Wonkhe
MARCH 15, 2023
For Neurodiversity Celebration Week, Beth Sennett explains the ways in which higher education forces neurodivergent colleagues to mask their true selves. The post How HE forces neurodivergent people to adapt appeared first on Wonkhe.
Higher Ed Dive
MARCH 15, 2023
The chancellor of UC Davis shares lessons learned from leading a diverse university and its new governmental anti-hate partnership.
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MindMax
MARCH 15, 2023
Looking to grow enrollments for your school’s adult education programs? It may be time to rethink your value propositions. In our conversations with higher education leaders, we’ve learned that an adult learner’s values and goals are much different from a college freshman’s , and a school’s more standard value proposition isn’t going to resonate with this audience.
Higher Ed Dive
MARCH 15, 2023
Private institution faculty reported being more satisfied with how their college handled chatbot policies than other instructors.
Wonkhe
MARCH 15, 2023
The measures in the budget don't go far enough to address the UK's skills needs, according to Anthony Painter of the Chartered Management Institute The post The Treasury needs to get serious about skills appeared first on Wonkhe.
Higher Ed Dive
MARCH 15, 2023
Good stewardship doesn’t mean being tied to a donor whose behavior is beyond the pale. These best practices can help.
Educause
MARCH 15, 2023
A survey of college and university websites gives an early indication about the ways institutions are addressing generative AI and what it might mean for higher education.
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 15, 2023
When Reagan Gonzalez began applying to law schools, she didn’t imagine that she would have to research the laws of the states to which she was thinking about moving. But this year’s wave of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation and proposals— the American Civil Liberties Union is currently tracking 388 bills —wound up shaping her decision in ways that she didn’t anticipate.
The PIE News
MARCH 15, 2023
Interventions to build support systems for international students in Australia need to be “urgently explored”, according to a new study published in the BMC Psychology journal. The research found that the pandemic had a substantial negative impact on international students, particularly those living outside of their country of origin during the pandemic.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 15, 2023
The post-pandemic decline in U.S. college enrollment is a lingering concern for both educators and policy makers. College and university student enrollment is down for the third straight year, 7% lower than it was in 2019. At least some of the enrollment loss is due to misinformation and misconceptions about the relationship between employment and educational attainment.
EdTech Magazine - Higher Education
MARCH 15, 2023
Google’s most recent storage policy shift — limiting higher education institutions to 100 terabytes of stored data in Google Workspace for Education — has caused plenty of consternation and policy shifting in higher education. EdTech has covered these changes in depth, and I wrote about how universities could potentially respond to those storage restrictions back in December.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 15, 2023
Women’s liberal arts institution Wellesley College students voted Mar. 14 to allow transgender men and nonbinary people assigned male at birth to be eligible for admission, The Washington Post reported. The nonbinding vote came after a recent debate between students and Wellesley’s administration – the latter has resisted such a change. Since 2015, Wellesley has allowed transgender women to apply for admission.
Campus Sonar
MARCH 15, 2023
It’s no secret that online spaces provide students with opportunities to connect to others and build community, but do you know how often that’s happening on your campus’s Reddit page? A quick peek at your page will often reveal questions, comments, and potential concerns—all right on a public page that anyone can see. Higher ed communicators are community builders, and understanding what happens on forums could help your campus grow a stronger real-world and digital community.
Campus Technology
MARCH 15, 2023
Expanded multi-modal MathGPT Platform possibilities mean any math content or curriculum can be turned into a personalized GPT-powered chatbot with interactive text, audio, and video learning, and GotIt can configure the platform to work with a wide variety of applications in math education, the company said.
Inside Higher Ed
MARCH 15, 2023
Image: When the Taliban banned women from pursuing higher education, they did not simultaneously extinguish half their citizens’ educational ambitions. That’s why Saleema, a young Afghan woman studying at University of the People , now presents as Madison from California in her online Principles of Business Management course. (All details except the student’s gender and institution have been changed to protect her identity.
Today's Learner
MARCH 15, 2023
Reading Time: 3 minutes A.J. Jacobs is a professor of Sociology at East Carolina University Following a group discussion on the challenges related to teaching Introduction to Sociology, I was asked to compare the community college experience with the large university experience, from both the instructor and student perspectives. My background in teaching My first opportunity to teach college Sociology was in the summer of 1996 when I was a Ph.D.
Campus Technology
MARCH 15, 2023
Registration is now open for Tech Tactics in Education: Data and IT Security in the New Now, a new conference from the producers of Campus Technology and THE Journal. The three-day event, taking place November 7–9, 2023, at the Renaissance Orlando at SeaWorld in Orlando, Fla., will offer hands-on learning, practical tips, and strategic discussions on critical cybersecurity issues and key data infrastructure and practices across K–12 and higher education.
Inside Higher Ed
MARCH 15, 2023
Labor unions are in the news a lot these days. And it’s fair to say that conditions in higher education are ripe for a level of labor activism not seen in recent decades. Labor organizing and collective bargaining efforts at companies like Starbucks , Amazon and Apple —companies once thought to be immune from union pressures—are seeing some success.
Campus Technology
MARCH 15, 2023
From curriculum to technology concerns, consider these essentials for creating alternative education opportunities at your institution.
University Business
MARCH 15, 2023
The University is the last Ivy League college to announce test-optional extensions through 2024. Harvard , Princeton and Dartmouth all extended their test-optional policy beyond the upcoming admissions cycle, and Columbia announced March 1 it would permanently switch to test-optional admissions. Penn and Yale have confirmed that they will be test-optional for the 2023-24 cycle, while Cornell has extended the policy through the next two cycles.
Inside Higher Ed
MARCH 15, 2023
Image: A Valparaiso University plan to sell off artworks by Georgia O’Keeffe and others has led to strong opposition from some faculty members and students questioning the ethics of selling off prized and valuable parts of the university museum’s collection to pay for residence hall renovations. Gretchen Buggeln, a professor of art history and the humanities who serves on the collections committee for the Brauer Museum of Art on the campus of the Indiana institution, said it’s
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 15, 2023
Lauren Di Monte Lauren Di Monte has been appointed associate university librarian for research and learning at Yale University Library. Di Monte holds a bachelor’s degree in visual studies and a master’s in information from the University of Toronto and in interdisciplinary studies from York University in Toronto.
Inside Higher Ed
MARCH 15, 2023
Rather than positively providing them a self-directed space, it might instead be just one more thing an overworked student has to cope with, writes Sarabeth Grant. Job Tags: FACULTY JOBS Ad keywords: faculty Section: Teaching and Learning Editorial Tags: Career Advice Teaching Today Show on Jobs site: Image Source: Paul Bradbury/ojo images/getty images Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?
HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)
MARCH 15, 2023
How Important Are U.S. News Best Rankings? U.S. News & World Report released its first list of annual college rankings in 1983. Since then, prospective students (and their parents) have used the rankings as a guide for where to consider going to school. While the rankings can be a valuable tool, they’re also quite controversial in that they tend to favor prestigious schools where the student populations largely come from white, affluent families.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
MARCH 15, 2023
Anyone and everyone can deploy the 'harm' rationale to curtail academic freedom. By Amna Khalid and Jeffrey Aaron Snyder Andre De Loba for The Chronicle Anyone and everyone can deploy the "harm" rationale to curtail academic freedom.
Campus Technology
MARCH 15, 2023
Starting in April 2023, Grammarly will roll out its beta version of GrammarlyGo, a personalized generative AI tool to complement its existing communication software. The prompt-initiated AI understands personal writing and brand style in context, according to the company, and will generate relevant, comprehensive text on demand.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
MARCH 15, 2023
By Nell Gluckman Mark Abramson for The Chronicle Karen Perez, executive director of the Child Development Center at Passaic County Community College, interacts with children at the college’s child-care center. A community-college group wants to add Head Start sites to many campuses, giving student parents free child care and helping them stay enrolled.
Inside Higher Ed
MARCH 15, 2023
Image: Keeping students engaged on campus and in the classroom can revolve around their sense of belonging. Jessica Gifford—founder and chief connection officer for ProjectConnect , a program designed to reduce loneliness—shared one solution for loneliness in a recent webinar hosted by the organization. A national spring 2022 survey from the American College Health Association and the National College Health Assessment found that 53 percent of students were positive for loneliness on
The PIE News
MARCH 15, 2023
International students in Tunisia are afraid to go to classes following a wave of racially-motivated attacks, a student association warned last week. The violence began after a speech from Tunisian president Kais Saied in February, in which he said “hordes” of migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa were bringing “violence, crime and unacceptable practices” to Tunisia and conspiring to make the country less Arab.
UIA (University Innovation Alliance)
MARCH 15, 2023
Higher Ed Lessons in Interim Leadership A Conversation With Javier Reyes, Interim Chancellor, University of Illinois Chicago bridget Thu, 03/23/2023 - 06:00 interim Inside Higher Ed Weekly Wisdom Just a year after he joined the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) as Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Dr. Javier Reyes found himself elevated to the position of Interim Chancellor.
The PIE News
MARCH 15, 2023
A group of Kenyan students enrolled in universities in Finland since September 2021 are facing expulsion from campuses and subsequent deportation after a local Kenyan government unit failed to meet its fees obligations. The students are in the country in a deal between five universities and the County Government of Uasin Gishu , a devolved unit in the East African country.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 15, 2023
Dr. John Karl Scholz will become president of The University of Oregon (UO), effective Jul. 1. Dr. John Karl Scholz Scholz is currently provost and the Nellie June Gray Professor of Economic Policy at University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was previously UW–Madison’s dean of the College of Letters & Science and director of the Institute for Research on Poverty.
Inside Higher Ed
MARCH 15, 2023
Image: Connecting students’ coursework to their future career is seen as an engagement tool and a necessity for career development. At the Georgia Institute of Technology, gathering data to evaluate how students view their own learning outcomes and how general education courses are targeting those outcomes required creative solutions. Sarah Wu, the academic assessment manager at the Office of Academic Effectiveness at Georgia Tech, shared the results of a feedback project her team orchestr
HEM (Higher Education Marketing)
MARCH 15, 2023
Reading Time: 10 minutes New technology and social media can make email marketing seem somewhat obsolete, but the reality is that email marketing is as strong as ever. It provides schools with direct access to prospective students interested in learning more about them, making it an invaluable platform for student recruitment. By applying the right tips for email marketing and creating compelling email campaigns, schools can successfully guide prospects through the enrollment funnel.
The Guardian - Higher Education
MARCH 15, 2023
Proposal also calls for gender neutral language at women’s college whose alumni include Hillary Clinton and Madeleine Albright Students at the famed Wellesley College for women voted this week to extend admission to trans men and non-binary students, though campus administrators have said there is “no plan” to immediately change school policy. In a non-binding election on Tuesday , students at the liberal arts college in Massachusetts voted to open admission to all non-binary and transgender stu
Inside Higher Ed
MARCH 15, 2023
More than 300 Princeton Theological Seminary students and alumni signed a letter to the institution’s president asking that a Board of Trustees member be removed for his ties to a prison telecommunications company. The letter, delivered Tuesday, also demands that the seminary adopt “deliberate and transparent policies on appointing and maintaining board members who reflect the anti-slavery theological commitments of the seminary.
Insight Into Diversity
MARCH 15, 2023
Wellesley College students have voted to allow transgender men and nonbinary individuals to apply to the historically women’s college in Massachusetts. The nonbinding referendum asked students whether the institution should expand its current admission policy, which only considers applicants who live “as a woman and consistently identif[y] as a woman.” This includes trans women and nonbinary individuals who were assigned female at birth.
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