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Life after the designated quality body

Wonkhe

What does it mean that the Quality Assurance Agency will no longer be the designated quality body? Chief Executive Vicki Stott explains. The post Life after the designated quality body appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Strategies for Accommodating Students with Disabilities in Higher Education 

Faculty Focus

Over the last 30 years, federal laws like the Americans with Disabilities Act (1990) opened the door for more students with disabilities to enroll in college. While statistics show that the 2015-2016 academic year ushered in an increasing number of students with disabilities in higher education, countless students do not inform their university about their disability.

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How could income contingent loans work better?

Wonkhe

Income contingent tuition loans as a component of state support for higher education are a key legacy of the 1997 Dearing Report. Simon Marginson asks how the current system could work better for everyone. The post How could income contingent loans work better? appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Whither the College or University Presidency

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Failed searches for college presidents are now commonplace. It has happened at Evergreen State, New Mexico and Wisconsin, among other institutions. We’ve also seen a succession of extremely short-lived presidencies, at universities including Auburn, Central Florida, Colorado, Louisville, Oklahoma, Oregon State, Tulsa and Wyoming, no doubt partly because fewer presidents are hired without sufficient vetting or due diligence or faculty and student input.

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Who are the victims in the campus culture wars?

Wonkhe

Who are the students assumed to be losing out over free speech controversies, and how should we support them? Jim Dickinson interrogates the data. The post Who are the victims in the campus culture wars? appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Musk’s Twitter Acquisition Through A Wider Lens of University-Company Partnerships

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Learning Innovation Reading the NYTimes article Confusion and Frustration Reign as Elon Musk Cuts Half of Twitter’s Staff , I had two responses. First, compassion for all those people being laid-off. As someone who has worked at organizations that went through big rounds of layoffs and who have many friends who have been swept up by this latest season of tech downsizing, I know how difficult these days and weeks will be.

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How do we manage and support an expanding sector?

Wonkhe

Dearing's calls for expansion need to be seen in context with thinking on quality assurance and funding. David Kernohan joins some of the dots. The post How do we manage and support an expanding sector? appeared first on Wonkhe.

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To resolve conflicts in the campus culture wars, we need to listen as well as speak

Wonkhe

If both sides in the campus culture wars feel marginalised and oppressed, how do we reach resolution? David Ruebain calls for more listening and understanding. The post To resolve conflicts in the campus culture wars, we need to listen as well as speak appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Strategies for Accommodating Students with Disabilities in Higher Education 

Faculty Focus

Over the last 30 years, federal laws like the Americans with Disabilities Act (1990) opened the door for more students with disabilities to enroll in college. While statistics show that the 2015-2016 academic year ushered in an increasing number of students with disabilities in higher education, countless students do not inform their university about their disability.

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A student debt study unravels the American Dream ideal that college will propel you to the middle class - TREY WILLIAMS, Fortune

Economics and Change in Higher Education

Student loans, which roughly 70% of college grads rely on to fund their education, have stifled the once promised pathway to a middle class life, according to a new report from nonpartisan research organization the Jain Family Institute. The report questions the assumption that student loans and the cost of college ultimately pays for itself in the long run as borrowers’ earning potential increases.

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2022 Digital PR Strategies, Examples and Functions

HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

What Is Digital Public Relations (Digital PR)? Like just about everything else these days, the future of public relations is digital. Not only has digital technology changed how organizations communicate internally, it has changed how they communicate with each other and the public. Gone are the days when public relations simply involved churning out press releases and responding to media inquiries.

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Montclair State and Bloomfield College Merge - Josh Moody, Inside Higher Ed

Economics and Change in Higher Education

Bloomfield College announced last fall that it needed a strategic partner to remain viable. Montclair State University stepped up, and now a formal merger process is underway. Going forward, Bloomfield will be known as Bloomfield College of Montclair State University. Bloomfield—a small private liberal arts college in Bloomfield, N.J., that primarily serves Black and Hispanic students—made a public plea for help last fall as it faced threats of closure.

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Should there be a new statutory duty of care for students in higher education?

HEPI

This post has been kindly written for HEPI by Bob Abrahart. Parliamentary petition …. Twenty-five bereaved families have petitioned Parliament, wanting a statutory duty of care for students in higher education. University documentation frequently refers to a duty of care, so most people will be astonished to learn that it is only a ‘moral intention’.