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Why not take a risk-based approach to discrimination or harassment on campus?

Wonkhe

Jim Dickinson considers the best way to approach the risks to equality of opportunity that students really care about. The post Why not take a risk-based approach to discrimination or harassment on campus? appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Disruption, Evolution, and Leadership

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

Disruption, Evolution, and Leadership. A Conversation With Paul LeBlanc, President, Southern New Hampshire University. bridget. Thu, 10/06/2022 - 06:00. Image. Higher Ed Leadership. Inside Higher Ed. Weekly Wisdom. Dr. Paul LeBlanc has been President at Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) since 2003, and he joined us on the Weekly Wisdom Podcast to talk about how he first introduced online education through disruptive innovation, what happens to schools that can't or won't evolve, the neces

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PeopleAdmin wins Gold and Silver Globee® in the 12th Annual 2022 Business Excellence Awards

PeopleAdmin

PeopleAdmin Named Winner in the 12th Annual 2022 Business Excellence Awards. Austin, TX – October 6, 2022 – PeopleAdmin , the leading provider of solutions for higher education, announced today that The Globee® Awards, organizers of world’s premier business awards programs and business ranking lists, has named both the Faculty Information System and the HigherEd Platform winners in the 12th Annual 2022 Business Excellence Awards.

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College Viability Manifesto

College Viability

Much of what College Viability produces focuses on the financial health of poorly performing colleges - mostly private. As a first-generation college graduate (from many years ago), I have benefitted greatly from multip.

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Highlights from Higher Ed: Stress-Induced “Examiety,” Appetites for Amenities, Enrollment Decline Theories, and Doubts about Value 

Liaison International

Vast majority of Gen Z students suffer from exam-related anxiety. Exam-related stress and anxiety among Gen Z students are now so common that they have inspired a neologism: examiety. According to a report summarizing the survey responses of 1,000 recently polled students, 86% said they had suffered from “exam anxiety” at least once in the past; 76% said they have experienced it within the last six months.

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Afterthoughts

Faculty Focus

This article first appeared in the Teaching Professor on October 1, 2017. © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. In face-to-face courses, learning is compartmentalized into blocks that meet a prescribed number of times per week across the term or semester. It’s a format that’s simultaneously efficient and inhibiting. It effectively facilitates sequenced and accretive design but regularly loses opportunities to maximize deep learning between class units.

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Spanish PM leads outcry over students filmed chanting abuse at women’s halls

The Guardian - Higher Education

Ministers join censure after male student cheered on by mob for calling women in Madrid residence ‘whores’ and ‘nymphomaniacs’ Senior Spanish government figures, including the prime minister, have condemned the behaviour of a group of male university students who were filmed cheering and howling after one of them hurled threatening, obscene and sexist insults at female students in a neighbouring block.

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Exeter University failed to make student who died feel wanted, says mother

The Guardian - Higher Education

Harry Armstrong Evans, who is thought to have killed himself, told tutor about mental health concerns, inquest hears The mother of a University of Exeter student believed to have killed himself after a “disastrous” set of exam results has accused academics of failing to make her son feel like he was “wanted”. Less than a month before his death last year, Harry Armstrong Evans, 21, told his tutor in an email that isolation during the pandemic had affected his mental health and his performance in

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Where Major Gifts Start: Early Results From Our Advancement Leader Speak Survey 

Helix Education

Over the past few years, we’ve asked you to share opinions about your key goals, challenges and opportunities as fundraisers. This fall, the survey once again asks about key priorities, and also focuses some specific questions on how you support major and planned gift fundraising. The survey is live through the end of the month, and we’d love for you to share your opinions.

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Furman University violates faculty free expression, investigates professor for attending Unite the Right rally

FIRE

After photos surfaced of a Furman University professor at the 2017 Unite the Right rally, the university opened an investigation and banned him from campus.

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Breaking Up With Your Online Giving Site

Helix Education

I was in a call with one of our RNL ScaleFunder partners the other day who shared with me they had been shopping around for a new online giving site. Their primary online giving form is currently hosted by another company, and they are ready to take the next step in online giving. To quote the client: The customer support on their old online giving site is “blah.” Their site isn’t donor- or user-friendly.

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Music to our ears: California law restricts use of artistic expression as evidence in criminal trials

FIRE

In a victory for free expression, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law a bill restricting the state from using rap lyrics as evidence in a trial.

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Univ. of So. Indiana enrollment down for 11th consecutive year

College Viability

As we always do at College Viability, let's go to the data (IPEDS 2015-2020) The most recently available from the government.

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Dedicating the New John Lewis Student Center at Georgia Tech

Georgia Tech President's Blog

Dedicating the New John Lewis Student Center at Georgia Tech. Susie Ivy. Thursday, October 6, 2022.

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AI/ML as Copilot

eLiterate

I will stick with the topic of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) for today’s post because I keep getting feedback suggesting there’s a lot of interest in it. Since I’m on a bit of a streak, I feel compelled to make some caveats before jumping in. First, I am not a software engineer or an AI/ML expert. In fact, I’m not an expert in many of the topics I write about.

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College Enrollment is Springing Back Up

Gray Associates

We’ve got the 2022 Spring enrollment data, and the news is good! But pay attention. Knowing which degree levels and which programs are enrolling students is important. The post College Enrollment is Springing Back Up appeared first on Gray Associates | Program Evaluation.

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Understanding the student experience better

SRHE

by Phil Pilkington. The benefit of the SRHE and its Blog has been in providing a sense of community for those who have to and do think about the purpose, the benefits and the travails of higher education. There have been insights shared and arguments made. It is the stuff of academia. My interest in the student experience has been accompanied by an enormous increase in research in this area.