Higher Ed Dive

AUGUST 25, 2023

Lawmakers have until the end of September to reauthorize the spending package, which is a significant source of funding for land-grant universities.

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University Business

AUGUST 25, 2023

As it currently stands, no HBCU fits the bill for R1 status, a Carnegie Classification rank that every research institution aspires for. Only 146 colleges and universities—less than 4% of all higher education institutions—have reached this pedestal. But that could all change thanks to a new opportunity announced by the U.S. Department of Education called the Development Infrastructure Grant Program (RDI).

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Higher Ed Dive

AUGUST 25, 2023

We’re recapping five of the week’s biggest stories, from a look at barriers to prospective students to anti-trans rules governing Florida state colleges.

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University Business

AUGUST 25, 2023

Under the new rules approved Wednesday, staff and faculty at Florida colleges can be fired if they use a restroom for a gender that does not correspond with their gender assigned at birth. Employees may also face a verbal and written warning and suspension without pay as penalty for a first offense. Colleges will be forced to fire employees after a second offense, according to the new rule’s text.

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Higher Ed Dive

AUGUST 25, 2023

Almost 40 public and private institutions in the state are participating, along with 327 high schools.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 25, 2023

Researchers at Christopher Newport University (CNU) have received a grant from the National Science Foundation to explore how gender, race/ethnicity, and social identity impact STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) faculty experiences. The $288,000 award will fund a study led by Nicole Guajardo, PhD, dean of the College of Natural and Behavioral Sciences at CNU, to assess the atmosphere on campus for women in STEM and identify potential barriers to their professional success.

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Higher Ed Dive

AUGUST 25, 2023

Results from a NACAC poll also show young adults support diverse campus bodies.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 25, 2023

Massachusetts Governor Maura T. Healey launched MassReconnect, her administration’s new program establishing free community college for Massachusetts residents aged 25 and older and awarded $100,000 to each of Massachusetts’ 15 community colleges to support the quick implementation of the program this fall. Gov. Maura Healey “MassReconnect will be transformative for thousands of students, for our amazing community colleges, and for our economy,” said Healey.

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The PIE News

AUGUST 25, 2023

Ukrainian students continue to protest a rule that prevents men from leaving the country to study at foreign universities, while a US think tank has called on Ukraine to lift the ban. In the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, president Volodymyr Zelensky enacted martial law and banned men aged 18 to 60 from leaving the country. Initially, students already enrolled at foreign universities were exempt from the rules but this changed later in the year when border guards discovered documents

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 25, 2023

Dr. Marla Frederick will become dean of Harvard Divinity School (HDS), effective Jan. 1. Dr. Marla Frederick She is currently the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Religion and Culture at Emory University. “I look forward to joining the HDS community in developing religious and civic leaders for our increasingly complex and diverse society,” Frederick said.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

AUGUST 25, 2023

At Connecticut’s Fairfield University, computer science students do more than read about cybersecurity in the classroom. They also help run the school’s security operations center (SOC). “They extract data from the monitoring tools and format it in a concise way for the security team,” says Mirco Speretta, cybersecurity program director. “They create reports using our network monitoring software, and based on what they see, they can open a task for the security team to continue the investigation

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

AUGUST 25, 2023

By Kelly Field Warrior-Scholar Project Rick Griffiths, a classics professor at Amherst College, lectures on “The Origins of Democracy” as part of the Warrior-Scholar Project. Colleges increasingly see the value of recruiting enlisted people and veterans.

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The PIE News

AUGUST 25, 2023

Almost 30 years ago, Estonia’s government launched Tiigrihüpe , a revolutionary new investment in computer and network infrastructure. Aside from having a wonderfully strange logo, Tiigrihüpe – or Tiger Leap – started a snowball of development for software in the newly-independent country; and education was no exception. Estonia’s development, while not entirely under the radar, sprung up in the 2010s, and the country currently leads Europe in the amount of unicorns per capita.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 25, 2023

Now on the Orientation Schedule: Free Speech and ChatGPT Featured Image at Top of Article 329344 First-Year Freedom of Speech Address AUBC-1006.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 25, 2023

The U.S. Department of Education (ED) has announced settlements with five freestanding law schools accused of improperly disbursing federal financial aid to students in unaccredited program. According to ED, Albany Law School, the John Marshall School of Law in Atlanta, Brooklyn Law School, New England Law—Boston, and New York Law School doled out nearly $2.9 million of federal funding to 92 students between July 2017 and June 2022 that it was not allowed to give.

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Academe Blog

AUGUST 25, 2023

BY JOHN A. ETERNO Faculty at many universities are experiencing frustration. Universities should be bastions of creativity, scholarship, and democracy, but administrators have been using a corporate management style which invariably leaves the faculty behind. Most importantly, shared governance, once a staple of higher learning, is becoming a relic of the past.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 25, 2023

Majority of Faculty Prefers In-Person Teaching, but Just Barely Featured Image at Top of Article Split_Learning_Color.jpg Lauren.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

AUGUST 25, 2023

How to manage the surprises and challenges that await you on returning to the faculty. By Lisa Jasinski Shout for The Chronicle How to manage the surprises and challenges that await you on returning to the faculty.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 25, 2023

Hodges University, a small private nonprofit college in Florida, announced late Friday that it would stop enrolling students and close by the end of this academic year.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

AUGUST 25, 2023

Students, colleges, and taxpayers all deserve better. By Michael B. Horn Kevin Van Aelst for The Chronicle Students, colleges, and taxpayers all deserve better.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 25, 2023

Success Program Launch: Coaching for Students With Executive Dysfunction Featured Image at Top of Article The Perch Wellness Room.

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AACC

AUGUST 25, 2023

August 25, 2023 | Issue # 243 Many of you, like me, still get excited about the idea of back to school. To this day, I recall how excited I was when I first went back to class after a summer break from elementary, middle, and high school. That same excitement carried over to my Read More » The post CEO to CEO Newsletter #243 first appeared on AACC.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 25, 2023

Less than a week before classes start, New College of Florida has added a new class on Homer’s Odyssey to the course catalog, according to emails provided to Inside Higher Ed. The course is targeted at first-year students and offers all attendees a complimentary dinner, served by food trucks, each class—as well as a free copy of Robert Fagles’s translation of the epic poem.

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HEPI

AUGUST 25, 2023

This blog was kindly authored for the HEPI 20th Anniversary Collection by Dr Jonathan Grant, founding Director of Different Angles Ltd, a consultancy that focuses on the social impact of universities and research. We are currently running chapters from the Anniversary Collection as a series of blogs. This piece is the thirteenth chapter from that collection.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 25, 2023

Today on the Academic Minute, part of Cornell University’s Impacts of AI Week: Jenny E. Sabin, Arthur L. and Isabel B. Wiesenberger Professor in Architecture and inaugural chair of design tech, details a piece of architecture that humans and AI can help influence.

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EAB

AUGUST 25, 2023

Blogs The five topics independent school leaders were most curious about in the past year Each year, EAB’s Dedicated Advisors pass scores of questions from independent school leaders to our AskEAB team. Our K-12 researchers track down answers to each question using a combination of proprietary research, external publications like academic journals, and consultation with EAB’s subject matter experts—all in 10 days or less.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 25, 2023

All in a Day’s Work: Supporting Student Club Flourishing Featured Image at Top of Article pexels-yan-krukau-8199169-resize.

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The PIE News

AUGUST 25, 2023

The US needs to utilise its diverse entry points and facilitate connections between them to increase international student enrolments in the country, experts have said. Recommendations from the American International Recruitment Council suggest that entry points, including K-12 schools, public and private secondary schools, community colleges, as well as undergraduate and graduate institutions of higher education, offer prospective international students “unparalleled opportunities”

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 25, 2023

Does Climate Activism Help or Hinder an Academic Career? Featured Image at Top of Article THE Logo with Background.

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University Business

AUGUST 25, 2023

Gizmodo observed the College Board’s website sharing data with Facebook and TikTok when a user fills in information about their GPA and SAT scores. When this reporter used the College Board’s search filtering tools to find colleges that might accept a student with a C+ grade-point average and a SAT score of 420 out of 1600, the site let the social media companies know.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 25, 2023

The U.S. Department of Education has settled with five free-standing law schools after an investigation showed that those institutions “improperly disbursed” federal financial aid to students enrolled in unaccredited master of laws programs.

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University Business

AUGUST 25, 2023

The move is part of a five-part implementation plan announced Monday by the police department. The plan also saw a revision to the university’s Use of Force Policy, which prohibits chokeholds and other measures that could restrict an individual’s breathing. It also details the “special circumstances” in which force can be used. Supervisors who wish to be armed must complete “implicit bias training” each semester, “de-escalation training” once a month, “

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 25, 2023

Case Western Reserve University will make campuswide changes to its management of sexual assault allegations as part of an agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice, the university announced Tuesday.

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University Business

AUGUST 25, 2023

Endings are never easy, and they’re rarely smooth. And the most recent smattering of presidents to soon depart is a stark reminder of that. Of the four college and university presidents whose run will end this academic year, only one is retiring on satisfying terms. A personal aliment and pressure from higher-ups have led to three early dismissals, some of which have garnered pushback from the community.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 25, 2023

The Education Department settles with five law schools over financial aid; a new report explores the role of California's Hispanic-serving community colleges; New College of Florida aims to lure students to a new Odyssey course with free books and food trucks.

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WCET Frontiers

AUGUST 25, 2023

States and Institutions Need More Time We have had more time to consider the U.S. Department of Education’s proposed regulations on programs leading to professional licensure and state authorization reciprocity. The Department might release final rules that are close to what they proposed. This gave us a bit of déjà vu back to similar rules released in 2010 with a quick timeline.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

AUGUST 25, 2023

McPherson College now has the largest endowment of any small liberal arts college in the country. Observers say the gift is a "dramatic" example of fundraising success. Last month, Michael Schneider, McPherson’s president, announced the college had surpassed the ambitious $1 billion endowment goal he set years ago. While Schneider said McPherson was in a stable financial position already—which is what motivated some of its biggest donors to invest—this new access to such a large endowment will a

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