January, 2023

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6 college admissions experts share their biggest predictions for 2023

Higher Ed Dive

A pending Supreme Court ruling on race-conscious admissions and other shifts like ChatGPT’s effects on application essays could upend the landscape.

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7 Lessons for Academics Wanting to Use Social Media in 2023

The Academic Designer

What can academics learn about social media from reality TV? Jennifer talks about the new season of The Circle Netflix, sharing 7 tips to inspire professors for the new year.

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Why Labour should prioritise tertiary reform over tuition fees

Wonkhe

Andy Westwood makes the case for a joined-up education system and a blueprint for policy that could be picked up by Labour for the next general election and beyond The post Why Labour should prioritise tertiary reform over tuition fees appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Professors at University of Illinois at Chicago begin strike

Inside Higher Ed

Image: University of Illinois at Chicago faculty members began striking Tuesday after their union said 12 hours of negotiations with administrators on Martin Luther King Jr. Day didn’t produce an agreement. “We passed proposals back and forth with the management team from 10 a.m. until 10 p.m., when they passed us a counter that indicated that they had no interest in resolving our differences,” the union, UIC United Faculty, wrote on its website.

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What are We Doing About AI Essays?

Faculty Focus

The November newsfeed heralded the arrival of AI essay writing. AI (or Artificial Intelligence) essay writing recruits online software that sifts through information and generates a thoughtful written analysis. Enter a prompt, and AI can turn out a reasonable essay on everything from utilitarianism to the Krebs cycle…for free. In truth, AI authorship hardly qualifies as “news.

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Online Faculty and Student Mentoring: Building Community and Leveraging Resources

Educause

Online mentoring is an innovative and cost-efficient way to be more responsive and potentially better serve all students and faculty engaged in teaching and learning in any modality—whether online, hybrid, or in-person.

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What the potential acquisition of University of Phoenix says about the for-profit sector

Higher Ed Dive

Executives may want to flee a sector with tight rules and a poor reputation at the same time nonprofits are looking to build their online offerings, experts said.

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Are universities still “civic washing”?

Wonkhe

Many universities claim to have a civic mission, but how many are paying the living wage? Jonathan Grant takes a look at the sector’s progress so far. The post Are universities still “civic washing”? appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Academics work to detect ChatGPT and other AI writing

Inside Higher Ed

Image: When humans write, they leave subtle signatures that hint at the prose’s fleshy, brainy origins. Their word and phrase choices are more varied than those selected by machines that write. Human writers also draw from short- and long-term memories that recall a range of lived experiences and inform personal writing styles. And unlike machines, people are susceptible to inserting minor typos, such as a misplaced comma or a misspelled word.

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Higher Education Can Connect Diverse Students to Lucrative, Technical Careers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Technical jobs are receiving fewer applications from younger generations. According to Handshake, a network of institutions and employers that helps connect students with early career opportunities, trade careers saw 49% fewer applications in 2022 than 2020. Applications for jobs like automotive technicians or respiratory therapists went from an average of 10 applications each to only five.

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The Evolving Landscape of Students' Mobile Learning Practices in Higher Education

Educause

Ongoing student surveys at the University of Central Florida show the evolution and impact of the pandemic on students’ mobile device ownership and use for learning.

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7 higher education trends to watch in 2023

Higher Ed Dive

Federal financial aid will continue to hog the spotlight, but we're also waiting for the U.S. Supreme Court's decision on race-conscious admissions.

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ChatGPT: A Must-See Before the Semester Begins

Faculty Focus

I have seen friends on Facebook create decent songs and stunning artistic creations with little knowledge of music or art, all after spending a bit of time getting to know an AI art or music generator. But since the grammar assistants in my word processors often flag what is already correct and miss what I wish they should have caught, I’ve never felt AI writing was advancing very quickly.

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Universities can lead the way in making a better menopause

Wonkhe

Disappointed by foot dragging in Westminster, Karen Ross argues that higher education should step up and take the lead on making the menopause an everyday story The post Universities can lead the way in making a better menopause appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Public health majors grow by more than 1,000 percent

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Tabitha Edson always knew she wanted to work in health sciences. She earned a nursing assistant certification in high school but decided not to pursue the field at Westminster College, a small private institution in Salt Lake City; she worried that it would limit her job opportunities when she graduated. Instead, she found herself drawn to public health, inspired by an introductory course in the subject required for both public health and nursing majors.

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Tribal Colleges and Universities Seek Greater Recognition and Funding

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs) have been in existence for over 50 years, serving not only Native American and Alaskan Native students but anyone from the rural communities where they reside. The 35 TCUs in the U.S. train future teachers, nurses, engineers, and more. Yet despite serving almost 28,000 students yearly, experts say TCUs are often invisible to the public or seen as institutions of lesser quality than other public or private institutions, despite being accredited by state age

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Can the HE sector just carry on as it is now??

HEPI

Today’s HEPI blog is the text of a speech by Nick Hillman, Director of HEPI, to a joint meeting of the Senate and Council at Lancaster University. It is a great pleasure to be back at Lancaster University. I have visited many times before of course, perhaps most notably for a debate hosted by some of your students in which I defended the current tuition fee system against the (then) Labour politician Chris Williamson.

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Religious colleges should lean into their identities, leaders say

Higher Ed Dive

At an ACE event, faith-based colleges discussed problems dogging higher ed — like accessibility and completion — in a religious context.

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Chinese students signing “loyalty” pledges before arrival in Sweden

The PIE News

International doctoral students who are arriving in Sweden from China are being told to sign agreements and guidelines to the Chinese government, an investigation has revealed. The Swedish daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter has obtained evidence of letters being written by Chinese doctoral students before their entry into Sweden apparently “swearing loyalty” to the ruling Communist party in their home country, among other agreements.

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How should universities handle cases of blackmail by essay mills?

Wonkhe

Daniel Sokol describes a case of blackmail by an essay mill and proposes a new approach to how universities should handle such cases. The post How should universities handle cases of blackmail by essay mills? appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Academic experts offer advice on ChatGPT

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Ever since the chat bot ChatGPT burst into public view in late 2022, students, professors and administrators have been woozy from a chaotic cocktail of excitement, uncertainty and fear. The bot writes poems, sonnets and essays. It also serves as a convincing debate partner on a seemingly unlimited number of subjects. Given that the natural language model earned passing scores on the evidence and torts portion of the bar exam, among other feats, some in academe fret that the technology may

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Choosing an Executive Leadership Coach: What Matters

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

One of the realities of moving up the executive leadership ranks, whether in higher education or other sectors, is that the higher you ascend, the fewer people you have with whom to commensurate or in whom to confide. The truth be told, for numerous reasons, even the most confident executives are often hesitant to turn to persons inside their organization, in ranks above them, to run an idea past them or to seek advice.

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The Plan to Dismantle DEI

The Chronicle of Higher Education

Conservatives take on colleges' "illiberal" bureaucracy. By Eric Kelderman André da Loba for The Chronicle Model legislation lays out how legislatures could outlaw public colleges' efforts to attract and retain people of color and other marginalized groups.

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Harvard Medical School rejects U.S. News rankings

Higher Ed Dive

The dean of the No. 1 medical school for research says rankings “create perverse incentives” for institutions to submit false or misleading data.

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Number of EU students enrolling in UK universities halves post-Brexit

The Guardian - Higher Education

Data shows sharp decline in students from Italy, Germany and France with Brexit seen as primary deterrent The number of EU students enrolling in British universities has more than halved since Brexit – with sharp declines in scholars from Italy, Germany and France, figures reveal. Brexit is seen as the primary deterrent , with home fees and student finance no longer available to EU students who do not already live in the UK with settled or pre-settled status.

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How pay negotiations work in UK universities

Wonkhe

David Kernohan looks for the data and the constraints in the increasingly acrimonious New JNCHES system of higher education pay negotiation The post How pay negotiations work in UK universities appeared first on Wonkhe.

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College presidents must denounce white nationalist attacks (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

The movement must not be written off as just politics or culture wars when in fact it’s a direct threat to everything higher education stands for, writes Michael Gavin. Show on Jobs site: Image Source: Brent Stirton/Staff/Getty Images News Image Caption: Insurrectionists clash with law enforcement as they try to storm the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

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What Is a Metaversity, and Should You Create One on Your Campus?

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

The stuff of science fiction isn’t nearly as far away as it once seemed. The speed of progress in tech continues to change higher education at a dramatic pace. Ideas that seemed far-fetched three years ago, like earning a four-year college degree solely by completing courses online and without ever meeting a professor in person, are now fairly common practice.

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Fear of a Black-Studies Planet

The Chronicle of Higher Education

There's a reason Ron DeSantis feels threatened by AP African American studies. By Roderick A. Ferguson Joan Wong for The Chronicle There's a reason Ron DeSantis feels threatened by AP African American studies.

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Education Department struggled to examine whether colleges were misrepresenting themselves, watchdog finds

Higher Ed Dive

Turnover hampered a unit overseeing a ban on colleges lying about programs, costs and student outcomes, the Government Accountability Office said.

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Why not a graduate tax?

HEPI

Like many people, I am sceptical that a graduate tax is a good answer to either the funding crisis affecting higher education institutions and students or the political challenges faced by Keir Starmer and others who have spoken of getting rid of tuition fees in England. Promising a big new tax that would, in a few years’ time, come to affect over half of all younger adults seems unlikely to go down all that well on the doorstep as the next election approaches.

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Why can’t we just have more medical student places?

Wonkhe

Training more doctors isn't as simple as raising the caps on medical school places. David Kernohan learns the true cost of medical training The post Why can’t we just have more medical student places? appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Why what we value matters in our career goals and journeys (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

Category: Carpe Careers Lauren Easterling explores why what we value matters when it comes to the goals we set, the plans we make and the career journeys we take. Editorial Tags: Career Advice Show on Jobs site: Image Source: Rudzhan Nagiev/istock/getty images plus Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?

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UK international numbers rose to 680,000 in 2021/22

The PIE News

Chinese, Indian and Nigerian students continued to drive the international student population of the UK in the 2021/22 academic year, with the country hosting a total of 679,970 non-UK students. HESA statistics show that the international student numbers continued to grow, after the country famously hit its 600,000 target for 2030 a decade early. The 2021/22 figures indicate that total non-EU enrolments rose to 559,825 from 452,225 in 2020/21, while overall EU student numbers fell to 120,140 fr

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Native American Languages Are Disappearing. Colleges Could Help Preserve Them.

The Chronicle of Higher Education

By Sylvia Goodman As the need to pass on Indigenous languages grows more dire each year, tribes are teaming up with colleges to revitalize “sleeping” tongues.

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Researchers hope to boost community college transfer and make it more equitable

Higher Ed Dive

Leaders detail a new project disaggregating data on who transfers and earns a bachelor's degree. It also seeks to document best practices for colleges.

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?UCAS Application Reforms: A Secondary School Perspective

HEPI

Today at 6pm is the main UCAS deadline for entry to higher education in 2023. UCAS recently blogged for HEPI on the changes they are proposing to make to higher education applications in future. Here, Sarra Jenkins, a Politics teacher in Loughborough who is behind the successful @LGS_Politics twitter account, responds to UCAS’s proposals by looking at what they might mean for those on the cusp of higher education.

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