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What Are Informational Interviews? With Jennifer Polk, PhD

The Academic Designer

Informational interviews can help you get from PhD to Life. Meet career coach Dr. Jen Polk who joins me to talk about info interviews and networking.

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Study finds 'radical level of change' in flagship enrollment

Inside Higher Ed

Image: All but two public flagship universities nationally increased the percentage of out-of-state students in their freshman classes from 2002 to 2018, according to a new report from the Brookings Institution. The share of out-of-state students rose 55 percent, on average, after 2002, while the percentage of in-state students dropped 15 percent on average, the report showed.

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The Smart Campus of the Future: Victoria University’s City Tower Powered by Cisco

Cisco blogs - Education

Victoria University (VU) has established a reputation for embracing innovation and technology in pursuit of enhancing the student and campus experience. VU’s decision to adopt the Block Model – where students learn subjects in intensive bursts – is a notable example of VU’s willingness to think creatively about long-standing challenges in education.

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Why recommendation letters are still important (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

Sometimes even flawed information can be useful after all, writes Daniel F. Chambliss. Editorial Tags: Career Advice Show on Jobs site: Image Source: BernardaSv/istock/getty images plus Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?: Disable left side advertisement?

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Making the Case for a Liberal Arts Education

The Higher Ed Marketer

The liberal arts education has evolved. Students not only need skills developed from classic education subjects for career readiness but also to be able to continuously adjust as the world around them changes. They need the ability to learn how to learn. . Dr. Lake Lambert began his tenure as the 16th President of Hanover College in 2015 and is the former Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Mercer University in Macon, Ga.

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Transfer enrollments fell 14 percent during pandemic

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Transfer enrollment from two-year institutions to four-year bachelor’s degree programs continued to decline during the 2021–22 academic year, according to a new report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Transfer enrollments had already experienced steep decline during the pandemic’s first year, and the new report shows that trend continued into its second.

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Success Strategies for Struggling Small to Medium-Sized Colleges and UniversitiesChanging Higher Ed Podcast with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton 120 with Guest Rick Beyer

The Change Leader, Inc.

In this episode of Changing Higher Ed podcast, Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Rick Beyer discuss innovative approaches and success strategies for struggling small to medium-sized colleges and universities. Rick shares his perspective on the use of shared services in Higher Education, and how it can drive innovation and efficiency, both strategically and tactically to strengthen smaller schools while enabling them to remain independent.

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Carbice Grand Opening on the Beltline

Georgia Tech President's Blog

Carbice Grand Opening on the Beltline. bhodges35. Tuesday, September 13, 2022.

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How to Ask for Money

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Just Explain It to Me! So many times, I’ve heard the lament from colleagues “I don’t know how you do it. I could never ask anyone for money.” After every similar expression of exasperated longing (with a thinly veiled piteous sniff for the Oliver-esque position of a development executive), I return with, “I don’t ask for money; I ask people to share our vision and make an investment.

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'Stop the Academic Clickbaiting' on the Humanities (letter)

Inside Higher Ed

Column: Letters to the Editor To the Editor: In response to Steve Mintz’s September 12 opinion piece, “This is How the Humanities End:" It has been a long few weeks for historians, what with the Twitter storm set off by James Sweet’s column in Perspectives and by the responses of conservative writers like Bret Stephens who chose to amplify certain parts of Sweet’s argument.

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Tentative Deal Ends Faculty Strike at Eastern Michigan

Inside Higher Ed

A tentative agreement has ended a faculty strike at Eastern Michigan University. Eastern Michigan faculty went on strike a week ago over health-care premiums and shared governance. Late on Sunday, Eastern Michigan announced the tentative deal, while not releasing details about it, “following marathon bargaining sessions between the administration and faculty union bargaining teams this weekend that went late into the evening on Saturday and tonight.

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While Teen-Parent Graduates Earn More, Disparities Remain

Inside Higher Ed

A report by Generation Hope , a Washington, D.C., nonprofit focused on supporting teen parents through college, found that earning a college degree significantly improves outcomes for young parents. The report, released today, noted that average annual earnings among teen parents more than doubled after the person earned a degree. The vast majority of respondents earned less than $30,000 when they started college, but the average salary of those working full-time after they graduated exceeded $6

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How Awards and Recognition Can Decrease Creativity

Inside Higher Ed

Receiving an award for your work may hinder your ability to be creative again. In today’s Academic Minute, Washington University in St. Louis’s Markus Baer explains why. Baer is a professor of organizational behavior at WashU’s Olin Business School. A transcript of this podcast can be found here. Section: Academic Minute File: 09-13-22 Washington U in St.

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Colleges start new programs

Inside Higher Ed

Ithaca College is starting a six-year undergraduate-plus-doctoral degree program in occupational therapy. Jacksonville University is starting an Ed.D. in educational leadership. St. Lawrence University is starting a new bachelor’s degree in public health. Teaching and Learning Editorial Tags: New academic programs Is this diversity newsletter?

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City Sues College of the Desert Over Public Records

Inside Higher Ed

The city of Palm Springs has filed suit against the College of the Desert for what it charges to be a lack of compliance with the California Public Records Act, The Desert Sun reported. Mayor Lisa Middleton announced the suit Monday. “The City of Palm Springs on behalf of Coachella Valley taxpayers has repeatedly requested COD provide records related to their decision-making, and our attorneys have been met with slow and incomplete response,” Middleton said.

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Honors and Awards Can Reduce Productivity: Academic Minute

Inside Higher Ed

Today on the Academic Minute: Markus Baer, professor of organizational behavior at the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis, explains why receiving an award for your work may hinder your ability to be creative again. Learn more about the Academic Minute here. Is this diversity newsletter?: Hide by line?: Disable left side advertisement?

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Why Implementing a Richer, More Robust Academic Experience Is So Hard

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma In my “Higher Ed Gamma” postings, I urge colleges and universities to embrace six principles that I believe should underlie a college education: Principle 1: An education that is more holistic, developmental and transformational—that seeks to promote growth across multiple dimensions: cognitive, of course, but also ethical, social-emotional and interpersonal.

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Michelle Cooper Will Leave Education Dept. for Lumina

Inside Higher Ed

Michelle Asha Cooper, deputy under secretary of education, will leave her position to join the Lumina Foundation on Oct. 3 as vice president for public policy and executive director of Lumina’s Washington office. Cooper will lead the development and execution of state and federal policy initiatives that advance the foundation’s efforts to support students at community colleges and four-year colleges and universities.

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Some trustees aim to oust Michigan State president

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Michigan State University president Dr. Samuel Stanley Jr. is reportedly facing pressure from a faction of the Board of Trustees to step down, a move the chairwoman has called a rogue effort by certain members. Now Dr. Stanley faces an uncertain future at the institution he has led since 2019. The call for his resignation comes amid a dispute over the resignation of Sanjay Gupta, longtime dean of MSU’s Broad School of Business, who stepped down last month in the face of concerns ove

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Senate Democrats Ask Biden to Expand Debt Relief to Parents

Inside Higher Ed

A group of Senate Democrats is urging President Biden to extend the $10,000 in student debt relief to parents of Pell Grant recipients who took out Parent PLUS loans, Politico reported. Biden announced last month that his administration would forgive up to $10,000 in student loans for individuals making less than $125,000 or couples who earn less than $250,000.

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A program brings Christian and liberal colleges together

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Michael Henderson, a junior at Fisk University, a private historically Black institution in Nashville, Tenn., remembers that the room was tense when he told his story to a group of students. During a facilitated discussion about their encounters with law enforcement, Henderson, the only Black man in a group that also included students from Vanderbilt and Belmont Universities, told his peers how his parents, like many other Black parents, taught him to keep his hands on the steering wheel

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