Fri.Oct 07, 2022

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Oberlin's board seeks to limit faculty power

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Much about Oberlin College is unique, including long-standing policies guaranteeing the faculty a say in matters that extend well beyond academics. Many faculty members say it’s this level of input that keeps them at Oberlin. Most importantly, they say, it’s a big part of what keeps Oberlin … Oberlin. So these faculty members are perplexed—and angry—that the college is trying to change its bylaws to restrict faculty control to academics only.

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How to Grade Faster: 6 Tips for Teachers

Today's Learner

Reading Time: 3 minutes Sherri Singer is a Professor and Department Head for Social & Behavioral Sciences at Alamance Community College in North Carolina. I’ve never heard an instructor say, “I just love grading.” Every time I sit down to grade my students’ assignments, I think this time will be the best. I’ll provide personalized feedback, they’ll read it and improve.

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How to benefit from the tenure process's underlying laws (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

Paul J. Croft shares some underlying laws that govern the tenure process and how to make that process work best for you. Job Tags: FACULTY JOBS Ad keywords: faculty Topic: Seeking Tenure Editorial Tags: Career Advice Show on Jobs site: Image Source: marchmeena29/istock/getty images plus Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?

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What Is CEDS and How Can Universities Use It?

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

Data is a language, and getting the world of higher education to speak the same one is at the heart of what the Common Education Data Standards initiative is trying to achieve. It’s an ambitious goal, one that has been in the works for more than a decade inside the National Center for Education Statistics, a division of the U.S. Department of Education.

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Campus leaders accuse Michigan State board of overstepping

Inside Higher Ed

Image: For nearly a month, the fate of Michigan State president Dr. Samuel Stanley Jr. has remained uncertain amid an effort by some members of the Board of Trustees to force him out. Dueling narratives have emerged , with the board claiming that Dr. Stanley has made missteps on Title IX procedures, while the president contends the mistakes belong to the trustees who failed to adequately certify Title IX compliance reports as required by state law.

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Increasing Investment in HBCUs

Higher Education Today

Title: A Call to Action for HBCU Investment Authors: Andre Perry and Anthony Barr Source: Brookings Institution Attention has focused in recent years on public underinvestment in historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). A new report from the Brookings Institution now sheds light on how HBCUs can build wealth from private capital through banks, philanthropies, Read more » The post Increasing Investment in HBCUs appeared first on Higher Education Today.

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Fall books from university presses on digital life

Inside Higher Ed

Column: Intellectual Affairs Without making any claim to exhaustiveness, here is a brief survey of new and forthcoming books on information technology and digital media published by academic presses this fall. They range from deep historical dives to guides for the perplexed—with some critical perspectives along the way. An old example of the gap between ordinary language and what computers were able to comprehend is the sentence “Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

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Annie Ernaux Wins Nobel in Literature

Inside Higher Ed

The Nobel Prize in literature for 2022 was awarded to the French author Annie Ernaux “for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory.” “The French writer Annie Ernaux was born in 1940 and grew up in the small town of Yvetot in Normandy, where her parents had a combined grocery store and café Her setting was poor but ambitious, with parents who had pulled themselves up from proletarian surv

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How Zero-Touch Deployment Can Help Higher Ed IT Departments

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

Higher education IT departments are managing more hardware than ever, with mobile devices, laptops and desktops now essential tools for faculty, staff and students. This is the hardware that powers modern learning, and in order to ensure all student have equal opportunities to take advantage of it, schools increasingly are providing it as well. Shenandoah University gives every incoming student a MacBook, an iPad device and an Apple Pencil.

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Arizona Professor Shot and Killed on Campus

Inside Higher Ed

A University of Arizona professor was shot and killed on the Tucson campus Wednesday, The Arizona Republic reported. Police pursued the suspect, a former student of the slain professor, for several hours before apprehending him during a traffic stop. Classes were canceled for the day but resumed Thursday. The victim was Thomas Meixner, head of the university’s Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences.

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Retaining Students at Minority Serving Institutions

Today's Learner

Reading Time: 3 minutes Ting Jiang, Ph.D. is a Professor of Sociology at the Metropolitan State University of Denver. Retention has always been a buzzword in higher education, even before the pandemic. But for Minority Serving Institutions , retention means more than keeping students on the registration roster – it’s also a primary pathway to achieving educational equity.

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Northeastern Law School Admitted Thousands by Mistake

Inside Higher Ed

Northeastern University’s law school recently admitted thousands of applicants by mistake, NBC News reported. The admission emails were sent to 205 current law school applicants because of a “technical error.” The law school “quickly sent a clarifying email explaining the error,” officials said, adding that “individual outreach” was underway for applicants with concerns.

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How to Catch New Donors by Going Where the Fish Are

Helix Education

If you’ve heard me talk about annual giving before you’ve probably heard me describe it as “casting the big net.” I like the idea that we send our large scale, omnichannel direct marketing messages to the masses and hope we can bring in as many fish (donors) as possible. It’s an apt metaphor, but I now wonder if the “big net” method, just like in real fishing, is sustainable or the wisest way to use our resources—particularly when it comes to acquiring first-time donors.

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Sage Scholars Moves Ahead With Direct Admissions

Inside Higher Ed

Sage Scholars, a company that has worked with students on their financial aid since 1995, is officially moving into the direct admissions space. Sage has 23 private colleges—including Hendrix College, Milliken University, Loyola University New Orleans and Washington & Jefferson College—signed up so far. Colleges will admit students directly, without their having applied or with their having filled out a short application.

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Antonio Souza opened the door to being a PhD student through the MS-EE program

Coursera blog

Antonio Souza had an extensive background in engineering prior to being admitted to the MS-EE on Coursera program. He has been a course facilitator for the program since spring 2021. Antonio has a background in Embedded Systems and has been accepted to CU Boulder’s Ph.D. program in Photonics & Quantum Engineering. When did you enroll in the MS-EE on Coursera program?

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Texas Wesleyan Cancels Play Due to Use of Slur

Inside Higher Ed

Texas Wesleyan University’s theater program has suspended production of a play after students of color criticized its inclusion of racial slurs, The New York Times reported. The play, Down in Mississippi , is about registering Black voters in the American South in the 1960s and includes a scene in which a white person repeatedly uses a derogatory term to refer to Black people.

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Coursera for Government Increases Job Placement by an Average of 27% for Workforce Development Customers

Coursera blog

By Kevin Mills, Vice President, Coursera for Government. A new IDC white paper , sponsored by Coursera, explores the benefits and organizational value of workforce development programs provided through Coursera for Government. Despite initial gains following the onset of the pandemic, the global economic situation is uncertain. The International Labor Organization projects global unemployment has surpassed its 2019 level by nearly 21 million.

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Former Runners File Lawsuit Alleging Sexual Assault by Coach

Inside Higher Ed

Two former runners at Huntington University in Indiana have filed a federal lawsuit against their former coach, alleging sexual assault and potential doping violations. The suit also names the private Christian university and its Board of Trustees, alleging that they failed to protect the student athletes, subjecting them to discrimination and thereby violating their Title IX rights.

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Why Instructors Deserve Our Utmost Thanks

Today's Learner

Reading Time: 3 minutes Anna-Kaye Powell is an Accounting student at San Diego State University. Underpaid. Overworked. Teachers have simply become among the most undervalued professionals in our society. But why? Instructors and faculty seem to be consistently working beyond the 40-hour work week, taking the time to prepare their material, staying involved on campus, and setting their students up for success.

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Why Seizures Are Often Hard to Diagnose: Academic Minute

Inside Higher Ed

Today on the Academic Minute : Jacob Pellinen, assistant professor of neurology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, examines why seizures can be hard to diagnose. Learn more about the Academic Minute here. Is this diversity newsletter?: Hide by line?: Disable left side advertisement?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?

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Iran’s violent oppression of women and protesters underscores that women’s rights are human rights

UW Presidential Blog

Resources. UW CareLink (PEBB benefits eligible employees, their dependents and household members). Let’s Talk (Seattle campus). Accessing mental health care (Seattle campus students). Counseling services (UW Tacoma students). Counseling services (UW Bothell students). UW Student Counseling Center. Bias Reporting Tool – To report incidents of bias or violations of UW policies for non-discrimination.

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Why Seizures Are Often Hard to Diagnose

Inside Higher Ed

Seizures can be hard to diagnose. In today’s Academic Minute, the University of Colorado’s Jacob Pellinen determines why. Pellinen is an assistant professor of neurology at Colorado’s School of Medicine. A transcript of this podcast can be found here.

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Achieve, Lead, Vote

Susquehanna President's Blog

Yesterday, on my way into the Campus Center for lunch, a group of students sitting at a table called out to ask if I was registered to vote. I replied that I had already mailed in my ballot and received confirmation that it had arrived. The student group was not advocating for a candidate or a party, just participation in democracy. They gave me an “I voted” pin and asked me to wear it to encourage students to do the same.

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Update on capital campaigns

Inside Higher Ed

Starting Out. Amarillo College is launching a $45 million campaign, the first comprehensive campaign ever at the college. The college raised $31.5 million in the quiet phase of the campaign. Finishing Up. Daemen University has finished its first comprehensive campaign by raising $26.5 million. The original goal was $22 million. Editorial Tags: Fund-Raising Is this diversity newsletter?

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Professor Won’t Be Replaced for Statements on Gender

Inside Higher Ed

The University of Southern Maine will not remove Christy Hammer from teaching a graduate class in education because she told the class that there are only two sexes, The Bangor Daily News reported. However, the university will have another professor teach an identical class for students who do not wish to remain in Hammer’s class. “We have developed an alternative plan for this class and will be opening a new section of this course for those students who would like to move,” sa

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Friday Fragments

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean My thanks to the folks who responded to the question about dead scholarships. My friend Lori Messinger offered that many foundations now put in language to the effect that if nobody meets the criteria for a certain amount of time, then the funds become available to be used at the discretion of (the college, the dean, the foundation).

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Student resident assistant unions gain traction

Inside Higher Ed

Image: A group of resident assistants at Barnard College in New York City walked into the office of college president Sian Beilock on Monday to deliver a letter and a message: 95 percent of them had voted to unionize. They asked for the college’s “support”—or voluntary recognition—within five business days. “Our responsibilities and lack of pay impact our ability to both effectively serve our residents as well as take care of ourselves as students,” the

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Italy's universities prepare for a new government

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Italian academics have said the country’s rightward political shift could empower sexist or fascist lecturers, but that the new government will not pick a fight with universities. With 26 percent of the vote in last month’s election, Giorgia Meloni’s far-right Brothers of Italy (FdI) Party is set to lead a center-right coalition, making her the front-runner to be appointed Italy’s next prime minister after Parliament returns on Oct. 13.

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U of California Law School Name Change Prompts Lawsuit

Inside Higher Ed

The descendants of the founder of the University of California Hastings College of the Law sued California on Tuesday to block the state from changing the name of the institution, the Los Angeles Times reported. The college is the state’s first law school and was founded in 1878 by Serranus Clinton Hastings, the first chief justice on the California Supreme Court, the Times reported.

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Senator Ben Sasse Named Sole Finalist for Florida Presidency

Inside Higher Ed

Senator Ben Sasse, a Republican from Nebraska, has been revealed as the sole finalist for the presidency at the University of Florida and will be stepping down from his seat to take the job. In a tweet announcing the move , Sasse, who was elected in 2014 and re-elected in 2020, did not specify a timeline for when he would leave the Senate or join the university.