University Business

MARCH 14, 2023

A bill proposed last week in Texas would effectively end faculty tenure for all hires in September and beyond, succeeding Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s mission to curb faculty members’ sway over students and their ability to “indoctrinate” them with instruction on “critical race theory.” State Senator and chair of the Senate Subcommittee on Higher Education Brandon Creighton filed Senate Bill 18 , which also demands faculty undergo a yearly performance evaluation whi

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Wonkhe

MARCH 16, 2023

The model of academics as all-rounders may be impossible to sustain in a mass higher education system bedevilled by generative AI, argues Jim Dickinson The post An avalanche really is coming this time appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Higher Ed Dive

MARCH 14, 2023

The agency said shoppers will evaluate whether institutions are misrepresenting themselves in areas like completion rates and job placements.

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MindMax

MARCH 15, 2023

Looking to grow enrollments for your school’s adult education programs? It may be time to rethink your value propositions. In our conversations with higher education leaders, we’ve learned that an adult learner’s values and goals are much different from a college freshman’s , and a school’s more standard value proposition isn’t going to resonate with this audience.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 17, 2023

The Internet Archive, a nonprofit library in San Francisco, has grown into one of the most important cultural institutions of the modern age. What began in 1996 as an audacious attempt to archive and preserve the World Wide Web has grown into a vast library of books, musical recordings and television shows, all digitized and available online, with a mission to provide “universal access to all knowledge.

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Wonkhe

MARCH 16, 2023

This week’s card from Hugh Jones’s postbag reminds us that student debt is not a new phenomenon The post Higher education postcard: solvitur ambulando appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Higher Ed Dive

MARCH 16, 2023

National Student Clearinghouse Research Center data shows mostly across-the-board declines — though there are hints of recovery.

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Educause

MARCH 15, 2023

A survey of college and university websites gives an early indication about the ways institutions are addressing generative AI and what it might mean for higher education.

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Wonkhe

MARCH 15, 2023

For Neurodiversity Celebration Week, Beth Sennett explains the ways in which higher education forces neurodivergent colleagues to mask their true selves. The post How HE forces neurodivergent people to adapt appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Higher Ed Dive

MARCH 17, 2023

The state regent board said it will review all diversity, equity and inclusion efforts at the institutions over the next few months.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 14, 2023

Image: While hundreds of peer-reviewed studies have concluded that students taught in an active learning environment are significantly more likely to outperform peers who are in classes taught more traditionally, full adoption of active learning practices remains far from the norm. In a recent episode of the Teaching for Student Success podcast, host Steven Robinow spoke with Louis Deslauriers about a study he and four colleagues at Harvard did to test the value of active learning.

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Educause

MARCH 16, 2023

A recent guidance letter from the U.S. Department of Education applies “Third-Party Servicer” regulations to higher education institutions and to their content, software, systems, and services providers. Given the disruption this would cause, EDUCAUSE has asked the department to rescind the letter, fully consult with institutions and their stakeholders, and revise its guidance.

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Wonkhe

MARCH 14, 2023

Reviewing policy proposals presented to the National Union of Students conference, Jim Dickinson finds a student movement in rude health The post No elections, but plenty of debate in Harrogate appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Higher Ed Dive

MARCH 15, 2023

The chancellor of UC Davis shares lessons learned from leading a diverse university and its new governmental anti-hate partnership.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 16, 2023

In the early 20th century, Joe James, a Black man, was convicted and executed for the murder of a white man in Springfield, Illinois, after the 1908 Springfield Race Riot. Now, 115 years after his death, lawyers and law students from Northwestern and Northeastern Universities are seeking a posthumous pardon. on his behalf. Margaret A. Burnham A petition filed from the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law’s Center on Wrongful Convictions (CWC) and Northeastern University School of Law’s Civil Righ

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The PIE News

MARCH 15, 2023

Interventions to build support systems for international students in Australia need to be “urgently explored”, according to a new study published in the BMC Psychology journal. The research found that the pandemic had a substantial negative impact on international students, particularly those living outside of their country of origin during the pandemic.

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Wonkhe

MARCH 12, 2023

Sunday Blake argues that for the LLE to succeed, modular learners will need much better information, advice, and guidance than what is currently on offer The post Learners accessing the Lifelong Loan Entitlement will need souped up careers advice appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Higher Ed Dive

MARCH 15, 2023

Private institution faculty reported being more satisfied with how their college handled chatbot policies than other instructors.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2023

When Reagan Gonzalez began applying to law schools, she didn’t imagine that she would have to research the laws of the states to which she was thinking about moving. But this year’s wave of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation and proposals— the American Civil Liberties Union is currently tracking 388 bills —wound up shaping her decision in ways that she didn’t anticipate.

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The PIE News

MARCH 17, 2023

The UK government is looking to develop its expertise on China and Mandarin language skills as Downing Street refreshed its international defence and foreign policy. Prime minister Rishi Sunak’s government said that after the Integrated Review in 2021 , authorities have taken a number of steps to increase knowledge of and expertise on China, which it is now seeking to further.

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Wonkhe

MARCH 13, 2023

The Russell Group's Sarah Stevens takes a look at the Nurse review in the context of Horizon Europe and sustainable research funding The post The Nurse review and sustainable research funding appeared first on Wonkhe.

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MARCH 16, 2023

The drop stemmed from a loss of first-time graduates, the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center found.

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Educause

MARCH 14, 2023

These ten principles offer guidance on ways to design and facilitate effective and engaging virtual workshops that leave faculty feeling better equipped to implement new edtech tools.

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The PIE News

MARCH 14, 2023

Canada’s language sector is confident that the country will revise its study and work policy to benefit language students both financially and pedagogically. The country’s organisation representing two official languages – English and French – Languages Canada is working closely with government to update the regulation around access to work for some language students. “There is a willing [in government] to look at changes,” executive director, Gonzalo Peralta, told The P

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Wonkhe

MARCH 16, 2023

This week on the podcast we’re live at our Secret Life of Students event in London where we hear from OfS' Director for Fair Access and Participation John Blake The post Podcast: Secret Life of Students special appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Higher Ed Dive

MARCH 17, 2023

The Missouri College of Cosmetology North had been in business for roughly 40 years.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 14, 2023

More college students than ever were anxious, depressed, and struggling with suicidal thoughts last school year. It’s a disheartening finding from the Healthy Minds Study (HMS), which conducts an annual online survey of nearly 96,000 college students on 133 American campuses that was released last Friday. However, the study did reveal a potential silver lining: more college students than ever are seeking help.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 14, 2023

“ According to the latest research on college students and mental health, three out of 10 students have struggled with depression in the last two weeks, and over one in four have expressed issues with anxiety. Even more distressing is the one in 20 college students who had created a suicide plan in the past year (Higher Education Today, 2022).” For several years, the University of Minnesota has focused on a wide range of empirically-based initiatives, learning sciences research, and recommendati

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Wonkhe

MARCH 15, 2023

The measures in the budget don't go far enough to address the UK's skills needs, according to Anthony Painter of the Chartered Management Institute The post The Treasury needs to get serious about skills appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Higher Ed Dive

MARCH 16, 2023

Marymount University opened a 24-hour shop last week that marks the first campus location to integrate Amazon’s frictionless checkout technology.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2023

The post-pandemic decline in U.S. college enrollment is a lingering concern for both educators and policy makers. College and university student enrollment is down for the third straight year, 7% lower than it was in 2019. At least some of the enrollment loss is due to misinformation and misconceptions about the relationship between employment and educational attainment.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 16, 2023

There is debate recently on student use of ChatGPT, a chatbot using a large language model (LLM) which uses machine-learning algorithms to understand natural language and generate responses (Radford et al., 2019). The main debate has been in its use of plagiarism among students. A subset of this debate is that due to the large amounts of unstructured text data, ChatGPT will generate fake or biased content, a reflection of larger data that is drawn.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2023

Google’s most recent storage policy shift — limiting higher education institutions to 100 terabytes of stored data in Google Workspace for Education — has caused plenty of consternation and policy shifting in higher education. EdTech has covered these changes in depth, and I wrote about how universities could potentially respond to those storage restrictions back in December.

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Higher Ed Dive

MARCH 14, 2023

The program, slated to start this fall, is designed to prepare learners and workers for career advancement, as well as address the worker shortage.

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MARCH 14, 2023

Johnny C. Woods, Jr. Johnny C. Woods, Jr. has been named executive director of campus operations at Seattle Central College. Woods holds a bachelor’s degree in sociology from the A.M.E. Zion University in Liberia, a master’s in educational foundations from Makerere University in Uganda, and a Ph.D. in higher education from Virginia Tech in Virginia.

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 14, 2023

Judith “Judy” Heumann, a lifelong activist who was widely regarded as the “mother” of the disability rights movement, died March 4 at the age of 75. Heumann, who used a wheelchair since childhood as a result of polio, played a key role in the creation and enforcement of important legislation, including Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabil

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Educause

MARCH 13, 2023

Over the past two years, a working group of the University of California Instructional Design and Faculty Support (IDFS) community of practice has developed a DEI Course Redesign Rubric. The goal is to share the rubric with as many faculty and instructional designers as possible across higher education, so as to foster thoughtful dialogue and careful, DEI-informed improvements to courses and to teaching and learning.

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