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Are U.S. News undergraduate rankings at risk with the exodus of law schools?

Higher Ed Dive

Experts think the answer is probably not, but they see cracks in the foundation of a rankings system college admissions professionals largely abhor.

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Mindmaxing Podcast: Episode 26 with Kevin Ross

MindMax

How can higher ed institutions teach students the value of persistence? In the latest installment of our MindMaxing podcast series, “Adolescence to Adulthood,” Lynn University President Dr. Kevin Ross addresses the importance of making colleges and universities safe spaces for students to try, fail, and try again. Dr. Ross discusses how Lynn’s implementation of a block schedule—which enables students to practice skills like writing and public speaking repeatedly over a period of time—has helped

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Former Education Secretary John King named new SUNY chancellor

Higher Ed Dive

King’s predecessor, Jim Malatras, resigned amid revelations he disparaged a woman accusing former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo of sexual harassment.

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We’re inching forward on staff-student sexual misconduct

Wonkhe

Anna Bull reviews new guidance on staff-student sexual misconduct, calling for more ambition on the part of universities in driving change. The post We’re inching forward on staff-student sexual misconduct appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Fueling digital transformation and student success through virtual health and well-being

Higher Ed Dive

Colleges and universities need clear Dx strategies that impact how to recruit, enroll and retain students.

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Is collaboration between the UK and China getting more difficult for researchers?

Wonkhe

Geopolitical friction is complicating research partnerships between the UK and China. Kexin (Casey) Yu has been looking at the facts on the ground. The post Is collaboration between the UK and China getting more difficult for researchers? appeared first on Wonkhe.

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The year’s biggest higher ed stories — so far

Higher Ed Dive

These topics have resonated most with our readers so far in 2022.

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Merger Watch: Don’t wait too long to find a merger partner. Closure does not benefit anybody.

Higher Ed Dive

Leaders fail students, employees and communities when they embrace a strategy of hope in the face of overwhelming evidence.

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These are the top 10 colleges for cybersecurity education

University Business

Cover the basics, offer hands-on training and adhere to privacy and ethics. These are three of the six must-have modules for a cybersecurity course, and these 10 colleges have them all. Educational institutions are in dire need of cybersecurity professionals as criminal organizations continue to set their sights on the education sector. Since the pandemic, the increased reliance on digital technology, such as virtual meetings and online learning, has created additional pathways enabling bad acto

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What the world learned on Coursera in 2022

Coursera blog

By Betty Vandenbosch, Chief Content Officer, Coursera. As 2022 comes to a close, let’s take a moment to reflect on which courses and skills were most popular over the last year. Our more than 100 million registered learners voted with their enrollments to determine the most popular courses overall and most popular courses launched this year on Coursera.

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Why every university needs an advisor for care leavers and estranged students

HEPI

The Unite Foundation partnered with UCAS on their recent ‘Next Steps Report’ which shines a light on the potential and ambition of young people leaving care and the challenges they can face when exploring university options. Global Law student and Unite Foundation scholarship recipient Lisa reflects on her experiences in higher education opens and discusses why university represents such an important and transformative opportunity for care experienced and estranged students.

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U.S. institutions offer scholarships to Ukrainian refugees

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Andriyana Baran spent the 2020–21 academic year as a Fulbright scholar in the United States, serving as a teaching assistant and helping to develop online learning curricula for the University of Kansas at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Then she returned to her home country of Ukraine to work as a language instructor for Teach for Ukraine, an NGO akin to Teach for America.

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‘I Am the Victim’: A Journal Editor Is Under Fire After a Diversity Debate Is Derailed

The Chronicle of Higher Education

By Tom Bartlett. A contributor to a forthcoming diversity debate in Perspectives on Psychological Science says the editor is "unable to edit the journal without bias." The editor says the situation is "almost surreal.

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Ph.D.s need a broader array of professional development opportunities

Inside Higher Ed

Category: Carpe Careers Universities offer support for attending conferences or visiting archives, but it’s harder for trainees to find funding for professional development opportunities that lie outside academic research, write Baron Haber, Shawn Warner and Arica Lubin. Editorial Tags: Career Advice Graduate students Show on Jobs site: Image Source: Mironov Konstantin/istock/getty images plus Image Size: Thumbnail-vertical Multiple Authors: Baron Haber Shawn Warner Arica Lubin Is this diversity

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EDUCAUSE QuickPoll Results: Software, Software Everywhere! How Do Institutions Manage Their Assets?

Educause

Software asset management (SAM) tools can help institutions streamline their software management, reduce wasteful spending, and maintain compliance with licensing agreements, but few institutions are currently using these tools.

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Cal State objects to proposed four-year programs at two-year colleges

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Three California community colleges are fighting to start new baccalaureate programs, which their leaders insist would fill critical local workforce needs and help students who couldn’t otherwise afford to pursue a four-year degree. But their plans have faced repeated roadblocks from the California State University system. Cal State faculty members argue these programs, and future programs like them, shouldn’t proceed without their go-ahead.

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Why Do So Few American Students Study Abroad?

Edu Alliance Journal

Why is that a problem? December 5, 2022 by Dean Hoke : In the newest edition of the 2022 Open Doors Report, US university’s international student enrollment shows encouraging signs. International students coming to the United States are reported at 948,519, which nears the pre-pandemic level. However, the number of Americans studying abroad in 2020-21 was 14,549 compared to 162,633 in 2019-20 and the high watermark of 350,000 in 2018-19.

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Words to Live By

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Perhaps you remember this exchange between Lisa and Homer Simpson from a 1991 episode of the animated sitcom. Homer’s wish that Ned Flanders’s store would go bankrupt has come true, leaving the overweight, lazy, yet endearing oaf of a father with an unfamiliar sensation. Lisa: Dad, do you know what Schadenfreude is?

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Reimagining Courseware from an Equity-First Perspective

Campus Technology

Earlier this year, Lumen Learning announced a partnership with Howard University to help develop equity-centered learning solutions for a new statistics course and platform. We spoke with Dr. Morris Thomas, assistant provost for digital and online learning and director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning & Assessment at Howard, and Kim Thanos, founder and CEO of Lumen Learning, about developing courseware with an equity-first perspective, giving students multiple pathways to succe

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Plan offers some guidance for income-share providers

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Nearly a year after the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau took action against a nonprofit provider of income-share agreements, the industry now has a better sense of how to comply with federal disclosure regulations, ISA providers and advocates say. The guidance comes in the form of a compliance plan finalized recently between the bureau and Better Future Forward Inc., a nonprofit that provides income-share agreements to help historically marginalized students pay for some form of post

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A new generation of students brings new challenges. Here are 5 solutions

University Business

Alert to administrators seeking student success solutions: the needs of today’s incoming students do not resemble those of past generations. While the impact of unfinished learning in K-12 is well known to higher ed leaders, what may be less obvious is that hybrid learning and other pandemic-driven adjustments are seen as the “new normal” by incoming college students, according to the new “ Navigating the Recovery ” report from higher ed consultants EAB.

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How to Support Your Staff Beyond the Pandemic

The Chronicle of Higher Education

Six best practices for creating a better campus work culture. By Adam B. Jussel and Dimitri Topitzes. Anuj Shrestha for The Chronicle. Six best practices for creating a better campus work culture.

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Why are international students still choosing Russia?

The PIE News

Russian scholarships will continue to attract international students despite the ongoing conflict, one academic predicts, as reports circulate of attempts to recruit foreign students into the country’s army. . A Vietnamese undergraduate student, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said that she had never considered leaving Russia, even when the invasion of Ukraine broke out at the end of her first year – because she received a scholarship that covered her tuition and living cost

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Deion Sanders Leaves Jackson State for Colorado

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Deion Sanders Former NFL star and renowned coach Deion “Prime Time” Sanders is leaving his position as head football coach of Jackson State University in Mississippi and is heading to The University of Colorado Boulder (CU). “There were a number of highly qualified and impressive candidates interested in becoming the next head football coach at Colorado, but none of them had the pedigree, the knowledge, and the ability to connect with student-athletes like Deion Sanders,” UCB athletic director R

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Most UK universities failing to hit carbon reduction targets

The Guardian - Higher Education

Campaign group calls for institutions to be accountable via short-term assessments after 59% missed goals The majority of UK universities have failed to meet their carbon reduction targets, figures reveal. The sector had a goal to reduce emissions directly controlled by institutions by 43% between 2005-06 and 2020-21. Continue reading.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Jennifer Conrad Jennifer Conrad has been named interim dean of the University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School. She served as a finance instructor. She earned an MBA and a Ph.D. in finance and economics from the University of Chicago.

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Stanford President: Investigation Will 'Affirm My Commitment' to Scientific Integrity

The Chronicle of Higher Education

By Stephanie M. Lee and Megan Zahneis. Marc Tessier-Lavigne expressed confidence in his research in his longest public statement since the student newspaper first reported on concerns about papers he worked on.

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Intelitek Debuts SmartCart 4.0 Robotics Education Platform

Campus Technology

Tech training company Intelitek has debuted SmartCart 4.0, a fully integrated, all-inclusive robotics education platform.

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INTO reveals University Access Centre in Bogotá

The PIE News

Bogotá is the location chosen by INTO University Partnerships to host its first University Access Centre in Latin America. The centre in Colombia was launched by the city’s British Embassy on December 1, and is the company’s fourth UAC globally. “Along with the heightened demand for international degrees we are seeing in Colombia, there follows a need for face-to-face engagement with locally based university representatives and counsellors who can empower students to make the b

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Tennessee Tech Professors Lose Speech, Due Process Case

Inside Higher Ed

Two professors at Tennessee Tech University who sued the institution for disciplining them for putting up a flier on campus lost their case last week. The flier —which the professors said was a parody—criticized the faculty adviser for Turning Point USA on campus, who also supported a local school board’s decision not to change the name of a sports mascot that many Native Americans and allies found offensive.

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UUKi, Research England partner on Ukraine

The PIE News

Universities UK International has partnered on a new scheme to support UK-Ukraine Twinning Initiatives with Research England. . With leadership also coming from Cormack Consultancy Group on the project, Research England is investing £5m to support the scheme that aims to help Ukrainian universities and researchers. The project is set to build on an original scheme that was set up by UUKi in June.

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Binghamton and SUNY Broome Explore Joining Forces

Inside Higher Ed

Binghamton University and SUNY Broome Community College are in the early stages of exploring the possibility of integrating the two institutions, the Binghamton Press & Sun Bulletin reported. Campus leaders have been discussing “increasing shared services” for several months, according to a statement released Thursday by Harvey Stenger, president at Binghamton.

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The California academic strike is the most important in US higher education history | Nelson Lichtenstein

The Guardian - Higher Education

The University of California is trying to divide and conquer the 48,000 workers on strike by acceding to the demands of some groups but not others The strike by unions representing 48,000 academic workers at the University of California stands at a perilous crossroads. It is by far the largest and most important strike in the history of American higher education, with the potential to transform both the status and income of those who work in an “industry” that now employs more workers than the f

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U of Nebraska Regents Fire Tenured Professor

Inside Higher Ed

The University of Nebraska Board of Regents voted unanimously to fire Julie Stone, an associate professor of biochemistry at the Lincoln campus, The Lincoln Journal Star reported. Stone “lacked the professional competence expected of a tenured faculty member,” Nebraska president Ted Carter said in calling for her removal. A faculty committee agreed with the recommendation.

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Most Colleges Omit or Understate Net Costs in Financial-Aid Offers, Federal Watchdog Finds

The Chronicle of Higher Education

By Eric Hoover. The Government Accountability Office analyzed a slew of offers. Its findings aren’t pretty.

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Kansas Judge Quits KU Law Over Speaker Controversy

Inside Higher Ed

Kansas Supreme Court justice Caleb Stegall is leaving his adjunct position at the University of Kansas, rankled by the way administrators handled a controversy over a conservative speaker. Stegall, who earned his law degree at KU, taught appellate advocacy at the law school. Stegall sent a resignation letter last week after he chastised KU administrators for the way they handled a visit by a speaker from the conservative legal group Alliance Defending Freedom, who was invited to campus by KU&rsq

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New and Noteworthy Courses for Your Employees: December 2022

Coursera blog

With more world-class content launching on Coursera every week, there are always new opportunities for your employees to master high-impact skills and drive business growth as they advance their careers. These latest courses cover the skills your employees need to meet the demands of your organizations’ digital transformation goals. By adding these courses to your program home, you can continue to promote learning transformation and enable valuable skill development for your employees.

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