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An introduction to our brand refresh

Deans for Impact

Notice something different? Our updated visual brand identity conveys a new look and feel that more accurately reflects our growing network and current priorities. . In 2015, Deans for Impact launched with an unwavering commitment to ensure that every child in this country is taught by well-prepared teachers. At the time, our work focused primarily on convening solutions-oriented education deans.

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Why one professor would swap tenure for a union (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

The recent firing of 33 employees, including tenured professors, at Emporia State University in Kansas was deplorable. On the faculty Listserv at my university, it led to a wringing of hands from tenured professors, who lamented it as heralding the dismantling of tenure and the further deterioration of higher education. According to Inside Higher Ed ’s reporting , those at Emporia State regard it in the same light.

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Honoring identities and pursuing excellence: meet Valerie Sakimura, DFI’s new executive director

Deans for Impact

Growing up in Hawai’i, Valerie Sakimura and many of her peers spoke Hawaiian Pidgin, a local dialect often used at home and heard in everyday conversation – but never at school. In academic and formal settings, “it was looked down on as an uneducated way to speak and write,” she explains. But Valerie encountered a surprisingly different experience through her high school English teacher.

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Pepperdine law dean talks openly about his stutter

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Some of Paul Caron’s most vivid childhood memories are about his stutter: disappearing to the restroom whenever the server came to his family’s table at a restaurant so his parents would order for him; children laughing at him in fourth grade when the teacher asked him his name and he couldn’t say it. Today, Caron is dean of law at Pepperdine University.

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10 ways to maximize your higher education conference experience

Terminalfour

It’s higher education conference season, and many of us are feeling a little rusty since the pandemic. Here are some tips on making the most of attending conferences based on our own experience attending and sponsoring several dozens of higher ed events.

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Hurricane Ian leaves Florida campuses flooded and damaged

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Colleges and universities in southwestern and central Florida are assessing damage and evaluating reopening plans in the wake of Hurricane Ian. Some colleges that prepared for severe conditions, including the University of Tampa and the University of South Florida, emerged from the storm with minimal damage and were able to reopen residence halls by Friday morning.

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Mired in War, Ukraine Starts a New Academic Year

WENR

University students in Ukraine continue to struggle, and international students forced to leave because of the war encounter barriers in their own homelands. But those who are seeking to attend university in the United States have found support at many of the country’s academic institutions. The post Mired in War, Ukraine Starts a New Academic Year appeared first on WENR.

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Don’t Blame Me, I Assign Homework

Academe Blog

BY ALEX SMALL Breathe easy, everyone. We physicists have a strategy to help all students pass tough introductory classes. Hear me out. An administrator recently said that more students would pass freshman physics if faculty gave more frequent and early feedback.

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Patty Limerick Fired From Center She Founded

Inside Higher Ed

Patty Limerick has been fired from the Center of the American West at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She remains a tenured professor of history at Colorado. Limerick, a noted historian of the American West, was a co-founder of the center. The decision was made by Glen Krutz, the new dean of CU’s College of Arts and Sciences, according to The Colorado Sun , which said he would not comment on why he removed Limerick.

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Why Is College Enrollment Declining?

Higher Education Today

Title: Exploring the Exodus From Higher Education Source: Edge Research, HCM Strategies, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation A collaborative study between Edge Research, HCM Strategies and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation aims to shed light on why an increasing number of people are choosing not to attend college. As enrollment has been.

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New California Law Furthers Remedial Education Reform

Inside Higher Ed

California governor Gavin Newsom signed into law Friday a bill to further reform remedial education at California community colleges. The new law, Assembly Bill 1705, bolsters a 2017 law , which prevented community colleges from using placement tests to assign students to remedial courses and required them to put students in classes that earn credit unless students are determined “highly unlikely to succeed” in those courses.

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7 Essentials to Marketing Adult and Graduate Studies

Caylor Solutions

Marketing your adult and graduate studies programs has a few different rules than traditional student marketing. Here are 7 essentials to keep in mind. The post 7 Essentials to Marketing Adult and Graduate Studies appeared first on Caylor Solutions.

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Ed Department: Debt Relief to Cost $300 Billion

Inside Higher Ed

The Biden administration’s student debt-relief plan will cost about $30 billion a year over the next 10 years, according to an estimate from the U.S. Department of Education. The estimate, released late Thursday, comes after the Congressional Budget Office, Congress’s nonpartisan research arm, said last week that the one-time relief would cost the federal government $400 billion over 30 years.

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Designing Equity-Minded Work-Based Learning Opportunities for Community College Students

Higher Education Today

Title: What Everyone Should Know about Designing Equity-Minded Paid Work-Based Learning Opportunities for College Students Author: Mauriell H. Amechi Source: New America Community college students often find themselves excluded from participating in work-based learning (WBL) opportunities, which can be crucial for future employability. In a new report, New America showcases how five community colleges center.

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15 Institutions Certified for Serving Latino Students

Inside Higher Ed

Excelencia in Education, an advocacy organization for Latino students, announced Friday that 15 higher ed institutions earned its “Seal of Excelencia,” a three-year certification given to colleges and universities that have proven they’re advancing Latino student success. This is the fourth year the organization has offered this designation.

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Customer Success Story: California Baptist University

PeopleAdmin

Digital Transformation with California Baptist University. California Baptist University has a small human resources team. With only three full-time and one part-time employee supporting 600 staff and 600 faculty, easing administrative burden through digitization isn’t a question, but a necessity. Cal Baptist has been a PeopleAdmin customer since 2014, when they implemented Applicant Tracking System to support recruitment and hiring.

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Music’s Power for People With Dementia: Academic Minute

Inside Higher Ed

Today on the Academic Minute : Daniel R. George, associate professor in the department of humanities and public health sciences at Pennsylvania State University’s College of Medicine, examines one way to improve the quality of life for those in eldercare environments. Learn more about the Academic Minute here. Is this diversity newsletter?: Hide by line?

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Students lose out as some universities are still teaching online | Letter

The Guardian - Higher Education

Pauline Forker says her daughter is saddled with debt for what has turned into a glorified correspondence course May I suggest that when compiling university league tables in the future ( The Guardian University Guide 2023, 24 September ), one of the criteria that you take into consideration is the proportion of teaching that is done in person compared with the proportion online.

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Fired Georgetown College President Files Lawsuit

Inside Higher Ed

Fired last year amid allegations that he sexually assaulted an employee on a work trip, former Georgetown College president William A. Jones is suing the college, its Board of Trustees and several executives, claiming he was the victim of a personal vendetta that led to his ouster from the Kentucky institution. Jones has denied the allegations of sexual assault and claims that he is the “subject of a conspiracy,” according to a news release from his lawyers provided to the local NBC

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Community College Minute, October 3, 2022

AACC

CCMinute for October 3.

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Bradford DeLong’s ‘Slouching Towards Utopia’

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Learning Innovation Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century by Bradford DeLong. Published in September 2022. Living through our current human-caused climate emergency while continuing to muddle our way through a global pandemic, it is sometimes difficult to believe in progress. Worries that the future will be worse than the present are an excellent reason to read economic histories such as Bradford DeLong’s new book, Slouching Towards Utopia.

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Interdisciplinarity

SRHE

by GR Evans. Historian GR Evans takes the long view of developments in interdisciplinary studies, with particular reference to experience at Cambridge, where progress may at times be slow but is also measured. Many institutions have in recent years developed new academic structures or other initiatives intended to promote interdisciplinary collaboration.

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Arizona State to Lead Digital Equity Effort

Inside Higher Ed

Maricopa County in Arizona has voted to spend $34.6 million on an effort led by Arizona State University to promote digital equity. The effort, which Arizona State says is the largest of its kind in the country, will advance broadband, community support, equipment and training across Maricopa County, which includes the metro Phoenix area. Ad keywords: techadministrators techfaculty Is this diversity newsletter?

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Thoughts on Paul LeBlanc’s ‘Broken,’ Part 1

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean I devoured Paul LeBlanc’s latest book, Broken , over the weekend. It’s one of those books that takes a while to digest fully—I mean that as a compliment—so I’ll split this review into two posts, of which this is the first. LeBlanc is the president of Southern New Hampshire University.

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Princeton ‘Dissociates’ From 90 Fossil Fuel Companies

Inside Higher Ed

Princeton University is cutting ties with 90 fossil fuel companies following a vote by the Board of Trustees. The university announced the move Thursday, noting that the decision to “dissociate” is part of an effort to achieve an endowment portfolio with net-zero emissions. The language used by the university stopped short of the term “divestment,” which has been a rallying cry for students and other activists concerned about climate change and the impact of fossil fuels

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Update on capital campaigns

Inside Higher Ed

Starting Out. California State University, Long Beach , has launched a campaign to raise $275 million. The campaign will focus on creating a national model for achievement, empowerment and equity. Finishing Up. Central Piedmont Community College has raised $66 million in a five-year campaign. The college sought $40 million. Marshall University raised $176 million in a campaign that launched in 2019.

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Svante Pääbo Wins Nobel Prize in Medicine

Inside Higher Ed

Svante Pääbo won the Nobel Prize in medicine for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution. “Through his pioneering research, Svante Pääbo accomplished something seemingly impossible: sequencing the genome of the Neanderthal, an extinct relative of present-day humans. He also made the sensational discovery of a previously unknown hominin, Denisova,” said the Nobel announcement.

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Can Public Universities Scale Honors-Like Experiences for a Larger Number of Undergraduates?

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma What is an honors college? A small college within a much larger institution, with its own facilities, faculty, course offerings, scholarship and grant programs and perks for honors students. A special entity offering select undergraduates signature classes, early course registration and exclusive access to internships, research opportunities, social and cultural events, and small, discussion-based seminars.

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Federal efforts to boost voting access "better than nothing"

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Advocacy groups and researchers are expecting high voter turnout among college students during the midterm elections this fall, but they will still have to overcome skepticism among younger voters who question the impact of their vote and who face a series of logistical hurdles imposed by several Republican-led states. College students turned out en masse during the 2020 election, voting at record levels.