Sat.Jan 07, 2023 - Fri.Jan 13, 2023

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Education Department struggled to examine whether colleges were misrepresenting themselves, watchdog finds

Higher Ed Dive

Turnover hampered a unit overseeing a ban on colleges lying about programs, costs and student outcomes, the Government Accountability Office said.

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Independent schools and university entry

Wonkhe

Ahead of this weeks' big admissions data drop, David Kernohan goes behind the headlines on applying to university from an independent school. The post Independent schools and university entry appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Academic experts offer advice on ChatGPT

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Ever since the chat bot ChatGPT burst into public view in late 2022, students, professors and administrators have been woozy from a chaotic cocktail of excitement, uncertainty and fear. The bot writes poems, sonnets and essays. It also serves as a convincing debate partner on a seemingly unlimited number of subjects. Given that the natural language model earned passing scores on the evidence and torts portion of the bar exam, among other feats, some in academe fret that the technology may

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ChatGPT: A Must-See Before the Semester Begins

Faculty Focus

I have seen friends on Facebook create decent songs and stunning artistic creations with little knowledge of music or art, all after spending a bit of time getting to know an AI art or music generator. But since the grammar assistants in my word processors often flag what is already correct and miss what I wish they should have caught, I’ve never felt AI writing was advancing very quickly.

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Religious colleges should lean into their identities, leaders say

Higher Ed Dive

At an ACE event, faith-based colleges discussed problems dogging higher ed — like accessibility and completion — in a religious context.

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Conversations on campus – what higher education will be talking about in 2023

Wonkhe

Team Wonkhe speculates on the debates that will take place at the collective HE water cooler in the year ahead. The post Conversations on campus – what higher education will be talking about in 2023 appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Higher Education Can Connect Diverse Students to Lucrative, Technical Careers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Technical jobs are receiving fewer applications from younger generations. According to Handshake, a network of institutions and employers that helps connect students with early career opportunities, trade careers saw 49% fewer applications in 2022 than 2020. Applications for jobs like automotive technicians or respiratory therapists went from an average of 10 applications each to only five.

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5 higher education lawsuits to watch in 2023

Higher Ed Dive

Rulings are expected in several high-profile cases, including those that could determine the fate of race-conscious admissions and the DACA program.

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Should students and staff trust a university’s review of gender-based violence?

Wonkhe

An external review praises the intent but criticises the implementation of a strategy on gender-based violence. Jim Dickinson wonders whether it understands power. The post Should students and staff trust a university’s review of gender-based violence? appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Manhattanville cuts tenured faculty, freezes programs

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Manhattanville College in Purchase, N.Y., laid off eight tenured and tenure-track faculty members and froze various programs last month, citing realignment of academics with changing student demands. “Manhattanville is continuously monitoring, evaluating, and seeking to understand and adjust the academic curriculum and overall campus life to the needs of today’s students,” Louise Feroe, interim president, said in a related announcement.

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What Is a Metaversity, and Should You Create One on Your Campus?

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

The stuff of science fiction isn’t nearly as far away as it once seemed. The speed of progress in tech continues to change higher education at a dramatic pace. Ideas that seemed far-fetched three years ago, like earning a four-year college degree solely by completing courses online and without ever meeting a professor in person, are now fairly common practice.

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JPMorgan Chase alleges ed tech firm faked student accounts to lure it into acquisition

Higher Ed Dive

A recent lawsuit accuses executives of Frank, a platform to help students apply for federal financial aid, of lying about the number of users it had.

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Data sharing between universities and SUs has huge benefits for both

Wonkhe

For George Bryant-Aird, a revolution in the way his SU uses local data started with a Wonkhe event. The post Data sharing between universities and SUs has huge benefits for both appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Students should refuse remedial placements (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

A growing number of community college systems, in California , Florida , Louisiana , Tennessee , Texas , New York City and elsewhere, have stopped requiring students to take remedial courses before they can enroll in college-level courses—the long-standing model for remedial education. With this policy change, states have lifted a significant barrier to college progress that affects millions of students and disproportionately impacts first-generation and low-income students and students of

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Why not a graduate tax?

HEPI

Like many people, I am sceptical that a graduate tax is a good answer to either the funding crisis affecting higher education institutions and students or the political challenges faced by Keir Starmer and others who have spoken of getting rid of tuition fees in England. Promising a big new tax that would, in a few years’ time, come to affect over half of all younger adults seems unlikely to go down all that well on the doorstep as the next election approaches.

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CFOs optimistic about their own colleges’ finances, survey says

Higher Ed Dive

Almost 9 in 10 financial officers predicted financial stability for their colleges, an uptick software vendor Syntellis called "optimism against the odds.

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Podcast: Drugs, year ahead, study tour

Wonkhe

This week in a special European episode of the podcast we’re in Münster, Germany for the Wonkhe SUs study tour, discussing where HE policy could go in 2023. The post Podcast: Drugs, year ahead, study tour appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Amid backlash, Stanford removes "harmful language" list

Inside Higher Ed

Image: “This website contains language that is offensive or harmful,” a Stanford University Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative website stated in December. “Please engage with this website at your own pace.” The initiative, published by the university’s CIO Council and People of Color in Technology affinity group, sought to eliminate racist, violent and biased language in Stanford websites and code.

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DEI's Religion Problem

The Chronicle of Higher Education

The Hamline debacle demonstrates the perils of ignoring religious disagreement. By Eboo Patel. Pat Kinsella for The Chronicle. The Hamline debacle demonstrates the perils of ignoring religious disagreement.

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Education Department releases regulatory plans on income-driven loan repayment, low-value colleges

Higher Ed Dive

Undergraduate borrowers would pay less of their discretionary income and unpaid interest wouldn't accumulate under proposed rule.

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Benchmarks are reference points, so why do so many see them as requirements?

Wonkhe

More coverage of QAA subject benchmarks over the Christmas break prompted Richard Harrison to consider how the benchmarks are really used and perceived in universities. The post Benchmarks are reference points, so why do so many see them as requirements? appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Spaces of Belonging: Schools Look to Design to Help First-Gen Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Over half of undergraduate students in the U.S. are the first in their family to attend an institution of higher learning. These first-generation students are likelier than their peers to be from minoritized backgrounds, to face economic challenges, and to juggle jobs and families in addition to school. And they may be less familiar with the “hidden curriculum”—the implicit norms and knowledge that help students navigate college life.

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How Can Generative AI Be Used in Higher Ed?

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

Noticed any fantasy-inspired portrait posts showing up on your social media feeds lately? You might just be looking at artificial intelligence-generated content, a new development in the exponentially expanding world of AI tech that has emerged over the past few years. Platforms like Stable Diffusion and DALL-E 2 allow users to input a text prompt, which creates an AI-generated image that may or may not accurately reflect what the user intended.

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Universities are failing to capture the value of their data, research finds

Higher Ed Dive

Disagreements over when and how to use data, along with decentralized systems, prevent universities from making the most of what they have.

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Higher Education Postcard: military matters

Wonkhe

This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag demands your attention, you ‘orrible lot…. The post Higher Education Postcard: military matters appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Higher Ed Prepares to Celebrate the Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Kelisha B. Graves remembers being a young student in public school, looking forward to the third Monday of every January as a day off. “Every King holiday is a day out of school, without intentional reflection,” said Graves. “At The King Center, we always say that the King holiday is a day on, not a day off. It’s a day of not just reflection but concrete action.

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Constrained Choice Activities: A Simple Way to Improve Critical Thinking

Educause

The use of constrained choice activities in higher education classrooms can improve students’ critical thinking and real-world decision-making skills.

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Education Department’s renewed plan to list and shame low-value colleges draws concern

Higher Ed Dive

For-profits worry about being targeted, while others fear the plan will contribute to the narrative that higher ed's benefits are purely financial.

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Why bringing back the F is key to improving student success (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

Teaching Today Faculty members today too rarely recognize a significant impediment to student success: students’ own refusal—not inability—to simply do the work, writes Louis Haas. Job Tags: FACULTY JOBS Ad keywords: teachinglearning Section: Teaching and Learning Editorial Tags: Teaching Show on Jobs site: Image Source: IcemanJ/istock/getty images plus Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?

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Despite Probation, Saint Augustine's University is Looking Forward

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Even though Saint Augustine’s University (SAU) in Raleigh, NC has been placed on probation by the accrediting agency The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC), SAU President Dr. Christine McPhail isn’t slowing down. Dr. Christine McPhail, president of Saint Augustine's University, “Nobody wants probation, but I’m a seasoned administrator with multiple decades of experience in the area,” said McPhail.

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Female students lag behind males in college readiness, concludes a national survey

University Business

Female high school graduates are less prepared—and feel less informed—to confidently enter college or choose a career path, concludes the latest report from YouScience, the leading college and career readiness company. The report gathered information from 500 graduated students from the classes of 2019 to 2022 and asked them questions about their exposure to college readiness resources in high school and how confident they were in taking the next step.

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Nearly 2 in 5 recent graduates said their colleges didn’t prepare them mentally to transition to a workplace

Higher Ed Dive

Over half of those surveyed said employers should invest more in mental health, according to a new report.

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As COVID evolves, so do campus policies

Inside Higher Ed

Image: On Jan. 5, Tufts University dropped its requirement that students receive the bivalent COVID-19 booster in order to attend classes in person or live on campus. The Somerville, Mass., university had been one of only a few dozen institutions to require the latest booster after it became available in September; students were initially told to upload proof of vaccination by Jan. 1, 2023, but that deadline was pushed back to Jan. 31 just over a month ago before being scrapped altogether.

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Emory Replaced Loans with Grants for Over 1,500 More Students Last Fall, University Announces

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

An additional 1,600-1,700 students at Emory University received grants and scholarships instead of loans in their financial aid packages this fall, the Atlanta-based institution announced recently, more than doubling the number of undergraduates expected to finish school with limited or no debt. The increase is due to the expansion of the university’s Emory Advantage program, which replaces loans with grants for students from low and middle-income families, to every student receiving need-based

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Here is where all 50 state university systems rank on ROI—and why

University Business

When it comes to accelerating ROI for students on price and outcomes, an abundance of career-oriented majors and thriving technical colleges are essentials for campus leaders. A new analysis ranks the return on investment of all 50 state public university systems by comparing tuition and other financial factors to the increase in lifetime income that graduates earn from their degrees. “While some state college systems succeed in moving large numbers of students into the middle class, other

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President Speaks: How colleges can help turn out the student vote

Higher Ed Dive

The president of Muhlenberg College shares strategies the institution used in Pennsylvania to sharply boost voting.

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Author discusses her new book on grant-writing

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Landing a grant is essential for many faculty members—grants support their work and likely signal to their superiors that this is a faculty member to nurture. But securing a grant may be difficult for many, especially those who haven’t applied for grants before. Enter The Grant Writing Guide: A Road Map to Success (Princeton University Press) by Betty S.