant drilling for tests and a fixation on “coverage,” the notion that skimming across vast swaths of curriculum somehow makes for a good education.

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Rankings and the line of best fit – the ultimate guide or a blunt instrument?

The PIE News

Love them or loathe them, university rankings carry weight. Governments use them to measure quality, families looking for study opportunities continue to look to them for guidance on where to study and they remain a prominent feature of marketing material. The sheer breadth of rankings can be surprising, from THE, QS, Shanghai Rankings, to the Private University Ranking – ASEAN, Studocu’s World University Ranking, Webometrics, and the Round University Rankings to name but a few.

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Dealing with censorship when publishing research abroad (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

Guy Geltner describes how scholars may increasingly have to balance dialogue with censorship when publishing their research in other countries. Job Tags: FACULTY JOBS Ad keywords: faculty Editorial Tags: Career Advice Publishing Research Show on Jobs site: Image Source: JUN LI/istock/getty images plus Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?

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UK schools visit Saudi to establish satellites

The PIE News

Representatives from the UK’s K-12 and early years sectors are visiting Saudi Arabia this week on a trade mission, as more independent schools set up franchises in the country. Stakeholders from private and international schools and the early years sector are spending five days in the Middle Eastern country to engage with government ministries, hold policy roundtables and meet with global investors.

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With tuition costs so high, a new minimum wage won’t help students

University Business

Students expected to pull themselves up by their bootstraps by supporting themselves through college is becoming an antiquated notion. If state minimum wages remain at their current rate by 2030, that will prove impossible. Extrapolating research from the Education Data Initiative, the student-focused news service Intelligent forecasted what it would take for students to support themselves while earning a degree working unskilled jobs in the next decade.

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Where Cultural Understanding Is Key to Student Success

The Chronicle of Higher Education

By Karin Fischer Illustration by the Chronicle, Getty and Alamy photos Targeted programming aimed at demystifying the American higher-ed experience is showing promising results in foreign-student retention.

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To Mitigate ChatGPT Plagiarism Look No Further than its References

Faculty Focus

There is debate recently on student use of ChatGPT, a chatbot using a large language model (LLM) which uses machine-learning algorithms to understand natural language and generate responses (Radford et al., 2019). The main debate has been in its use of plagiarism among students. A subset of this debate is that due to the large amounts of unstructured text data, ChatGPT will generate fake or biased content, a reflection of larger data that is drawn.

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Aus: Colombian student numbers “highest in history”

The PIE News

Colombian student numbers for Australia are now the highest in history, according to new figures in an update from Austrade. Total numbers for Colombia at the end of 2022 came in at 28,437, with the inclusion of enrolments, commencements and year-to-date visa lodgement figures offshore. In the snapshot update on Latin America’s international student market, Austrade noted its push to get prospective students back to in-person recruitment events across Latin America. “2023 is shaping up as a very

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Community Colleges to Get More Head Start Centers

Inside Higher Ed

The Association of Community College Trustees and the National Head Start Association are partnering to bring more Head Start centers to community college campuses. Fewer than 100 of the more than 1,400 community and technical colleges in the country have Head Start centers on campus. Meanwhile, Head Start programs are struggling to enroll children, with up to 180,000 childcare and early learning slots unfilled, according to a press release from the partners.

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Nexford expands distance courses to East Africa

The PIE News

US-based distance learning institution Nexford University has announced its expansion into East Africa, starting with partnerships in Kenya. The move follows a growing number of students enrolling in the university from countries like Nigeria, Egypt and South Africa. The expansion has already begun with a partnership between Nexford and the Federation of Kenya Employers to analyse the country’s skill shortages.

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DERRICK ROBERTSON

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Derrick Robertson Derrick Robertson has been named associate vice president and executive director of admissions and enrollment management services at Talladega College. He holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from Southern University and A&M College in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, a master’s in higher education administration from Sam Houston State University, and a juris doctorate from the Southern University Law Center.

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What next for UK student mobility abroad post-Brexit?

The PIE News

Traditionally, study abroad involves the exchange of students over a semester or full academic year. As universities try to expand participation in mobility schemes, there is a need to diversify the meaning of studying abroad. From a UK context, the full impact of Brexit is still yet to seen, as the process of looking again at exchange agreements is beginning – especially as the UK approaches the end of its 10 years in the Erasmus Plus program.

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PATRESE ATINE

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Patrese Atine Patrese Atine has been named assistant vice president for Indigenous and Native American affairs at Colorado State University. Atine is an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation and earned a master’s in education, policy, planning, and administration from Boston University.

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Faculty and Credit Transfer

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Beyond Transfer For many students, transferring between community colleges and 4-year institutions is sometimes the only path to a bachelor’s degree. Community colleges provide a valuable service to students due to lower costs, closer proximity to home communities, and more flexibility for non-traditional students. In the fall of 2020, 4.7 million students attended 2-year community colleges , approximately 25 percent of all undergraduates.

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JOY GASTON GAYLES

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Joy Gaston Gayles Joy Gaston Gayles has been named head of the N.C. State College of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership, Policy, and Human Development. She has a bachelor’s degree in adapted physical ed and kinesiotherapy from Shaw University, a master’s in higher ed admin. from Auburn University, and a Ph.D. in ed administration from The Ohio State University.

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Borrower Defense Claims Surpass 750,000

Higher Education Inquirer

The Higher Education Inquirer has posted a number of articles about student loan debt. In 2023, the student loan mess has reached epic proportions. Not only has the US FSA debt portfolio reached more than $1.6 trillion, we learned that $674 Billion was estimated to be unrecoverable. In California, the US District Court in Sweet v Cardona agreed to a $6 Billion settlement between student debtors and the US Department of Education.

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Princeton Student Charged With Attacking Officers on Jan. 6

Inside Higher Ed

A Princeton University student was charged Tuesday with civil disorder, a felony, and related misdemeanor offenses in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol. A Justice Department announcement of the arrest said Larry F. Giberson Jr. “was among rioters who repeatedly engaged in violence against law enforcement officers guarding the Capitol in the Lower West Terrace tunnel entrance.

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Indigenous Ways of Knowing, a Faculty’s Journey to Redesign Native American Art Online Course

WCET Frontiers

Each year, I have the honor of coordinating the WCET Awards initiative. The goal of our awards program is to highlight those doing great work in higher education digital learning. I feel so lucky to get the chance each year to learn about the meaningful, student-focused work being done by various institutions, organizations, and individuals in our community.