Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Image: With public schools facing a dearth of teachers and traditional teacher-training programs struggling to reverse a long-declining enrollment trend , for-profit companies offering “alternative certification programs” are rising to fill states’ needs. Enrollment in for-profit alternative teacher-certification programs grew by 48,000 students nationally, or 283 percent, from 2010–11 to 2018–19, according to a 2022 study jointly conducted by the left-leaning think

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Kortext University Leaders' Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

School’s back for autumn – time to turn off the Alice Cooper and get students pumped for the next academic year. But we know that student engagement is no easy feat. As students and universities alike learn to navigate and master digitally enhanced teaching and learning, maintaining student engagement can be a real challenge – especially when it comes to engagement with course reading.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Image: A longtime higher ed paradox is this: community colleges open doors to educational opportunities, particularly for underrepresented, low-income or underprepared students, but most students who enter these institutions do not earn degrees. Past studies have produced sometimes-conflicting results on whether online coursework helps community college students progress toward degrees.

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The Berkeley Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

In 1862, during the midst of the Civil War, Congress had a bold vision. They passed the Morrill Act which provided land grants to states to establish colleges of agriculture and mechanical arts to teach practical agriculture, science, military science and engineering. It was on this foundation that the University of California was launched.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

In an era of disruption, when top administrators face intense scrutiny, key characteristics can foster resilience and model traits that reflect the core of university life, writes Michael Patullo. Editorial Tags: Career Advice Show on Jobs site: Image Source: Yossakorn Kaewwannarat/istock/getty images plus Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?

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Campus Technology

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Google and its charitable foundation Google.org have announced $20 million in new grants to help expand access to computer science education to millions more students in under-resourced communities across the country, particularly rural and urban areas.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Image: After months of slow progress, China’s authorities appear to be preparing for a widespread return of international students. “Welcome news! International students can now return to China to resume their studies,” wrote Ma Hui, China’s ambassador to Cuba, in a recent post on Twitter. The message comes as China readies to ease its COVID-19 restrictions on foreign travelers after two and a half years.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Upset about the looming eviction of residents in a nearby affordable housing complex, protesters descended on Monday’s convocation at the University of Pennsylvania, interrupting President Liz Magill and accusing Penn of gentrifying neighborhoods near campus—or “Penntrification,” as they called it. Despite being targeted, Penn does not own the nearby University City Townhomes complex at the heart of the protest, which The Philadelphia Inquirer reported largely houses Blac

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Listen Now: Attention Retention, Episode 6. Together with our friends at Enrollify, Archer Education is bringing you a podcast about attracting and retaining the modern, adult learner. Listen in every other Tuesday this summer for Attention Retention : a six-part series with Angie Mohr, Clayton Dean, and Zach Busekrus. Episode 6: How To Capture And Keep The Attention Of Today’s Prospective Students.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

How colleges use debt during times of crisis varies greatly depending on institutional characteristics, according to a new report from Ithaka S+R funded by the TIAA Institute. The study, released Wednesday, found that while historically Black colleges and universities tend to borrow less than non-HBCUs—a pattern that has remained relatively constant—HBCUs “became significantly more leveraged than non-HBCUs” after the Great Recession of 2008.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The University of North Dakota has found Native American "human remains. believed to be partial skeletal remains from dozens of individuals." That's what President Andrew P. Armacost told the campus Wednesday. "When the federal law known as the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act was approved in 1990, the university had a responsibility to return ancestors and sacred objects to their tribal lands.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

English professors don’t always have their nose in a book. In today’s Academic Minute, Santa Clara University’s Amy Lueck explains. Lueck is an associate professor of rhetoric and composition at Santa Clara and author of A Shared History: Writing in the High School, College, and University, 1856–1886 (SIU Press, 2020). A transcript of this podcast can be found here.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Today on the Academic Minute : Amy J. Lueck, associate professor of rhetoric and composition at Santa Clara University, explains that English professors don’t always have their nose in a book. 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

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University are starting a major in data science. Skagit Valley College , in partnership with Swinomish Indian Tribal Community, will launch a dental therapy education program. University of Texas at Tyler is starting a bachelor of science in computer engineering. Teaching and Learning Editorial Tags: New academic programs Is this diversity newsletter?

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Consider, really consider, the numbers: one in seven Americans is still paying on their college loans that now total about $1.6 trillion. Recent graduates who borrowed money for college each owed an average of nearly $29,000 before they landed their first full-time job. The sheer amount of outstanding student loans is staggering, so it’s a no-brainer to say that the debt forgiveness announced by the Biden administration last week could be life-changing to many of the approximately 45 milli

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Image: Shelly Lowe spoke with Inside Higher Ed this week about what it is like to be the first Native American chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities , the federal agency charged with supporting research and education in the humanities. Lowe has a history of scholarship in the field of Native American studies from working as executive director of Harvard University’s Native American program, as assistant dean and director of the Native American Cultural Center at Yale Universit

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The Ohio Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to review a lower court’s ruling that Oberlin College must pay $36 million to a nearby bakery, Cleveland.com reported. Without issuing any statements, the court voted 4 to 3 not to hear an appeal. The vote was along party lines, with all four Republican justices voting with the majority and the three votes to hear the appeal coming from Democratic judges.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

A Tennessee state lawmaker has ordered state universities to suspend policies that designate LGBTQ+ students as a protected class, the Tennessee Lookout reported. State representative John Ragan’s order, sent in a letter to East Tennessee State University president Brian Noland, follows a federal court decision to block the Biden administration’s new Title IX guidance that would formally protect LGBTQ+ students.

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