Higher Ed Dive

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Reevaluating testing mandates was part of the association’s plan to advance racial equity.

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Deans for Impact

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Sitting in on EDUC 1301: Introduction to the Teaching Profession at Odessa College last semester, Pervis Evans is conscious that he doesn’t quite fit in with the other students, a majority of whom are recent high school graduates. But that doesn’t deter him at all. Just as much as they are, he’s attending as an enrolled student, completing assignments and participating in discussions – and, he also happens to be the community college’s Dean of Liberal Arts and Education.

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Higher Ed Dive

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Middle States Commission on Higher Education said the for-profit gave notice it would close in February, but ASA College said that’s not its intention.

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Wonkhe

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Rishi Sunak has been Prime Minister for just over 100 days and he’s decided it’s time for change to the machinery of government. James Coe has the summary. The post Bye Bye BEIS appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Higher Ed Ethics Watch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

PURPOSE OF THE AWARD The intent of this award is to recognize new pedagogy for teaching ethics to accounting students.  A monetary award of $1,000 and a plaque will be presented at the annual Ethics Symposium to an individual (or individuals) who has (have) developed and implemented an innovative technique/method for incorporating ethics into undergraduate or graduate accounting courses.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

I (Ford) was reading a commentary on the top number of “issues” facing education/ educators and became even more outraged and indignant on terminology used to describe children who live in poverty, Blacks, and other minoritized students. My colleagues and I believe this framing and mislabeling are the real ‘issues’, which we use interchangeably with ‘problems’.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Blog: Learning Innovation Fulfilling the first milestone of a commitme n t made early in 2021, the University of Michigan’s Center for Academic Innovation and Coursera today announced the release of the first three of 10 planned open online courses featuring extended reality. The courses feature interactive 360 video components, which can be accessed via headsets or simply on a laptop or phone.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Danielle Ren Holley, president-elect of Mount Holyoke College. Danielle Ren Holley is breaking ground. The Howard University law professor and dean has been named Mount Holyoke College’s first permanent Black female president in the institution’s 186-year history. She will step into her role on July 1, 2023. “I’m just really excited to lead such a dynamic and important institution like Mount Holyoke,” said Holley in an interview with Diverse.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Can a research-intensive university also be learning- and learner-centered, as dedicated to the quality of students’ educational experience as it is to scholarship, publication and invention? With their mammoth lectures, terrible student-to-adviser ratios, heavy reliance on teaching assistants and postdocs, and priority placed on research and grant-getting, many would say that the answer is an unequivocal no, except for the small minority of students who are in honors

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

By Kate Marijolovic Illustration by Ron Coddington, The Chronicle Undergraduate departments remain confident about their students’ job prospects. M.B.A. programs see an opportunity.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

At our nation’s colleges and universities, faculty members have become one part caretaker and one part educator. If you are anything like us, more office hours are spent helping students emotionally cope with the world around them than they are advancing learning. Colleagues often will ask how we toe the line between being compassionate with students while maintaining rigor and accountability in their work.

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Coursera blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

By Kais Zribi, General Manager, Middle East and Africa at Coursera Confidence, a Nigerian data analyst and biologist, discovered the power of online learning during the pandemic. With a degree in Biological Sciences, she sought to enhance her skills through online courses, including a Google Data Analytics professional certificate. This investment in her education paid off as she recently found a job in her field of passion, genomic data science, after two years of job hunting.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Image: The Association for the Study of Higher Education, like many organizations, plots its annual meetings several years ahead. Last month, it announced that it would move the 2024 meeting, scheduled for New Orleans, out of Louisiana because of the state’s laws restricting access to abortion and the participation of transgender people in sports.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School (AJMLS) and Morris Brown College are partnering for a law school pipeline. “We are ecstatic to partner with Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School,” said Morris Brown President Dr. Kevin James. “Morris Brown students now have an official pathway and opportunity to earn a Juris Doctorate degree once they earn their degree from Atlanta’s most affordable accredited HBCU.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Category: Former Faculty Why is it that no amount of conversation on the topic seems to meet the ever-increasing demand for it? Jocelyn Frelier, a former faculty member, asks and provides some answers. Job Tags: FACULTY JOBS Ad keywords: faculty Topic: Alt-Ac Careers Editorial Tags: Career Advice Show on Jobs site: Image Source: simplehappyart/istock/getty images plus Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?

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Leaders Building Leaders

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

This question as a principal, Am I sure the students are all learning? Use to keep me up at night. However, then I learned that the best way to ensure students are learning is through daily classroom walkthroughs. These walkthrough must be intentional and focused on making sure that students are not just learning but mastering the curriculum taught.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Image: The first time Stefan Duma offered his in-person Concussion Perspectives course at Virginia Tech, 50 students enrolled. The next time, 100 students enrolled, followed by 250 and later 500. When demand did not abate, he offered the course online by way of lectures in an asynchronous format with in-person visits to the Helmet Lab , where students may see, for example, how helmets are tested.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) has announced its list of America’s 10 Worst Colleges for Free Speech, targeting institutions large and small that the civil liberties non-profit says have violated First Amendment principles. The list serves as a highlight reel of 2022’s campus free speech controversies, starting with Hamline University, where an art professor sparked a dispute by showing a 14 th century painting of the prophet Muhammad, which some Muslims believe is of

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Image: “Leading through people, priorities and projects—in that order” is how Amber Williams describes her approach to work on LinkedIn. While building a 15-year foundation in admissions and enrollment management, Williams found herself engaging with students long after they had enrolled, which naturally expanded to helping them successfully navigate campus.

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Leader of Learning

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

While I speak and write a lot about trust and its role in leadership and organizational culture and climate, I must be honest and vulnerable enough to admit that there have been times when I have been in – and possibly contributed to – situations where trust among a team has been broken. I write about similar themes in the chapter I contributed to the book, “ 100 No-Nonsense Things That ALL School Leaders Should STOP Doing.” Well, my team and I have been experiencing issu

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Image: Rochester Institute of Technology shifted its tutoring and support resources from a private space into two study centers, increasing visibility of the services and removing the negative social stigma around receiving help. What’s the sitch: RIT offers a variety of services across campus as part of its Academic Success Center, including academic coaching and Higher Education Opportunity Program (HEOP) advisers, among other help.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is the latest entity to dismiss standardized testing as a core requirement for student-athletic scholarships. Last month, both Division I (DI) and Division II (DII) councils voted in their respective meetings to eliminate it altogether. The NCAA Eligibility Center once required students to earn a specific score on either their ACT or SAT to be qualified to compete, that score dependent on how strong their GPA was.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Dr. Joy Gaston Gayles will become head of the NC State College of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership, Policy, and Human Development (ELPHD), effective Jul. 1. Dr. Joy Gaston Gayles Gayles is currently an Alumni Distinguished Graduate Professor of Higher Education and senior adviser for advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the College of Education.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

What to consider before you accept (or reject) a surprise appointment to become an administrator. By David D. Perlmutter Getty Images What to consider before you accept (or reject) a surprise appointment to become an administrator.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Cecilia Holden, president and CEO of myFutureNC. Brianna Allen’s mother dropped out of high school at 16 years old. Knowing the impact that decision had on her mother, Allen said she made a vow to not make that same choice herself. But in her junior year of high school, a spring break trip to a lake ended in tragedy with the drowning death of one of her close friends.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

University leaders urge ministers to provide bridging finance to keep projects running when EU support ends this year Universities in Wales face more than 1,000 skilled jobs being lost because of the withdrawal of EU structural funds, with leaders saying that the replacement finance promised by ministers will not match the lost support. Since 2014 Welsh universities have received about £370m in research projects from EU structural funds but, after the UK’s withdrawal, its support for 60 ongoing

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Nicole McDonald Nicole McDonald has been appointed senior vice president for transformation initiatives at Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, N.C. She holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, and a master’s in higher education administration and a Ph.D. in educational leadership and policy studies from Vanderbilt University.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Case studies have long been heralded as an impactful and critical pedagogical approach in college classrooms. Depending on how case studies are integrated into an educational space, students can increase research skills by conducting research to develop additional context when conceptualizing a case or locate additional sources to better understand themes; develop writing skills by drafting, peer reviewing, workshopping, and revising cases; expand critical thinking skills by defining or articula

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The Change Leader, Inc.

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In this podcast, Dr. Drumm McNaughton speaks with Dr. Steve Katsouros of Come to Believe Foundation and Network, which works with colleges and universities to replicate a successful DEI, enrollment, and graduation model. Dr. Katsouros was the founder of Arrupe College, a two-year institution that is part of Loyola University Chicago. In this podcast, learn how the Dr.

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EAB

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Podcast Will Your School Start Recruiting Incarcerated Students? Episode 137. February 7, 2023. Welcome to the Office Hours with EAB podcast. You can join the conversation on social media using #EABOfficeHours. Follow the podcast on Spotify , Google Podcasts , Apple Podcasts , SoundCloud and Stitcher or visit our podcast homepage for additional episodes.

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Educause

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In 2020, George Washington University faced the challenge of silos and redundancies resulting from the decentralized model of several different administrative units, including the IT organization.

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ACRLog

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

This post comes from a guest poster, Scarlet Galvan. Scarlet is the Collection Strategist Librarian at Grand Valley State University. A blogger for Inside Higher Ed recently published a plea for a more nuanced understanding of IPEDS data on academic libraries. Like that blogger, I also wish data about academic libraries offered more detail about their work and position as necessary infrastructure.

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Reading Time: 4 minutes When considering studying with your institution, prospects are actually “buying” three things: the career, the institution, and the program. This means that, when searching for alternatives and evaluating your offer, they have 3 sets of questions: The Career Is this the right career for me? Is the field growing? Will there be opportunity?

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

By Francie Diep Illustration by Ron Coddington, The Chronicle; Photos by AP and iStock Prominent law and medical schools have announced they will no longer cooperate with "U.S. News." Two researchers discuss what that might mean for the rankings.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

New York high school seniors who participated in a City University of New York system mentoring program were seven percentage points more likely to enroll in college, according to a new study by the system’s Office of Applied Research, Evaluation and Data Analytics. The student participants enrolled in CUNY and non-CUNY colleges and universities.

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Campus Technology

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Through its partnership with edX, an online degree and digital course content company, the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) will launch a fully online Master of Science degree in Artificial Intelligence (MSAI).

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

InterCamps, a new languages centres provider, will launch this summer in France and Belgium in collaboration with SUL Education , Move & Study and LEA Séjours Linguistiques. The camps will take place in Abondance in the French Alps and in Wanze, Belgium. At both locations, participants will learn and practice either French or English during daily lessons.

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