Higher Ed Data Stories

DECEMBER 23, 2022

If you want a definitive answer, you can stop now. As Mark Twain allegedly said, "I was gratified to be able to give an answer right away. I said I didn't know." However, critics of test optional like to trot out this study from 2014 , suggesting test-optional policies do not increase diversity. There are a couple of problems with using that paper to prop up this argument, however: First, the study included about 200 liberal arts colleges, and nowhere does it suggest that the conclusions can be

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Higher Ed Dive

DECEMBER 19, 2022

A recent federal court ruling and coming regulations could deter some for-profit colleges from attempting to become nonprofits under complex deals.

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Wonkhe

DECEMBER 18, 2022

As we come to the end of a busy yet curiously unsatisfying year in higher education news, David Kernohan and Sunday Blake pick out the key themes from 2022. The post UK higher education’s 2022 in review appeared first on Wonkhe.

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The Academic Designer

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Author Linda Moore talks about her new book Attribution (2022) about a PhD student named Cate who finds a mysterious painting in her university's basement. We dive into how to get comfortable talking about your book too!

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Higher Ed Data Stories

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Fresh IPEDS data dropped this week, and my evenings have been busy downloading, cleaning, and structuring the data. Since it's the holiday season, I won't even complain that IPEDS could make this all easy for anyone who wants to get the data, but then I suppose I'd have to shut down the blog. This is pretty easy, I think: Answer almost any important enrollment question you might have about the last eleven years (as long as you don't want information about even-numbered years, of course).

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Higher Ed Dive

DECEMBER 20, 2022

A ban on Pell Grants for people in prison is ending. Replicating standard practices won’t work for incarcerated students, a new NASFAA report says.

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Wonkhe

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Hugh Jones’s postbag today has Christmas cards, of course. The post Higher Education Postcard: Christmas special appeared first on Wonkhe.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The cybersecurity threat landscape in higher education is constantly evolving. According to VMware’s “Global Incident Response Threat Report,” emerging threats against APIs and containers have gained traction during the past year, as have attacks using deepfakes. Supply chain threats also have become a significant concern, and all signs say that they will get worse in the near future.

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Higher Ed Dive

DECEMBER 19, 2022

InsideTrack's president suggests some fixes after the rate of women transferring from two-year to four-year institutions fell during the pandemic.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 22, 2022

This blog was kindly contributed by The Unite Foundation and Paige Mackenzie. This year’s John Lewis Christmas advert highlighted different notions of family and belonging at this time of year. As you may know, many care experienced and estranged students will be staying at university over the holidays, either in private accommodation or halls. Seeing their friends go home for Christmas can be isolating.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Category: Carpe Careers When mental health topics are taboo, grad students suffer in silence, write Christiann Gaines and Rebekah Layton, who explore ways the academic community can support trainees. Editorial Tags: Career Advice Graduate students Mental Health Show on Jobs site: Image Source: CreativeDesignArt/digitalvision vectors/getty images Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Multiple Authors: Christiann Gaines Rebekah Layton Is this diversity newsletter?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The events of 2020 are still resonating. A life-threatening pandemic, disproportionately impacting communities of color and low-income families, and the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd became catalysts for a summer of protests, crystallizing the renewed call for racial justice in America. Dr. Brooke Vick, chief diversity officer, associate provost for equity and inclusion, and coordinator of the new DEI certificate program at Muhlenberg College.

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Higher Ed Dive

DECEMBER 19, 2022

VpnMentor said the data breach exposed over 117 million files filled with hundreds of thousands of grades and email addresses.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 20, 2022

This blog was kindly contributed by Colleen Roper, co-founder of Future4Fairgrounds. My name is Colleen Roper, and I am part of an organisation called Future4Fairgrounds. We are a group of six Showmen, all women, who came together in September 2020 to provide a platform for the concerns of our community. Our aims are to celebrate our past, raise awareness for our present and protect the future of the Showmen community.

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Insight Into Diversity

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Five pharmacy schools recently received $4.1 million, collectively, to improve diversity in the pharmacy workforce and improve health outcomes for underserved populations. The funding comes from the McKesson Foundation , a corporate foundation dedicated to eliminating barriers to health care in vulnerable communities. . Grantee institutions include the historically Black Hampton University; the University of Michigan (U-M); the University of Minnesota; the University of North Carolina (UNC) at

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 22, 2022

A growing body of research has shown that race-matched instruction—when teachers and learners come from the same background—is beneficial for students. College students have been shown to be likelier to pass courses with race-matched instructors, likelier to receive higher grades in those courses, and likelier to persist in school. Race-matched students were also more likely to take an additional class in that subject and to major in it.

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Higher Ed Dive

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Before a recent agreement, strikers spoke of hope for relief from crushing living costs and a growing sense of connection to others in their shoes.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 18, 2022

The challenges for faculty working with students in the 21st century are rising. How can faculty meet the many challenges facing higher education? In the past, faculty could stand objectively in front of the class and provide didactic information to students via lecture. Students came to the classroom expecting information from a book and verbal lecture covering the content.

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Insight Into Diversity

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Six universities will each receive $2.5 million through the Driving Change initiative , a project that supports building more inclusive learning environments in the subjects of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in higher education. Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), a nonprofit research and philanthropic organization with a mission to advance the discovery and sharing of scientific knowledge, awarded the funding.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II has been appointed founding director of Yale Divinity School’s (YDS) new Center for Public Theology and Public Policy. He will also serve as professor in the practice of public theology and public policy. The Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II Barber – a moral movement leader with experience of 30 years of pastoral ministry and in multiple public leadership roles – led the Moral Mondays protests and movement in North Carolina; established Repairers of the Breach to t

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Higher Ed Dive

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Students brought a class-action lawsuit this week alleging the university and online program manager violated California’s consumer law.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The past two-and-a-half years have seen higher education embrace the boundless potential of technology in the classroom like never before. Digital collaboration is an invaluable part of most college courses, powerful networks connect students from every corner of campus and beyond, and once futuristic tools like virtual reality are enabling students and faculty to see the world in a whole new way.

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Insight Into Diversity

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Lack of workforce diversity is an acknowledged problem across nearly all medical disciplines, but a team of researchers recently took a deep dive into physician assistant (PA) training programs. They analyzed individual program outcomes to see which are the most successful in producing diverse graduates and to determine best practices to share across the field.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The Taliban government has suspended university education for all female students in Afghanistan , CNN reported. This represents part of the increasing oppression on Afghan women’s rights. Girls were barred from secondary schools in March , after the Taliban ordered schools for girls to shut hours after they were to reopen following closures after the August 2021 Taliban takeover.

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Higher Ed Dive

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Holy Names University is saddled by years of deficits, falling enrollment and debt. The pandemic and economy worsened its standing, leaders say.

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University Business

DECEMBER 21, 2022

What is a “wicked problem”? When it comes to higher ed, they are “structural, pervasive societal challenges that are subject to real-world constraint,” say analysts at WGU Labs , the research arm of Western Governor’s University. “Colleges are failing to meet the needs of students and the result is a crisis for universities—public perception is wavering and students are seeking career-aligned credentials elsewhere,” according to WGU Labs’ new repor

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Insight Into Diversity

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Throughout its history, higher education in the U.S. has served as both an institutional oppressor of Black Americans and as a stronghold for resistance against racism and discrimination in society. In honor of this year’s Black History Month theme, “Black Resistance,” designated by the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), INSIGHT examines the role that higher education has played in Black activism and how academia can support anti-racism by empowering students

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HEPI

DECEMBER 21, 2022

This blog was kindly contributed by Lucy Haire, Director of Partnerships at HEPI. On the eve of the publication of the HEPI Policy Note with Handshake , How can you help me? Students’ perspectives on careers services and employment , a group of university careers service and mission group leaders, an Office for Students (OfS) representative and senior executives from Handshake gathered with colleagues from HEPI, for a roundtable to explore the implications of the report’s findings and practical

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Higher Ed Dive

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The list puts into practice congressional changes limiting revenue for-profit colleges can draw from federal education funds — including military aid.

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University Business

DECEMBER 22, 2022

College applications are up for fall 2023, the Common App’s latest numbers show, including underrepresented and first-generation students. Common App compared this year’s early application numbers to 2019 to avoid drawing comparisons to the application seasons upended by COVID. In short, more applicants applied to more institutions compared to the fall before the pandemic.

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Insight Into Diversity

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Julian Vasquez Heilig, PhD. The decline in students graduating from teacher education programs and the nationwide teacher shortage have become more acute in the past five years. Recruiting more students to backfill the teacher pipeline amid a growing shortage in the U.S. is at the top of nearly every education school’s agenda. . At the height of pandemic closures in 2020, I began weekly strategy meetings on Zoom with the small recruitment team at my college.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Cabrini University has laid off six full-time faculty – three of them were tenured – this month as part of budget cuts to help remedy its financial deficit, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. The six – 8.7% of the school’s 69 full-time faculty – included faculty in writing and narrative arts, science, math, and visual and performing arts, a Cabrini spokesperson said.

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Higher Ed Dive

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Earnings have held steady, but median debt for borrowers with master’s degrees nearly doubled in under two decades, the Urban Institute found.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic changed the way higher education approaches educational technology, accelerating adoption of equipment and methods that previously had been slowly gaining traction. The use of immersive learning technology, like virtual, augmented and extended reality, is also on the rise. In an EdTech Twitter poll, 19 percent of respondents said immersive learning is most relevant to their 2023 technology plans.

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Insight Into Diversity

DECEMBER 23, 2022

READ: ‘Transforming Hispanic-Serving Institutions for Equity and Justice’. Drawing on more than 25 years of research into Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs), the book “Transforming Hispanic-Serving Institutions for Equity and Justice” offers a framework for how HSIs can advance racial equity, social justice, and collective liberation on their campuses.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Almost every Asian person has encountered racial mockery by someone aping an Asian language. I first experienced it on an elementary school playground. Never did I imagine that I would witness it by a prominent university leader during a commencement ceremony. Yet Purdue Northwest Chancellor Thomas Keon did exactly that when he opened his remarks to his university’s commencement ceremony last week with incoherent “Asian” gibberish.

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Higher Ed Dive

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The proposal includes a provision that would force institutions to pay legal costs for people who successfully sue them for violations.

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