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Battle lines form over new borrower defense to repayment rules

Higher Ed Dive

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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Building Bridges: The Case for Inter-Faculty Learning

Wonkhe

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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Using data to catalyze and sustain cycles of continuous improvement in teacher preparation

Deans for Impact

Data, when interpreted in context and used appropriately, is a powerful tool for surfacing important trends and issues in education. For example, recent NAEP trend assessments reveal not only the consequences of pandemic-related disruptions on student learning, but also the varying results of education policies, remedial programs, and instructional priorities across state lines to address challenges.

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Thinking Beyond College Rankings

MindMax

A few months ago, Education Secretary Miguel A. Cardona declared college rankings “a joke.” He made this bold statement in support of a broader point he presented in an article for The Chronicle of Higher Education : elite institutions “spend enormous resources to climb college rankings and compete for the most affluent, highest-scoring students.” Calling for “a new vision for college excellence,” Cardona championed equity, inclusivity, and upward mobility for disadvantaged demographics as new

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What can colleges learn from degrees awarded in the fast-shrinking journalism field?

Higher Ed Dive

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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What implications does ChatGPT have for assessment?

Wonkhe

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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‘An Extraordinarily Hostile Move’: New School Threatens to Withhold Pay in Adjunct Strike

The Chronicle of Higher Education

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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Higher ed faces ‘deteriorating’ outlook in 2023, Fitch says

Higher Ed Dive

Enrollment, labor and wage pressures will mount, likely increasing the gulf between stronger and weaker colleges, the ratings agency projects.

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NDAs and the Tort are out as the Free Speech Bill clears Lords’ report stage

Wonkhe

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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The Strike at the University of California

Academe Blog

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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An Invisible Population: Black Undocumented Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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Most colleges don’t provide accurate financial aid offers, federal watchdog says

Higher Ed Dive

The U.S. Government Accountability Office recommended Congress pursue legislation that would require institutions to give clear, standardized information.

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Why do students have to suffer when taking on a medical degree?

Wonkhe

As a debate about medical school places continues, Charlie Sellar urges a focus on the social make-up of those medical trainees. The post Why do students have to suffer when taking on a medical degree? appeared first on Wonkhe.

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How Universities Can Respond to Google’s Storage Limits

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

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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Unapologetic Leadership for Black Learner Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government and higher education institutions have fed the public a steady diet of bad enrollment news. Public health concerns increased responsibilities to care for and educate school-aged children and disrupted jobs and industries. All these factors contribute to recent enrollment declines at institutions of higher education.

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Inside an ambitious plan to reenroll California’s stopped-out students

Higher Ed Dive

A coalition of higher ed groups will focus on outreach and coaching services for residents who are just shy of completing a college degree.

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How can we support refugees into higher education?

Wonkhe

It's not easy for refugees to access higher education. Liam Carson sets out what universities can do to help. The post How can we support refugees into higher education? appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Why too much public self-promotion by academics is damaging (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

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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Grassroots Push for Computer Science Education Gears Up

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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How many unique education credentials exist? More than 1M, according to a new count.

Higher Ed Dive

Nonacademic providers offer the most credentials, followed by postsecondary institutions. Researchers want more information.

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Building belonging: what about staff?

Wonkhe

After a report published by Wonkhe and Pearson on building belonging in higher education, Nandini Boodia-Canoo asks about the staff being asked tasked with nurturing it. The post Building belonging: what about staff? appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Study finds true faculty diversity is possible by 2050

Inside Higher Ed

Image: College and universities will need to diversify their faculties at about 3.5 times the current pace if they want the professoriate to reflect the U.S. population in terms of race by 2050. And they’ll need to work together to do it. This is the upshot of a new analysis in Nature Human Behavior that challenges the persistent idea that faculty diversity amounts to a “pipeline” problem.

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The Material Conditions of Academic Labor

Academe Blog

BY HANK REICHMAN “We are deeply concerned that the crisis of the American university–the decline of tenure-track jobs and universities’ eroding commitment to the humanities and social sciences–has created a structural crisis for scholarship.

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Are U.S. News undergraduate rankings at risk with the exodus of law schools?

Higher Ed Dive

Experts think the answer is probably not, but they see cracks in the foundation of a rankings system college admissions professionals largely abhor.

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Five key findings from UCAS end of cycle data for 2022

Wonkhe

We now have sector-level data for the 2022 admissions cycle – UCAS' Clare Marchant goes through the key takeaways. The post Five key findings from UCAS end of cycle data for 2022 appeared first on Wonkhe.

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How to Combat the High Schoolization of the University

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Perhaps you’ve heard of the Kobayashi Maru scenario, a training exercise at Star Trek ’s Starfleet Academy. Cadets who are being considered for leadership positions are confronted with an unwinnable situation in order to test their command capabilities. They must rescue a civilian freighter, avoid a fight with opposing forces and escape with their starship intact.

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These are the top 10 colleges for cybersecurity education

University Business

Cover the basics, offer hands-on training and adhere to privacy and ethics. These are three of the six must-have modules for a cybersecurity course, and these 10 colleges have them all. Educational institutions are in dire need of cybersecurity professionals as criminal organizations continue to set their sights on the education sector. Since the pandemic, the increased reliance on digital technology, such as virtual meetings and online learning, has created additional pathways enabling bad acto

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Why do top universities produce more research than others? Their people have more labor backing them up.

Higher Ed Dive

Prestigious institutions employ more graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, giving them a major labor advantage, new research finds.

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What if they’re all part-time students now?

Wonkhe

Why are increasing numbers of academic staff reporting lecture theatres and seminar rooms as empty of students these days? Jim Dickinson gets real. The post What if they’re all part-time students now? appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Former U.S. Secretary of Education Appointed Chancellor of SUNY

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. John B. King Jr., who served as U.S. Secretary of Education under President Obama, will become the 15th chancellor of the State University of New York (SUNY), effective January 2023. Dr. John B. King Jr. "I am humbled and honored to accept the position of chancellor and to advance Governor Kathy Hochul’s vision to make SUNY the best statewide system of public higher education in our nation,’" King said.

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Disability as a Valuable Form of Diversity, Not a Deficit

Faculty Focus

Typically, educational professionals focus on how to help students better access what is considered ‘typical’ learning (Ong-Dean, 2005). This is considered ‘deficit thinking,’ or thinking that defines a diagnosis by its challenges, in order to treat, fix, or minimize specific features of a student’s disability. This kind of approach to education is challenging for autistic students.

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CEHE sues Education Department for $500M, alleging agency forced its colleges to close

Higher Ed Dive

The former college operator says the agency wanted to push its institutions to suddenly shutter so it could impose financial penalties.

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The careers of care-experienced students paint a fascinating picture

Wonkhe

After two reports looking into the experiences of care-experienced students were published, Sunday Blake reads between the lines and asks what else we can learn. The post The careers of care-experienced students paint a fascinating picture appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Education Department Launches STEM Education Initiative

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The U.S. Department of Education (ED) has launched an initiative to bolster science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education nationally. U.S. Deputy Education Secretary Cindy Marten This new Raise the Bar: STEM Excellence for All Students initiative aims to help implement equitable, high-quality STEM education for students from Pre-K to higher ed in order to ensure career readiness and global competitiveness.

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Why every university needs an advisor for care leavers and estranged students

HEPI

The Unite Foundation partnered with UCAS on their recent ‘Next Steps Report’ which shines a light on the potential and ambition of young people leaving care and the challenges they can face when exploring university options. Global Law student and Unite Foundation scholarship recipient Lisa reflects on her experiences in higher education opens and discusses why university represents such an important and transformative opportunity for care experienced and estranged students.

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Cazenovia College says it will close in spring 2023, citing financial stress and rising inflation

Higher Ed Dive

The nearly 200-year-old private nonprofit institution blamed the pandemic, inflation and uncertainty in the bond and stock markets for its closure.

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Higher Education Postcard: College Hall, University of London

Wonkhe

This week’s card from Hugh Jones’s postbag shows one of London’s radical higher education institutions. The post Higher Education Postcard: College Hall, University of London appeared first on Wonkhe.