Higher Ed Dive

JANUARY 24, 2024

Officials said the plan is meant to right the university’s finances as it grapples with enrollment declines and long-term budgetary challenges.

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Wonkhe

JANUARY 24, 2024

With changes to the Welsh model of postgraduate funding, there is no longer a UK approach that takes the cost of study into account. Mark Bennett asks why The post Nobody has any idea what proper postgraduate funding should look like appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Higher Ed Dive

JANUARY 24, 2024

The head of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators voiced concerns the change will further delay financial aid offers.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 24, 2024

For over 150 years, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have not only been sites of academic excellence but also powerful economic engines in their local and regional communities, leaving a lasting mark on the nation's landscape. Beyond classrooms and campuses, the impact of HBCUs resonates in various economic and community development initiatives that transcend traditional education boundaries, fostering job growth, workforce development, and training opportunities.

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Higher Ed Dive

JANUARY 24, 2024

The National Student Clearinghouse Research Center offered insights into shifting enrollment trends at community colleges and HBCUs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 24, 2024

The 64th Sit-In Anniversary Breakfast and Wreath Laying is set for Feb. 1. The North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University community will gather at the North Carolina A&T Alumni-Foundation Event Center to celebrate the legacy of four A&T freshmen who were keystones in the civil rights movement in 1960 during their sit-in at the downtown Greensboro Woolworth’s lunch counter.

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Higher Ed Dive

JANUARY 24, 2024

Changes will lead to some staff layoffs, administrators at the Vermont private nonprofit institution said.

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HEPI

JANUARY 24, 2024

T his HEPI blog was authored by Vivienne Stern, Chief Executive of Universities UK, as an adaption of a speech she gave in response to a lecture by the Hon. Mathias Cormann, Secretary General of the OECD, on the value of higher education in developed countries. Just over a month ago, our Prime Minister, Rt Hon Rishi Sunak, made a statement in his speech to the Conservative party conference.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 24, 2024

Undergraduate enrollment is up again, according to new data. Community colleges focused on vocational training in particular made major gains last fall. Undergraduate enrollment rose in fall 2023 for the first time since the pandemic, according to the latest report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. The report, released today, found that undergraduate enrollment grew 1.2 percent in fall 2023 compared to the prior year, adding roughly 176,000 students to college enrollment r

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Today's Learner

JANUARY 24, 2024

Reading Time: 4 minutes In the ever-evolving landscape of education, the constant search for innovative teaching methods continues to be a driving force. One powerful approach that has stood the test of time is storytelling. Beyond its entertainment value, storytelling has proven to be a highly effective educational tool, engaging learners and facilitating the retention of information.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 24, 2024

The university’s public affairs school published poll results criticizing university leaders, who then insulted the poll’s methodology. The school fired back. An unusual war of words has broken out between Virginia Commonwealth University and one of its own schools over the validity of public opinion polling that criticized the university for a costly failed project.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

JANUARY 24, 2024

It's time to acknowledge that progressive aims are in conflict. By Brendan Cantwell It's time to acknowledge that progressive aims are in conflict.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 24, 2024

After years of declining numbers, undergraduate enrollment at U.S. higher education institutions is finally seeing growth again, according to a new report from the National Student Clearinghouse (NSC). Dr. Jeremy Cohen According to the NSC’s Current Term Enrollment Estimates Fall 2023 report – released Tuesday – overall fall undergraduate enrollment at U.S. colleges and universities rose by 1.2%, a minor change where the number of enrollees went from 15,072,249 to 15,248,077.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 24, 2024

The university reached out to Sidechat after student reports of “concerning” content. Harvard University has asked the leaders of a social media app that allows anonymous posting to tamp down on “concerning content” following student complaints of antisemitic messages. University officials met with the app Sidechat’s team this month, asking them to do more to monitor and moderate content, Harvard said in a statement to Inside Higher Ed.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 24, 2024

Hodan Hassan Hodan Hassan has been appointed vice president of the Office of Institutional Advancement and chief advancement officer at Morehouse College. Hassan holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and physics and a master’s in math education and applied mathematics from Long Island University as well as a Ph.D. in technology, policy, and innovation at Stony Brook University.

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The PIE News

JANUARY 24, 2024

“Rule-based” collaborations can help German universities to reduce risks when partnering with Chinese institutions, according to the country’s academic exchange organisation. New guidelines released by the DAAD set out three principles for cooperation with the superpower, building on the German government’s 2023 China strategy, which labels the country as a “partner, competitor and systemic rival”.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 24, 2024

The U.S. Education Department has added four more colleges and universities to its list of institutions under investigation for possible violations of federal laws that prohibit discrimination based on shared ancestry.

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Educause

JANUARY 24, 2024

Reflecting on AI and learning, a student offers four insights gleaned from firsthand interactions with ChatGPT.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 24, 2024

The U.S. Education Department will fix an error in the formula that determines how much financial aid a student can get, which would have cost students about $1.8 billion, the agency told NPR Tuesday.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

JANUARY 24, 2024

By Audrey Williams June Forty-five of the top public universities have seen a drop in their share of home-grown first-year students over the past two decades, a Chronicle analysis of new federal data shows.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 24, 2024

Being true to ourselves is a barometer of well-being, but what if aspects of our true selves are counterproductive for us or our institution? Jacob A. Brown, C. K. Gunsalus, Nicholas C. Burbules and Thomas Byrne offer some answers. A common exhortation from today’s leadership gurus in academia and popular media is to “be authentic” or your “true self” at work.

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The PIE News

JANUARY 24, 2024

International students do not have a detrimental impact on the employment outcomes of domestic graduates in England, according to new research. The study , published in the European Economic Review by researchers at University College London and the Universities of Surrey and Essex, analysed whether international students in undergraduate programs affect the educational performances and early labour market outcomes of UK-domiciled students. “Our study helps to answer the question of what

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Campus Sonar

JANUARY 24, 2024

Our 2024 kicked off with a trip to sunny Florida for the Council of Independent Colleges Presidents Institute. The conversations and sessions covered the toughest current topics, such as endowments, cost of attendance, artificial intelligence, and others, giving us renewed appreciation for the hardest job in higher ed. Attendees navigated issues and solutions critical for campus leaders this coming year.

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SRHE

JANUARY 24, 2024

by Omolabake Fakunle and Helen Higson We were very proud to have our paper accepted at SRHE’s 2023 Research Conference. This was particularly because we value our collaboration, which was born via SRHE, and our paper was about that journey. This blogpost shares highlights from our SRHE 2023 conference paper which outlined: (i) our collaboration to publication research story; (ii) the importance of SRHE in our collaborative journey; which amongst many positives for nearly a decade, links directly

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

JANUARY 24, 2024

Earlier this month, Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey announced a series of budget cuts amid a $1 billion shortfall. Evan Horowitz, the executive director of the non-partisan Center for State Policy Analysis a Tufts University's Tisch College, spoke about what those $375 million in cuts mean now and in the future. "I do think this is the beginning of the new normal, if not something worse than that," he said.

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The PIE News

JANUARY 24, 2024

Andrew is the editor-in-chief of the international education section of China Education Online , a government-endorsed news website for Chinese students and their families. Andrew studied in the UK and went on to represent many British institutions in China. He told us about securing his first job after graduating and how he hopes to continue informing Chinese students about international study opportunities.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 24, 2024

An attorney representing the University of Louisiana System has subpoenaed a USA Today reporter to turn over information he gathered for an award-winning series of articles about violations of the federal Title IX law across the university system,

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Campus Technology

JANUARY 24, 2024

Education research and technology firm EAB has partnered with international college and career guidance company BridgeU to help students around the world connect with colleges and universities in the United States, easing the time and financial constraints of both.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 24, 2024

Police are investigating an alleged chemical attack at a pro-Palestinian demonstration on the Columbia University campus last week, Gothamist reported Tuesday. Several protesters, who were rallying against U.S.

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Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 24, 2024

A group of elite universities, including Brown University, Columbia University, Duke University, Emory University, and Yale University, agreed this week to collectively pay $104.5 million to settle a class action lawsuit that accused them of violating federal antitrust laws in their admissions processes, specially fixing the net costs of attendance.

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University Business

JANUARY 24, 2024

For almost a quarter of a century, a coterie of the nation’s most elite universities had a legal shield: They would be exempt from federal antitrust laws when they shared formulas to measure prospective students’ financial needs. But the provision included a crucial requirement: that the cooperating universities’ admissions processes be “need-blind,” meaning they could not factor in whether a prospective student was wealthy enough to pay.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 24, 2024

Today on the Academic Minute, part of Northern Kentucky University Week: Tan Boston, assistant professor at the Salmon P. Chase College of Law, discusses issues related to compensation for the names, images and likenesses of college athletes.

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University Business

JANUARY 24, 2024

The Biden administration has quietly pushed back against a plan by the University of California to allow thousands of young people without legal immigration status to hold campus jobs. Through a series of recent calls, the Department of Homeland Security pressed UC officials to reconsider what it saw as a direct challenge to federal law during an election year, according to four university officials.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

JANUARY 24, 2024

An external analysis brought in by a group representing some DePaul faculty claims that the university is in solid financial condition despite last year’s projected $56.5 million budget gap from the administration. DePaul’s American Association of University Professors (AAUP) chapter crowdfunded to bring Howard Bunsis to present his findings in mid-November, shortly before the holiday break.

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University Business

JANUARY 24, 2024

In ninth-grade algebra class at my Minnesota high school, I started losing faith in math. I sat there incredulously, watching equations with letters bounce across the page. While my academic rigor began to fade, so did my reputation; the year before, I got into a fight at school. Now, as an ardent advocate for the transformative power of education, I look back at that time and realize how much it had to do with how alone I felt.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 24, 2024

The San Diego Community College District (SDCCD) has boosted the minimum wage for all its permanent employees to $30.58 per hour, which is nearly twice the state’s minimum wage. Edith Rangel is one of 250 permanent employees who will benefit from an increase in San Diego Community College District's minimum wage to $30.58. Previously, it was $22.13.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 24, 2024

A group of Jewish scholars is defending Harvard University’s appointment of Derek Penslar, the William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History, who has criticized Israel, as co-chair of the university’s new antisemitism task force.

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