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New study explores why people drop out or don't enroll

Inside Higher Ed

Image: A new study suggests that students choose to stop out of college and others choose not to enroll in the first place because of a range of “psychographics,” or psychological factors, including doubts about the financial returns of a college education and an awareness of other career training options outside traditional degree programs.

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Fostering a Welcoming Community: A Q&A with Rachel Peric, Executive Director, Welcoming America

WENR

Rachel Peric, executive director of Welcoming America, reflects some of her insights on how to build welcoming community in an interview with WENR. The post Fostering a Welcoming Community: A Q&A with Rachel Peric, Executive Director, Welcoming America appeared first on WENR.

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U of Arizona professors say they're blackballed from service

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Professors at the University of Arizona are demanding information regarding an alleged list of faculty members deemed too troublesome to serve on a key faculty governance committee. One of the faculty members who says he was blacklisted from serving on the Faculty Senate’s Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure (CAFT) is currently suing the university.

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Get IN the Game: Increase Enrollment with a Some-College-No-Credential Student Strategy?

Liaison International

In the May 2022 annual report, Some College, No Credential Student Outcomes , the National Clearinghouse noted that there are 39 million Americans who have some college, but no degree. While identifying, reenrolling, and supporting these students—who often come from low-income, underrepresented, and underserved populations—is a critical social initiative, a growing number of institutions recognize the practical advantages: In the wake of the demographic cliff, reenrolling degree-seeking students

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A new college-prep program for rural Wyoming students

Inside Higher Ed

Image: The University of Wyoming is launching a new program focused on boosting enrollment and graduation rates among rural students in the state. Campus administrators hope the initiative builds stronger ties between higher ed institutions and rural communities in Wyoming at a time when some rural residents across the country feel ideologically distant from academic institutions and are increasingly questioning the value of a college degree.

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Mind Wandering

Faculty Focus

This article first appeared in the Teaching Professor on November 23, 2016. © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. Many students don’t pay much attention in class. They come to class, but most of the time, only their bodies are present. When they study, that demanding task occurs as they attend to a host of other, often more engaging mental activities.

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Three ways to make internships more equitable (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

As employers grapple with economic constraints of the post-pandemic world and workers re-evaluate their expectations for flexibility, equity and respect in the workplace, higher education continues to lag in preparing the workforce’s rising generation. By fostering greater access to equitable and paid internships, higher education can be a force for change, helping break down barriers and better position students and employers for the future.

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Mental health supports reduce suicidality in LGBTQ+ students

Inside Higher Ed

Image: LGBTQ+ college students with access to mental health and LGBTQ+-specific services through their institution are significantly less likely to seriously consider or attempt suicide, according to a new survey by the Trevor Project. The organization, a nonprofit aimed at preventing LGBTQ+ youth suicide, surveyed 33,993 LGBTQ+ college students attending two-year institutions, four-year institutions and graduate schools.

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August Higher Education Demand Trends: Results Through July 2022

Gray Associates

Labor market data shows plenty of jobs for our August Program of the Month, but less than half of the jobs require a degree. If you are planning to offer this program, make sure you weigh the pros and cons. The post August Higher Education Demand Trends: Results Through July 2022 appeared first on Gray Associates | Program Evaluation.

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How Hispanic-Serving Institutions Are Increasing Opportunity for Community College Transfer Students

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Beyond Transfer If there is a secret to setting community college students up for transfer success, Hispanic-serving institutions (HSIs) are well on their way to figuring it out. Why do we think this? Because data show us that when community college transfer students attend an HSI, they are more likely than other transfer students to persist and graduate.

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Assessment and evaluation of microcredentials: What success looks like and to whom

WCET Frontiers

Overview and Introduction. Today, we conclude the WCET blog series on microcredentials which set out to address the inception, implementation, and evaluation of microcredentialing approaches across the higher education industry. We learned that there is a wide range of reasons for an institution to begin a microcredential initiative, an even broader spectrum of microcredential terminology, and yet two primary outcomes: “to improve student recruitment and retention” and “to align learning with sh

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Colleges, Higher Ed Groups Join Biden Campaign Against Hunger

Inside Higher Ed

Colleges and higher education organizations have joined President Biden’s new campaign against hunger. The president announced these commitments : By 2030, the University of California system will cut in half the proportion of its 280,000-person student body facing food insecurity—reducing the reported rate among undergraduates from 44 percent to 22 percent and among graduate students from 26 percent to 13 percent.

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Robotics Education Lagging Behind Demand, Surveys Find

Campus Technology

Swiss-based automation technology company ABB announced recently that robotics and automation training are lagging behind increased global demand, according to two surveys it conducted this year on supply chain and education.

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Minnesota Staff Shortage Prompts Meal Plan Refunds

Inside Higher Ed

The University of Minnesota will offer partial refunds for dining plans following student complaints about limited food options that administrators say happened as the result of a staffing shortage. Students complained about limited options, particularly a dearth of healthy choices, at the start of the semester. Now those who live in the residence halls will receive a refund “equivalent to 50 percent of their monthly dining charge for September,” the university said in a statement ,

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Taking Innovation Cues from Community Colleges

PeopleAdmin

HigherEd can look to community colleges for innovation inspiration. Community colleges are facing many of the same challenges as four-year colleges and universities. In our recent webinar, “Community Colleges as Centers of Innovation: Shaping the Future of HigherEd,” we checked in with community college technology, change management, and innovation leaders to discuss their top tips and best practices for tackling the greatest HigherEd challenges of today.

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University Rebrands Law School Named for Late Slaveholder

Inside Higher Ed

The University of Richmond has removed the name of T. C. Williams from its law school, The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported. The T. C. Williams School of Law is now called the University of Richmond School of Law. Williams, who attended the institution from 1846 to 1849 when it was Richmond College, was a trustee and a benefactor whose gift helped establish the law school.

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Graduate and Online Recruitment Simplified: Remarkably Straightforward Advice

Helix Education

I recently had the opportunity to sit down and talk with Godfrey Gibbison , Dean of Extended Learning and Global Programs, California State University San Marcos. Godfrey and I struck up a conversation about how he has brought together academic and enrollment stakeholders to work on marketing, recruitment and enrollment of adult, graduate, professional, and online students.

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Barriers to Persistence for Community College Students

Inside Higher Ed

A series of focus groups with students at three community colleges in Texas revealed a number of barriers to persistence. The focus groups took place with the same students at three different points in the fall 2021 semester and once during the spring 2022 semester. Their feedback was detailed in a new report by CCCSE, a service and research initiative in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Using Market Data in Academic Program Prioritization

Helix Education

“How can we affordably assess market demand of various new program ideas?” This has been one of the most common questions I have been asked over the course of my higher education career. While I have been able to answer how to assess market demand for new programs, the affordably part of the question had always been the most difficult aspect of the question.

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Guest Post: It’s Never Too Late to Realize You’re a Writer

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Just Visiting For many people, writing is painful. The idea of writing is painful. Their memories of being taught to write in school are painful. Writing is something other people do, people who just know how to write, people who are not them. Those of us who teach and study writing for a living know that this just isn’t true, that writing is a skill developed through practice, not something we’re born with.

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Business Programs Continue to Dominate Online Master’s Market

Helix Education

With all the recent expansion of the online master’s education market, where do business programs find themselves? While our recent Online Student Recruitment Report indicates that many other subject areas have become competitive with business at the undergraduate degree and non-degree levels, business programs continue to have a significant lead over all other online master’s degree subjects.

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Survey: Most Faculty ‘Happy,’ Those Who Aren’t May Leave

Inside Higher Ed

A new survey of 1,024 faculty members at 581 colleges and universities by education technology provider Cengage finds that 64 percent are happy in their current roles, but those who are not happy are considering leaving: some 26 percent are dissatisfied, and 70 percent of those not satisfied have considered changing jobs in the past six months. The top driver of dissatisfaction was feeling unsupported by one’s institution, followed by feeling undervalued or underpaid.

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Multiracial Network Open Position: Publications Coordinator

ACPA

We had a role open on our Directorate for the Publications Coordinator role. Job Responsibilities. Coordinate the MRN blog, including meet the directorate board post (typically done in July or August), content writing, soliciting volunteer writers, etc. Create a pre-convention blog post (typically done in February) and a post-convention blog post (typically done in April).

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How Hispanic Students Feel About Semester’s Start

Inside Higher Ed

Fewer than half of Hispanic students said they were excited about the start of the semester, according to a recent survey of nearly 1,000 Hispanic students at Hispanic-serving institutions. Hispanic-serving institutions are those with at least 25 percent Hispanic enrollment. More than two million are enrolled at the 451 HSIs identified by the Education Department in 2020.

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Coursera Survey: Student and Employer Demand for Microcredentials Is High

Campus Technology

According to a global survey from Coursera, employers and students alike see value in microcredentials that document job-relevant skills and experience.

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Consider institutional type when making a career change (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

When thinking about what jobs in academe to pursue, we rarely seem to consider the startling differences between various sorts of colleges and universities, writes Claire Potter. Editorial Tags: Career Advice Show on Jobs site: Image Source: jemastock/istock/getty images plus Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?

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Letter: Peter Davison obituary

The Guardian - Higher Education

DJ Taylor’s obituary of Peter Davison (22 September) rightly highlights his work on George Orwell, but Peter was also a hugely inspirational teacher and mentor to his students. Lectures, whether on aspects of Shakespeare or Picture Post, were a “must see” event. Within a year of his arrival at St David’s University College, Lampeter, in the 1970s, he enlarged the study of English to include James Agee’s and Walter Evans’s Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, propaganda and literature, and Thomas Pyncho

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Top 5 Academic Programs with High International Student Demand

Gray Associates

Just a year ago, media pundits declared that the US was losing its place as a beacon for international students and that the demand would not recover. Fortunately, they were wrong. Gray data shows that post-COVID, international student demand is healthy, and new programs offer promising growth. The post Top 5 Academic Programs with High International Student Demand appeared first on Gray Associates | Program Evaluation.

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ACPA Graduate Student and New Professional Scholarships Now Live!

ACPA

ACPA’s Graduate Student and New Professional Community of Practice is once again offering scholarships for ACPA23 and ACPA membership! The Convention Registration Scholarship is offered to graduate students and new professionals planning to attend ACPA23. This scholarship covers the cost of registration at the regular rate. Interested members can find more information and complete the application here.

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Cheerfulness, Then and Now: Academic Minute

Inside Higher Ed

Today on the Academic Minute : Timothy Hampton, Aldo Scaglione and Marie M. Burns Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and French at the University of California, Berkeley, explores the nature of feeling cheerful. 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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Multiracial Network Awards Nominations are Open!

ACPA

The Multiracial Network receives nominations each year for those who have made an impact to the multi-racial community on their campus, the student affairs profession, and/or ACPA. Each year, the following awards are presented at Convention: Professional of the Year. Student of the Year. Innovation Award. Spirit Award. Founders Award. Collaboration Award.

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Cheerfulness, Then and Now

Inside Higher Ed

Have you been cheerful lately? In today’s Academic Minute, Timothy Hampton of the University of California, Berkeley, examines this feeling. Hampton is the Aldo Scaglione and Marie M. Burns Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and French at UC Berkeley and author of Cheerfulness: A Literary and Cultural History (Zone Books, 2022). A transcript of this podcast can be found here.

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‘So to Speak’ podcast: Nature Human Misbehavior

FIRE

Should academic journals appoint themselves social justice gatekeepers?

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Colleges start new programs

Inside Higher Ed

Central College has added a bachelor of science in chemistry. Rio Salado College is starting a certificate program in real estate. Rutgers University Law School is starting a six-month certificate in cannabis law and business. Teaching and Learning Editorial Tags: New academic programs Is this diversity newsletter?: Newsletter Order: 0 Disable left side advertisement?

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[UPDATE] San Diego Mesa College violates academic freedom, investigates professor for essay example associating GOP with fascism

FIRE

San Diego Mesa College is investigating a professor who teaches college-level classes for advanced high school students after parents complained about a writing prompt example that associated the Republican Party with fascism.

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