MindMax
AUGUST 23, 2022
What skills do graduates need to be able to go out into the world? What is the goal of higher education? According to Will Patch, a Senior Enrollment Insights Leader at Niche.com , colleges and universities should prepare students to step into jobs that fulfill them as individuals and benefit their communities. But it’s not such a straightforward path for all students.
The Academic Designer
AUGUST 23, 2022
Cheyenne Seymour, EdD joins me to talk about her book Successes and Setbacks of Social Media: Impact on Academic Life.
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Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 23, 2022
Image: A group of public health experts wants the American Public Health Association to replace Dr. Leana Wen as a panelist at the APHA’s annual meeting in November in Boston. Dr. Wen, research professor of health policy and management at George Washington University, previously served as the health commissioner for the city of Baltimore and the president of Planned Parenthood.
The Change Leader, Inc.
AUGUST 23, 2022
In this new merger environment, thinking outside of the box means considering partnerships with all types of institutions, not just other schools. Get insights for discovering new opportunities to strengthen your institution. The evolution of financial mechanisms and accreditation are creating new opportunities for higher ed partnerships and mergers to build stronger insititutions.
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 23, 2022
Image: Monday was the start of Welcome Week at American University. Students and parents arriving at the Washington, D.C., campus were greeted not only by smiling university ambassadors but also a picket line of more than 100 members of the university’s staff union, gathered for the first day of a weeklong strike. The strike, announced Aug. 11 , was approved by 91 percent of the union, which represents over 500 professional staff members in a wide range of positions.
The Higher Ed Marketer
AUGUST 23, 2022
Businesses and organizations lose the most impact and productivity by not working together. The same goes for higher education. To solve big problems, you must be able to cooperate with others. . Dr. Michael Horowitz is the President of TCS Education System. TCS is the community solution for higher education and is all about working collaboratively to advance institutional sustainability, student success, and community impact.
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 23, 2022
Image: The University of California system wants to grow its enrollment by at least 23,000 in-state students—the equivalent of an additional campus—over the next eight years. To help reach that goal, the system is looking to adult learners with some college but no degree. The University of California Degree Completion Program, which launched this month, seeks to bring back former UC students and California residents who left college without attaining a degree and help them earn eithe
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Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 23, 2022
With forward-looking investments, leaders can replace a cadence of frantic action with one that’s appropriate yet also realistic and sustainable for their team, advises Laurie Fenlason. Job Tags: ADMINISTRATIVE JOBS Ad keywords: administrators Editorial Tags: Career Advice Show on Jobs site: Image Source: runeer/digitalvision vectors/getty images Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?
ACPA
AUGUST 23, 2022
APPLY HERE. Recognition is an important component to member engagement, recruitment, and retention. ACPA is seeking applicants to become a part of the ACPA Awards and ACPA Award Reviewer Committee. The Awards Committee coordinates ACPA’s annual awards process including over 150 opportunities to recognize outstanding professionals, scholars, programs, mentors, colleagues, and graduate students through our Association-wide and individual entity awards.
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 23, 2022
Li Jiang, the pregnant postdoctoral researcher who said she lost her job after she complained about data falsification in her lab, reached a settlement agreement with the University of California, San Diego, that allows her to work on campus for six more months under another professor. This means Jiang, who is from China, will not lose her legal status in the U.S. while she is pregnant.
Creatrix Campus
AUGUST 23, 2022
What is Bloom’s taxonomy? Importance and uses explained. admin. Tue, 08/23/2022 - 07:59. A fish definitely cannot be assessed for its ability to climb a tree, goes an old saying. I wish to start from this. While the traditional learning methodology had a one-size-fits-all theory, Bloom's taxonomy revitalizes educational practices by utilizing the best teaching methodologies and methods of student performance evaluation.
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 23, 2022
The abortion rights debate will go into the future, but it started long ago. In today’s Academic Minute, Binghamton University’s Olivia Holmes looks deep into the history. Holmes is a professor of medieval studies and English and director of the Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies at Binghamton. A transcript of this podcast can be found here.
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 23, 2022
Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean. “Who?” Last year, when I saw that Walter Mondale had died, I mentioned it to The Girl as she walked into the kitchen. Her response: “Who?” I raised an eyebrow, but it made sense; she was born in 2004, so he had mostly left public life a generation before she was born. She’s wildly bright with a steel-trap memory, but she was also born in 2004.
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 23, 2022
The Academic Freedom Alliance on Monday released a statement urging colleges and universities to end diversity statements as conditions of employment or promotion. “This scenario is inimical to fundamental values that should govern academic life,” the group’s statement says. “The demand for diversity statements enlists academics into a political movement, erasing the distinction between academic expertise and ideological conformity.
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 23, 2022
Harvard University may lose the title of the nation’s wealthiest university, Bloomberg reported. The potential new wealthiest university is the University of Texas, which may overtake Harvard's $53.2 billion endowment, as of June 21. The value of the Texas endowment at that time was $42.9 billion. The source of the new wealth: crude oil and natural gas.
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 23, 2022
The University of Akron has disciplined one of its police officers for actions it considered excessive, WJW News reported. The finding concerned an officer’s handling of a man being transported to the university police station. After he arrived at the station, a police officer grabbed him by his handcuffed arms and pushed him toward a police car.
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 23, 2022
Kansas State University is starting a B.S. in digital innovation in media. St. John Fisher is starting a major in public relations. University of Maryland at College Park is starting a new major in fermentation. Editorial Tags: New academic programs Is this diversity newsletter?: Newsletter Order: 0 Disable left side advertisement?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 23, 2022
Today on the Academic Minute : Olivia Holmes, professor of medieval studies and English at Binghamton University, looks deep into the history of the abortion debate. Learn more about the Academic Minute here. Is this diversity newsletter?: Hide by line?: Disable left side advertisement?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 23, 2022
Blog: Higher Ed Gamma What a great tag line for a book: “the definitive Freakonomics for sports.” Paul Oyer, an economics professor at Stanford, a research associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research and editor in chief of the Journal of Labor Economics , has just published An Economist Goes to the Game , a study not just of sports economics, but of how economics thinking can transform the way you think about athletic performance.
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 23, 2022
Blog: Higher Ed Policy In conversation with Erika Giampietro, Executive Director of the Massachusetts Alliance for Early College. Erika, thanks for joining me at Higher Ed Policy here at Inside Higher Ed. Tell us a little about your current work role and the work that you do. I am the Executive Director of the Massachusetts Alliance for Early College.
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 23, 2022
Blog: Just Explain It to Me! As a participant in higher education leadership programs, one receives formal and informal training for a position as a senior administrator or perhaps even president. Case studies delve into real-life scenarios of budget crises, protests, deaths, votes of no confidence, et al. Aspects are debated ad nauseam in conference rooms until the lights are flickered politely, calling for a venue change, and then in hotel bars well into the night until slurry words threaten b
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 23, 2022
Image: Some leaders of historically Black colleges and universities say they’re frustrated by a lack of communication and insufficient support from federal agencies after bomb threats swept their campuses six months ago. More than a third of the nation’s HBCUs received bomb threats this year, starting in January. A wave of threats continued throughout February, Black History Month, causing particular alarm among students, faculty and staff.
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 23, 2022
Former Harvard University president and Treasury Secretary Larry Summers took to Twitter Monday to say that student debt relief could have negative effects on inflation. The debate on whether forgiving student debt is considered government spending, and therefore inflationary, has grown in recent days, especially after Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said that the Biden administration will make a decision on student loans “within the next week or so.
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 23, 2022
College costs and student debt continue to rise, and cuts in state funding for higher education have been a major reason why. The good news is that the federal government can play a key role in reversing these trends, making college more affordable for all. Attending a public four-year institution costs 14 percent more now than in the 2006–07 academic year, after adjusting for the impact of inflation and grant aid.
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