Higher Ed Dive

MAY 6, 2024

The agency announced a $50 million effort to provide more support to students and families in light of the botched rollout of the new form.

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Wonkhe

MAY 6, 2024

Chavan Kissoon and Terence Karran argue that digital transformation is changing employer-employee power relations – via mechanisms of performance management that can undermine academic freedom The post Protecting academic freedom in the digital age appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Higher Ed Dive

MAY 6, 2024

AI is pushing its way through the education sector, transforming the way schools, colleges, and universities support their students, parents, faculty, and staff.

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Wonkhe

MAY 6, 2024

As Eurovision week gets underway in Sweden, Jim Dickinson reviews the European Commission's proposals for a new European degree The post Euro visions: Even if we can stand alone – should we? appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Higher Ed Dive

MAY 6, 2024

A new report on faculty representation sheds light on the wide-ranging effects of pervasive inequities.

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Wonkhe

MAY 6, 2024

Jim Dickinson finds himself in some ex-Yugoslavian states that view students and universities as key to their future ambitions The post Euro visions: Ambitions in the Balkans appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Higher Ed Dive

MAY 6, 2024

Learn how AI is revolutionizing higher education, transforming learning and streamlining operations.

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Higher Ed Dive

MAY 6, 2024

Ed tech venture funding in 2023 reached just $2.97 billion, down 86% from 2021’s all-time high of $20.8 billion, according to a HolonIQ analysis.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 6, 2024

Over 90% of Black parents want more opportunities to be involved in their children’s education and want more input into education laws, according to a study by the United Negro College Fund (UNCF). UNCF recently surveyed 1,200 low- to moderate-income Black parents, which resulted in a report on the perspectives of African American parents on key issues in education.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

MAY 6, 2024

Freedom of expression must include the right to deliberate, and to protest. By Anton Ford Freedom of expression must include the right to deliberate, and to protest.

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Inside Higher Ed

MAY 6, 2024

Universities Face Misinformation Amid Pro-Palestinan Protests Lauren.Coffey@… Mon, 05/06/2024 - 03:00 AM How—and if—universities should combat misinformation causes its own divisions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 6, 2024

Shortly after Florida A&M University — a historically Black university — announced last weekend that entrepreneur Gregory Gerami donated $237.75 million to the university to support student success initiatives and athletics, many who were suspicious took to social media to express their skepticism. Gerami, a Texas hemp farmer and entrepreneur who is the chief executive officer of the Issac Batterson 7th Family Trust is an obscure figure in the philanthropic world.

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Inside Higher Ed

MAY 6, 2024

Researchers Investigating Generative AI and Scholarly Publishing kathryn.palmer… Mon, 05/06/2024 - 03:00 AM A new study by Ithaka S+R seeks to gain insight into the technology’s potential to transform the production of academic scholarship.

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HEPI

MAY 6, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Rachael Gooberman-Hill, Co-chair of the UK Committee on Research Integrity, and Nandini Das, Maria Delgado, and Miles Padgett, members of the Committee. This piece is the latest in a series of HEPI blogs discussing REF2029. In March, we heard from the Executive Chair of Research England , Dame Professor Jessica Corner; and last week, we published this piece on small and specialist institutions from Emma Wakelin, Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research & Innovat

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Inside Higher Ed

MAY 6, 2024

Lead Without Shrinking Sarah Bray Mon, 05/06/2024 - 03:00 AM Too often, women in academe must second-guess our well-earned authority, minimize our accomplishments or dim our light to make others comfortable, writes Roshni Rao.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 6, 2024

At the end of each academic year, millions of high school seniors across the country are ceremonially launched into their futures. For many, that future commences with an anxious summer followed by the start of college. Well before the first college lecture, however, newly enrolled college students should consider a couple questions and a few simple steps that can lower barriers to college success.

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Inside Higher Ed

MAY 6, 2024

College-bound students are heavy users of artificial intelligence (AI) technology, but that may be driven by concerns they will face disadvantages without it, a new report released Monday finds. More than half of the students surveyed worried about AI’s impact on them achieving their college and career goals and many had competitive concerns about how other students were using AI, according to the report from the Art & Science Group LLC, a market intelligence firm for higher education instit

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Academe Blog

MAY 6, 2024

BY THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN–MILWAUKEE AAUP CHAPTER We are reposting this statement, published today on the UWM AAUP chapter website, with permission of the chapter. On Friday, May 3, UWM’s administration submitted a proposal to close the College of General Studies (CGS) and lay off all of its employees.

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Inside Higher Ed

MAY 6, 2024

UCLA, Yale and Michigan Up Next on Congressional Hot Seat Katherine Knott Mon, 05/06/2024 - 03:00 AM Can these universities’ leaders avoid the fates of their peers when they head to Congress later this month for the next high-stakes hearing on campus antisemitism?

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Educause

MAY 6, 2024

Using the voice capabilities in ChatGPT to enrich interactive learning experiences could signal a new era in education and course design.

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Inside Higher Ed

MAY 6, 2024

A Weekend of Arrests and Commencement Disruptions Doug Lederman Mon, 05/06/2024 - 03:00 AM Officers break up encampments at USC and Virginia; Vermont and Dickinson cancel speakers.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 6, 2024

David M. Chun David M. Chun has been appointed chief information officer at Montclair State University. He served as the chief information officer and associate vice president at Sonoma State University. Chun holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

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Inside Higher Ed

MAY 6, 2024

A video clip of a student wearing a keffiyeh and being escorted out of Georgia State University’s graduate commencement by armed security officers Wednesday went viral on social media.

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Caylor Solutions

MAY 6, 2024

As AI continues to develop, it has provided us new ways to reach prospective students—video translation! Learn how you can use it to enhance your outreach. The post Enhance Your Outreach with Video Translation appeared first on Caylor Solutions.

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Inside Higher Ed

MAY 6, 2024

A Look at Recent and Looming Cuts Josh Moody Mon, 05/06/2024 - 03:00 AM While declining enrollment and financial challenges are the driving force behind most job and program cuts announced last month, in Texas, politics also played a role.

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Campus Technology

MAY 6, 2024

Veteran-founded National University (NU) in San Diego has launched a pilot project with digital community platform InScribe to provide emotional and academic support to students in real time online.

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Inside Higher Ed

MAY 6, 2024

Today on the Academic Minute, part of Binghamton University Week: Lauren Dula, assistant professor of public administration, explores the growing phenomenon of asking for charitable contributions at the register.

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FIRE

MAY 6, 2024

FIRE is calling on Sterling, Massachusetts, to stop restricting residents’ free speech rights.

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MAY 6, 2024

The precipitous pre-pandemic growth in edtech venture capital funding, followed by the investment boon in 2020-21, is far behind us, suggests an analysis from HolonIQ , a global market data platform. Venture capital investments in edtech platforms in the first quarter of the fiscal year (Q1) totaled $580 million, a far cry from the $80 billion invested in the past 10 years.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

MAY 6, 2024

Facing a “steep” cash shortfall, California-based University of Saint Katherine is closing and will file for bankruptcy, President Frank Papatheofanis said in a letter to campus posted on social media last week by one of the institution’s sports teams. Behind the private nonprofit’s crunch in operating cash is “extraordinary inflation,” including salary increases, as well as high institutional financial aid, the president added.

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Campus Technology

MAY 6, 2024

Data-as-a-service provider Snowflake has introduced Arctic, a new large language model (LLM) based on a unique Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture optimized for complex enterprise workloads.

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Insight Into Diversity

MAY 6, 2024

Following discussions with students, Columbia University announced a significant shift in its commencement plans. “Our students emphasized that these smaller-scale, school-based celebrations are most meaningful to them and their families,” officials said in a statement. “They are eager to cross the stage to applause and family pride and hear from their school’s invited guest speakers.” This decision comes after weeks of student protests and disruptions on campus, culminat

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University Business

MAY 6, 2024

Last month, Inside Higher Ed released findings from its census of 331 chief academic officers, or provosts, working at public and private institutions across the country. Although most provosts surveyed had a positive perception of the speech climate on their campus, few indicated they thought this was due to their campus speech policies. About 1 in 5 provosts (22%) believed their campus speech policies are “very” or “extremely” effective at creating an environment for constructive dialogue.

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Insight Into Diversity

MAY 6, 2024

The College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR) released a new report showing that despite recent increases in the number of tenure-track women and faculty of color, barriers to advancement in academia persist for those with one or more marginalized identity. Analyzing data collected from their annual workforce surveys on full-time tenure-track and non-tenure-track faculty from fall 2016 to spring 2023, CUPA-HR determined that women and faculty of color are bein

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University Business

MAY 6, 2024

Florida A&M University has received a $237.75 million gift from the Issac Batterson 7th Family Trust and Gregory Gerami, the founder and CEO of Batterson Farms Corp, a leading industrial hemp business. The gift, the largest in Florida A&M’s 136-year history, was presented to FAMU President Larry Robinson at one of the university’s commencement ceremonies on May 4.

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Campus Technology

MAY 6, 2024

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is taking incremental steps toward establishing a more standardized national approach to AI safety.

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Educause

MAY 6, 2024

Cybersecurity maturity is difficult. The CIS Benchmarks can help higher education institutions address key areas of vulnerability and secure their technology and data.

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