Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Image: Citing a structural deficit and the need to cut at least $1.5 million in faculty salaries while increasing its student-faculty ratio, Allegheny College in Pennsylvania charged a task force with reviewing its academic programs. The task force evaluated all programs for sustainability based on criteria such as enrollment, ultimately dividing them into four categories last year: strategically invest, maintain, challenged and reconfigure.

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ACRLog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

It’s hard to believe, but we’re already wrapping up week two of the fall semester at my campus. This means that my information literacy instruction responsibilities are starting to ramp up. Teaching has been a big part of every library job I’ve had since grad school. So it naturally follows that teaching dominates a lot of my time and thinking, not to mention my posts here–from reflections on experimenting with specific activities or strategies in the classroom to the evolution of my teach

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Image: Stephen F. Austin State University, one of the last Texas public universities to remain independent, might finally shed its unaffiliated status—a step that highlights the increasing complexities involved with running a college or university. “It’s becoming more difficult to be a stand-alone institution,” interim Stephen F.

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Higher Ed Data Stories

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

This is a sort of a lull for Higher Ed Data Stories. It's summer, for one, and the data release cycles have not yet geared up. So instead, I want to write about the ten things that would make it easier to produce HEDS on those occasions when there is good data to work with. You know I use Tableau to create the data visualizations you find here. It's been a tool that has changed my career: The value of being able to answer questions with a click (especially when you're in a room with someone up t

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Image: Concerned with violence near campus, Temple University has rolled out a variety of safety measures. Its latest effort, set to launch next month, is a database ranking nearby properties that scores rental units on a variety of safety measures. The idea has been in the works since spring and is part of a multipronged approach to public safety for the Philadelphia campus, which has seen a number of violent incidents in nearby neighborhoods—including a student killed in a botched robber

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Blog: Learning Innovation A few months ago, I wrote a piece called 5 Ways That I’m Bad at Slack. My self-reported Slack failings included: The Mistake of Using Slack Like Email. Having Little Skills in Slack Small Talk. Not Having the Discipline to Stay Off Slack. Not Knowing All the Power-User Slack Tricks. Challenged to Do Two Things at Once.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Our antiracism work on campuses often fails to examine how such pervasive, systemic whiteness protects itself, writes Michael H. Gavin. Job Tags: ADMINISTRATIVE JOBS Ad keywords: administrators diversity Section: Diversity Editorial Tags: Career Advice Show on Jobs site: Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The University of Portland received deposits from almost 1,100 new students, indicating their intent to enroll in the fall. But as The Oregonian reported, it’s now expecting only 860 to show up. The lost students will cost the university $8.9 million. Most of the students who withdrew cited financial reasons. “We optimistically were looking at the trends and the indicators and it all pointed upward,” said Michael Lewellen, vice president of marketing and communications.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean. This is the first September in a very long time that I haven’t been on a campus. It feels a little strange. Sending good vibes to everyone who’s there. – I’m not usually a fan of apathy, but in this case, I’ll make an exception. Kudos to the students, faculty, and staff of Florida colleges and universities who responded to the state’s ideology survey by channeling Melville’s Bartleby: “I would prefer n

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Many faculty members at the University of Missouri view Chancellor Mun Choi as responsible for their low morale, according to a report released Thursday by the campus Faculty Council, The Missouri Independent reported. The report was based on a survey, to which 547 faculty responded. Respondents were asked to rank Choi in varioius areas, and he received an overall ranking 2.26 on a scale of 1 to 5, with 5 being superior performance.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Today on the Academic Minute, a Student Spotlight: Caitlin Clark, instructor and Ph.D. student in the department of food science and human nutrition at Colorado State University, discusses an unexpected dietary favorite that, like alcohol, makes use of fermentation. Learn more about the Academic Minute here. Is this diversity newsletter?: Hide by line?

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Fermentation isn’t just for alcohol. In today’s Academic Minute, a Student Spotlight, Colorado State University’s Caitlin Clark discusses another dietary favorite that makes use of this process. Clark is an instructor and Ph.D. student in the department of food science and human nutrition at Colorado State. A transcript of this podcast can be found here.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Louisiana State University raised $1.59 billion in a campaign that started three years ago with a goal of $1.5 billion. The university is already planning its next campaign. Penn State University at Harrisburg raised $44.9 million in the system’s larger campaign. For the Harrisburg campus, that was a record. Editorial Tags: Fund-Raising Is this diversity newsletter?

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Image: A new automotive technology program at Coconino Community College, launched last fall, is on pause as campus leaders struggle to hire a full-time faculty member to keep it afloat. Administrators say the lure of better-paying industry jobs coupled with the high cost of living in Flagstaff, Ariz., an increasingly popular tourist destination near the Grand Canyon, has repeatedly scared off faculty candidates for this position and others.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Houston, we have a problem. —American proverb, Book of Apollo. Down in Houston, a city of extremes, there’s something called Chamber of Commerce Weather. It’s the one to two weeks each year the weather’s perfect. Not so scorching hot and humid it feels like swimming in soup. No spring rains, which, on Houston’s nonabsorbent floodplain , increasingly mean disaster.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Column: Intellectual Affairs An old proverb warns against judging a book by its cover. Ralph Engelman and Carey Shenkman play a significant variation on that theme with A Century of Repression: The Espionage Act and Freedom of the Press , published by University of Illinois Press. (Engelman is professor emeritus of journalism and communication studies at Long Island University in Brooklyn, while Shenkman is a constitutional lawyer who serves on the panel of experts for Columbia University’

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