Higher Ed Dive

JANUARY 4, 2023

Federal financial aid will continue to hog the spotlight, but we're also waiting for the U.S. Supreme Court's decision on race-conscious admissions.

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Wonkhe

DECEMBER 31, 2022

David Kernohan introduces us to workload modelling - a contentious but little understood process that is a very visible part of academic life. The post A beginner’s guide to academic workload modelling appeared first on Wonkhe.

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MindMax

JANUARY 5, 2023

In a 2021 survey conducted by Financial Times , more than 25% of Chief Learning Officers (CLOs) expressed intentions to increase their budgets for executive education in 2021. More than half said they would maintain 2020 spending levels. It’s clear that employers are committed to providing development opportunities for middle and senior managers. So what’s on the horizon for executive education?

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The Academic Designer

JANUARY 4, 2023

How can PhDs use LinkedIn to invite opportunity for themselves? Dr. Gertrude Nonterah is a LinkedIn expert. Learn how opening up about her struggle to find a job with a PhD helped people. And, invited job offers and opportunities!

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Higher Ed Dive

JANUARY 6, 2023

Recruitment and hiring vaulted into a top slot in an annual survey of risks concerning college leaders that's conducted by insurer United Educators.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 3, 2023

The November newsfeed heralded the arrival of AI essay writing. AI (or Artificial Intelligence) essay writing recruits online software that sifts through information and generates a thoughtful written analysis. Enter a prompt, and AI can turn out a reasonable essay on everything from utilitarianism to the Krebs cycle…for free. In truth, AI authorship hardly qualifies as “news.

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MindMax

JANUARY 5, 2023

Summer isn’t what it used to be for higher education institutions and their students. Gone are the days when there was a clear divide between the academic year and summer. Today, colleges and universities everywhere increasingly embrace the concept of a holistic year, and summer programming is an essential component of their offerings. This changing landscape presents significant opportunities for schools to increase revenue, grow enrollments, and boost persistence and graduation rates.

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Higher Ed Dive

JANUARY 5, 2023

Several governors banned the app from state-owned devices over privacy concerns and China. Some public institutions are following suit.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2023

Incoming Ph.D. students have a hard time grasping the true career challenges they face. By David A. Bell. Nate Kitch for The Chronicle. Incoming Ph.D. students have a hard time grasping the true career challenges they face.

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MindMax

JANUARY 4, 2023

How MindMax has helped schools across the country boost web traffic, increase student response rates, grow enrollments, and generate millions of dollars in additional revenue. Students reap tremendous rewards when they enroll in summer programs, but getting them to enroll has proven challenging—even for the most prestigious universities. Every year, highly competitive public and private universities enlist MindMax to help boost summer session enrollments.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 6, 2023

The movement must not be written off as just politics or culture wars when in fact it’s a direct threat to everything higher education stands for, writes Michael Gavin. Show on Jobs site: Image Source: Brent Stirton/Staff/Getty Images News Image Caption: Insurrectionists clash with law enforcement as they try to storm the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

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Higher Ed Dive

JANUARY 4, 2023

But the committee rejected calls to divide Division I sports, arguing its “breadth and diversity” is crucial to college athletics.

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Educause

JANUARY 4, 2023

Online mentoring is an innovative and cost-efficient way to be more responsive and potentially better serve all students and faculty engaged in teaching and learning in any modality—whether online, hybrid, or in-person.

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The PIE News

JANUARY 4, 2023

Over a quarter of employers are not actually aware of the UK’s Graduate Route Visa allowing international students to work sponsor free for up to two years, according to a new policy note from the Higher Education Policy Institute. In conjunction with Kaplan , HEPI surveyed 656 members of the Institute of Directors – an organisation for company directors, senior business leaders and entrepreneurs – and found 27% of those asked were not familiar with the scheme set up in 2021. .

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2023

As an undergraduate student at the University of Southern California, the Reverend Dr. Joseph Cheah said that he would spend hours at the bookstore, reading about Asian American studies. Dr. Joseph Cheah “The whole notion of Asian American things like that, I've been interested in that for a long time,” Cheah said. “I would just stand there for hours, reading one book after another in Asian American studies.

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Higher Ed Dive

JANUARY 6, 2023

Karen Spilka, who's backed higher education investment, proposed the idea during the start of the legislative session Wednesday.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 4, 2023

Image: Community colleges across the country are struggling to recruit and hire new people after losing faculty and staff members in droves during the pandemic. The institutions lost 13 percent of their employees nationally from January 2020 to April 2022, according to an estimate from EAB, a higher education consulting firm. A recent data analysis from EAB shows that four-year colleges mostly recouped their losses after also experiencing sharp declines in staff, unlike community colleges, which

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

JANUARY 3, 2023

By Emma Pettit. The move is likely to heighten fears among advocates of academic freedom in the state who worry that the governor is bent on curtailing professors' speech in the classroom.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 4, 2023

Philander Smith College (PSC) will become a graduate degree-granting school after its Master of Business Administration (MBA) program was approved by the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) in November 2022. Dr. Roderick L. Smothers "On the heels of the 145th anniversary of Philander Smith College, we are elated about this milestone announcement," said Dr.

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Higher Ed Dive

JANUARY 5, 2023

A final Title IX rule, as well as negotiated rulemaking on topics like accreditation and distance education, are on the horizon.

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Campus Technology

JANUARY 3, 2023

As higher education moves into the second wave of Dx — aligning digital efforts with institutional success — here are five key trends to watch.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

JANUARY 6, 2023

The core issue many academics struggle with is how their work can have more of an impact on people. By Maria LaMonaca Wisdom. Getty Images. The core issue many academics struggle with is how their work can have more of an impact on people.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2023

Some universities are scrutinizing or blocking usage of the social media platform TikTok on school devices and networks amid cybersecurity concerns surrounding the video-sharing app and its parent company, ByteDance. Dr. Richard Forno TikTok and Chinese company ByteDance has been gaining attention for connections with Chinese state media and potential influence from the Chinese government.

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Higher Ed Dive

JANUARY 5, 2023

Scooters bring risks and benefits, mobility experts say. Dangers are heightened by infrastructure built for cars.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 6, 2023

Image: The University of Houston suddenly removed its dean of social work last month. The university has said it did so to better align the Graduate College of Social Work with broader institutional priorities. The former dean, Alan Dettlaff—who is returning to the social work faculty, for now—says his views on racial justice got him fired.

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The PIE News

JANUARY 3, 2023

Australia, the UK and New Zealand are leading study destination preference among prospective international students, a survey of more than 14,000 individuals across 147 countries has suggested. The AECC Insights student survey found that prospective international students have changed their study destination preferences over the last 12 months. It noted that the 3,169 respondents (22.4%) who changed their intended study destination in the year up to November, did so in favour of the Australia, U

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2023

Dr. Fredrick Muyia Nafukho will become vice provost for the University of Washington Office of Academic Personnel. Dr. Fredrick Nafukho Nafukho will also become tenured faculty in the Department of Management and Organization in the Foster School of Business. He is currently at Texas A&M University, where he is senior associate dean for faculty affairs; professor of educational administration and human resource development; and co-director of the school’s Educational Leadership Research Cent

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Higher Ed Dive

JANUARY 3, 2023

Other law school deans aren’t satisfied, either. The magazine also said it has no intention of ending its rankings system.

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Coursera blog

JANUARY 5, 2023

By Zac Rule, Vice President North America, Enterprise. I’m excited to introduce The Job Skills of 2023 report , which explores the fastest-growing digital and human skills on Coursera entering 2023. Of the more than 113 million total learners on the Coursera platform, this report specifically draws on data from Coursera’s 4 million enterprise learners across 3,000 businesses, 3,600 higher education institutions, and governments in over 100 countries.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 5, 2023

Image: When the president of the Kyiv School of Economics began to post photos of his daily life to social media in November, it was a gut reaction. A day earlier, Russian air strikes had hit Ukraine’s power grid, plunging the capital city into darkness. “I didn’t have a plan. I realized we had no heating and no water for a while, and somehow I felt it would be interesting for the world to know how people are trying to get through the war,” said Tymofiy Mylovanov.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 6, 2023

Colleges and universities generate vast amounts of data every day, spanning from the research findings of their scholars to the log-in times of their students to learning management systems. But institutions of higher learning have fallen behind businesses and government when it comes to putting this data to use, according to a new study in Science.

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Higher Ed Dive

JANUARY 3, 2023

We’ve rounded up five links to our best-read opinion pieces.

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The PIE News

JANUARY 3, 2023

Global industry leaders have shared with The PIE their 2023 goals and predictions for key international education trends, and have also reflected upon the achievements and challenges of 2022. Lil Bremermann-Richard, CEO of Oxford International , shared her perspective on the value of international students in the UK going forward, which has been a controversial topic in UK government rhetoric and media in 2022. “International students have been consistently undervalued and under-appreciat

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

JANUARY 6, 2023

Arizona State University and Zoom have announced a new five-year partnership that will create a student-led development program at the tier-one research university. The Zoom Innovation Lab promises to give ASU students the opportunity to work with Zoom professionals and partners, gaining hands-on experience tackling major projects. Two of those projects are already underway, according to a university press release.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 4, 2023

Molly Corbett Broad Molly Corbett Broad, former University of North Carolina (UNC) System president, has died on Jan. 2, 2023, at age 81. Broad was system president 1997-2005 and was also the first woman to lead the American Council on Education (ACE). “Molly Corbett Broad was a trailblazer and a visionary,” said UNC System President Peter Hans. “She came to North Carolina at a pivotal moment for our public universities, laying the groundwork for growth and progress across our state.

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Academe Blog

JANUARY 5, 2023

BY JENNIFER RUTH “Where woke comes to die.” Let’s call this phrase what it is: fascist propaganda. In “The Collapse of Radical Reconstruction,” the first episode of Princeton professor Eddie S. Glaude Jr.’s podcast “History is Us,” Le Moyne College professor Douglas Egerton says, “Reconstruction did not fail.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 6, 2023

Column: Intellectual Affairs The patient, an accomplished scholar of international reputation, presents with recurrent symptoms that suggest an underlying malady. Relevant behavior may be summarized briefly: While reading, he “yawns a lot and readily drifts off into sleep; he rubs his eyes and stretches his arms; turning his eyes away from the book, he stares at the wall and again goes back to read for a while; leafing through the pages, he looks curiously for the end of texts, he counts t

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