Wonkhe
DECEMBER 12, 2023
Elizabeth Newall reflects on the findings of the second phase of Jisc's research on the digital experience of international students The post Focusing on the digital experiences of international students can improve higher education for everyone appeared first on Wonkhe.
Higher Ed Dive
DECEMBER 12, 2023
The Catholic institution's board instructed it to reduce its operating budget by $4 million after it declared financial exigency in September.
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The Academic Designer
DECEMBER 12, 2023
Discover 12 inspiring personal academic website examples who won awards in the 2023 Best Personal Academic Websites Contest hosted by Jennifer van Alstyne, Brittany Trinh, and Owlstown.
Higher Ed Dive
DECEMBER 12, 2023
The agency recently started asking about the contentious practice of giving admissions preference to alumni’s relatives.
Wonkhe
DECEMBER 12, 2023
When the whole world is talking about AI, separating the signal from the noise can be hard work. Martin Compton introduces a MOOC that could help The post Everybody’s talking – an approach to growing AI literacy in higher education appeared first on Wonkhe.
Higher Ed Dive
DECEMBER 12, 2023
Legislators would route the additional funding to the City University of New York system, which has faced budgetary and enrollment challenges.
Wonkhe
DECEMBER 12, 2023
Universities used European structural funds to do great levelling up work. Gabi Binnie considers what comes next The post Employability, EU funding, and the end of an era appeared first on Wonkhe.
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Inside Higher Ed
DECEMBER 12, 2023
The House wants to expand the Pell Grant to shorter career training programs. To pay for it, a new bill would cut off federal student loans to the nation’s wealthiest private colleges, starting in July. As Congress gears up to head home for the holiday season, proponents who have hoped to see a breakthrough on the long-running issue of expanding Pell Grants to career-training programs lasting fewer than 15 weeks have received an early gift—a bipartisan deal in the House.
Faculty Focus
DECEMBER 12, 2023
Assessment has traditionally been viewed as an action conducted after the learning experience has taken place, resulting in it being a separate task from instruction. This is especially true for higher education. As educators, in order to advance our assessment methods so that it serves the learning of our students, it’s important to prioritize aligning the intended learning outcomes with assessment tasks.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
DECEMBER 12, 2023
Ten years ago, most college students short of money for food would have difficulty finding a food pantry on campus. Food insecurity wasn’t a widely recognized problem in higher education and “student basic needs” wasn’t a field of practice. As we reach the end of another tough year, we deserve to take a moment to be grateful and proud that times truly have changed.
Educause
DECEMBER 12, 2023
Particularly for new technologies that disrupt long-standing practices and cultural beliefs, the work of carefully and intentionally developing effective policies can pay significant dividends.
Academe Blog
DECEMBER 12, 2023
BY THE AAUP-PENN EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE This morning, Marc Rowan, CEO of private equity firm Apollo Global Management in New York, who initiated the successful effort to remove University of Pennsylvania president Elizabeth Magill, distributed an email to the university’s trustees posing a series of eighteen questions, several of which raise serious concerns about the fate…
The Chronicle of Higher Education
DECEMBER 12, 2023
They behaved like academics. That's a good thing. By Rafael Walker They behaved like academics. That's a good thing.
HEPI
DECEMBER 12, 2023
This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Dr Adrian Wright, Dr Mark Wilding, Mary Lawler and Louise Hoole, from the School of Business, University of Central Lancashire. HEPI research suggests more universities are encouraging part-time work and that more students are undertaking paid employment to cope with the increased cost of living. Alongside this, research has documented the impact of the cost-of-living crisis on student belongingness, as decisions made from financial necessity can impact stud
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
DECEMBER 12, 2023
The exclusion of Florida State University’s football team from the College Football Playoff serves as a stark reminder of the challenges facing high school recruits, particularly quarterbacks, hoping to join top-tier college football programs. Despite earning the right to make the playoff based on their resume, Florida State's decision to bring in a true freshman quarterback who needed further development arguably cost the team at shot to compete in the College Football Playoff due to the percep
Campus Technology
DECEMBER 12, 2023
In the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) 2023 survey, "The Career-Ready Graduate: What Employers Say About the Difference College Makes," findings show that employers feel a liberal education without government restrictions is important for preparing new hires to be effective employees.
Faculty Focus
DECEMBER 12, 2023
Assessment has traditionally been viewed as an action conducted after the learning experience has taken place, resulting in it being a separate task from instruction. This is especially true for higher education. As educators, in order to advance our assessment methods so that it serves the learning of our students, it’s important to prioritize aligning the intended learning outcomes with assessment tasks.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
DECEMBER 12, 2023
This fall semester, Massasoit Community College achieved a new first. It became the first two-year school in the state of Massachusetts to allow students to attain degrees in Black Studies. With courses ranging from “Sociology of Race and Ethnicity” and “Contemporary Issues in the Black Community” to “The Black Arts Movement” and “The Civil Rights and Black Power Movement,” students at Massasoit can now pursue the interdisciplinary degree at the two-year school, both online and in-person.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
DECEMBER 12, 2023
Colleges are not the place for simplistic certitudes. By Geoff Shullenberger Matt Roth for The Chronicle Colleges are not the place for simplistic certitudes.
Academe Blog
DECEMBER 12, 2023
BY DON NONINI, SHELDON POLLOCK, AND DAN SEGAL Over the past decade, faculty have most often encountered the problem of financial investments and the climate crisis when their students mobilized to divest their school’s endowments from fossil fuels.
The PIE News
DECEMBER 12, 2023
A think tank run by the government of India has set the ambition of enrolling half a million international students in its universities before 2047. It comes as the NITI Aayog ’s CEO, BVR Subrahmanyam, announced at the annual FICCI Higher Education Summit that the think tank was preparing a “vision document”, which will help achieve the numbers. “One of the important points in this includes that by 2047 we aim to target half a million foreign students in India.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
DECEMBER 12, 2023
Kristina Londy Kristina Londy has been named director of student success and inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility at MiraCosta College in Oceanside, California. Londy holds a bachelor’s degree in human services from California State University, Dominguez Hills, and a master’s in educational leadership and administration from California State University, Fullerton.
ACRLog
DECEMBER 12, 2023
Contract and term positions are all too common for early-career academic librarians. Shrinking post-secondary budgets, demand for academic librarian positions, doing more with less, and persistent vacant positions means landing a permanent and continuing position can be challenging. Job precarity is a reality for many of our early-career colleagues.
Inside Higher Ed
DECEMBER 12, 2023
A bipartisan group of U.S. senators is calling on the Department of Education to offer “clear guidance and communication” to students and families ahead of the launch of a new “simplified” Free Application for Federal Student Aid form, according to a statement from a congressional spokesperson.
The PIE News
DECEMBER 12, 2023
Australia’s new migration strategy’s approach to Vocational Education and Training is “highly problematic” according to the body representing providers. The Independent Tertiary Education Council Australia released a scathing response to the new Migration Strategy , which it said was based on “broad and often inaccurate generalisations about quality”.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
DECEMBER 12, 2023
Veronica Griego-Sanders Veronica Griego-Sanders has been appointed director of the Family Development Program at the University of New Mexico. She previously served as a public school teacher and principal. Griego-Sanders holds a master’s in educational leadership from the University of New Mexico.
The PIE News
DECEMBER 12, 2023
New measures set out in a landmark Migration Review for the Australian international education sector are simply “the same wine a new bottle”, according to one stakeholder. The Migration Review, which was released on December 11, outlined bold new measures to try and bring down the migration rate into Australia and eliminate bad actors from exploiting the education system.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
DECEMBER 12, 2023
By Audrey Williams June and Brian O’Leary Nearly 600 institutions weigh applicants’ legacy status, but most of them are not very selective.
The PIE News
DECEMBER 12, 2023
The lack of suitable jobs, the high cost of living and the crowded housing market are the main reasons international students choose to leave the Netherlands after completing their studies, according to research from Dutch education organisation Nuffic. In a survey of 680 graduates and current students, 30% said they experienced discrimination during job interviews or in the workplace.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
DECEMBER 12, 2023
Winter break is an ideal time to prepare your résumé and cover letters for nonacademic positions. By Jennifer S. Furlong and Stacy M. Hartman Ricardo Rey for The Chronicle Winter break is an ideal time to prepare your résumé and cover letters for nonacademic positions.
EAB
DECEMBER 12, 2023
Podcast How Addressing Equity Gaps Helped Carthage Boost Overall Student Retention Episode 176. December 12, 2023. Welcome to the Office Hours with EAB podcast. You can join the conversation on social media using #EABOfficeHours. Follow the podcast on Spotify , Google Podcasts , Apple Podcasts , SoundCloud and Stitcher or visit our podcast homepage for additional episodes.
totallyrewired
DECEMBER 12, 2023
The following post is created entirely by AI. I took the comments from Day 5 of the 12DoAI on translating videos and asked Claude to summarise them. I then used Recast to turn the summary into a podcast: [link] Image created with DALL-E 4 The podcast contains comments and reflections from various people on their experience using AI video translation tools, specifically HeyGen.
Liaison International
DECEMBER 12, 2023
In higher education, admissions processes have become the focal point for institutions facing challenges, some anticipated like the demographic cliff, and others, like COVID, unforeseen. The continued evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) and its implementation within higher education is now being used to address, anticipate, and mitigate these and some of the biggest issues college and university leaders are facing.
Inside Higher Ed
DECEMBER 12, 2023
The University of Virginia will waive all tuition and fees for Virginia state residents whose families make less than $100,000 a year, university president Jim Ryan announced Friday.
University Business
DECEMBER 12, 2023
Managing a college or university hasn’t been a winning numbers game for a long time. In this pivot-or-perish environment, schools that are thriving have found ways to build relevance, even in an era of declining enrollment and rising costs. For many, that success has come from following basic rules of luxury marketing. Those strategies can feel uncomfortable.
Inside Higher Ed
DECEMBER 12, 2023
New York governor Kathy Hochul sent a letter to the presidents of the state’s colleges and universities stating that calls for genocide should be considered a violation of both their institutional policies and Title VI,
University Business
DECEMBER 12, 2023
University of Pennsylvania’s Board of Trustees unanimously approved the motion to appoint Dr. J. Larry Jameson as interim president of the university, replacing former Penn president Liz Magill. The motion was approved Tuesday during a 2 p.m. Zoom press conference with the Penn Board of Trustees. Read more from CBS News. The post Penn appoints Dr.
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