Deans for Impact

AUGUST 29, 2022

Deans for Impact · Empowering educators and elevating the teaching profession. Subscribe: Learning by Scientific Design is a podcast series by Deans for Impact that explores how an understanding of cognitive science, or the science of how students learn, can lead to more rigorous, equitable and inclusive teaching. . How can the growing adoption of learning science in teacher preparation contribute to systemic change in U.S. education?

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 29, 2022

Category: Carpe Careers If you have experienced such fears once, you’ll probably confront them again as your career advances, writes Angela Fowler, who recommends having a set of tools that will assist you in overcoming them. Editorial Tags: Career Advice Show on Jobs site: Image Source: useng/istock/getty images plus Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?

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Continuous Learning Institute

AUGUST 29, 2022

( A. Solano ). The ability of faculty to change—from external to internal attributions—is a foundational ingredient in student success, particularly for Latina/o/x students. External attributions assign blame for something that is beyond a faculty's control. The primary factor that faculty have control over is their internal attributions--the ability to consistently improve their craft.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 29, 2022

Image: As the school year gets underway, a national teacher shortage has K-12 districts scrambling and job boards lengthening. The president of the National Education Association called the lack of classroom teachers a “ five-alarm crisis.” Some students are returning to full-time in-person learning only to find their instructors teaching through screens , often from hundreds of miles away.

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Dr. Simon Paul Atkinson

AUGUST 29, 2022

The threat to the integrity of educational assessments is no longer from ‘essay mills’ and contract cheating but from Artificial Intelligence (AI). It is not so long ago that academics complained that essay mills, ‘contract cheating’ services, and commercial companies piecing together ‘bespoke’ answers to standard essay questions, were undermining the integration of higher education’s assessment processes.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 29, 2022

Image: In the three years Colton Williams has been playing bass drum in the Emory & Henry College marching band, he has seen reams of sheet music and performance notes tossed at the end of each season. But now his band is joining several others across the country that have replaced paper with smartphone apps to save money and be more sustainable.

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MindMax

AUGUST 29, 2022

Education is one of the most transformative experiences in a person’s life. And yet, due to circumstances largely beyond their control, many people who enroll in college don’t have the opportunity to complete their degree. In my experience engaging with students who have stopped out or dropped out of college, I’ve found that almost every single one of them feels a great deal of guilt and shame associated with not achieving their goal.

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Dr. Missy Alexander

AUGUST 29, 2022

On August 12, Secretary of Education, Dr. Miguel Cardona, announced a series of funding opportunities for minority-serving institutions. In launching this new grant program he noted: “It’s a cruel irony that institutions that serve the most students with the most to gain from a college degree have the fewest resources to invest in student success.” Amen!

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 29, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Are you old enough to remember The Reader’s Diges t’s most popular feature: “The Most Unforgettable Character I Ever Met”? When I was a callow 19, I had the incredible good fortune met three truly unforgettable geniuses: Arna Bontemps, Aaron Douglas, and Georgia O’Keeffe. I had embarked on a senior thesis on Jean Toomer, the recently reclaimed Harlem Renaissance poet and author.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 29, 2022

Brigham Young University has apologized and banned a fan from attending its events after a Duke University player was harassed with a racial slur during a women’s volleyball game Friday, The News & Observer reported. “To say we are extremely disheartened in the actions of a small number of fans in last night’s volleyball match in Smith Fieldhouse between BYU and Duke is not strong enough language,” said a statement from Brigham Young.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 29, 2022

Marquette University called off a student convocation Thursday because of a protest by the Black Student Council of Marquette. Prior to when the convocation was supposed to take place, the Black Student Council said on Instagram , “The fact that they eliminated the entire Office of Engagement and Inclusion (OEI) without stating why is unacceptable.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 29, 2022

Howard University received a bomb threat Tuesday evening, swiftly followed by another bomb threat early Friday morning, DCist reported. Students evacuated the residence halls after both threats, but no devices were found. The first threat was made against Cook Hall, a residential building, at approximately 10:25 p.m. on Tuesday, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 29, 2022

A Central Methodist University football player was shot and killed last week, The Fayette Advertiser reported. Kundarrius Taylor fatally shot his roommate, Torrance Evans, on Thursday evening. Taylor is also enrolled at Central Methodist. Central Methodist canceled classes Friday. Taylor told authorities he hadn’t been getting along with Evans.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 29, 2022

Sir Big Spur is the name of the rooster who has attended University of South Carolina athletics events since 1999. Actually there have been six Sir Big Spurs, who have been brought to games by Mary Snelling, and her husband, Ron Albertelli. An article in The Post and Courier discusses their anger over Beth and Van Clark, who have succeeded them in providing a rooster.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 29, 2022

Fisk University has switched presidents after less than two years, the Associated Press reported. No reason was given for Vann R. Newkirk’s departure as president, which was immediate. Before he was president, he was provost of the institution. The chair of the board, Frank L. Sims, will serve as acting president while a committee conducts a search for a permanent replacement.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 29, 2022

Today on the Academic Minute : Catherine Bondonno, research fellow in the Institute for Nutrition Research at Edith Cowan University, discusses the link between staying healthy and eating green. 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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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 29, 2022

Eat your leafy greens. In today’s Academic Minute, Edith Cowan University’s Catherine Bondonno discusses the link between staying healthy and eating green. Bondonno is a research fellow in the Institute for Nutrition Research at Edith Cowan. A transcript of this podcast can be found here. Section: Academic Minute File: 08-29-22 Edith Cowan - Leafy Greens and Heart Disease.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 29, 2022

Bentley University has launched an executive Ph.D. program that allows business leaders to enhance their industry expertise through an intensive research-based curriculum. College of DuPage is starting a certificate in the Internet of Things. La Salle University, in conjunction with POLIMI Graduate School of Management, in Italy, will begin a program in which students will earn a master of science in supply chain analytics from La Salle and a master of supply chain management from POLIMI.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 29, 2022

Image: With colleges and universities now starting their third pandemic-era fall term, COVID-19 safety precautions—and faculty members’ thoughts on them—are very much a mixed bag. Take two Pennsylvania institutions, the University of Pittsburgh and Temple University, for instance. At Pitt, the faculty union and the administration reached an agreement that creates a new process by which professors can request adjustments to their working arrangements if they or anyone in their h

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 29, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean. Having spent the latter part of last week focusing on getting The Girl settled in college, I didn’t immediately jump on the news about planned student loan forgiveness. Now that she’s safely ensconced, a few thoughts. My overarching impression is that it will likely get struck down by the courts.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 29, 2022

During a January visit to Bergen Community College in New Jersey to champion the American Rescue Plan’s $198 million competitive grant for community colleges, First Lady—and community college professor—Jill Biden commented on a common challenge for many students: “You know, it’s hard to express what it’s like to have a bright, engaged student—someone who has so much passion and potential—fade out of my class because they can’t find a babysitt

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 29, 2022

A professor emeritus of voice and opera at the University of Iowa has been indicted on charges of distributing methamphetamine, causing the death of one person and possessing child pornography, The Iowa City Press-Citizen reported. John Muriello is being held in jail, and his trial in federal court will begin Dec. 5. The University of Iowa received an anonymous complaint against Muriello in April 2020 from the parents of a freshman.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 29, 2022

A search committee for the Florida Board of Governors has recommended hiring outgoing state senator Ray Rodrigues, an ally of Republican governor Ron DeSantis, as the next chancellor of the State University System of Florida. Rodrigues—who has sponsored legislation to require intellectual freedom and viewpoint diversity surveys and to reshape tenure—announced in June that he would not seek re-election to Florida’s State Senate.

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