Higher Ed Data Stories

DECEMBER 23, 2022

If you want a definitive answer, you can stop now. As Mark Twain allegedly said, "I was gratified to be able to give an answer right away. I said I didn't know." However, critics of test optional like to trot out this study from 2014 , suggesting test-optional policies do not increase diversity. There are a couple of problems with using that paper to prop up this argument, however: First, the study included about 200 liberal arts colleges, and nowhere does it suggest that the conclusions can be

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Insight Into Diversity

DECEMBER 23, 2022

READ: ‘Transforming Hispanic-Serving Institutions for Equity and Justice’. Drawing on more than 25 years of research into Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs), the book “Transforming Hispanic-Serving Institutions for Equity and Justice” offers a framework for how HSIs can advance racial equity, social justice, and collective liberation on their campuses.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

DECEMBER 23, 2022

As the tech industry addresses a skills shortage, it also needs to boost its talent pipeline to bring tech jobs to underrepresented communities. With Black students earning just 7 percent of STEM degrees as of 2018 (the most recent year available), historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) face the challenge of creating more opportunities in the tech workforce for underrepresented students.

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The PIE News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

There should be an immediate expansion of international scholarships for Afghans, a leading academic rights organisation has said, following the Taliban’s decision to ban women from Afghanistan’s universities. . Videos were shared on social media of women being turned away from the country’s universities after the Taliban ordered the suspension earlier this week.

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totallyrewired

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Good start to the year as I put together a digital book on Online Presence and Belonging based on talks given at our UAL good practice event in December 2021: In September I gave a talk at the ALT annual conference on ‘What is Critical Digital Pedagogy? and why is it important?’: What is Critical Digital Pedagogy.pptx from Chris Rowell. Its also been a year of developing new workshops – especially ones on Miro which is a great tool for collaborative online learning: In November

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The PIE News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

For students at Brock University in St Catharine’s, Ontario, early December brought a plea to residents of the city for the Christmas period. As part of its Home for The Holidays program, Ontarians are being asked to host international students over a period when they are often overlooked. While international students strive for their best to get to places like Canada, the UK, the US and Australia to study, often, it means that a trip home over the holidays is unlikely to be an option.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Higher education institutions spend hundreds of millions of dollars every year on physical security equipment, according to a 2020 study conducted by Omdia on behalf of the Security Industry Association. The reality of open, accessible college campuses makes physical security a more complicated task in higher education than it is for their counterparts in K–12 school districts, but one of the most common and effective ways to boost security on campus is through video surveillance.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Former students are suing the University of Southern California over false rankings for its education school based on data submitted by the university to U.S. News & World Report , the Los Angeles Times reported. The class action suit was filed Tuesday. “People certainly paid a premium given how expensive the school is,” said Kristen Simplicio, a lawyer representing the students.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

DECEMBER 23, 2022

State University of New York faculty and area state legislators are warning that cutbacks could be coming at state colleges and universities – including SUNY Buffalo State and SUNY Fredonia – that have built significant operating deficits this year. To ward off those potential cuts, the faculty and legislators are asking for $350 million in new state funding to address deficits facing SUNY schools across the state.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 23, 2022

The Juilliard School has placed a professor on leave and commissioned a new investigation of charges that he harassed students, The New York Times reported. A spokeswoman for the school said it had previously investigated the professor, Robert Beaser, who had been chair of the composition department. The spokeswoman did not say what those investigations found.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

DECEMBER 23, 2022

In essence, Penn State’s new-look allocation process seeks to use university-collected data to inform budgetary decisions. The soon-to-be remodeled approach will regularly examine changing factors, including university funding and student demand, to more accurately support units throughout Penn State’s campuses, all in an effort to help balance the university’s budget by 2025.

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AACC

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Joint Comments on VA 85-15 Rule (PDF)

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma The past’s meaning only becomes clear in hindsight. Who would have guessed during the 1970s, a decade when it seemed like nothing happened, that a series of developments were underway that would transform the future: the politicization of evangelical religion, accelerating deindustrialization, the deregulation and financialization of the American economy, a profound shift in the nation’s demographics.

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The PIE News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Indonesia is seeking alliances with universities in East Africa, using its existing exchange programs as an entry point to the continent. The world’s most populous muslim country is actively promoting “educational diplomacy” by establishing partnerships between its universities and their African equivalents and promoting opportunities such as the Ministry of Education and Culture’s Partnership for Developing Countries scholarships initiative. .

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Insight Into Diversity

DECEMBER 23, 2022

With major legal decisions like the race-conscious admissions cases currently in front of the U.S. Supreme Court and a politically charged climate rife with increased incidents of bias and hate, 2023 promises considerable challenges for higher education leaders and practitioners working in the diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) space. But in a recent INSIGHT Into Diversity survey of chief diversity officers (CDOs) regarding their professional New Year’s resolutions, they overwhelmingly vowed

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