Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Image: HEIDELBERG, Germany—Every September, a critical mass of the world’s most decorated computer scientists and mathematicians gathers in the warm microclimate here. They discuss the states of their fields and mentor 200 undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate students from around the world selected in a highly competitive process. “It feels like coming home,” said Vinton Cerf, Google’s vice president and chief internet evangelist, who is also known as one of the

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The Guardian - Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Criteria on career outcomes, drop-out rates and degree attainment unveiled for system of sanctions Universities will face sanctions if not enough students go on to graduate-level jobs within 15 months, if too many drop out or fail to earn degrees, England’s higher education regulator has warned. The Office for Students published its new tests of “low quality” subjects that could see large fines or deregistration imposed on universities where fewer than 60% of graduates in a university’s subject

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

As the pandemic kept us all at home during the summer of 2021, I found myself reading things I might not normally have the time or inclination to read. Somehow, I came across a post on the Conversable Economist blog, which, as a chemist, is not on my reading list. The post , written by economist Timothy Taylor, is entitled, “Thomas Schelling: ‘A Person Cannot … Draw Up a List of Things That Would Never Occur to Him.

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

How to Use Your Higher Education Data to Boost Enrollments. Higher education analytics are an essential aspect of enrollment marketing. University marketers can leverage data discoveries to make more informed decisions on a day-to-day basis. On a foundational level, university marketing departments collect vast amounts of data, including website visitors’ behavior (time on site, number of page views, etc.), but data points may not give enough context to inform decisions.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Image: Brazilian academics hope the country’s upcoming presidential election will bring an end to Jair Bolsonaro’s “war on science” but have admitted that, even if the populist leader loses, his influence will be slow to fade. All polls ahead of the first round of voting on Oct. 2 indicated that the divisive politician, who has led Brazil since 2019, was likely to lose to rival Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the leftist former president (known as Lula) staging a comeba

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Kortext University Leaders' Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

When I received the email that confirmed my place at university despite less than impressive grades (I literally have two whole A Levels), I couldn’t help but wonder whether my space was awarded on merit or the fact that I ticked the box that said ‘Mixed Black Caribbean’. . Although we’re living in a more progressive society, racial discrimination and inequality can be felt by people of colour in the UK to this very day, emphasising the importance of honouring Black History Month. .

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Category: Conditionally Accepted Such comments reveal an alarming level of misunderstanding, if not ignorance, of the Arab American community, reducing us to stereotypes and implying that we don’t belong, writes Mireille Rebeiz. 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 30, 2022

Wallace State Community College in Alabama put an instructor of history on leave, according to a CBS42 report about the instructor’s social media comments condemning a local LGBTQ pride event. The instructor, Leigh Ann Courington, reportedly wrote on her Facebook page about the upcoming Cullman Comes Out day, “The devil is attacking our beautiful town of Cullman now apparently … and the police chief is in on it?

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PeopleAdmin

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Why PeopleAdmin? Robin Borough, Director of Talent Acquisition at Chapman University , is a long-time PeopleAdmin customer. Hear from her about why Chapman chose and loves to work with PeopleAdmin’s HigherEd platform (including Applicant Tracking System ). Robin also shares some of her favorite features and a few tips for fellow PeopleAdmin users.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

A Johns Hopkins doctor and her wife were federally indicted Wednesday for attempting to leak sensitive medical information about U.S. military members to the Russian government, purportedly in order to assist in its war efforts against Ukraine. Dr. Anna Gabrielian, an instructor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine at Hopkins, and her wife, Dr.

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FIRE

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Alabama’s Wallace State Community College placed an instructor on leave after she posted on Facebook that “the Nazis. got some things right.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Retired clarinetist Edward Avedisian has donated $100 million to the Boston University medical school, the university announced Thursday. Avedisian, a BU alumnus, spent nearly four decades playing clarinet with the Boston Pops and Boston Ballet Orchestra while amassing a fortune in personal investments on the side, according to BU. He became a philanthropist devoted to educational causes and the Armenian community, of which he is a member.

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Campus Technology

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

EAB, a company that partners with over 2,500 K–12 and higher education institutions, recently announced the acquisition of Concourse Global, creator of an alternative college admissions platform to help increase access to higher education. The company also announced it is expanding its Greenlight Match program, a partnership with Concourse launched in 2021.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Brett Favre’s foundation gave $130,000 to the University of Southern Mississippi Athletic Foundation from 2018 to 2020, the same years that Favre was working to finance a new volleyball center at the university, The Athletic reported. The foundation, Favre 4 Hope, has a stated purpose to support disadvantaged children and cancer patients. Favre was key in moving more than $5 million in welfare dollars toward the building of the volleyball facility while his daughter was a player on the USM

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The American Association of University Professors in a statement Thursday urged the University of Idaho to walk back guidance telling faculty members and other employees to remain “neutral” on the topic of abortion or risk dismissal. The university has said it’s taking a “conservative” stance in light of new and existing state laws restricting abortion.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The withholding of transcripts by colleges to pressure borrowers is abusive, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said Thursday in a new report that examined student loan servicers’ practices as well as colleges that provide loans directly to students. The bureau said in January that it would look into borrowers’ experience with institutional lenders, specifically citing past abuses at Corinthian Colleges and ITT.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Faculty members have been through the wringer in recent years, facing growing demands from students and their institutions at a time, often, of great personal strain. Today Inside Higher Ed publishes “ The Engaged (and Supported) Professor ,” a deeply reported look at the array of pressures on faculty members and how institutions are responding.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Today on the Academic Minute : David Richardson, professor of environmental and occupational health at the University of California, Irvine, explores how to ensure better protection moving forward for miners exposed to radon gas. Learn more about the Academic Minute here. Is this diversity newsletter?: Hide by line?: Disable left side advertisement?

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Colleges are under growing pressure to prove their “value” to students, parents, legislators and others. The scrutiny can be uncomfortable, but more institutions are responding with serious efforts to measure and explain their value. This week’s episode of The Key, Inside Higher Ed ’s news and analysis podcast, examines the data and metrics we’re using now—and those we might use going forward—to gauge the value colleges and universities are providing to

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Excelencia in Education, an advocacy organization focused on Latino students, announced the academic programs that would be designated the 2022 “Examples of Excelencia,” an honor given to college programs that advance Latino student success. The four programs, announced Thursday night, were selected from a pool of 93 submissions and 20 finalists.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean In what seems like another lifetime, I took a graduate course in literary theory. The part that jumped out at me was “reader response” theory, which suggested that what really matters in a text is how the reader reads it. That came back to me when I read the Inside Higher Ed story about the NBER working paper suggesting that the existing federal aid system is racially biased.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Even low-level exposure to radon gas can have harmful impacts. In today’s Academic Minute, David B. Richardson of the University of California, Irvine, explores how to ensure better protection moving forward. Richardson is associate dean of research and professor of environmental and occupational health at UC Irvine’s Program in Public Health. A transcript of this podcast can be found here.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The former chancellor of California State University, Joseph I. Castro, had a “blind spot” about a friend charged with harassment, said a report issued Thursday, the Los Angeles Times reported. The report concerned Castro’s conduct when he was president of Cal State’s campus at Fresno. The friend was Frank Lamas, who was hired as a campus vice president for student life and later was accused in nine reports of sexual harassment, bullying and workplace retaliation from 201

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Brett Favre’s foundation gave $130,000 to the University of Southern Mississippi Athletic Foundation from 2018 to 2020, the same years that Favre was working to finance a new volleyball center at the university, The Athletic reported. The foundation, Favre 4 Hope, has a stated purpose to support disadvantaged children and cancer patients. Favre was key in moving more than $5 million in welfare dollars toward the building of the volleyball facility while his daughter was a player on the USM

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Colleges are under growing pressure to prove their “value” to students, parents, legislators, and others. The scrutiny can be uncomfortable, but more institutions are responding with serious efforts to measure and explain their value. This week’s episode of The Key, the last in a three-part series on value in higher education, examines the data and metrics we’re using now – and those we might use going forward – to gauge the value colleges and universities are providing to their students and oth

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Blog: Learning Innovation Earlier this week, I focused on how the pandemic altered how academics work. Now, let’s talk about how academics and universities are changing to prepare students for the workforce. I’m drawing from new research from Coursera. In collaboration with market research firm Dynata, the company surveyed over 2,400 students and recent graduates and 1,200 employers about the rise of industry microcredentials.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Image: Faculty demands for accountability continue at Western Connecticut State University, months after the president stepped down amid scrutiny over the depletion of the institution’s reserves. New leadership has been tasked with righting the ship, and faculty eagerly await answers. For some, the answers aren’t coming fast enough—and they worry accountability won’t come at all.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Image: In a move that could affect millions of people, federal student loans not held by the U.S. Department of Education will no longer be eligible for debt relief, the department quietly announced Thursday. When President Biden last month announced plans to forgive up to $20,000 in federal student loans for eligible Americans, the department didn’t definitively say whether privately held federal student loans would be included in the plan but said that it was discussing the issue with pr

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