Higher Ed Dive

AUGUST 16, 2023

The coalition alleges the state's ban on teaching certain subjects has chilled free speech on public campuses and infringes on individual rights.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 16, 2023

In June, as the nation’s highest court handed down a predictable and yet devastating ruling striking down the use of affirmative action in college admissions, the Center for Journalism & Democracy announced its inaugural Visiting Professorship for Investigative or Data Journalism at Howard University. Here is why this matters. Nikole Hannah-Jones When the U.S.

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Higher Ed Dive

AUGUST 16, 2023

A trio of prominent senators called on Education Secretary Miguel Cardona to take steps like aggressively pursuing complaints against the practice.

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IHEP

AUGUST 16, 2023

IHEP analysis of n ew f ederal d ata s how stark disparities in unmet need By: Marián Vargas and Kim Dancy In today’s rapidly evolving higher education landscape, high-quality postsecondary data can provide critical insights that inform decision-making and advance equitable outcomes. New IHEP analysis of data from the U.S. Department of Education’s 2019-20 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:20) underscores a disconcerting reality: most students face a gap between what their

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Higher Ed Dive

AUGUST 16, 2023

The proposed class-action complaints accuse leaders of the Baptist-affiliated institution of breaching contract and fraud.

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Today's Learner

AUGUST 16, 2023

Reading Time: 3 minutes Caleb Jud is a Business Development Specialist at Cengage who enjoys cooking, gardening, and lapidary—making rocks nice and shiny! “Anyone….? Anyone…? Bueller…? Bueller…?” We’ve all encountered an instructor like Ferris Bueller’s Mr. Lorensax —the kind that lectured their class from start to finish, regardless of reception.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 16, 2023

With the start of the semester two weeks away, students are grappling with absent professors, canceled classes and severe housing woes. When a committee of the New College of Florida Board of Trustees met in July, a whopping 36 faculty members had already left since Florida Governor Ron DeSantis initiated a conservative restructuring of the institution in January.

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University Business

AUGUST 16, 2023

With their backs against the wall, colleges and universities leading up to this fall semester have begun leveraging competitive tuition programs to win over more students. And some institutions are doing so in not-so-subtle ways. Among higher education’s greatest challenges, no other may seem more daunting than reversing its trend of declining enrollment, particularly among Northeast and Midwestern schools.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

AUGUST 16, 2023

What happens when survival is the No. 1 priority? A cautionary tale from North Carolina. By Pam Kelley Andrew Craft for The Assembly What happens when survival is the No. 1 priority? A cautionary tale from North Carolina.

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Academe Blog

AUGUST 16, 2023

BY APARAJITA DE As the sixth poorest state in the nation, West Virginia has always identified a large part of its working-class (primarily) white population as coal miners.

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Campus Technology

AUGUST 16, 2023

Higher education is no stranger to disruptive technologies, and artificial intelligence is the latest to transform teaching, learning, and research. In order to thrive in this new age, institutions must plan, collaborate, and communicate an AI strategy for stakeholders across the campus.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 16, 2023

Peyton Manning will become a professor of practice in The University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s (UT) College of Communication and Information, starting this fall. Peyton Manning Manning – acclaimed former football star, sports commentator, and media personality –returns to his alma mater as a featured expert with industry experience. He will teach topics such as sports reporting, video production and performance, leadership and communication, and public speaking.

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University Business

AUGUST 16, 2023

A new report by Quality Matters and Eduventures reaffirms that online learning at both a student demand and an operational level is continuing to expand despite the end of the pandemic—and it may be devouring face-to-face learning modalities. The Changing Landscape of Online Education (CHLOE) report fielded survey responses from over 300 chief online officers (COOs) at two- and four-year institutions and found that 81% of COOs report plateauing, declining or sharply declining enrollment rates of

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 16, 2023

Teaching has always been a passion for Dr. Shana Stoddard, who is being commended for that passion through the 2023 Council on Undergraduate Research’s Silvia Ronco Innovative Mentor Award. “They look at how you have interacted with undergraduates in the lab, how you have mentored them, where they go, what kind of accomplishments have they had, and basically your mentoring philosophy,” said Stoddard, associate professor of chemistry at Rhodes College.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

AUGUST 16, 2023

Done wrong, the movement will just reproduce the old monopolies. By Sarah Kember and Amy Brand Gwenda Kaczor for The Chronicle Done wrong, the movement will just reproduce the old monopolies.

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

AUGUST 16, 2023

Reading Time: 5 minutes Higher Education Marketing (HEM) is celebrating its 15 th anniversary as its milestone this month. Our 15th company anniversary marks our growth as a reliable education marketing partner to schools and educational institutions of all kinds around the world. Join us as we revisit our past, celebrate our accomplishments, and spotlight upcoming developments with CEO and founder Philippe Taza.

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The PIE News

AUGUST 16, 2023

A program for Kenyan students to study in Finland and Canada has attracted the attention of national investigative agencies, after parents say they have lost more than US$5.8 million to local government officials. The scandal has left more than 300 students stranded at home, while others face expulsion from Finnish universities over non-payment of fees.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 16, 2023

Shawn Washington Shawn Washington has been named assistant director of diversity at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington. He served as a diversity, equity, and inclusion officer at Whitworth University in Spokane. Washington earned a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Whitworth University and a master’s from Gonzaga University.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

AUGUST 16, 2023

By Nell Gluckman Illustration by The Chronicle; iStock images New data shows that two-thirds of likely voters support a ban on the practice. Still, don’t get your hopes up.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 16, 2023

HBCU advocates have voiced concerns to Maryland officials about how approving a doctoral business analytics program at Towson University violates a 2021 federal ruling, The Baltimore Banner reported. The advocacy group claimed that this move from the Maryland Higher Education Commission (MHEC) “duplicates a well-established, functionally identical business analytics administration program at Morgan State University,” said spokeswoman Sharon Blake.

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The PIE News

AUGUST 16, 2023

New Zealand is looking to China as its international education sector continues to recover from the pandemic, with China’s minister of education set to visit this week. Huai Jinpeng will visit Wellington and Christchurch, as well as New Zealand’s flagship New Zealand International Education Conference Ki Tua. China will be this year’s country of honour at the event. “Education is one of the key pillars of the New Zealand-China relationship and a foundation for enduring links be

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Campus Technology

AUGUST 16, 2023

In its report, "State of AI in Education," ed tech company Quizlet found that teachers overall are better champions of AI than their students in recognizing its value.

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The PIE News

AUGUST 16, 2023

Over 40,000 British students will receive funding from the government to study abroad over the next year, but institutions say problems persist with the UK’s Turing scheme. The Turing Scheme was introduced in 2021 in the wake of Brexit. Now on its third funding round, student mobility staff say the program is failing to live up to the EU’s Erasmus+ exchange program as they navigate challenges with payouts, funding timelines and a lack of transparency.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 16, 2023

In a rare move, a U.S. circuit court of appeals reversed a district court’s ruling awarding attorneys’ fees to a young woman who was sexually assaulted on the campus of Chadron State College in Nebraska.

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Educause

AUGUST 16, 2023

Hybrid teaching has the potential to transform higher education. But questions remain.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 16, 2023

A group of 13 college presidents announced the formation of a group to “champion free expression” at their institutions as higher education grapples with free speech issues nationwide, from speakers being shouted down to professors losing jobs over their perceived politics.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

AUGUST 16, 2023

Post-affirmative action, Black schools show why cultivating diverse campuses should extend beyond the application process Ever since Cheyney University opened in 1837, historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) have provided educational access to students who were once barred from attending white institutions. By the 1890s, to support newly freed Black Americans following the civil war, more than 200 HBCUs had opened.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 16, 2023

Start with your core pedagogical values when it comes to incorporating ChatGPT. On Twitter (I will not call it X), Kim Mitchell goes by the handle @academicswrite, and recently had a tweet in which she described an experiment with using ChatGPT in her writing course go viral. I asked her to write it up into a blog post because I thought others might benefit from her experience.

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Helix Education

AUGUST 16, 2023

A year ago, my friends at ZeeMee were brave and decided to join me in a journey to understand better the emotions that come into play during the last year of high school during college planning. Over the next ten months, we surveyed over 10,000 12th graders using the ZeeMee app. This blog is not about the results of our study; we will be releasing our report at the end of September.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 16, 2023

They come and go, waxing and waning as regularly as pedagogical trends, but they can have significant impacts, writes Zachary Michael Jack. Not so many years ago, a senior colleague of mine captured the transformative power of teaching with a memorable metaphor. “We’re helping our students rearrange their intellectual furniture,” he would proclaim. And for a time, I and many other junior professors took his metaphor to heart and made it our own, parroting it back at moments when we felt anxious

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Campus Technology

AUGUST 16, 2023

The WICHE (Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education) Cooperative for Educational Technologies (WCET) conducted a national survey in April 2023 that showed colleges and universities have been slow to strategize and implement AI tools campuswide.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 16, 2023

One of the greatest leaders in the history of the United States commonly closed his correspondence with “Your obedient servant, A. Lincoln.” There is much we in higher education can learn from Lincoln, not the least of which is his approach to leadership. He led with courage, conviction and a vision of service that encompassed America. It is that vision of service that made his leadership stand out.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 16, 2023

Thirteen university presidents are uniting on a new nonprofit initiative to address threats to U.S. democracy by fostering free speech, critical inquiry, and civil discourse on college campuses. The Campus Call for Free Expression initiative is a project of the College Presidents for Civic Preparedness , a new consortium developed by the Institute for Citizens & Scholars comprised of presidents from 15 diverse institutions working together to advance civic engagement among college students.

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University Business

AUGUST 16, 2023

In June, construction workers on the university’s campus in East Lansing, Mich., unexpectedly came across the foundation of the building, constructed in 1881. But not much is known about how long the structure was standing, why it was removed, and what observations it may have yielded, beyond that it was built by a former professor and his students.

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PeopleAdmin

AUGUST 16, 2023

Efficiency and data insights with ETown and Hofstra Lori Bomboy, Recruiting and Onboarding Manager at Elizabethtown College, and Jennifer Lee, Talent Acquisition Manager at Hofstra University, spoke with the PeopleAdmin team about their experience with PeopleAdmin. They spoke about the benefits of the solution, like gaining efficiency and removing paperwork, and had some advice for other users, like leveraging data insights and seeking out DEI metrics.

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University Business

AUGUST 16, 2023

Howard University officials said Tuesday they are committed to increased security on campus after two reported incidents happened last weekend that were instigated by young people not affiliated with the college. In a virtual town hall for students and their parents, top brass from Howard said that there was a crowd of unruly youth who were dispersed by the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) from Banneker Park across from the campus.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 16, 2023

Essay on the Supreme Court's decision misconstrues key issues. At the very moment when historical clarity—which the recent Supreme Court decision contradicted—is urgently needed, John R. Thelin and Richard W. Trollinger Trollinger turn to clever but misleading rhetoric in their "Selective Admissions on Trial" (July 31).

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