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What is a university surplus?

Wonkhe

For Andrew Connolly, discussions of the sector's "vast wealth" should come with a few caveats about the nature of reserves The post What is a university surplus? appeared first on Wonkhe.

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What can work colleges teach the rest of higher ed?

Higher Ed Dive

Amid high worries about higher ed's value in the job market, work colleges offer lessons on integrating classroom learning with employment opportunities.

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For Dean Pervis Evans, student perspective is essential to strengthen and diversify teaching workforce

Deans for Impact

Sitting in on EDUC 1301: Introduction to the Teaching Profession at Odessa College last semester, Pervis Evans is conscious that he doesn’t quite fit in with the other students, a majority of whom are recent high school graduates. But that doesn’t deter him at all. Just as much as they are, he’s attending as an enrolled student, completing assignments and participating in discussions – and, he also happens to be the community college’s Dean of Liberal Arts and Education.

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Higher Ed Corporate Partnerships Part 2: Sales Strategies

MindMax

Higher education institutions aiming to develop successful corporate partnerships must be willing to acknowledge that marketing to and engaging businesses is different from marketing to and engaging students. In the first part of this series on higher ed corporate partnerships, I discussed how schools can position themselves to effectively market to businesses.

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Should universities go for growth on degree apprenticeships?

Wonkhe

Higher education minister Robert Halfon is an enthusiast for degree apprenticeships and universities stand ready to do more. Team Wonkhe assesses whether the incentives stack up The post Should universities go for growth on degree apprenticeships? appeared first on Wonkhe.

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NCAA permanently ends SAT, ACT eligibility requirement for Division I, II student-athletes

Higher Ed Dive

Reevaluating testing mandates was part of the association’s plan to advance racial equity.

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How I Got Started Helping Professors With Their Online Presence

The Academic Designer

Jennifer van Alstyne opens up about why she started her company, The Academic Designer LLC. And, how social media has impacted her life most.

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Students influencing the curriculum? That’s academic freedom

Wonkhe

Sunday Blake argues that students having views on the content of their courses is a crucial - but rarely acknowledged - aspect of academic freedom The post Students influencing the curriculum? That’s academic freedom appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Strategies for student engagement during the mental health crisis

Higher Ed Dive

Students who started their college careers in 2020 did not get to experience a normal academic year or the regular campus life that they expected. Now, there is a new normal for students and higher education leaders.

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Leading scientists worldwide are victims of fake articles

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Leading international scientists who discovered articles written by artificial intelligence that have been published in their names have backed plans for legal action. In recent months, academics at leading universities in Australia, Europe and North America have been alerted to low-quality scholarly articles—often little more than a page long, probably written by a language-scraping algorithm—appearing under their names in titles published by Prime Scholars, an open-access pu

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People's Rally for Student Debt Cancellation to be held outside Supreme Court, February 28, 2022

Higher Education Inquirer

Sign up for the People's Rally for Student Debt Cancellation to be held outside the US Supreme Court, February 28, 2022. The link is at [link] Stay tuned to this post for more information.

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What’s happening with the short courses trial?

Wonkhe

The government does not seem keen to talk about the short courses trial that will underpin the case for the LLE. David Kernohan wonders why. The post What’s happening with the short courses trial? appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Oklahoma’s public college system was ordered to detail diversity spending. Here’s its response.

Higher Ed Dive

Trying to root out “liberal indoctrination,” the education superintendent demanded regents identify how much money they devote to diversity programs.

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We are Not an ‘Issue’: We are Your Students of Color!!

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I (Ford) was reading a commentary on the top number of “issues” facing education/ educators and became even more outraged and indignant on terminology used to describe children who live in poverty, Blacks, and other minoritized students. My colleagues and I believe this framing and mislabeling are the real ‘issues’, which we use interchangeably with ‘problems’.

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Strikes and unions: Graduate students marshal their forces nationwide

University Business

Temple’s ongoing graduate student strike catching national headlines did not happen in a vacuum. Across the country, many graduate programs at prolific higher ed institutions have gone on strike or unionized since fall 2022. Grad student labor organizing has spiked in recent years , according to William A. Herbert, executive director of the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions.

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Are university campuses breeding grounds for extremism?

Wonkhe

The government's review of Prevent is finally out - and universities and SUs come in for criticism. Jim Dickinson asks if it's justified. The post Are university campuses breeding grounds for extremism? appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Free college keeps growing — at the state level

Higher Ed Dive

Elected officials are calling for new programs and expansions. Policy wonks sometimes critique design choices, but free remains a powerful hook.

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Just what is the state of private education in 2023? By Nick Hillman

HEPI

Nick Hillman, HEPI Director, takes a look at a new book on private schools, The State of Independence. The book brings together 55 different authors – including academics, a vice-chancellor and numerous education policy experts (such as Sam Freedman, Lord Lucas, Jonathan Simons , Ann Mroz and Tom Richmond). Valuing independence As the Director of an independent education charity, I know the value of independence in education lies partly in the freedom to speak plainly, directly and clearly, unen

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An Elite College, a Subversive Artist, and the Long History of Blasphemy

The Chronicle of Higher Education

Is Taravat Talepasand's art too radical for today's campus? By Len Gutkin Mark Mahaney for YBCA Taravat Talepasand Is Taravat Talepasand's art too radical for today's campus?

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Modernising the initial education and training of architects

Wonkhe

The route to qualifying as an architect is long, expensive, and sometimes off-putting. Hugh Simpson introduces an initiative to make architecture courses more flexible. The post Modernising the initial education and training of architects appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Education Department questions whether accreditor did enough to review University of Arizona Global Campus

Higher Ed Dive

Staff flagged concerns with the WASC Senior College and University Commission’s review of UAGC’s recruiting and admissions.

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Gypsy, Roma, Traveller: living as an outcast

HEPI

This blog is in the form of an audio file by Nicole Cherruault, a journalist at The Times. Nicole holds an MA (Hons) from the University of Edinburgh in History and Politics and an MA in International Journalism from City, University of London. A full transcript is also provided below. This project came about after Nicole heard about HEPI’s 2022 report on the educational outcomes of Gypsies, Roma and Travellers (GRT).

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Seven ways to leverage faculty development for student success

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Maximizing faculty development’s impact on student success and equitable learning requires targeted action. That’s the upshot of a recent report from Every Learner Everywhere, Achieving the Dream and the Online Learning Consortium. The report , which is based on survey and interview data from 95 responding institutions, also draws on evidence-based standards for high-impact faculty development.

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Higher Education Postcard: Newman University

Wonkhe

This week’s card from Hugh Jones’s postbag shows us a memorial to one of higher education’s few canonised saints The post Higher Education Postcard: Newman University appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Birmingham-Southern on ‘parallel tracks’ while it waits for word on public bailout

Higher Ed Dive

The nonprofit hopes to know soon if it will receive $37.5 million to stay open. It's taking applications despite preparing current students to transfer.

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Mount Holyoke Taps Howard University Law Dean to Lead College

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Danielle Ren Holley, president-elect of Mount Holyoke College. Danielle Ren Holley is breaking ground. The Howard University law professor and dean has been named Mount Holyoke College’s first permanent Black female president in the institution’s 186-year history. She will step into her role on July 1, 2023. “I’m just really excited to lead such a dynamic and important institution like Mount Holyoke,” said Holley in an interview with Diverse.

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3 Questions About Extended Reality and Online Learning

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Learning Innovation Fulfilling the first milestone of a commitme n t made early in 2021, the University of Michigan’s Center for Academic Innovation and Coursera today announced the release of the first three of 10 planned open online courses featuring extended reality. The courses feature interactive 360 video components, which can be accessed via headsets or simply on a laptop or phone.

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How do student governors perceive power?

Wonkhe

Who better to design the university of tomorrow than the students of today? Kevin McStravock explores the experience of students on governing bodies The post How do student governors perceive power? appeared first on Wonkhe.

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ASA College, accreditor disagree on whether it will close

Higher Ed Dive

Middle States Commission on Higher Education said the for-profit gave notice it would close in February, but ASA College said that’s not its intention.

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Report: Georgia’s HBCUs Could Be Made Even Stronger with State Support

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

With state support, Georgia’s historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) could be made into even stronger centers of education and economic opportunity, according to a recent report. Sen. Sonya Halpern The report – from the Georgia Senate Study Committee on Excellence, Innovation, and Technology at HBCUs – included recommendations for lawmakers on how to help HBCUs drive workforce diversity, innovation, and community and economic development.

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Three activities to help make the classroom a more relational space (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

I, along with faculty colleagues from many different types of institutions, am finding that students are just not as engaged as they have been in the past. In the fall of 2022, more students than I have ever encountered during my 25 years of teaching were tardy or missed classes. Some disappeared altogether. There were students who did not seem to understand the need to take notes, read for class or otherwise engage in the course material.

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Prevent, reshuffle, graduate outcomes

Wonkhe

This week on the podcast the government has published its review of the Prevent counter-terrorism strategy. Are campuses really a breeding ground for extremism? The post Prevent, reshuffle, graduate outcomes appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Students who met with counselors more likely to apply for college aid

Higher Ed Dive

Some 87% of 9th graders from 2009 who consulted with a school counselor completed the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, an NCES study found.

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Pomona College to Preserve Archival Collection of Civil Rights Leader Myrlie Evers-Williams

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Pomona College will be preserving the archival collection of alumna and civil rights leader Myrlie Evers-Williams. The collection will be handled by The Claremont Colleges Library. Myrlie and Medgar Evers “I don't want to get too emotional,” said Evers-Williams, who graduated with a sociology degree in 1968. “But it was Pomona College, it was the teachers here who helped me move ahead and come out of this feeling of drowning … And it was my being here at Pomona with the instructors here and the

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China bans students from enrolling in foreign online colleges

Inside Higher Ed

Image: China’s Ministry of Education will no longer recognize online degrees from overseas colleges, per a Jan. 28 statement from the Service Center for Scholarly Exchange in Beijing. The announcement, which arrived without notice and was effective immediately, impacts Chinese students enrolled at foreign colleges who had been studying online in their home country.

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What sort of feedback do PhDs want and need in the future?

Wonkhe

Should scribbled notes join pipes and tweed jackets in the back of the wardrobe? Stacy Gillis and Chiara Pellegrini explore how PhD students experience feedback The post What sort of feedback do PhDs want and need in the future? appeared first on Wonkhe.

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1 in 5 Black students feel discriminated against in their postsecondary programs

Higher Ed Dive

Black students in certification programs or at for-profits are more likely to report discrimination than others, new Lumina-Gallup research found.

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