Blunder renders Harvard’s $15M insurance policy useless in Supreme Court case
Higher Ed Dive
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
A federal judge ruled the Ivy League institution failed to properly alert an insurer about the case.
Higher Ed Dive
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
A federal judge ruled the Ivy League institution failed to properly alert an insurer about the case.
Wonkhe
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
As OfS publishes an evaluation into its statement of expectations, Rose Stephenson calls for universal standards over prevention and case handling in harassment and sexual misconduct. The post Why isn’t good practice on harassment and sexual misconduct a basic standard? appeared first on Wonkhe.
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Higher Ed Dive
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
A committee recommendation to ax entrance exam mandates sets up key votes next week and in February.
Wonkhe
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
As the consultation on OfS' new approach to access and participation closes, Julian Crockford wonders whether proposals on evaluation go far enough. The post Will the regulator’s proposals on what works work? appeared first on Wonkhe.
Coursera blog
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
Earlier today, Coursera CEO Jeff Maggioncalda shared the following email with Coursera employees: Courserians, My 25 years as a CEO have included some pretty rough times – the dot com bubble bursting, the 2008 financial crisis, and a global lockdown. While macroeconomic challenges are always tough, I know from experience that it’s most painful when those factors impact people’s livelihoods.
The Academic Designer
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
What's the best way to take new photos for your website? Here are 3 options for you.
The PIE News
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
The future of universities depends on their ability to provide ‘lifelong learning’ that equips non-traditional students with in-demand skills, UNESCO warned last week. . David Atchoarena, director of the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning , called on universities to engage with continuing and adult education at the first Global Lifelong Learning Summit held in Singapore in November. .
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Inside Higher Ed
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
Image: About a decade ago, Amin Azzam, professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, often told his medical students not to research health information on Wikipedia out of concern for the website’s reliability. But a student once looked at him “like he was crazy,” which made him rethink that stance. “Look, we all go there first as students,” the student told Azzam.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
After two years of COVID-19, community college enrollment was in triage. But fall 2022 saw those losses slow. Some institutions were even able to reverse their downward trajectory. Indian River State College (IRSC) in Fort Pierce, FL, and Coahoma Community College (CCC) in Clarksdale, MS, saw their efforts to rebuild their student populations pay off.
Inside Higher Ed
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
Teaching Today When it was not an option for the desperate or lazy to attempt in the dark, we were forced to confront together larger questions about the purpose of education, writes Joel Heng Hartse. Job Tags: FACULTY JOBS Ad keywords: faculty teachinglearning Section: Teaching and Learning Editorial Tags: Career Advice Teaching Show on Jobs site: Image Caption: Anastasiia_New/istock/getty images plus Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?
Coursera blog
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
Discover the latest worldwide impact of an internationally recognized institution. The first graduates of the Global Master of Public Health program from Imperial College London have a great deal to celebrate. They are officially alumni from one of the top 10 universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2023). And, they are not only a vanguard group that will forever be associated with this milestone, but they are proud members of an Imperial academic community that spans over 140 cou
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
Sophia Rosing, 22, the white University of Kentucky (UK) senior caught on video assaulting Black students will voluntarily withdraw from the school, her lawyer said Nov. 8, NBC News reported. Sophia Rosing and Kylah Spring Rosing was captured on video visibly intoxicated and assaulting UK first-year Kylah Spring and repeatedly calling her a racial slur on Nov. 6.
EAB
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
Blogs. Creating a data-informed campus: part 2. How to staff your analytics function. The need for data-informed decision making in higher education continues to increase. As I discussed in the first blog post in this series , institutions need a sufficient technology infrastructure to facilitate curation, access, and retrieval of data. But successful adoption of new technologies requires more than just the technology itself—it also requires the necessary leadership to set a clear vision for ana
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
A stipend increase is coming to the graduate students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC Chapel Hill). The announcement was made by UNC Chapel Hill Provost Dr. Chris Clemens at a Nov. 4 Faculty Council meeting. The proposed one-time increase – which would be in addition to a $1,000 increase to the minimum stipend that has already been approved – does not have a specific figure or date.
Inside Higher Ed
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
Image: The heating at Bronx Community College was restored to most of the campus Monday after not working for over a month. Employees say heating and other infrastructure problems have been a perennial issue at the college and across the City University of New York system. Bronx Community College, founded in 1957, is the oldest community college campus in the system, and half of its 34 buildings are more than 80 years old, “with significant infrastructure and deferred maintenance issues,&r
Campus Technology
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
Research school University of Central Florida (UCF) has announced a partnership with SkillStorm to make courses available that will qualify students to earn the credentials necessary to work for major tech employers.
Insight Into Diversity
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
Northern Arizona University’s (NAU) Institute for Human Development was recently selected as the regional leader for the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Alliance of Students with Disabilities for Inclusion, Networking, and Transition Opportunities in STEM. . The alliance, which includes dozens of organizations and higher education institutions, is designed to increase the participation and representation of students with disabilities in STEM educational programs and the workforce.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
New Jersey City University's plan to grow its way out of financial trouble backfired. What went wrong? By Eric Kelderman. John W. Tomac for The Chronicle. New Jersey City University's ambitious plan backfired. What went wrong?
Insight Into Diversity
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
This week, California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt President Tom Jackson Jr. apologized to the campus community for his previous comments on Title IX investigations, which drew criticism from advocates and sexual assault survivors. During a fall welcome address, Jackson broached the subject of Title IX and referred to the university as a “campus filled with secrets,” stating that complaints should be solved behind closed doors.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
Dr. Gary G. Bennett will become dean of Duke University’s Trinity College of Arts & Sciences, effective Feb. 1, 2023. Dr. Gary G. Bennett Bennett, a behavioral scientist, is currently vice provost for undergraduate education and professor of psychology & neuroscience, global health, and medicine at Duke. Under Bennett's leadership, Duke has introduced initiatives such as the DukeLIFE program, to support first-generation and low-income students; the Academic Guides, who are residentially
HEPI
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
This blog by Ceri Nursaw, the Chief Executive of NCEE, is the eighth entry in our current series on leadership in higher education. For the first time, we have seen that for leaders the biggest challenge is ensuring they lead their teams well. From our NCEE Higher Education Leadership Report 2022 through to articles featured in leadership blogs (such as McKinsey and Co) people feature.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
The Atlanta University Center Consortium (AUCC), an organization made up of four historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), is planning to launch a new institute in an effort to increase the number of engineers from underrepresented communities, using a $1.5 million investment from the A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation. Dr. Christopher Ellis, Natalie Grandison, Dr.
Campus Technology
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
Lumen Learning is partnering with InScribe to integrate its digital community platform into Lumen's new Statistics course and platform.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
Cornell University has suspended fraternity parties and social events after campus police alerts about an alleged sexual assault and alleged incidents of drug-laced drinks, CNN reported. The incidents reportedly occurred at off-campus residences affiliated with registered fraternities, according to Cornell in a Nov. 7 letter to students. The school’s interfraternity council suspended social events after an emergency meeting with staff, wrote Cornell President Dr.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
There are many options beyond racial preferences. By Richard D. Kahlenberg and John C. Brittain. Eric Lee, The Washington Post, Getty Images. There are many options beyond racial preferences.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
Jennifer Flatt Jennifer Flatt has been appointed vice president of student services at Northeast Wisconsin Technical College (NWTC). Flatt earned a Ph.D. in English from Loyola University in Chicago, a master’s in English from the University of Minnesota-Duluth, and a bachelor’s degree in English and Spanish from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.
Inside Higher Ed
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
Dr. Leana Wen, who was scheduled to talk about backlash and public health at the American Public Health Association’s annual meeting this week in Boston, won’t be speaking. Dr. Wen has faced death threats for promoting vaccination against COVID-19, but she also took criticism leading up to the conference from some public health experts who accused her of downplaying the threat of COVID-19 in her public commentary.
Coursera blog
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
The science behind how your employees learn is nothing short of a fascination for many. For Barbara Oakley, it’s an obsession! Oakley is a professor of engineering at Oakland University and the creator of some of the most popular courses on Coursera. She focuses on the fundamentals of how people learn, combining neuroscience and social behavioral analysis.
Inside Higher Ed
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
The baseball field at Jackson State University, a historically Black institution in Mississippi, was set on fire early Tuesday morning in one of seven suspected arson attacks in area, the Associated Press reported. All of the fires, two of which were at local churches, have since been put out. The Hinds County Sheriff Office announced the arrest of a 23-year-old suspect, Devin McLaurin, in connection with the fires Tuesday afternoon.
EAB
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
Blogs. Prepare your graduates for today's and tomorrow’s tech jobs—here’s how. Offer coursework in in-demand languages like Python, SQL, Go, and Swift. What do data scientists, web developers, business analysts, and software engineers have in common? Each of these jobs requires the use of programming languages Python, SQL, or both. While programming Java and JavaScript have remained among the top five most requested programming languages by employers since 2015, Python and SQL have now largely u
Inside Higher Ed
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt, president Tom Jackson Jr. has apologized for remarks he made earlier this year that some observers considered an attempt to silence victims of sexual assault, according to The North Coast Journal. Jackson’s controversial remarks came in a fall welcome speech, in which he called the university “a campus filled with secrets.
University Business
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
The white University of Kentucky student who was caught on video assaulting Black students will voluntarily withdraw from the university, her lawyer told NBC News on Tuesday morning. “She’s going to withdraw from the university today or tomorrow,” attorney Fred Peters said of Sophia Rosing, 22, a senior who was captured on viral video repeatedly hurling a racist slur and physically attacking two Black students Sunday. “She’s a very, very embarrassed and humiliated young
Inside Higher Ed
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
All fraternity parties and social events at Cornell University have been suspended after one student reported she was sexually assaulted and four students said they were drugged at off-campus houses that are affiliated with fraternities, The New York Times reported. The Interfraternity Council made the decision, which was endorsed by Cornell administrators.
The PIE News
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
The role of private career colleges in Canada – heavily focused on job-oriented skills development and work ready graduates, operating with a ‘teach less, learn more’ philosophy – should not be forgotten, stakeholders highlighted at a recent event. Often referred to as PCCs, the colleges differ from community colleges due to their private ownership and focus on study areas not traditionally available at public institutions, often in collaboration with industry.
Inside Higher Ed
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
Los Angeles City College was put on lockdown Monday after a man was found dead near the campus, the Los Angeles Times reported. The victim, who was not identified but was not a student at the college, was fatally stabbed at a parking garage where many City College students often park. The campus lockdown lasted from 2:00 p.m., when the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department was first informed of the killing, until 5:30 p.m., the Times article said.
Kortext University Leaders' Blog
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
Recognising each student’s entitlement to a learning experience that is fair in respect of diversity, participation, and the removal of barriers in higher education contributes to an inclusive learning experience. So, are your courses inclusive? What does it mean to be inclusive in higher education? To be honest, the word inclusive can mean many things to different people.
Economics and Change in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
The University endowment stands at a value of $35.8 billion for the fiscal year of 2022, according to an announcement on Friday, Oct. 27 from the Office of Communications. This year’s endowment demonstrates a decrease of $1.9 billion compared to last year’s $37.7 billion endowment. University investments generated a loss of 1.5 percent, the lowest investment return since the Great Recession of 2008.
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