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Daring students to take risks and be wrong is key to solving the campus culture wars

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Reflecting on the governments decision to part-repeal the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act, Jim Dickinson considers the conditions that would give confidence to students to engage in the debates that policymakers imagine

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NCAA Adds Women's Wrestling as Championship Sport, First Tournament Set for 2026

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In a historic move for collegiate athletics, the NCAA has officially recognized women's wrestling as its 91st championship sport, marking a significant milestone for female athletes across the country. The decision, announced at the Association's annual Convention in Nashville, Tennessee, will culminate in the first-ever NCAA women's wrestling championship tournament in 2026.

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Keep talking about data

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All universities could make more of the data on students they have.

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Why Data Alone Won’t Improve Retention

Faculty Focus

Data has become the cornerstone of decision-making and institutional strategy in today’s higher education landscape. From tracking retention rates to measuring academic performance, data offers a clear, quantifiable view of how students and institutions are progressing. This reliance on numbers has driven many colleges to focus heavily on metrics in an effort to improve outcomes, streamline operations, and secure funding.

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Navigating Higher Ed’s Tech & Budget Crunch: Yes, You Can Survive

As Higher Ed institutions continue struggling with budget constraints and enrollment pressures, making smart decisions about technology is crucial. How do institutions enhance data security, optimize their tech stack and engage students effectively…all while managing limited resources? Bret Ingerman, former Vice President for Information Technology at Tallahassee State College, digs into these conundrums, exploring how Pathify offers solutions to enhance student engagement while giving instituti

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A higher education institution’s relationship with technology crosses all its missions

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Debbie McVitty talks to University of Edinburgh principal Peter Mathieson about the university's research legacy and future plans for data science and AI

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Why Data Alone Won’t Improve Retention

Faculty Focus

Data has become the cornerstone of decision-making and institutional strategy in today’s higher education landscape. From tracking retention rates to measuring academic performance, data offers a clear, quantifiable view of how students and institutions are progressing. This reliance on numbers has driven many colleges to focus heavily on metrics in an effort to improve outcomes, streamline operations, and secure funding.

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CEO to CEO Newsletter, Issue #274

AACC

January 17, 2024 | Issue # 274 I want to begin by wishing all of you a Happy New Year, and I hope the new semester has started off well. Our friends in Southern California are dealing with fear and uncertainty as the wildfires continue to burn. And even after the fires are fully extinguished, […] The post CEO to CEO Newsletter, Issue #274 first appeared on AACC.

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Higher Ed Unbridled (And Muzzled)

Higher Education Inquirer

In early 2025, we will slowly begin to see what US higher education looks like with less oversight and accountability, something that many business leaders and administrators secretly hope for. At the same time, we can imagine higher education and its media wary of talking out of turn. In the past, the Higher Education Inquirer (HEI) focused on exposing bad actors in a few areas of the higher education business: online program managers, large robocolleges, student loan servicers, lead generators

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Brain implant that could boost mood by using ultrasound to go under NHS trial

The Guardian - Higher Education

Devices may have potential to help patients with conditions such as depression, addiction, OCD and epilepsy A groundbreaking NHS trial will attempt to boost patients mood using a brain-computer-interface that directly alters brain activity using ultrasound. The device, which is designed to be implanted beneath the skull but outside the brain, maps activity and delivers targeted pulses of ultrasound to switch on clusters of neurons.

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Make Universities Great Again

HEPI

Join HEPI and Jisc at 2pm next Monday, 27 January for a webinar on ‘Competition or collaboration’ in the higher education sector: you can register here. On the day that Donald Trump is inaugurated as US President for the second time, with JD Vance as his Vice-President, HEPI Director of Partnerships Lucy Haire reviews Vances Hillbilly Elegy – and asks what it can teach us about his attitudes to universities.

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Understanding the Social Change Model of Leadership (SCM): Igniting Students’ Academic Development P

The article addresses the Social Change Model of Leadership Development. It elucidates the SMC background, key assumptions, and the main pillars of the model to form a a change agent who could be helpful with institutional in-service delivery.

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University degree still best for young Britons’ life chances, says former minister

The Guardian - Higher Education

In research paper for Kings College London, former Tory minister David Willetts hits back at critics who say degree is no longer a wise investment A university degree is still the best route for the UKs young people to boost their life chances, despite attacks by edu-sceptics over debts and costs, according to a former Conservative minister. David Willetts, who introduced the system of fees and loans that fund higher education in England, has hit back at critics including those in his own party

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The Business Plots, Then and Now

Higher Education Inquirer

In 1933, a group of American businessman planned a coup to take down the new President, Franklin Roosevelt. In this scheme, General Smedley Butler would be tasked with orchestrating the overthrow. This attempted coup was called the Business Plot. College students today may ask, so what's so important about this moment in history? The point is that we have entered an era again where US business have a strong influence over American politics.

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