Deans for Impact

AUGUST 29, 2022

Deans for Impact · Empowering educators and elevating the teaching profession. Subscribe: Learning by Scientific Design is a podcast series by Deans for Impact that explores how an understanding of cognitive science, or the science of how students learn, can lead to more rigorous, equitable and inclusive teaching. . How can the growing adoption of learning science in teacher preparation contribute to systemic change in U.S. education?

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The Academic Designer

AUGUST 30, 2022

Dr. Lisa Munro talks about how to kickstart your journal article. Did you know she has a private community for academic writers on Mighty Networks?

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 31, 2022

How, in a polarized nation, Stephanie L. Liberatore asks, should we be teaching argument in the academy? Should we be focusing less on persuasion and more on understanding? Job Tags: FACULTY JOBS Ad keywords: faculty teachinglearning Section: Teaching and Learning Editorial Tags: Teaching Show on Jobs site: Image Source: DMEPhotography/istock/getty images plus Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?

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Cisco blogs - Education

AUGUST 30, 2022

The higher education sector has a major role to play in the journey to Net Zero – both in terms of reducing its own environmental footprint and by helping to develop new climate technologies through applied research and co-innovation with industry. The convergence of digital and Net Zero is a new frontier for innovation and is another major driver for Universities digital transformation.

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Campus Technology

AUGUST 31, 2022

A new collaboration among the Hawai?i State Department of Education (HIDOE), University of Hawai?i System (UH), and Amazon Web Services (AWS) aims to build a cloud computing talent pipeline from high school through higher education, with a short-term goal of training and certifying 150 learners by 2025.

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WCET Frontiers

AUGUST 30, 2022

It’s Back to School time and while the season is filled with its typical excitement for new beginnings, this year there are certainly additional considerations when it comes to heading back to campus. Today we welcome back Kara Monroe, who continues her excellent list of guest appearances with a focus on returning to campus and remote work. Does your campus have a remote work policy?

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Continuous Learning Institute

AUGUST 29, 2022

( A. Solano ). The ability of faculty to change—from external to internal attributions—is a foundational ingredient in student success, particularly for Latina/o/x students. External attributions assign blame for something that is beyond a faculty's control. The primary factor that faculty have control over is their internal attributions--the ability to consistently improve their craft.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 16, 2022

Image: The director of the University of Florida’s honors program, who has been in the role eight years, says he was fired for no apparent reason with two years left on his current, five-year contract. Mark Law, the director, also says he was told that the university’s Board of Trustees insisted on his ouster, against the will of the university’s president and provost.

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Cisco blogs - Education

AUGUST 5, 2022

This post was authored by Bev Wright, CIO for the University of Adelaide in Adelaide, South Australia. The University of Adelaide is a public research university in Australia that is a member of the Group of Eight, a distinction equivalent to the Ivy League in the United States. We have over 23,000 students, including international students from over 100 countries.

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Campus Technology

AUGUST 30, 2022

Pearson has added Channels, a curated library of educational videos, to its Pearson+ e-textbook subscription service.

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

AUGUST 31, 2022

Reading Time: 12 minutes By now, you’ve likely heard about the changes that Google is making to its analytics tool. Google Analytics 4 (GA4) will go into effect on July 1, 2023. This gives your school a short window to learn everything there is to know about the new changes in web analytics for higher education —including how to properly set up, track, and compare your metrics. .

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Continuous Learning Institute

AUGUST 6, 2022

( A. Solano ). After more than two decades of coaching, keynoting, presenting, and conducting trainings, these high frequency asked culture-related questions from college educators have risen to the top. I address them in a Q&A format. What is the most significant challenge to improving student success and equity? Culture. By far. Exacerbated by an unproductive committee structure and my three-month rule.

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Higher Education Inquirer

AUGUST 30, 2022

The US Department of Education (ED) continues to paint rosy projections about higher education enrollment despite harsh economic and demographic realities--and increasing skepticism about the value of college degrees. Image from Digest of Education Statistics (2022) Since 2011, higher education enrollment has declined every year--a more than decade long trend.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 29, 2022

Category: Carpe Careers If you have experienced such fears once, you’ll probably confront them again as your career advances, writes Angela Fowler, who recommends having a set of tools that will assist you in overcoming them. Editorial Tags: Career Advice Show on Jobs site: Image Source: useng/istock/getty images plus Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?

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Cisco blogs - Education

AUGUST 14, 2022

Australia has incredible talent across academia and industry, and one of my great career passions has been working with others to realise their combined potential. The National Industry Innovation Network (NIIN), a rapidly growing alliance between Australian universities and industry is, I believe, the embodiment of that potential. With the NIIN’s goal to realise digital opportunities that can benefit the lives of all Australians, it’s a working example of the whole being greater than the sum of

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Campus Technology

AUGUST 30, 2022

If you're looking for software and services to augment online and blended instruction, start here.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

AUGUST 25, 2022

Partnership and Policy for Academic Advising. A Conversation With Arne Duncan, Former U.S. Secretary of Education. bridget. Thu, 08/25/2022 - 06:00. Image. Advising. Graduation. Student Success. On May 26, 2022, in connection with a panel discussion about the future of academic advising , we were honored to speak with Arne Duncan, the former U.S. Secretary of Education.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 30, 2022

There has to be a better approach, one that doesn’t involve leaving academe or staying yet simply slogging through each day with little to no enthusiasm, writes Rebecca Vidra. Editorial Tags: Career Advice Show on Jobs site: Image Source: dickcraft/istock/getty images plus Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 29, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Are you old enough to remember The Reader’s Diges t’s most popular feature: “The Most Unforgettable Character I Ever Met”? When I was a callow 19, I had the incredible good fortune met three truly unforgettable geniuses: Arna Bontemps, Aaron Douglas, and Georgia O’Keeffe. I had embarked on a senior thesis on Jean Toomer, the recently reclaimed Harlem Renaissance poet and author.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 31, 2022

Image: Students in a business class at Porterville College in California recently joined a video call with students from Iraq for an instructor-facilitated discussion on the United Nations’ sustainability goals. Afterward, the groups dispersed to seek input about the nature of local sustainability challenges from members of their respective communities.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 18, 2022

Image: In late July, Whitworth University undergraduate Byron Gustafson tried to access information on his university’s website, but his request did not go through. At first, he assumed the glitch was temporary. But three days later, he saw a brief post from the university indicating that the institution was experiencing technical difficulties.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 31, 2022

Image: The Oberlin College community learned via a local news report Sunday that the college was outsourcing all its student health services to a Catholic-run health-care agency that would only prescribe birth control pills with “medical indications.” But on Tuesday, after facing a barrage of criticism, President Carmen Twillie Ambar announced that the college was changing course and would partner with a local family planning clinic to provide reproductive health services—inclu

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 30, 2022

Image: Classes and other meetings sometimes have problems in execution. An instructor or leader may arrive unprepared. Students or attendees may check phones or talk among themselves. Discussions that are intended to flow freely sometimes have lulls. Even those who engage may dominate or remain silent. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit and meetings migrated to Zoom, everything got worse.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 29, 2022

Image: As the school year gets underway, a national teacher shortage has K-12 districts scrambling and job boards lengthening. The president of the National Education Association called the lack of classroom teachers a “ five-alarm crisis.” Some students are returning to full-time in-person learning only to find their instructors teaching through screens , often from hundreds of miles away.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 25, 2022

Blog: Beyond Transfer The University of Illinois system is fortunate to be located in a state that historically has placed a great emphasis on transfer student success. With a total of 12 public four-year institutions, 48 community colleges and more than 60 nonprofit four-year institutions, the state of Illinois is a national leader in bachelor’s degree completion rates among community college students who transfer to four-year institutions.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 25, 2022

Image: When Steve Tedford, professor of mathematics at Misericordia University, wanted to boost enrollment in the department’s math and statistics courses, he thought of offering elective courses in the high-demand field of data analytics. But hiring a faculty member with expertise to develop and teach new courses was not an option; the Pennsylvania university had suspended tenure in 2020 and had lost faculty positions due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 23, 2022

Image: A group of public health experts wants the American Public Health Association to replace Dr. Leana Wen as a panelist at the APHA’s annual meeting in November in Boston. Dr. Wen, research professor of health policy and management at George Washington University, previously served as the health commissioner for the city of Baltimore and the president of Planned Parenthood.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 22, 2022

Category: Carpe Careers Sonali Majumdar and James M. Van Wyck encourage graduate students to connect with the vast social and intellectual ecosystem on campus beyond their departments. Editorial Tags: Career Advice Graduate students Show on Jobs site: Image Source: XiaoYun Li/digitalvision vectors/gettty images Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Multiple Authors: Sonali Majumdar James M.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 31, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma A now forgotten turn-of-the-20th-century song, “Do You Believe Your Baby or Your Eyes?” apparently gave birth to one of that century’s most famous witticisms. If you are caught red-handed in an undeniably awkward, embarrassing or illicit situation, one way out is to beg for trust. No need to confess or apologize or be humiliated.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 31, 2022

One day after the massacre of 19 schoolchildren and two teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde, Tex., NBC News reporter Frank Thorp V posted on Twitter this summary of an exchange with former U.S. senator Heidi Heitkamp: Spotted @HeidiHeitkamp in the Capitol, asked her if she regretted her vote against the Manchin-Toomey background checks bill in 2013.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 30, 2022

Editor’s Note: This piece is a conversation between Rashné Jehangir, associate professor of higher education and founding director of the First Gen Institute at the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Minnesota, and Tai Do, a sixth-year doctoral student of educational psychology and a graduate research assistant with the institute.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 26, 2022

Equity gaps are not only unjust; they are also expensive. The term “equity gap” refers to systematic differences in outcomes that vary across student groups. Nationally, Black, Hispanic and Native American students graduate at lower rates than their white and Asian counterparts at four-year and two-year colleges alike. These gaps don’t exist because certain types of students are lazier than others.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 26, 2022

A return to the status quo now would further solidify the engrained systems within our institutions that have long been problematic, write Wilmarie Rodriguez and Amy Carpenter. Editorial Tags: Career Advice Show on Jobs site: Image Source: z_wei/istock/getty images plus Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Multiple Authors: Wilmarie Rodriguez Amy Carpenter Is this diversity newsletter?

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 26, 2022

Image: Reports of a planned merger between two of Japan’s most prestigious universities, which come only months after a shift in government policy to reward top research performers, have prompted speculation in academe over whether there could be more such moves in the making. The Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) and Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU), both national universities in Japan, reportedly began talks in early August with the aim of merging by 2023, according to

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 25, 2022

If colleges are interested in real diversity work, their spousal accommodation policies for dual-career academic couples should be much clearer and more supportive, argues Mireille Rebeiz. Editorial Tags: Career Advice Show on Jobs site: Image Source: kmlmtz66/istock/getty images plus Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 24, 2022

We can create more engaging and inspiring ways to begin a class, write Cathy N. Davidson and Christina Katopodis, who provide some concrete ideas for how to do so. Job Tags: FACULTY JOBS Ad keywords: faculty teachinglearning Section: Teaching and Learning Editorial Tags: Career Advice Teaching Teaching Today Show on Jobs site: Image Source: vinnstock/istock/getty images plus Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Multiple Authors: Cathy N.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 19, 2022

Image: The University of Southern California is one of the top-ranked campuses for Greek life in the country: almost 30 percent of undergraduates—about 7,300 students— were members of a Greek organization in 2020. But as students begin arriving for the fall semester, they’ll find that many of USC’s Greek organizations are no longer subject to university governance.

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