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Growing the international student population the responsible way

Wonkhe

What can lessons from managing migration to cities tell us about how to handle international expansion? Jim Dickinson is thinking globally and acting locally. The post Growing the international student population the responsible way appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Colleges honor education majors with pinning ceremonies

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Savannah O’Connor, a junior in Rowan University’s College of Education, doesn’t have much free time. She balances her regular classwork with weekly classroom observations, all while studying for the challenging Praxis Subject Tests, which she must pass to become a certified teacher. “The due dates, the money you have to pay [to take the tests] and the studying … that’s been kind of on my chest for a while,” she said.

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Campus wokery as academic rigour

Wonkhe

Sunday Blake considers the recent attacks on attempts to diversify and decolonise curriculums against new research findings from Wonkhe and Pearson. The post Campus wokery as academic rigour appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Digital Experiences Key to Preparing for Enrollment Cliff

Cisco blogs - Education

Digital Transformation across higher education will become a critical factor in how universities in the U.S. deal with the enrollment cliff expected to impact all (and that means ALL) institutions by 2025. But the secret to their success will depend on how effectively they use that new technology to drive enhanced digital experiences for their students.

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Widening access needs a collaborative funding approach

Wonkhe

Fiona Ellison describes how innovative partnerships can help support students navigate the cost of living crisis. The post Widening access needs a collaborative funding approach appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Professor's murder on campus raises urgent safety questions

Inside Higher Ed

Image: College and university campuses are highly permeable environments. That openness and accessibility makes campuses dynamic and stimulating. It also makes them vulnerable from a safety perspective. This dual reality was thrown into stark relief last week when Thomas Meixner, professor and chair of hydrology and atmospheric sciences at the University of Arizona, was shot dead in his office building, apparently by a former graduate student in the department.

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Podcast: Harassment and sexual misconduct, R&D, debating societies

Wonkhe

This week on the podcast OfS is to survey the scale and nature of sexual misconduct affecting students - we discuss why and what next. The post Podcast: Harassment and sexual misconduct, R&D, debating societies appeared first on Wonkhe.

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What does monkeypox mean for universities?

Wonkhe

Myles Hanlon sets out the things that universities need to know and do when it comes to preventing harms from Monkeypox. The post What does monkeypox mean for universities? appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Michigan State President Resigns Amid Standoff With Board

Inside Higher Ed

Michigan State University President Dr. Samuel Stanley Jr. resigned Thursday after a month-long standoff with the Board of Trustees over Title IX issues. Some trustees had tried to push Stanley out last month, initially asking him to retire but stay on for a year as they searched for his successor. Dr. Stanley announced his resignation to the Michigan State community in a YouTube video , noting that he had provided his contractually required 90-day notice of resignation to the board.

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Higher Education Postcard: Royal Central School of Speech and Drama

Wonkhe

This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag takes us to the Albert Hall. The post Higher Education Postcard: Royal Central School of Speech and Drama appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Teaching Goal-Writing to All Students

Faculty Focus

This article first appeared in the Teaching Professor on November 1, 2013. © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. . On the first day of classes two years ago, I had students in my professional and technical writing course send me an email with their goals for the semester. I discovered they had no understanding of goals, expectations, or objectives.

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Arkansas Transfer Achievement Scholarship: New, but Growing Rapidly

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Beyond Transfer Many transfer students cite affordability as a driving concern. Given some of the unknowns for transfer students—such as which institution they will move to and how many of their credits will apply to program completion—it’s sometimes difficult to estimate what a bachelor’s degree will cost. The University of Arkansas’ new transfer scholarship program seeks to address these challenges.

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Marketing your university or college’s continuing education programs

Terminalfour

The student demographic has changed. Higher education has an incredible opportunity to court an ever-increasing number of adult learners returning to school to update their skills or change careers altogether. Are you making the most of this opportunity?

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Indian Institutes of Technology want foreign students

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Scholars have called a proposal by the Indian Institutes of Technology to quadruple their international student intake by 2025 “feasible” but say they will first need to decide whether they are willing to lower entry requirements for nonlocal applicants. This month, a meeting of IITs proposed to boost their international intake to 5 percent by 2025, creating 1,000 scholarships for foreign learners and establishing recruitment centers in neighboring countries, according to news

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How to Create a Higher Ed Incident Response Playbook

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

Most universities have incident response playbooks, but these plans are often taken for granted. With so many cybersecurity and technology issues to tackle, IT shops sometimes create incident response plans, then forget about them. That could be a big mistake. A university’s incident response playbook is the most important foundational document driving its incident response management activities.

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Migrant students in Scotland win equal right to free tuition in landmark case

The Guardian - Higher Education

Court of session rules criteria that meant Ola Jasmin missed out by 58 days breached her human rights Students from migrant families in Scotland will have the same right to free university tuition as their peers, after a landmark court judgment which legal experts say highlights the positive impact of human rights legislation. The court of session in Edinburgh found that Iraq-born Ola Jasim, who has lived in Scotland for nine years but missed out on the criteria for free tuition fees by 58 days,

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U.S. Appeals Court Lets COVID Tuition Refund Case Proceed

Inside Higher Ed

The divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Wednesday overturned a lower court’s decision shielding Tulane University from a lawsuit in which students sought a partial refund of tuition and fees when the university shifted to remote learning because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Like many of the federal courts that have ruled on the slew of lawsuits filed by families in the pandemic’s wake, the federal district court in Louisiana dismissed the stud

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How Technology Issues Can Impact Mental Health

Campus Technology

In a recent survey, more than half of students said that technology problems have caused them stress in the past year.

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Bethel of Minnesota Will Cut 9 Majors and Minors

Inside Higher Ed

Bethel University of Minnesota is cutting nine majors and minors and expanding four programs to deal with shifts in enrollment, The Star-Tribune reported. The university is facing an enrollment decline, as are many colleges in the Midwest and the Northeast. Ad keywords: institutionalfinance Is this diversity newsletter?: Hide by line?: Disable left side advertisement?

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Subtractive Scholarship

Academe Blog

BY RICHARD P. PHELPS With each public remark a scholar may add to society’s collective working memory or subtract from it. Their addition is the new research they present in a journal article or conference presentation. The subtraction, when it occurs, is typically found in the scholar’s portrayal of previous research on the topic.

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Stanford Admits to Anti-Jewish Admissions Bias in ’50s

Inside Higher Ed

Stanford University president Marc Tessier-Lavigne admitted Wednesday that the university discriminated against Jewish applicants in the 1950s, and he apologized for those actions. “On behalf of Stanford University, I wish to apologize to the Jewish community, and to our entire university community, both for the actions documented in this report to suppress the admission of Jewish students in the 1950s and for the university’s denials of those actions in the period that followed,&rdq

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College Planning Is Not a Student’s Full-Time Job in High School

Helix Education

College planning is an ongoing process for most high school students. College planning tends to be seen as this linear process that high school students conduct at some point in high school (most of them by 10 th grade) and continues up to the spring of 12 th grade. It is far from that! This process happens simultaneously as many challenging and stressful things happen in these kids’ lives (let’s not forget they are kids).

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New Guide For State Policy Makers to Improve Completion

Inside Higher Ed

Complete College America, an organization dedicated to increasing graduation rates, released a report this month to guide state lawmakers in how to equitably craft and implement policies to improve statewide college completion rates. “States must be willing to change the status quo to remain competitive in the future and fill workforce demands with a diverse, engaged, educated citizenry,” the report states.

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Develop a Strategic Prospective Parent Engagement Plan to Improve Equity and Access for All Populations

Helix Education

This post was co-authored by Melissa Greiner, Director Marketing at CampusESP. What does a robust and modern parent engagement strategy look like? With dwindling enrollments—and shrinking staff and budget—many college admissions teams are struggling to find ways to attract and retain prospective students. Recent studies show that one of the most influential approaches they can take is expanding their outreach to would-be students and their parents and families.

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Higher Ed Groups Urge Review of Transcript Withholding

Inside Higher Ed

Colleges and universities should review policies related to transcript withholding, a group of higher education associations said in a joint statement released Wednesday. The American Council on Education and 21 other associations said that a new report from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that found blanket policies to withhold transcripts were abusive should be taken extremely seriously.

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5 Questions to Ask When Creating a CSIRT

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

A computer security incident response team (CSIRT) can be a valuable tool for higher education. CSIRTs often are established as a response to cyberthreats, but they are most effective when created before issues arise. Here are five questions to ask when starting the process. 1. What Is a CSIRT and What Do They Do? A CSIRT is a group of experts established by an organization to identify, document and respond to cybersecurity-related incidents.

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Colorado Board Censures Regent for Mistreating Colleagues

Inside Higher Ed

The University of Colorado Board of Regents on Wednesday censured one of its members , Glen Gallegos, for engaging in what it called “disparaging, disrespectful and, at times … threatening” behavior toward the university’s employees and colleagues. The censure, which Gallegos himself joined the other members in voting to approve, will not force him off the board that governs the university system’s campuses.

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How to Use Your College Website to Enhance Enrollment

Caylor Solutions

People often look at their college website from just a technical point of view and overlook how it can be an excellent enrollment marketing tool. The post How to Use Your College Website to Enhance Enrollment appeared first on Caylor Solutions.

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$100 Million Gift for U of Florida Biomedical Research

Inside Higher Ed

A $100 million gift to the University of Florida’s Scripps Biomedical Research Institute will kick off a 10-year, $1 billion public-private partnership designed to turn the institute into a cutting-edge leader in the field, the university announced Wednesday. The gift comes from the foundation of UF alumnus Herbert Wertheim and is the largest in the university’s history bequeathed by an individual donor.

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Georgetown University’s Trek to Turn Refugees into Students

WCET Frontiers

Today WCET Frontiers welcomes Kelly Otter, Dean of the School of Continuing Studies at Georgetown University, to discuss the University’s program to assist refugees in the Middle East. This outstanding work will have an incredible impact for refugee students, and future work will impact the lives of students around the globe. Thank you to Kelly for sharing this great work!

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DeVry University Sues Education Department

Inside Higher Ed

For-profit DeVry University is suing the U.S. Education Department to block it from recouping millions to repay discharged student loans. The department said in August that it would hold DeVry liable for $24 million to cover the cost of the 18,000 borrower-defense claims totaling $71.7 million that were approved in February after the department found that DeVry advertised false job-placement rates from 2008 to 2015.

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Too many colleges are not being transparent with finances

College Viability

Posted below are lists from private colleges in 3 midwestern states. Note how few of them are sharing their data with families. The Common Data Set (CDS) is a substantive form that colleges complete once so that their i.

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Connecting Google certificates and university Specializations to help learners prepare for in-demand career fields

Coursera blog

By Betty Vandenbosch, Chief Content Officer, Coursera. In a recent Coursera survey of university students from around the world, 86% of respondents said earning an industry microcredential would help them stand out to employers and secure jobs when they graduate – a testament to the importance of integrating industry-led learning into a degree curriculum.

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Applying Logic to the Gun Control Debate: Academic Minute

Inside Higher Ed

Today on the Academic Minute : PJ Verrecchia, professor of criminology and criminal justice at York College of Pennsylvania, seeks to apply logic to a persistent debate. 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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Poland’s oldest university to move classes online after energy bill rises 700% - Alicja Ptak, Notes from Poland

Economics and Change in Higher Education

Poland’s oldest university is preparing to move more classes online and considering holding in-person teaching only from Monday to Thursday due to the soaring costs of energy. The Jagiellonian University (UJ), ranked as Poland’s second best, is facing a 700% increase in electricity costs in 2023 after its current contract expires with state-owned supplier Tauron at the end of this year.

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Applying Logic to the Gun Control Debate

Inside Higher Ed

We’re still in a heated debate about gun control in the U.S. In today’s Academic Minute, York College of Pennsylvania’s PJ Verrecchia applies logic to the problem. Verrecchia is a professor of criminology and criminal justice at York. A transcript of today’s podcast can be found here. Section: Academic Minute File: 10-13-22 York College PA - Gun Control.

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The Future Of School? ‘Brownouts.’ - Brandon Busteed, Forbes

Economics and Change in Higher Education

All indications suggest the U.S. will soon face a massive teacher shortage. A potent combination of expected and early retirements, burnout, and waning interest in the profession among young people may leave us short by several hundred thousand teachers in the coming years. As a result, the coming teacher shortage will lead – inevitably and very soon – to school ‘brownouts.