Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Image: Tenured and tenure-track faculty members at Eastern Michigan University went on strike indefinitely Wednesday over stalled negotiations for a new contract. Scores of professors spent much of the day on a campus picket line, while the university directed students to attend classes and wait 15 minutes to see if an instructor showed up. Many professors did not, following a 91 percent faculty vote in favor of striking Tuesday.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Bridging the Gap From Education to Employment. A Playbook for Transforming College-to-Career. bridget. Thu, 09/08/2022 - 06:00. Image. College to Career. Equity. University Culture. Career preparation is a core objective of a university education. For many students, it's also the primary goal. According to Strada Education Network's Institute for the Future of Work , 85% of freshmen say that their main priority for attending college is getting a good job.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Erin M. O’Mara Kunz was at a loss about how to get out of hers, but after posting a tweet, she received feedback from other professors that was overwhelming in the best way possible. Editorial Tags: Career Advice Research Show on Jobs site: Image Source: ayakono/istock/getty images plus Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

I realize that yesterday’s post about the role of ecosystems in realizing Paul LeBlanc’s vision for CBE is a bit abstract. Luckily, Providence provides. Today’s Inside Higher Ed brings us an article entitled “ What Faculty Know (and Don’t Know) About Transfer—and Why It Matters ” by Vita Rabinowitz, Yoshiko Oka, and Alexandra W.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Image: Thomas Hudson, president at Jackson State University, had hoped to kick off this academic year by celebrating a large freshman class, record fundraising, new programs and the football team’s quest to defend its national championship. He set those thoughts aside after the Pearl River, which runs through Jackson, Miss., flooded and knocked the city’s water treatment plant off-line Aug. 29—leaving the city of more than 150,000 without safe tap water and extremely low water

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

How Institutions Can Make Certificates and Short Programs Feasible Amid Rising Costs. While traditional degrees are still king , today’s students are making major changes in how they approach their education. As employers increasingly drop college degree requirements for new hires in favor of skills, more students are leaning toward certificate programs, bootcamps, and other non-degree pathways as the next step in their education (and often in their careers).

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The University of Missouri Board of Curators unanimously approved a new paid time off policy for system staff members, which was opposed by an employee union and faculty members, The Columbia Missourian reported. Laborers Local 955, the labor union representing service and maintenance workers at two of the system’s campuses and the University of Missouri hospital, held two protests against the policy before Wednesday’s meeting.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Trial lawyer Thomas R. Kline has committed $50 million for “transformational support” of Duquesne University’s 111-year-old law school, which will now bear his name, the university announced Wednesday. The gift is the largest in the university’s history and will be used broadly to support student scholarships, faculty grants, a bar-preparation program, community relations and other strategic priorities.

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WCET Frontiers

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Password security is, simultaneously, one of the most important and most hated aspects of cybersecurity. To many – myself included – it’s frustrating and confounding that everyone should need so many passwords, each of which contain more complex characters, just to stay somewhat secure in our modern society. Beyond that, the fact that accounts can still be hacked, and data can still be lost, manipulated, or accessed by unauthorized parties (even when we do manage our passwords very well!

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois has introduced a bill to limit U.S. aid to foreign medical colleges. He said that some overseas medical schools are exempt from meeting the minimum standards to which other foreign medical schools are held: that at least 60 percent of their enrollment must be non-U.S. citizens or permanent residents and that students have at least a 75 percent pass rate on the U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Blog: Beyond Transfer What do faculty members know about transfer-related matters? Does it really matter what they know? These are some of the questions we set out to investigate in the latest effort of the Transfer Opportunity Project ( TOP ; one of the A2B group of projects) housed at the City University of New York. Our preliminary results suggest that there are major gaps in what faculty know about transfer, and what faculty don’t know may inadvertently harm transfer students.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

University of Richmond police are investigating an altercation between students and a delivery driver, the university president announced Tuesday. The driver reportedly pulled out a gun after students threatened him and used racial slurs, The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported. The confrontation happened early Saturday morning in a parking lot on campus, and when police responded, a student was arrested for underage alcohol consumption, according to an incident report from the university.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

A jury on Tuesday awarded Baylor Medical College $48.5 million for damages caused by COVID-19, Claims Journal reported. It said the case “appears to be the first jury verdict in a lawsuit that sought insurance coverage for lost business income and other damages caused by the virus.” Baylor sued Lloyd’s of London in the case. “I do think that Baylor was somewhat uniquely situated because we could establish the presence of the virus on the property throughout the period of

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

"Measuring the Value of Higher Education" is a new print-on-demand compilation from Inside Higher Ed. The free booklet contains a collection of articles and essays, and is available for download here. . On Wednesday, Oct. 5, at 2 p.m. Eastern, Inside Higher Ed' s editors will present a free webcast discussing the themes of this compilation. Please register for the webcast or find out more here.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Ohio Dominican University is starting majors in cybersecurity, data science and information technology. Purdue University is starting an online master of science in applied statistics. South Georgia Technical College has started a certificate program for people who need a restricted Class A and Class B license. Teaching and Learning Editorial Tags: New academic programs Is this diversity newsletter?

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Today on the Academic Minute : Matthew Wilson, associate professor and director of graduate studies at the University of South Carolina, examines one popular way people refer to the United States and why this term keeps popping up. Learn more about the Academic Minute here. Is this diversity newsletter?: Hide by line?: Disable left side advertisement?

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Image: LeBron James and Hillary Clinton are important figures to incoming first-year college students, according to the latest mindset list released by Marist College. The list is designed to help those in academe adjust their perspective to that of the new freshmen. Marist took over the annual project from Beloit College in 2019. The Marist list is prepared by Tommy Zurhellen, associate professor of English; Vanessa Lynn, assistant professor of criminal justice; and Joyce Yu-Jean Lee, assistant

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Image: The start of the fall semester has brought more than students back to college campuses. As dorms and lecture halls fill up again, COVID-19 cases are spiking at some institutions. Ever since the pandemic started in March of 2020, campus COVID cases have surged with the return of students at the beginning of each new semester, only to level off a few weeks later.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean I was glad to see the accreditor ACICS has announced that it’s folding. It offered cover, and access to federal financial aid, to a host of bad actors in for-profit higher education. For nonspecialists who haven’t already stopped reading—and bless you—accreditation comes in several flavors.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Gag orders on college campuses are all the rage right now, as Republican legislators seek to ban the discussion of critical race theory and other “divisive concepts” that offend conservative sensibilities. A new PEN America report, “ America’s Censored Classrooms ,” identified 137 educational gag bills introduced so far in 2022, compared to 54 in 2021, which marked a dramatic increase from previous years.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

A scholarship worth nearly $100,000 could become an issue in the Los Angeles mayoral race, the Los Angeles Times reported. The scholarship was awarded by the University of Southern California to Representative Karen Bass for a master's degree in social work. Bass, a Democrat, is the favorite in the mayoral race. The same scholarship was awarded to former L.A.

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