Deans for Impact

AUGUST 15, 2022

Deans for Impact · Fostering equity through cognitive science (LbSD podcast, episode two). Subscribe: Learning by Scientific Design is a podcast series by Deans for Impact that explores how an understanding of cognitive science, or the science of how students learn, can lead to more rigorous, equitable and inclusive teaching. How does teaching with a deep understanding of cognitive science lead to equitable experiences and outcomes, especially for students with special needs?

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 15, 2022

Recognizing and capitalizing on opportunities to hone those skills will allow students to elevate their value as they enter the workforce, writes Dinuka Gunaratne. Editorial Tags: Career Advice Carpe Careers Graduate students Show on Jobs site: Image Source: iMrSquid/istock/getty images plus Image Size: Thumbnail-vertical Is this diversity newsletter?

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Higher Education Today

AUGUST 15, 2022

Title: Student Debt Is Harming the Mental Health of Black Borrowers Author: Victoria Jackson & Jalil B. Mustaffa Source: The Education Trust The Education Trust recently released its second of four reports focused on the challenges identified through qualitative data from the National Black Student Debt Study. The first report highlighted how Black women.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 15, 2022

Image: Sara Goldrick-Rab resigned Friday as founding president of the Hope Center for College, Community and Justice at Temple University, and from her professorship at Temple, following an investigation into her leadership of the center. Temple put Goldrick-Rab on paid administrative leave earlier this year after it hired an outside investigator to look into employee complaints about the center.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 15, 2022

Image: After five-plus decades as a joint venture, Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis is taking on a new form, one that will not continue the collaborative effort between its namesake partners. IUPUI will soon have a new name and structure as Indiana University and Purdue University split IUPUI into two institutions. The two universities announced the decision at their respective Board of Trustees meetings Friday morning, significantly reshaping a partnership that was minted

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 15, 2022

Albertus Magnus College is starting a major in public health. California State University Channel Islands is starting a major in dance. Methodist University is starting a bachelor of science to become an occupational therapy assistant. University of North Georgia is starting a master of science in spatial data and information sciences. Teaching and Learning Editorial Tags: New academic programs Is this diversity newsletter?

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 15, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean. Which of the following inspires more trust? Free education. Free* education (*if you meet certain criteria and can prove it). From a student perspective, the answer is obviously a. From the perspective of a tax-phobic legislator, the answer is probably b. And therein lies the issue. I’ve read a few thoughtful pieces recently about why “Gen Z’ adults are frustrated with current policies, and don’t trust existing institutions t

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 15, 2022

The University of California, Davis, announced the deaths of 21,000 fish at its Center for Aquatic Biology and Aquaculture. The deaths appear to be due to chlorine exposure, to which fish are especially sensitive. The fish were green and white sturgeon, as well as endangered Chinook salmon. Davis is studying ways to help the fish. “There are many other facilities where UC Davis conducts aquatic research that were not impacted by this situation.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 15, 2022

Six fraternities have disaffiliated from the University of Southern California, the Los Angeles Times reported. “We are disappointed that some USC fraternities are following an unfortunate national trend by disaffiliating from the university—against our strong recommendations,” USC said in an Instagram statement. “This decision seems to be driven by the desire to eliminate university oversight of their operations … and goes against 130 years of tradition.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 15, 2022

The foundation for Kentucky State University is not exempt from state open records law, a circuit court judge recently ruled, according to the State Journal. The State Journal in Frankfort had sued the Kentucky State University Foundation after the foundation denied requests in May 2021 for records, claiming it was not a public agency. The newspaper wanted records related to payments to former Kentucky State president M.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 15, 2022

Students from a campus chapter of Young Americans for Freedom, a conservative student organization, sued campus officials at Clovis Community College in California last week for allegedly requiring them to take down fliers expressing conservative viewpoints. The students are being represented by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), an organization that promotes academic freedom, free speech and due process rights.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 15, 2022

Authorities arrested Don Azul last week for counterfeiting tuition waivers for families of veterans, duping University of California and California State University campuses out of half a million dollars in the process, state attorney general Rob Bonta announced, according to the Los Angeles Times. Azul lied to more than 40 ineligible military families and charged them hundreds of dollars for counterfeited letters purporting to approve them for the program, the Times said.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 15, 2022

The University of California, Los Angeles, has lifted its indoor mask mandate , but the university still “strongly encouraged” people to wear a mask when indoors at UCLA. A statement from UCLA said, “The severity of illness seems to be waning,” so “we are adjusting our campus protocols to better align with current public health conditions in line with the transitions that have already occurred at other academic institutions, and within the county and state.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 15, 2022

Do COVID-19 vaccines harm male fertility? In today’s Academic Minute, part of University of Miami Miller School of Medicine Week, Ranjith Ramasamy looks into this question. Ramasamy is an associate professor and director of the reproductive urology program at Miami’s Miller School. A transcript of this podcast can be found here. Section: Academic Minute File: 08-15-22 Miami - The Impacts Of COVID-19 And Its Vaccines On Male Fertility.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 15, 2022

St. John’s University will close its Staten Island campus in the spring of 2024, Spectrum News 1 reported. Freshmen will not be admitted in the fall of 2023. Juniors, seniors and graduate students will be able to complete their degrees on Staten Island. In the fall of 2000, there were 2,309 undergraduate and graduate students enrolled at the Staten Island campus.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 15, 2022

Today on the Academic Minute , part of University of Miami Miller School of Medicine Week: Ranjith Ramasamy, associate professor and director of reproductive urology, examines whether COVID-19 vaccines harm male fertility. Learn more about the Academic Minute here. Is this diversity newsletter?: Hide by line?: Disable left side advertisement?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 15, 2022

Imagine it is 1 a.m. on any college campus about six weeks into the fall semester. A first-year student believes they have been sexually assaulted. Just a few weeks in, they are still getting to know their roommate, the campus and the university bureaucracies. Alone, ashamed and hurting, they want to know what to do and how to get help. They turn to the campus website and search for “sexual assault on campus” or “rape resources.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 15, 2022

Image: The journal Qualitative Research and the University of Manchester, in Britain, said last week that they’re investigating the publication of an article on masturbation as research method. Following its announcement about an inquiry, Qualitative Research , published by Sage Journals, removed the paper altogether. An updated notice on the paper’s webpage says, “Due to ethical concerns surrounding this article and the social harm being caused by the publication of this work,

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 15, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma. As a graduate student at Yale in the mid-1970s, a literature colleague called me a “dust ball empiricist.” At that time and place, there was no greater insult. After all, every right-thinking humanist agreed with Nietzsche’s dictum that there are no facts, only interpretations. There is much truth to the postmodern claims that there are no incontrovertible truths and that much factual knowledge is indeterminate.

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