September, 2022

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Building confidence and joy: how tutoring is sparking promise in New Jersey

Deans for Impact

“Mr. Steven! Am I going to see you tomorrow?”. “Not tomorrow, but Wednesday!”. “And, what about Thursday?”. “Yup, I’ll see you Thursday, too.”. As the young girl rounds the corner to her next activity with a gleeful “yayyyy,” Steven turns back to me, chuckling, “sorry about that, where were we?”. Truth is, I lost where we were. All that mattered in that moment was the pure joy that little girl had in knowing that in just two days time, she would once again get to work with Mr.

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Leveraging Dynamic Content in Higher Education Marketing

MindMax

In today’s digital world, people expect highly personalized experiences from brands across all industries. Colleges and universities must be prepared to keep up with this trend to maintain their spot in an increasingly competitive market. There are many ways to personalize content in higher education marketing, but one of our go-to strategies here at MindMax is leveraging dynamic content.

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Announcing a Contest for Best Personal Academic Websites You Should Enter!

The Academic Designer

Enter to win an award in the 2022 Best Personal Academic Websites Contest!

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The push for more active learning spaces on campus

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Active learning, or instructional methods that actively engage students in their own learning, is on the rise. So, too, are physical spaces dedicated to this kind of teaching. These are positive developments from the perspective of groups such as the Association of American Universities and the American Association of Colleges and Universities, which promote high-impact practices that increase student engagement and deep learning.

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New Coursera survey shows high demand for industry microcredentials from students and employers in tight labor market

Coursera blog

By Scott Shireman, Global Head of Coursera for Campus. In a competitive and fast-changing labor market, employers increasingly expect their entry-level talent to join their workforce already equipped with job-relevant skills and hands-on experience. At the same time, university-age students and their parents are thinking more critically about the ROI of traditional three and four-year degree programs: most notably, whether they will secure a job after graduation.

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The Smart Campus of the Future: Victoria University’s City Tower Powered by Cisco

Cisco blogs - Education

Victoria University (VU) has established a reputation for embracing innovation and technology in pursuit of enhancing the student and campus experience. VU’s decision to adopt the Block Model – where students learn subjects in intensive bursts – is a notable example of VU’s willingness to think creatively about long-standing challenges in education.

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A generational mission: Benjamin Riley on the founding of Deans for Impact

Deans for Impact

“ True social transformations are measured in decades, not years ,” our founder Benjamin Riley wrote in 2017. It’s a maxim that has guided Deans for Impact (DFI) since its formation. This summer, after eight years designing, launching, and leading DFI, Benjamin stepped away from his role as executive director and will pass the torch to Valerie Sakimura , a member of the founding team.

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Get IN the Game: Increase Enrollment with a Some-College-No-Credential Student Strategy?

Liaison International

In the May 2022 annual report, Some College, No Credential Student Outcomes , the National Clearinghouse noted that there are 39 million Americans who have some college, but no degree. While identifying, reenrolling, and supporting these students—who often come from low-income, underrepresented, and underserved populations—is a critical social initiative, a growing number of institutions recognize the practical advantages: In the wake of the demographic cliff, reenrolling degree-seeking students

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Johns Hopkins moves forward with private police force

Inside Higher Ed

Image: After a two-plus-year pause, Johns Hopkins University is moving ahead with plans to establish a private, armed police force. This week it released a draft of its memorandum of understanding with the Baltimore Police Department, laying out the framework for their division of duties. The two police departments will share the authority to patrol the “campus area,” which includes any buildings owned, operated, leased or controlled by Hopkins within the three Baltimore campuses: th

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Are Colleges Ready to BeReal? 

Dr. Josie Ahlquist

If there is anything constant in social media — it is the rise and fall of platforms. You may have tried one of these in the last decade. Peach, Clubhouse, Meerkat, Vine, Ello. I could go on. I try to be pretty particular when I bring an app to the attention of my clients and digital community. I’m not saying I’m a futurist, more like a digital explorer, but I was shining the light early on about.

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Bridging the Gap From Education to Employment

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

Bridging the Gap From Education to Employment. A Playbook for Transforming College-to-Career. bridget. Thu, 09/08/2022 - 06:00. Image. College to Career. Equity. University Culture. Career preparation is a core objective of a university education. For many students, it's also the primary goal. According to Strada Education Network's Institute for the Future of Work , 85% of freshmen say that their main priority for attending college is getting a good job.

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English universities face fines over dropout and employment rates

The Guardian - Higher Education

Criteria on career outcomes, drop-out rates and degree attainment unveiled for system of sanctions Universities will face sanctions if not enough students go on to graduate-level jobs within 15 months, if too many drop out or fail to earn degrees, England’s higher education regulator has warned. The Office for Students published its new tests of “low quality” subjects that could see large fines or deregistration imposed on universities where fewer than 60% of graduates in a university’s subject

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At ASU Online, Empathy Is the Foundation of Student Success

Campus Technology

At Arizona State University Online, student success coaches cultivate deep relationships with students as individuals, get to know their unique life experiences and challenges, and leverage data to better understand the multitude of factors that can impact retention. We spoke with Nicolette Miller, senior director of student success initiatives, about her team’s student-centered approach and what institutions should be doing to help students reach the finish line of their education.

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Mind Wandering

Faculty Focus

This article first appeared in the Teaching Professor on November 23, 2016. © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. Many students don’t pay much attention in class. They come to class, but most of the time, only their bodies are present. When they study, that demanding task occurs as they attend to a host of other, often more engaging mental activities.

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Eastern Michigan faculty strike over health care, governance

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Tenured and tenure-track faculty members at Eastern Michigan University went on strike indefinitely Wednesday over stalled negotiations for a new contract. Scores of professors spent much of the day on a campus picket line, while the university directed students to attend classes and wait 15 minutes to see if an instructor showed up. Many professors did not, following a 91 percent faculty vote in favor of striking Tuesday.

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The Key to Successful Content Marketing

Caylor Solutions

Looking to level up your content marketing skills? Listen in to our conversation with Jay Baer. The post The Key to Successful Content Marketing appeared first on Caylor Solutions.

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Higher Education Analytics: 4 Ways Universities Can Analyze Enrollment Data

HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

How to Use Your Higher Education Data to Boost Enrollments. Higher education analytics are an essential aspect of enrollment marketing. University marketers can leverage data discoveries to make more informed decisions on a day-to-day basis. On a foundational level, university marketing departments collect vast amounts of data, including website visitors’ behavior (time on site, number of page views, etc.), but data points may not give enough context to inform decisions.

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Honouring Black History Month in higher education

Kortext University Leaders' Blog

When I received the email that confirmed my place at university despite less than impressive grades (I literally have two whole A Levels), I couldn’t help but wonder whether my space was awarded on merit or the fact that I ticked the box that said ‘Mixed Black Caribbean’. . Although we’re living in a more progressive society, racial discrimination and inequality can be felt by people of colour in the UK to this very day, emphasising the importance of honouring Black History Month. .

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AI/ML in EdTech: The Miracle, The Grind, and the Wall

eLiterate

I had a conversation with a friend last night about the counter-intuitive challenges of working with AI/ML and the implications for using them in EdTech. I decided it might be useful to share my thinking more broadly in a blog post. Essentially, I see three stages in working with artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML). I call them the miracle, the grind, and the wall.

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Why PeopleAdmin? Robin Borough, Chapman University

PeopleAdmin

Why PeopleAdmin? Robin Borough, Director of Talent Acquisition at Chapman University , is a long-time PeopleAdmin customer. Hear from her about why Chapman chose and loves to work with PeopleAdmin’s HigherEd platform (including Applicant Tracking System ). Robin also shares some of her favorite features and a few tips for fellow PeopleAdmin users.

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How Do Universities Define ‘Online Learning’?

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Learning Innovation What do universities mean when they talk about “online education”? This is a question that Marc T. Austin , associate provost and dean of Augusta University Online , wanted to figure out. So, he did some quick research. This Q&A with Marc is about what he found. Q: What was the research question you wanted to answer, and what made you want to answer it?

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Business Programs Continue to Dominate Online Master’s Market

Helix Education

With all the recent expansion of the online master’s education market, where do business programs find themselves? While our recent Online Student Recruitment Report indicates that many other subject areas have become competitive with business at the undergraduate degree and non-degree levels, business programs continue to have a significant lead over all other online master’s degree subjects.

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August Higher Education Demand Trends: Results Through July 2022

Gray Associates

Labor market data shows plenty of jobs for our August Program of the Month, but less than half of the jobs require a degree. If you are planning to offer this program, make sure you weigh the pros and cons. The post August Higher Education Demand Trends: Results Through July 2022 appeared first on Gray Associates | Program Evaluation.

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Assessment and evaluation of microcredentials: What success looks like and to whom

WCET Frontiers

Overview and Introduction. Today, we conclude the WCET blog series on microcredentials which set out to address the inception, implementation, and evaluation of microcredentialing approaches across the higher education industry. We learned that there is a wide range of reasons for an institution to begin a microcredential initiative, an even broader spectrum of microcredential terminology, and yet two primary outcomes: “to improve student recruitment and retention” and “to align learning with sh

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Robotics Education Lagging Behind Demand, Surveys Find

Campus Technology

Swiss-based automation technology company ABB announced recently that robotics and automation training are lagging behind increased global demand, according to two surveys it conducted this year on supply chain and education.

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Taking Innovation Cues from Community Colleges

PeopleAdmin

HigherEd can look to community colleges for innovation inspiration. Community colleges are facing many of the same challenges as four-year colleges and universities. In our recent webinar, “Community Colleges as Centers of Innovation: Shaping the Future of HigherEd,” we checked in with community college technology, change management, and innovation leaders to discuss their top tips and best practices for tackling the greatest HigherEd challenges of today.

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New study explores why people drop out or don't enroll

Inside Higher Ed

Image: A new study suggests that students choose to stop out of college and others choose not to enroll in the first place because of a range of “psychographics,” or psychological factors, including doubts about the financial returns of a college education and an awareness of other career training options outside traditional degree programs.

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Graduate and Online Recruitment Simplified: Remarkably Straightforward Advice

Helix Education

I recently had the opportunity to sit down and talk with Godfrey Gibbison , Dean of Extended Learning and Global Programs, California State University San Marcos. Godfrey and I struck up a conversation about how he has brought together academic and enrollment stakeholders to work on marketing, recruitment and enrollment of adult, graduate, professional, and online students.

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Multiracial Network Open Position: Publications Coordinator

ACPA

We had a role open on our Directorate for the Publications Coordinator role. Job Responsibilities. Coordinate the MRN blog, including meet the directorate board post (typically done in July or August), content writing, soliciting volunteer writers, etc. Create a pre-convention blog post (typically done in February) and a post-convention blog post (typically done in April).

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Fun and games – nurturing students’ ‘being’

SRHE

by Lucy Gill-Simmen and Laura Chamberlain. It is widely known that skills required by employers today are focused less on discipline specific skills and more on personal skills (also referred to as soft skills or human skills). For example, relatively recently, Tracy Brower in Forbes declared empathy to be the most important leadership skill. Other reports, such as those from the World Economic F orum and OECD , cite skills such as critical thinking, creativity, resilience, self-awareness and em

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Chatbots in Higher Education and the Future of Communication

HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

The Role of Chatbots for Universities and Colleges. Many of today’s students have grown up with technology literally at their fingertips. As a result, they’re adept at communicating through a personal device any time of day. A prospective student could be browsing your website in the middle of the night and suddenly have questions that, if answered while you have their attention, could determine whether they apply to your institution.

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How to Leverage WhatsApp for Education

HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

Reading Time: 9 minutes Today, instant messaging platforms are capturing the time and attention of students all over the world, and WhatsApp is a key player. Around the world, WhatsApp is the default channel for personal communication, offering features such as group chats, video and audio messaging, and graphics. And the best part? Your school can get on board with this service to communicate with prospective students. .

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How to publicize your first academic book (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

You can do a number of small things to help publicize it and get your story out to a broader audience, writes Joanne W. Golann. Job Tags: FACULTY JOBS Ad keywords: faculty Editorial Tags: Career Advice Publishing Show on Jobs site: Image Source: Nuthawut Somsuk/istock/getty images plus Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?

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Using Market Data in Academic Program Prioritization

Helix Education

“How can we affordably assess market demand of various new program ideas?” This has been one of the most common questions I have been asked over the course of my higher education career. While I have been able to answer how to assess market demand for new programs, the affordably part of the question had always been the most difficult aspect of the question.

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A Pilot Persistence Project

Faculty Focus

Recently, the sentiment has continued to ring true about the nursing shortage or the need of more nurses—we need more Registered Nurses (RNs) to take care of patients at all levels of care. I have been a RN for the past 42 years, and we still have a long way to go in increasing the number of graduating nursing students to become RNs. But first, we must start with increasing the retention and graduation rates of nursing students.

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Othot Trends To-Date

Liaison International

In the latest version of the Othot Trends Report, you will get an inside look at our mid-year enrollment data, see the latest deposit numbers and summer melt trends for partners using advanced analytics, and discover what it means for the fall term. . At a glance, the Othot Trends Report explores: . Overall deposit trends and how they have changed over time Deposit trends in public vs. private institutions Melt trends in public vs. private institutions What the data means for 2022-2023 Enrollme

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CEO to CEO Newsletter #220

AACC

September 23, 2022 | Issue # 220 This week, 73 community college representatives were in Washington, DC, for AACC’s Advocates in Action meeting. These meeting participants heard from lobbyists, Capitol Hill staff, AACC staff, and more. They also gained insight into how Washington formulates higher education policy. Advocacy at the local, state, and federal level […].