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Agreement needs to start with a shared perspective on finances

Wonkhe

UCEA's Raj Jethwa calls for an independently facilitated shared perspective on higher education sector finances The post Agreement needs to start with a shared perspective on finances appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel increases pressure on private colleges

College Viability

I have posted recently about a tipping point developing around the public awareness of closing private colleges. The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel moved that tipping point needle forward recently with two stories on private.

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7 Questions on Engaging Faculty in Digital Accessibility

Campus Technology

We asked the Technical College System of Georgia's accessibility champions how they help instructors create a more inclusive learning experience for all students.

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Joy is at the Heart of All Meaningful Work: Finding Meaning in Academic Librarianship

ACRLog

“Joy is at the heart of all meaningful work.” Christopher P. Long I read this quotation by Christopher P. Long in early Spring 2022 and it stuck with me. Long is the Dean of the College of Arts and Letters at Michigan State University. He’s an advocate of what he calls ethical candor (“the cultivated disposition to be honest with yourself”) and values-based practice ( “aligning our core values with the practices that shape academic life”).

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DeSantis Cuts Higher Ed Funding; New College Gets a Boost

Inside Higher Ed

Florida governor Ron DeSantis will cut $120 million of higher education funding from the state budget—nearly a quarter of the half-billion dollars in funding requests he rejected through line-item vetoes last week.

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CEG to open pathway centre in Maynooth, Ireland

The PIE News

Cambridge Education Group has announced ONCAMPUS Ireland will open at UniHaven College in Maynooth later this year. The new teaching centre will begin operating two-semester foundation programs from October 2023. It has been created in partnership with the Irish medical education pathway provider Castel Education that CEG and its parent company Bridgepoint acquired in 2021.

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MIT Exonerates Professor—After 3.5-Year Wait

Inside Higher Ed

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology received research misconduct allegations against Ram Sasisekharan in 2019. It didn’t clear his name until this spring. This spring, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology finally announced it had exonerated Ram Sasisekharan, a biological engineering professor, after a three-and-a-half-year research misconduct investigation.

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Rethinking Parking

Inside Higher Ed

A review of Paved Paradise by Henry Grabar. For Father’s Day, my daughter took me on a walking tour of Princeton and offered to pay for any book I wanted at Labyrinth Books. I picked Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World, by Henry Grabar. My wife thought that was the most preposterous thing she had seen in years. It’s worth reading.

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INTO launches peer-to-peer platform

The PIE News

International education organisation INTO University Partnerships has launched its own digital community platform to connect international students. The INTO Community platform offers students a “seamless experience” to interact and engage with fellow students and faculty in real time regardless of their location. “INTO Community platform elevates student support and success to a whole new level through the power of technology,” John Sykes, CEO of INTO , said in a state

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What Could Colleges Do Without Affirmative Action?

Inside Higher Ed

What Could Colleges Do Without Affirmative Action? Featured Image at Top of Article 1920px-Inside_the_United_States_Supreme_Court.

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HousingAnywhere expands to cities in US and UK

The PIE News

European rental platform HousingAnywhere has revealed details of it global expansion, opening up in new cities in the US and the UK. The provider will begin with four cities in the US – New York, Los Angeles, Boston and Chicago – in addition to London, Manchester and Birmingham in the UK. “Entering the US and the UK was clearly the next step for HousingAnywhere, as we aim to match the rising demand of internationally-mobile students and young professionals in our new active cities,”

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Education Department Eyes New Requirements for All Programs

Inside Higher Ed

Education Department Eyes New Requirements for All Programs Featured Image at Top of Article GettyImages-1256044871.

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Territorium's Comprehensive Learner Record Achieves New Milestone

Campus Technology

Territorium has become the first U.S. ed tech company to earn CLR 2.0 and Open Badges 3.0 certifications from 1EdTech, furthering the standardization of digital credentials — or “comprehensive learner records” — that are easily shared between digital wallets, the company said.

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Idaho Legislators Question Plan to Purchase U of Phoenix

Inside Higher Ed

Legislators in Idaho are questioning a plan by the University of Idaho to create a nonprofit organization to manage the assets of the University of Phoenix,

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Empowering learning and HR leaders with trusted content and AI innovations to drive organizational agility amid relentless disruption 

Coursera blog

By Trena Minudri, Chief Learning Officer at Coursera The rapid adoption of Generative AI creates an urgent and intense need for organizational agility, with companies using it to retool systems and processes to improve their customer offerings and increase productivity in order to stay competitive. L&D and HR leaders will play a crucial role in building organizational agility and implementing programs to support change and take advantage of growth opportunities created by disruptive forces.

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Connecticut, Vermont Mergers Gain Accreditor Approval

Inside Higher Ed

Controversial consolidations of multiple public institutions in Vermont and Connecticut have earned the key step of initial accreditation from the New England Commission of Higher Education.

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Designing Effective Learning Outcomes with Solo Taxonomy in Higher Education

Creatrix Campus

Designing Effective Learning Outcomes with Solo Taxonomy in Higher Education editor Mon, 06/19/2023 - 06:45 Education plays a pivotal role in shaping the knowledge, skills, and competencies of students, and learning outcomes serve as a critical component of the educational process. Learning outcomes outline the expected achievements and competencies students should acquire upon completion of a course or program.

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UC Berkeley Chancellor to Retire

Inside Higher Ed

After a career in higher education spanning more than 50 years, University of California, Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ announced last week that she is retiring from her post in June 2024.

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WCET + Every Learner Everywhere Celebrate Juneteenth

WCET Frontiers

As states and institutions struggle with how to teach about equity, diversity, and inclusion, WCET and Every Learner Everywhere are celebrating Juneteenth by highlighting stories of how Black history is being discussed at institutions and organizations. We invited the WCET Executive Council and Steering Committee , the Every Learner Equity Advisory Board , Every Learner Student Interns , and staff from WCET and Every Learner to share how they encourage students, colleagues, and peers to reflect

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Seton Hall Expands Africana Studies After Protest

Inside Higher Ed

Seton Hall University is expanding its Africana studies program after students took over the president’s office for several days last month to demand change, NorthJersey.com reported.

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How to Create a Story Pipeline for Higher Education Marketing

Caylor Solutions

Stories are one of your most powerful marketing assets. Collecting them, however, is a challenge. Here's how to ensure a steady supply. The post How to Create a Story Pipeline for Higher Education Marketing appeared first on Caylor Solutions.

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The Significance of 13 Driver’s Licenses: Academic Minute

Inside Higher Ed

Today on the Academic Minute: Ryayo Terao, associate professor in the department of entertainment technology at New York City College of Technology, part of the City University of New York, explores how simple things can have big stories to tell.

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More Borrowers at Risk of Defaulting - Katherine Knott, Inside Higher Ed

Economics and Change in Higher Education

More student loan borrowers are behind on their credit card bills and loans than before the pandemic, and they are paying more because of rising interest rates, a new report from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau found. The rising delinquencies mean that more borrowers will be at risk of defaulting when payments turn back on later this summer after a three-year pause.

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Dispute Over Statement at El Camino Commencement

Inside Higher Ed

The Council on American-Islamic Relations is criticizing El Camino College for the way it responded to a speech at commencement this year.

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Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge explores founder’s slavery links

The Guardian - Higher Education

Historic and contemporary pieces interrogate city and university’s connections to colonialism An exhibition by the Fitzwilliam Museum will explore Cambridge’s connections to enslavement and exploitation for the first time, both in the university and the city. Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance features works made in west Africa, the Caribbean, South America and Europe, and interrogates the ways Atlantic enslavement and the Black Atlantic shaped the University of Cambridge’s collections.

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Seattle Pacific Announces 40% Cut in Budget for Academic Programs

Inside Higher Ed

Seattle Pacific University has announced plans to cut its academic budget by 40 percent in the next year, The Seattle Times

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Many student loan borrowers likely face challenges when payments resume, consumer protection bureau warns - Jeremy Bauer-Wolf, Higher Ed Dive

Economics and Change in Higher Education

These risk factors include being delinquent on their student loans before the pandemic, or getting assistance to pay off those debts, the CFPB said in an online post Wednesday. As of March this year, the agency had identified 2.5 million student loan borrowers who were delinquent on other forms of debt, amounting to more than 1 in 13. This is 200,000 more delinquent borrowers than the CFPB found in its last analysis in September 2022.

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The lie of the land in higher education policy as the 2022/23 academic year draws to a close – By Nick Hillman

HEPI

This blog is an extract from a speech that the Director of HEPI, Nick Hillman, recently made to the Board of Sheffield Hallam University. The issues in the speech will come up at this week’s HEPI Annual Conference, with keynote speakers including the Shadow Minister Matt Western MP, the awarding-winning author Professor Rob Ford (University of Manchester) and the Chief Executive of the Office for Students Susan Lapworth – plus the launch of the HEPI / Advance 2023 Student Academic Experience Sur

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Take Pride in Your IT Customer Service [infographic]

Educause

Four strategies can help IT organizations center allyship as a customer service fundamental while providing technology support for LGBTQIA+ users.