Higher Ed Dive

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

An agreement with the Justice Department covers some 4,000 student housing units across more than 30 facilities the nonprofit university owns and leases.

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Wonkhe

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The Office for Students is to stage an event on free speech with an interesting choice of keynote speaker. Jim Dickinson follows the money. The post Is “BBC balance” via US billionaires the answer to the campus free speech question? appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Higher Ed Dive

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The university’s videos, podcasts and MOOCs are inaccessible to people with hearing, vision and manual disabilities, the agency says.

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Wonkhe

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Too often, our institutions mistake what we currently do well or have historically invested in with relevance to students, staff, donors, and policymakers. EAB’s Gary Guadagnolo suggests a different approach. The post How tough conversations about differentiation can revitalise your strategy and planning appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Higher Ed Dive

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The institution said the Education Department’s decision to pull its accreditor’s recognition led to its demise.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

I recently went on a cruise to some destinations in the Caribbean and as is customary I entered my credit card information for additional expenses that may be incurred on the voyage. There were packages on the cruise that I knowingly purchased and anticipated being charged for. Halfway through the cruise, I glanced at the “account” section of the cruise line’s app and noticed that there was an amount that I wasn’t expecting that was being charged every day that was called “onboard gratuities”.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Image: In the student union at California State University, San Bernardino, students and employees gathered last Friday to watch performers demonstrate Native American traditions—including danza Azteca dance ceremonies and bird singing, a rhythmic musical style native to the American Southwest. Attendees also dined on soft, warm frybread, a kind of traditional Native American fried dough.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Graduate school first-time enrollment has gone up between Fall 2020 and Fall 2021, according to a new report. Dr. Enyu Zhou The Graduate Enrollment and Degrees (GE&D) report – released by the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) – showed that, between Fall 2020 to Fall 2021, first-time enrollment rose by 8.9%. According to the report, first-time enrollment in this context refers to the number of students enrolled for the first time in graduate certificate, education specialist, master’s, or doc

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University Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Gaming is for everyone, no matter your background, where you come from, or what major you study. And at the University of Montana, that’s what sets the foundation for their esports program, Grizzly Esports. There are currently around 300 members enrolled in the program, and nearly 100 of them play competitively by choice, according to Michael Cassens, assistant professor of gaming and interactive media and director of UM Esports.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Image: As numerous Chinese universities launch anticorruption majors, scholars have questioned whether the courses are the most effective way of producing public sector employees with the desired skills. In coming months, 16 universities in China plan to establish undergraduate majors in “inspection and supervision,” with some institutions establishing postgraduate offerings in the area, according to regional media.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Tuskegee and Auburn Universities have agreed to collaborate on partnership expansion between the schools and community outreach. Auburn President Dr. Christopher B. Roberts and Tuskegee President Dr. Charlotte P. Morris The two schools announced a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), this one being a commitment to share resources to address racial and health disparities – such as lack of health care access – in Alabama communities.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Completing my college degree was the path to a better way of life, and I was determined to graduate to experience the socioeconomic benefits a college degree would afford my family. I had high aspirations of becoming a pharmacist, but after I learned I was expecting during my second year of college—and after I realized that my university’s childcare center at that time only provided service for toddlers starting at the age of 2—I made the tough decision to change majors and tra

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Scott Vignos will become Oregon State University’s vice president and chief diversity officer, effective immediately. Scott Vignos Since September 2021, Vignos has been interim vice president and chief diversity officer, and this appointment solidifies his role there. Other roles he has served in include assistant vice president for strategic diversity initiatives in the Office of Institutional Diversity; director of strategic diversity initiatives; and special assistant in Oregon State’s former

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

We can’t understand faculty teaching and student learning without our reciprocal learning as faculty from often informal, even indirect, teaching by our students, writes Harvey J. Graff. Topic: Working at Community Colleges Show on Jobs site: Image Source: Drazen Zigic/istock/getty images plus Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?

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The Guardian - Higher Education

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Pickets expected at 150 universities as lecturers, librarians and researchers begin industrial action Up to 2.5 million students could face disruption as tens of thousands of university staff begin industrial action on Thursday in what has been billed as the biggest strike in the history of UK higher education. More than 70,000 staff, including lecturers, librarians and researchers, are due to take part in the first of three days of strike action over pay, working conditions and pensions, with p

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The law school of the University of California, Los Angeles, announced Tuesday that it is dropping out of the U.S. News & World Report rankings. Interim Dean Russell Korobkin wrote to the law school, “Third-party rankings can provide a useful service in this regard if their methodology is transparent, if they value features of the schools’ programs that are reasonable proxies for educational quality, and if they provide incentives for schools to compete in ways that improve educa

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The U.S. Justice Department has filed a proposed consent decree in federal court to resolve allegations that University of California, Berkeley, violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The allegations of violating Title II of the ADA stem from how much of the school’s free online content is inaccessible to those with hearing, vision, and manual disabilities.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Spotting pseudoscience can be key to staying correctly informed in today’s world. In today’s Academic Minute, the University of T ü bingen’s Joel Frohlich explains why. Frohlich is a postdoctoral research scientist at T ü bingen. A transcript of this podcast can be found here. Section: Academic Minute File: 11-23-22 Tubingen - How to Spot Pseudoscience In An Age of Conspiracy Theories.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Kristie L. Kenney Kristie L. Kenney has been named senior vice president for institutional advancement, strategic initiatives, and communications at Talladega College in Alabama. She holds a bachelor’s degree in agricultural business from Tennessee State University, a master’s in higher education administration and leadership from Purdue University Global, and a Ph.D. in urban higher education from Jackson State University.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

This blog was written by Professor Sara Spear, Dean of the Faculty of Business and Law at St Mary’s University. It is the tenth in our series on leadership in partnership with the National Centre for Entrepreneurship in Education (NCEE). The ‘Building Belonging in Higher Education ’ report by Wonkhe and Pearson emphasised the need for institution-wide approaches to developing student belonging, proposing ‘connection, inclusion, support and autonomy’ as the foundational principles of belonging.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Ritu Raju Ritu Raju has been named president of Wisconsin’s Gateway Technical College. Raju earned a bachelor’s degree from University of Houston Downtown, a master’s in English from Sam Houston State University, and a doctorate in technical communication and rhetoric from Texas Tech University.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Blog: Beyond Transfer Kentucky’s educational North Star is the 60 by 30 attainment goal—to have 60 percent of our working-age population with a degree or credential by the year 2030. This goal, developed through extensive data analysis, is focused on developing a highly skilled workforce to keep the state’s economy thriving. We have made a lot of progress towards that goal, but we have more work to do.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Washington State University’s historic College Hill home in Pullman will be renamed in honor of Ida Lou Anderson, one of WSU’s first female faculty. Ida Lou Anderson Dr. Elizabeth Chilton, inaugural chancellor of the Pullman campus, moved in earlier this year and began searching for a new namesake for the house, which has served as the WSU president’s residence for a century.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Borrowers who had their loans discharged through Public Service Loan Forgiveness or were on track for cancellation saw improved credit scores and higher rates of homeownership, a new report found. Researchers at University of Memphis and the University of Michigan surveyed borrowers in the program to examine how remaining repayments and debt relief affect a person’s savings, credit score or homeownership, and well-being as measured by financial stress, psychological distress, life satisfac

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Dr. Charles Lepper has been named president of Grand Rapids Community College, WOODTV reported. His start date is yet to be set. Dr. Charles Lepper Lepper is vice president for student affairs and enrollment at Salt Lake City Community College. He has held other administrative positions at Tidewater Community College and Ivy Tech Community College. “Dr.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

University of Arizona students, faculty and community members are calling for the removal of a university administrator after a Sept. 30 incident in which she called the police on a queer, disabled Black student. Maribel Alvarez, the interim associate vice provost of diversity and inclusion, was involved in a verbal altercation with Kai Harriott, president of the university’s Black Student Union.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Legislation to include step-children under the umbrella of “dependent” has been introduced for the 2023 Arkansas Legislative Session, ABC7 reported. This would affect whether the stepchildren of certain veterans can get prioritized academic financial aid. Sen. Jane English Per current law, dependents of veterans who are disabled, prisoners of war, or missing, or killed in action are eligible for prioritized academic financial aid.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

A record number of students applied for the Tennessee Promise program this year, according to a Monday press release from the Tennessee Higher Education Commission. The commission also published its annual report on the program’s progress. Preliminary data show 64,612 high school seniors applied to the program during the most recent application cycle, which closed Nov. 1.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Satisfaction rates among international postgraduate research students in the UK have increased in 2022, a new survey has suggested. Advance HE’s Postgraduate Research Experience Survey 2022 found that non-UK students reported satisfaction at 82%, helping to drive the overall satisfaction among postgraduate research students. Overall satisfaction has risen slightly from 79% to 80%, stemming the small but consistent fall over the past three years.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Two members of Congress and a state representative from Illinois have written to the University of Illinois at Chicago to complain about “the disturbing racist imagery and tropes [used] by a professor at the UIC College of Dentistry. There are also additional reports of this professor using racist imagery and tropes in their teaching. This unacceptable behavior has no place in our society, let alone in an educational setting.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

By Eric Kelderman. The demographic cliff has already arrived in some parts of the country, forcing administrators to make tough decisions.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

King Salman of Saudi Arabia approved a plan to celebrate his country’s upset win over Argentina Tuesday in the men’s World Cup soccer competition by declaring that today is a national holiday—including no classes for any students, Arab News reported. Any exams scheduled for today will take place Dec. 7. No word on how Saudi Arabia will celebrate additional victories.

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Campus Technology

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The University of Minnesota (UMN)'s College of Liberal Arts (CLA) has announced a partnership with Helios Consulting to offer graduates a chance to gain human resource technology skills through paid employment and training in its Rise Program, an apprenticeship designed to prepare students for a career in the Workday ecosystem.

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WENR

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The latest international student census in the US shows that foreign enrolment in the US grew by 4% in 2021/22. The post Is International Enrollment in the U.S. Recovering? appeared first on WENR.

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Today's Learner

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutes Lisa Heller Boragine is a Tenured Associate Professor of Communication and the Chair of the Department of Arts & Communication at Cape Cod Community College. Teaching is a privilege. I love the connections that I make with students both in and out of the classroom. Throw together a mix of engagement, fun, learning and curiosity and my passion for teaching really ignites when I see that alchemy in action, creating new opportunities and experiences for students.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Calls for targeted hardship funding as poll shows many are worried about impact on their degree Half of students in England are struggling with financial difficulties, with a quarter taking on additional debts and three in 10 skipping lectures and tutorials in order to cut costs, according to a survey by the Office for National Statistics. More than nine in 10 students (91%) who took part in the survey said they were worried about the cost of living, and 45% said their mental health had deterior

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Today's Learner

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutes Anitre Bell is the Student Athlete Academic Liaison at The Community College of Beaver County. The last few years of teaching have been challenging for everyone. Education as we know it has forever changed. I often asked myself, how will I connect with students in this climate? The word simplicity came to mind. When your environment has turned inside out, and processes flipped upside down, returning to basic principles is key.

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