Wonkhe
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
Michelle Morgan argues that we need a better understanding of student drop-outs if we are to retain students through the cost of living crisis. The post We don’t know what we don’t know appeared first on Wonkhe.
Higher Ed Dive
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
The publication known for its embattled Best Colleges rankings acquired CollegeAdvisor.com, it said Tuesday.
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Wonkhe
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
Horizon association is still up in the air so James Coe turns to the USA to see how the special relationship is turning out The post The UK alone part two appeared first on Wonkhe.
Higher Ed Dive
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
The agency must deliver a report to lawmakers by 2024. But policy experts aren’t sure it can even scrape together the survey in time.
Wonkhe
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
How many academic staff left and joined your provider last year? How much are academic staff paid? David Kernohan reviews the data The post HESA spring: academic staff movement, and pay appeared first on Wonkhe.
Higher Ed Dive
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
Competency-based education has the potential to meet adult learners’ educational needs faster.
The PIE News
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
Australia has announced the list of professions and courses that will be eligible for extended post-study work rights from July 1. Eligible programs range from health, technology, education and construction, and have been selected to respond to worker shortages in key sectors, the government said. The new measures – initially announced in September last year – will allow eligible international higher education graduates to access to an extra two years of post-study work rights.
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University Business
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
Does artificial intelligence have a place in the classroom? That’s yet to be decided as generative AI tools, namely ChatGPT, continue to rock the higher education sphere. What we do know is that efforts to curb cheating have steadily increased since its inception. OpenAI, the chatbot’s creator, launched its own AI-writing detector several weeks ago, yet it’s not 100% accurate, according to the company.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
For institutions looking to measure their DEI efforts, the tool of choice has typically been campus climate assessments, surveys of groups like faculty or students that provide an aggregate picture of the impact of a college’s endeavors. But this doesn’t give schools a comprehensive picture of their efforts, or a direct sense of how developed they are.
Faculty Focus
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
To whom and for what are students accountable in higher education? The language of “holding” students accountable connotes a kind of control faculty wield over students, carrying the threat of consequences if students do not answer to the demands placed on them. But what if we as faculty thought about “holding” in a different way—as holding space for students to take agency and as holding students as they took that agency?
Insight Into Diversity
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
Vanderbilt University issued an apology after receiving criticism for a campus diversity office’s use of artificial intelligence (AI) to write an email offering support to students following the recent mass shooting at Michigan State University. The original email was sent on Feb. 16 to students from the Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at the Vanderbilt Peabody College of Education and underscored the importance of “creating safe and inclusive environments.” It ends w
EAB
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
Blogs How will we measure student success in the 2020s? A review of how student success metrics have evolved over time—and where they might go in the future Before I studied student success, I studied evolutionary biology. I regularly get asked how the two things relate, and I often find myself applying evolutionary thinking to student success challenges.
The PIE News
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
Student mental health figures are “alarming”, with many international students’ mental health worsening over the course of the pandemic, according to a new study. Professors at universities from across the world collected data for the study, named Pre and Post-Pandemic (COVID-19) Mental Health of International Students: Data from a Longitudinal Study , which was published in the Dovepress medical journal.
Campus Technology
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
The University Innovation Alliance, a national consortium of public research universities dedicated to increasing the number of diversity of college graduates across the country, has announced a new project aimed at diagnosing and addressing high DFW (drop, withdraw, or fail) rates in gateway courses, particularly for students of color and those from low-income backgrounds.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
Florida International University (FIU) has received $6 million to help improve access to mental health services for students in Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS). The five-year grant came through the U.S. Department of Education (ED) via the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act and the Fiscal Year 2022 Omnibus Appropriations. The money will support the FIU/M-DCPS Mental Health Service Professional Demonstration Fellowship (Project DIG), an effort to recruit and train more than 100 school-bas
Inside Higher Ed
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
Graduate pipeline programs were created to level the playing field by providing students from historically excluded populations with the resources to be competitive in pursuing their graduate degrees. In programs such as the Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program , established in 1986 and as necessary today as ever, we mentor students in submission , accepting the ways higher education operates instead of demanding and creating a genuinely inclusive community.
Educause
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
Using learning management systems strategically and consistently across courses can help students and faculty save time and energy.
Insight Into Diversity
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
Two historically Black universities, Harris-Stowe State University and Xavier University of Louisiana, recently announced the creation of new academic colleges on their campuses. Harris-Stowe State, located in St. Louis, Mo., will be forming a new College of STEM as part of its efforts in “broadening participation of underrepresented and under-resourced students in the industry,” reads a university news release.
FIRE
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
Florida state Rep. Alex Andrade introduced HB 951, which would roll back free speech protections secured by one of the most important Supreme Court decisions: New York Times Company v. Sullivan.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
The road to completing a credential can be particularly challenging for minority male students, who may face systemic biases, a lack of financial resources, racism and microaggressions, and an absence of academic role models. The COVID-19 pandemic has only exacerbated the trend. However, the Minority Male Success Initiative (MMSI), a three-year project from the North Carolina Community College System (NCCCS) and Watermark, an ed tech company, has offered a glimmer of hope: students who received
Inside Higher Ed
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
Image: After a long period of funding cuts and stagnation , public higher education in New York state got an infusion of hope last year when Governor Kathy Hochul proposed a historic funding increase, allocating $8.5 billion —including $1.5 billion in new funding—to the State University of New York and City University of New York systems.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
The current state of health equity and medical education were key topics at a webinar on Tuesday sponsored by Rutgers University’s Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity, and Justice. The Proctor Institute – housed in the Rutgers-New Brunswick Graduate School of Education – hosted the event in honor of Black History Month. Dr. Louis Sullivan The webinar, "Fireside Chat: A Half Century of Equity in Medicine," kicked off with a discussion with Dr.
EdTech Magazine - Higher Education
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
Simplicity has been Fordham University’s game plan for the past decade. Since shifting its enterprise resource planning system from its New York campus to Amazon Web Services in 2012, the school has moved about 85 percent of its infrastructure to cloud services. “Like many higher education organizations, we were hosting it locally, taking care of all the data center needs for this system as well as the application, the upgrades, the maintenance, the disaster recovery,” says Anand Padmanabhan, vi
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
African American males and collegiate sports continue to be a topic of debate in higher education. The arguments range from how athletics hamper the academic performance of African American athletes to how collegiate sports open many life-changing opportunities for the athletes. Former collegiate athlete Yusuf Sabree was a standout student-athlete who currently holds the position of district dean of student services at Wayne County (Mich.
The Change Leader, Inc.
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
Changing Higher Ed Podcast 143 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Ralph Wolff: Should Accreditors Help Higher Ed Identify What’s Good Enough for Them? → View the podcast transcript Now more than ever, accreditation is essential in higher education. An increasingly high number of professional accrediting bodies touch and impact colleges and universities to the point where accreditors have the potential to lead or even stifle change in higher ed.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
Faculty resignations have been increasing at Iowa universities, The Daily Iowan reported. According to the state Board of Regents’ Annual Human Resources Report , University of Iowa (UI) faculty resignations rose from 80 to 92 from fiscal year (FY) 2021 to FY 2022 – in FY 2020, there were 73 resignations. Iowa State University (ISU) saw an increase in faculty resignations from 36 to 44 and the University of Northern Iowa (UNI) saw its resignations more than double from 10 to 21.
The PIE News
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
A new agreement between Cambridge University Press & Assessment and Estonia’s ministry of education and research has been announced, aiming to bolster English language assessment offerings in the country. The deal follows in the footsteps of the partnership first put together in 2019, which has already seen more than 15,000 Estonian school leavers given the opportunity to take the English C1 Advanced examination instead of their usual school-leaving test.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
Dr. Michael L. McFrazier will become acting president at Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU), effective Mar. 1. This comes after PVAMU President Dr. Ruth Simmons’s announcement to resign early at the end of February. Dr. Michael L. McFrazier McFrazier is currently dean of PVAMU’s Whitlowe R. Green College of Education. He has served as professor and dean at PVAMU, along with other senior leadership roles at the school.
EAB
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
Podcast How to Work with CBOs to Supercharge Your Recruiting Efforts Episode 139. February 21, 2023. Welcome to the Office Hours with EAB podcast. You can join the conversation on social media using #EABOfficeHours. Follow the podcast on Spotify , Google Podcasts , Apple Podcasts , SoundCloud and Stitcher or visit our podcast homepage for additional episodes.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
The time has come to shore up educational environments as places of support, safety, and affirmation for LGBTQ+ students, particularly trans-identifying youth, according to a statement co-written by educational scholars, co-signed by educators across the field from preschool to postsecondary, under the organization titled Support LGBTQ Education. “We believe that public education should serve the entire public—indeed, it is the cornerstone of a functioning democracy.
Inside Higher Ed
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
Image: No two students’ academic journeys are the same, but the Advising Success Networks’ Student Journey Map gives a glimpse into the student experience in preparing and planning for success. Three of ASN’s student fellows recently developed the map , calling on their own experiences as students at various institutions across the U.S. and collaborating with undergraduate and graduate students.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
Emily Fisher Emily Fisher has been appointed secretary to the Board of Trust at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. Fisher served as chief of staff for the president of Emory University. She holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from the State University of New York College at Cortland and a J.D. from the University of Alabama.
Inside Higher Ed
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
Image: While there’s no shortage of days, weeks and months commemorating mental health—perhaps most notably National Mental Health Awareness Week in May—some students embraced a new one this month: Student Mental Health Week , Feb. 6 to 12. For students like Cherrial Odell of Stanford University, the cause is extremely personal. A survivor of self-harm and adverse childhood experiences, Odell is acting president of the university’s Mental Health Club and co-founder of the
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
Collaborations between Virginia Tech and historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) or other minority-serving institutions (MSIs) have led to 15 research projects supported by grant funding. This effort is one of several seed investment programs by Virginia Tech’s Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science (ICTAS).to bolster research on campus.
Faculty Focus
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
To whom and for what are students accountable in higher education? The language of “holding” students accountable connotes a kind of control faculty wield over students, carrying the threat of consequences if students do not answer to the demands placed on them. But what if we as faculty thought about “holding” in a different way—as holding space for students to take agency and as holding students as they took that agency?
Inside Higher Ed
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
Image: The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights has ramped up investigations in the last year as more individuals and organizations have filed complaints about disability, sex or pregnancy discrimination; campus antisemitism; and programs or scholarships available to only one gender or minority group, among other allegations. The office received 18,804 complaints—a record—during the last fiscal year, from Oct. 1, 2021, to Sept. 30, 2022, about discrimination in K-12 a
ACRLog
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
In the forecourt of his temple were inscribed the words ‘Know yourself’, since it was only with self-knowledge that a human could unravel the confusing tangle of the priestess’s words. Charlotte Higgins, Greek Myths: A New Retelling I read an interesting column in University Affairs that argues work in academia is often task-focused. The authors, Alexander Clark and Bailey Sousa, gives task-focused examples such as organizing meetings, responding to email, and teaching.
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