MindMax

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

CFES Brilliant Pathways held its 32nd annual conference November 6-7 in beautiful Burlington, Vermont. Leaders in education, business, government, and philanthropy (plus 100 students!) gathered to discuss opportunities for enhancing college and career readiness during a period of accelerating change. I was fortunate to attend this event myself. You might be wondering why someone like me, whose company focuses on higher education marketing and enrollment , would attend a K-12 conference.

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Higher Ed Dive

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

We’re rounding up some of our week’s top stories, from an acquisition in the online program management space to cuts at another public university.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Columbia Altered Protest Policy Before Suspending Pro-Palestinian Groups Liam Knox Fri, 11/17/2023 - 06:20 PM Administrators, who cited alleged violations of the policies in acting against the groups, confirm they made the changes unilaterally.

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Higher Ed Dive

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The news comes during a tumultuous time for the company, which has faced revenue declines, legal and reputational challenges, and layoffs.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

By Adrienne Lu Illustration by The Chronicle; iStock image Lawyers are interpreting the new anti-DEI law in a variety of ways, endangering several programs that serve students' needs.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Higher education has reached an inflection point. The cost of a four-year education has increased to an average of $26,000 per year, which has put strain on students. Furthermore, more than 50% of recent high school graduates reported not pursuing a traditional four-year college pathway, and 64% stated they had changed their major since their initial selection.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to benefit multiple aspects of higher education, from logistics to the student experience, according to a new playbook from Complete College America and T3 Advisory. The playbook, “Attainment with AI Making a Real Difference in College Completion with Artificial Intelligence,” describes the ways in which higher ed can take advantage of what AI has to offer amid the surge in AI discussion this year.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Overall hiring for the Class of 2024 is projected to decrease 1.9% but does not indicate a bad job market, according to a new survey from the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE). Shawn VanDerziel The findings do not necessarily mean that the job market is weak. Rather, this decrease follows the record high levels of growth that the college job market saw in 2022.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Getting the President-Board Relationship Right Sarah Bray Fri, 11/17/2023 - 03:59 AM It is one of any president’s most important tasks, write Julie A. Peterson and Laurie Fenlason, who offer 10 best practices. Byline(s) Julie A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Quamina Carter Quamina Carter has been named vice president of Student Affairs at Claremont Graduate University. She served as assistant vice president of student affairs. Carter holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Tuskegee University and a master’s in counseling from Martin University.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

This year’s International Education Week saw universities and organisations across the sector celebrate international students and their contribution to higher education. Various organisations launched week-long celebrations with the theme, “International Education is the Future” The US Department of State along with the Department of Education also defined daily themes across the five days, starting with “Open Doors to the Future”, with the release of the Open Doors data , outlining

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University Business

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

With students, faculty and related academic programs going online during the pandemic, students with disabilities experienced a proliferation of edtech tools ready to assist them in the digital space. However, despite the new higher education landscape that’s formed and insistence from government officials, colleges and universities at large still have many strategic holes in ensuring accessibility compliance.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Students from the Northwestern Prison Education Program (NPEP) have attained bachelor’s degrees, the first time in U.S. history that incarcerated students have received bachelor’s degrees from a top 10 university. Dr. Jennifer Lackey Northwestern University The prisoners – they engaged in the program from inside Stateville Correctional Center in Illinois – were celebrated at a Nov. 15 ceremony, where they were able to walk across stage and receive their diplomas.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The American Council on Education and the Institute of International Education have announced a new partnership to “address escalating challenges” in higher education internationalisation. The organisations have 100 years in higher education between them, and the teamup aims to bring together “extensive research, decades of practice, and deep knowledge from networks of experts across the international higher education spectrum”.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Dr. Johnny Smith Johnny Smith has been appointed vice president of instruction and student support services at Robeson Community College in Lumberton, North Carolina. Smith holds a bachelor’s degree in human services from Carson Newman University in Jefferson City, Tennessee, as well as a master’s in education, an Ed.S., and a doctoral degree in educational leadership from Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Michael Shattock, Visiting Professor at the UCL Institute of Education. It reviews a HEPI Policy Note by Nick Hillman: you can read that piece here. Alongside this Policy Note, HEPI has also marked the anniversary of the Robbins Report with a blog series – you can access all the material here. The Robbins Report was not produced ( paras 1-2) out of a political vacuum.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

One in two teachers worldwide feel unprepared to teach refugee students in their classrooms, new research has revealed. According to an Oxford University Press survey of 537 school and English language teachers globally, six in 10 teach refugees but 47.5% feel unprepared or lack the confidence to teach them. Only 9% said they feel very confident in their ability to do teach them effectively.

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SRHE

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

by Zain Sardar and Amira Samatar The social mobility charity, the Aziz Foundation, has published a major new report examining the progression challenges encountered by British Muslims aspiring to PGT studies. We consider this a timely intervention, in the context of a rapidly changing student demography, indicated in the popular usage of such terms as ‘hyper-diversification’ (Atherton and Mazhari, 2020) within HE policy discourse, and corroborated in recent projections by the professional member

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The National Association of System Heads, which includes leaders of dozens of public college and university systems that educate roughly 5 million students, has appointed its first-ever president and chief executive officer.

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Helix Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

How can you navigate the trends in graduate enrollment? I recently developed a new data-driven presentation called “How to Win in the Graduate Market” that seeks to first lay out the state of the market and then talk through a list of 20 things that enrollment leaders need to be sure are happening in order to align with student expectations. You can sign up for a complimentary virtual presentation of this session.

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totallyrewired

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The following post is entirely generated using AI. It is based on the seventh AI Conversation session that took place today where Dave White answered questions around the topic, Has AI Stolen Our Creative Labour? The session was recorded in MS Teams, which automatically created a transcript. The transcript was summarised in Claude and the blog post was generated using ChatGPT4.

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Helix Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Recently, by book club reading was a topic that is plaguing both non-profit and for-profit counterparts. The Lonely Century: How to Restore Human Connection in a World that’s Pulling Apart is about how society has become less dependent on face – to – face interaction, and more dependent on the digital experiences we have with businesses (and other facets of life).

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Terminalfour

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

What could the launch of a new wave of wearable augmented reality tech mean on campus? This week, we return to the Metaverse to talk about wearable AR and VR technology.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Michigan State University appears poised to hire University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz as its next president, according to various news reports. In a statement to WRAL News, Guskiewicz said he is “weighing” the opportunity.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Delivering on long-awaited improvements, the Department of Education will soon release a streamlined version of its widely used college financial aid form, known as the FAFSA, to less than 20 questions that could take some people just 10 minutes to fill out, officials told ABC News. The current application includes over 100 questions and hasn’t been significantly updated since the Reagan administration, but it has been under review for the last two years after Congress passed bipartisan le

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LSE Higher Education Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

There is an absence of support for institutional ethnographers.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Competition to get into college or university has always been a hallmark of higher education. Because educational institutions have such a huge impact on students’ lives and future earning potential, the competition can feel ruthless for applicants—and the schools looking to attract the best applicants possible. Theoretically, at least, it’s a meritocracy, with the “best” students admitted to the best universities.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The launch of OpenAI’s generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool, ChatGPT, marked a turning point in the evolution of technology and its role in education. Now a ubiquitous tool, ChatGPT has sparked extremes of fear and curiosity among academics and students alike. Speaking at a session at the 2023 THE Digital Universities MENA summit, Aaron Yaverski, regional vice-president for EMEA at Turnitin, described it as a collective “heart attack” for the academic community.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

As Minnesota grows a new regulated marketplace for marijuana, experts at the University of Minnesota are digging into how it affects your health and safety. Watch the video on CBS News. The post University of Minnesota launches state’s first research center for cannabis appeared first on University Business.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Jessup University, a private nonprofit institution in Northern California, will acquire Multnomah University, a fellow Christian college almost 600 miles north in Portland, Oregon.Jessup will operate Multnomah’s 22-acre campus as its first out-of-state location. The two universities will work out the details and timeline of the deal over the coming months, Multnomah said in a FAQ.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

This week’s episode of The Syllabus, from the Office of Open Learning at American Jewish University and Inside Higher Ed, features a discussion with David French, a New York Times columnist Raphi Gold, about what he calls the "moral collapse" at Liberty University and what it says about the state of

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totallyrewired

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Play recording Image created by Firefly: Has AI stolen our creative labour?

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Today on the Academic Minute: William Fajzel, a Ph.D. student in earth system dynamics at McGill University, takes a global look at how people spend their days. Learn more about the Academic Minute here.

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totallyrewired

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Good post by MC: PGCert Session: an AI generated summary

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NOVEMBER 17, 2023

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University Business

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Whether the president of a state system or a college within, leaders across the country have shifted their focus to new opportunities, sometimes crossing state lines. Charles Welch of the Arkansas State University System is packing his things and moving to D.C. At the same time, Black Hills State University’s Steve Elliott finds himself in S.D. as a first-time president.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

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