Higher Ed Data Stories

DECEMBER 23, 2022

If you want a definitive answer, you can stop now. As Mark Twain allegedly said, "I was gratified to be able to give an answer right away. I said I didn't know." However, critics of test optional like to trot out this study from 2014 , suggesting test-optional policies do not increase diversity. There are a couple of problems with using that paper to prop up this argument, however: First, the study included about 200 liberal arts colleges, and nowhere does it suggest that the conclusions can be

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Higher Ed Dive

DECEMBER 30, 2022

The Alliance for Research on Regional Colleges put together a list of 474 institutions that it says are important for low-income, Black and rural students.

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Wonkhe

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Gemma Ahearne and Matt Murphy argue that in order to prepare students for the workplace, they need to be able to communicate across different disciplines. The post Building Bridges: The Case for Inter-Faculty Learning appeared first on Wonkhe.

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The Academic Designer

DECEMBER 2, 2022

I'm teaming up with Dr. Sheena Howard to bring you a live VIP event for academics. You're invited!

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Family, it is time for a chat! Pull up a seat or make whatever adjustments that you need to make so that my brothers and I can rap with you. Over the last few days, we have seen countless opinions internal and external to the HBCU community regarding the exit of Coach Prime [Deion Sanders] from Jackson State University. There have been many opinions flying across Twitter, Facebook, and even national news stations like CNN.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Category: Carpe Careers When mental health topics are taboo, grad students suffer in silence, write Christiann Gaines and Rebekah Layton, who explore ways the academic community can support trainees. Editorial Tags: Career Advice Graduate students Mental Health Show on Jobs site: Image Source: CreativeDesignArt/digitalvision vectors/getty images Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Multiple Authors: Christiann Gaines Rebekah Layton Is this diversity newsletter?

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

DECEMBER 7, 2022

By Katherine Mangan. After a three-week-old walkout by 1,800 part-time faculty members, the university also demanded that full-timers certify they are working. Meanwhile, angry parents are threatening a lawsuit.

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Wonkhe

DECEMBER 12, 2022

For Nick Isles, recent ministerial comments about international students have been dangerously underinformed. The post International students and specialist courses appeared first on Wonkhe.

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The PIE News

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Australia has spent the week celebrating its biggest export economy with a virtual showcase and conference for all professional recruiters and agencies sending students to study in the country. Global Agent Week 2022 opened with a ministerial address from Minister for Trade and Tourism, Don Farrell. “The Albanese Government supports our world-class international education sector,” Farrell said, highlighting commitment to the sector by the highest echelons of the Australian government.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Despite pledges from campus leaders to diversify all facets of their institutions, faculty have remained stubbornly white, according to a new report from the Education Trust, a non-profit that works to close opportunity and achievement gaps. “It reflects something that we’ve long known,” said Dr. Kimberly A. Griffin, professor and dean of the College of Education at the University of Maryland. “ That the student body is diversifying much faster than the faculty is. ” The report, based on 2020 da

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Academe Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

BY MICHAEL MERANZE The Strike continues with no end in sight. Although there have been tentative agreements concerning Post-Docs and Academic Researchers, in the Academic Student Employee and Student Researcher units, the parties appear to remain well apart on the fundamental economic issues.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

DECEMBER 2, 2022

By Grace Mayer and Carolyn Kuimelis. Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News, Getty Images Gloria Bartolo, a doctoral student in molecular biology, leads a strike march by UCLA postdocs on Thursday. Across the University of California, students and professors aren't sure how they'll get through the end of the term.

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Higher Ed Dive

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Bachelor's degrees offer solid payoffs, while grad programs post mixed returns, researchers find. But many students don't go on to work in the field.

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Wonkhe

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Has artificial intelligence become a legitimate concern for plagiarism? James Bagshaw investigates the discussion around the use of the AI chat tool, ChatGPT. The post What implications does ChatGPT have for assessment? appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Cisco blogs - Education

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The breadth and depth of Cisco’s strategic relationship with Victoria University has been described as allowing the university to do things they couldn’t otherwise touch in a new video profiling the University’s partnership with Cisco. Cisco’s partnership extends well beyond the supply of technology enabling administration, teaching and learning and research.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Dr. Kayon Hall wants to change the way academia thinks about undocumented students. “Black and undocumented students are socially and politically left out of the conversation,” said Hall, an assistant professor of higher education administration at Kent State University in Ohio. This year, Hall published an article with the Journal of First-Generation Student Success about the lived experiences of Black undocumented students, highlighting the ways higher education has excluded them from immigrat

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The Berkeley Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Many German corporations benefited enormously from supporting and advancing Nazi persecution, particularly through the use of abusive forced labor often entailing torture and frequently leading to injury, illness, and premature death during World War 2 and the Holocaust. While some German corporations have acknowledged their crimes fully and sought to direct funds towards public education.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Augusta University’s College of Nursing realized it needed to better train students on how to support family members when patients are near the end of life after recent graduates told faculty how emotionally unprepared they were the first time they faced the situation.

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Higher Ed Dive

DECEMBER 20, 2022

A ban on Pell Grants for people in prison is ending. Replicating standard practices won’t work for incarcerated students, a new NASFAA report says.

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Wonkhe

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Report stage in the Lords for the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill brought a big surprise and a hefty government defeat. Jim Dickinson tries to avoid crashing the car. The post NDAs and the Tort are out as the Free Speech Bill clears Lords’ report stage appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Image: Faculty diversity is positively associated with student success across a variety of metrics. Black and Latino students are more likely to graduate when they see themselves represented in their instructors, for instance. But the benefits of faculty diversity aren’t just evident among historically underrepresented students: research suggests that engaging with diverse instructors, perspectives and ideas benefits all students —including in the development of empathy and problem-s

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Dr. Claudine Gay, president-elect of Harvard University. Dr. Claudine Gay is making history. Gay, dean of Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, will succeed current Harvard President Dr. Lawrence S. Bacow on July 1, 2023. Gay’s appointment marks the first time a person of color will lead the nation’s oldest and one of its most prominent postsecondary institutions.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 22, 2022

This blog was kindly contributed by The Unite Foundation and Paige Mackenzie. This year’s John Lewis Christmas advert highlighted different notions of family and belonging at this time of year. As you may know, many care experienced and estranged students will be staying at university over the holidays, either in private accommodation or halls. Seeing their friends go home for Christmas can be isolating.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

DECEMBER 30, 2022

By Sylvia Goodman. Matt Manley for The Chronicle. Early research shows economics papers by women can spend months longer in review, raising questions about biases in the process.

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Higher Ed Dive

DECEMBER 6, 2022

New regulations will allow the agency to review debt forgiveness claims for groups rather than individuals. For-profits question whether that’s fair.

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Wonkhe

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The launch of the International Science Partnerships Fund is an important milestone in post Horizon global research deals. The post A glimpse of post Horizon research partnerships appeared first on Wonkhe.

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The PIE News

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The UK is in the midst of a housing crisis as student numbers grow. At the start of the 2021/22 academic year, universities including Glasgow warned international students that accommodation wouldn’t be guaranteed. Russell Group universities including Manchester and Durham even paid students to defer. When Geneviève Godin arrived in Manchester in mid-September, two weeks after her postgraduate course began, she was surprised to find the private accommodation she had paid for was unclean a

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2022

As institutions wrap up their fall semesters, many faculty, staff, and students look forward to a chance to go home to familiar stomping grounds and family traditions. But for students who identify as LGBTQ+, particularly those who identify as non-binary, going home for winter break can paint a more complicated picture. Holiday stress impacts almost all students, according to a new survey of over 1,200 students from TimelyMD, a virtual health and wellbeing company that partners with almost 250 h

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HEPI

DECEMBER 20, 2022

This blog was kindly contributed by Colleen Roper, co-founder of Future4Fairgrounds. My name is Colleen Roper, and I am part of an organisation called Future4Fairgrounds. We are a group of six Showmen, all women, who came together in September 2020 to provide a platform for the concerns of our community. Our aims are to celebrate our past, raise awareness for our present and protect the future of the Showmen community.

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University Business

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Ask anyone and they’ll tell you it’s been a challenging year for both students and faculty in both higher education and K-12. But like any obstacle, it’s been overcome with perseverance and innovation, ultimately carrying us to the other side with hopes of a brighter tomorrow. As for 2023, there’s a lot to look forward to. Here’s why.

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Higher Ed Dive

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Part-time, community college students earn diplomas on time less frequently than four-year and full-time students, Complete College America finds.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 9, 2022

A mantra of academic advice columns is that you need to talk yourself up in a competitive job market, but let’s be honest: things have gotten way out of hand, writes M. Brett Wilson. Editorial Tags: Career Advice Show on Jobs site: Image Source: z_wei/istock/getty images plus Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?

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The PIE News

DECEMBER 12, 2022

UK universities have established plans to move into Indonesia, following a higher education mission led by the government’s international education champion Steve Smith. . Representatives from 13 UK universities visited Jakarta at the end of November to meet with Indonesian academic institutions and discuss future collaborations and transnational education partnerships.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 3, 2022

For close to a year, I have been strategizing and working with Randy Raymond, a software engineer at Google, to make access to computer science education the new “Space Race” and create models that schools can scale to deliver instruction to students. We believe that this movement can be expanded and go a long way towards increasing diversity in fields like engineering and computing.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

DECEMBER 29, 2022

On Hamline University's shocking imposition of narrow religious orthodoxy in the classroom. By Amna Khalid. On Hamline University's shocking imposition of narrow religious orthodoxy in the classroom.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Since late 2021, when Google announced that it would impose a 100-terabyte limit on the unlimited free storage it had been offering to higher education institutions through its Google Workspace for Education platform, universities around the country have been paying closer attention to the data stored by their users on Google Cloud. Google implemented the policy not only because the storage required by universities has grown unmanageable but also because universities — for the most part unwillin

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Higher Ed Dive

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Like many colleges, the public institution waived SAT and ACT mandates amid the pandemic. It joins MIT bucking a trend of remaining test-optional.

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