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The four foundations of belonging at university

Wonkhe

New research from Wonkhe and Pearson shows four foundations to student belonging. The post The four foundations of belonging at university appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Community college students need help meeting basic needs

Higher Ed Dive

Many facing basic needs insecurity didn't receive help from their campuses, researchers found. They suggested opening resources to all students.

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The Changing Face of Executive Education

MindMax

The Breakfast Club, hosted by Chief Learning Officer, has a 17-year history of connecting leaders over breakfast to strengthen the link between learning and development, and business strategy. Watch “The Changing Face of Executive Education” webinar event which took place on October 13, 2022 and moderated by MindMax CEO, Lee Maxey. Webinar Overview.

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Humane Ingenuity 45: What AI Tells Us About Art

Dan Cohen

( “The Library of the Distant Future,” as envisioned by Midjourney, when I was let into the beta in March 2022.). Before one can become a Cassandra or Pollyanna about the uses or abuses of impressive text-to-image AI tools like DALL•E and Midjourney , it is worth stepping back and reflecting about the fundamental nature of this new technology.

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A cost of living crisis needs a cost of living strategy

Wonkhe

Becky Bradshaw makes the case for treating the cost of living crisis with the same seriousness and urgency as that seen during the pandemic. The post A cost of living crisis needs a cost of living strategy appeared first on Wonkhe.

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How do colleges decide when to schedule courses?

Higher Ed Dive

More colleges think about the courses students will need than avoiding conflicts in students' schedules, according to a scheduling software provider's research.

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Re-Enrollment Success Story: CSUDH Campaign Engages Former Students

MindMax

Faced with higher education’s impending demographic cliff , leaders from the College of Extended & International Education at California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) needed to begin thinking creatively about how to maintain steady enrollment. With recent data suggesting that over 39 million Americans have attended college without earning a degree or other credentials , they knew it made sense to pursue this market.

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Empowering parents on education

Wonkhe

Anne-Marie Canning describes how community organising, and her own mother, inspired her to empower parents. The post Empowering parents on education appeared first on Wonkhe.

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How a “magical alignment” let one university quickly launch widespread student equity measures

Higher Ed Dive

Northern Arizona University developed and launched an initiative that broke down its biggest obstacles for student access — in eight months.

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Guide to the pros and cons of outsourcing online education

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Like a lot of professors whose field of study is higher education, Jeffrey C. Sun frequently gets asked by administrators at his institution to weigh in on thorny issues they’re debating. When his bosses at the University of Louisville were considering how best to expand their online learning offerings, they asked Sun, a Distinguished University Scholar, for his thoughts on whether the university should hire an online program management (OPM) company or build the in-house expertise

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How and Why to Use Asynchronous Videos in Your Online Courses

Faculty Focus

While Zoom was the “it” word during the pivot to online learning throughout COVID-19, it is high time to consider alternatives to synchronous online classes that benefit student learning. After all, “Zoom fatigue” has real effects on cognitive processing (Waldbieser, 2021). While people will still be Zooming for some time, taking time to create, produce, and implement asynchronous videos or asynchronous video assignments for your online class can yield multiple benefits.

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We need to talk about food insecurity

Wonkhe

Jim Dickinson reviews the latest inflation figures and finds research on students and hunger hard to come by. The post We need to talk about food insecurity appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Academics’ complaint seeks to push retirement manager TIAA to divest from fossil fuels

Higher Ed Dive

Professors who have retirement accounts with TIAA have turned to the Principles for Responsible Investment to try to force changes by 2025.

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On the Contribution of Extension: In memory of Tim Wallace

The Berkeley Blog

When I arrived in Berkeley for my Ph.D. about 50 years ago (1973, before the Yom Kippur War), I learned that the department of Agricultural Economics, which I joined, had several faculty members who were extension specialists. Their job has been to do real applied research and to provide information and education to adults (regular.

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Fair Access and Participation: Sector-wide challenges need sector-wide collaboration

HEPI

This blog was contributed by Professor Antony Moss, Associate Pro Vice Chancellor, Education and Student Experience, London South Bank University, and Chair, London Uni Connect. In the summer, all universities with an approved Access and Participation Plan (APP) were asked by our regulator, the Office for Students (OfS), to submit a mid-cycle variation responding to a set of new priorities.

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Higher Education Postcard: Coventry University

Wonkhe

This week Hugh Jones’ postbag has a card that tells us a story of ribbons, cars and quiz questions. The post Higher Education Postcard: Coventry University appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Cazenovia College defaults on $25M bond payment, raising concerns about its survival

Higher Ed Dive

The small college has until Nov. 3 to come to an agreement with bondholders after it was unable to obtain new financing.

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How COVID spurred online education innovation and empathy

Inside Higher Ed

Image: By most accounts, the March 2020 switch to emergency remote teaching and learning was rough on students, faculty members and staff workers. Student mental health suffered, existing inequities were exacerbated and many missed a sense of community. Now, a Stanford University self-study released today provides evidence that, despite acknowledged hardships, college students, faculty members and staff rallied around the shared goal of academic continuity in unprecedented ways.

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HBCU Football Player Makes History as First to Come Out as Gay

Insight Into Diversity

Byron Perkins, a defensive back for the Hampton University Pirates, became the first openly gay football player at a historically Black college or university (HBCU) after publicly coming out this week via social media. “I’ve been self-reflective and trying to prioritize what makes me happy and makes me feel alive,” he said in an Instagram post. “I thought it could be just football and school, but there was a component missing.

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Podcast: Immigration, belonging, blended learning

Wonkhe

This week on the podcast Suella Braverman is gone - but has the threat of a crackdown on international students gone with her? The post Podcast: Immigration, belonging, blended learning appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Are early alert systems helping or hurting students at community colleges?

Higher Ed Dive

New America report flags challenges including procurement, reluctant faculty, ineffective messages, possible racial discrimination and data struggles.

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Enrollment trends new and old emerge from pandemic

Inside Higher Ed

Image: After a bruising year of pandemic-related enrollment declines, higher education leaders across the country are anxiously waiting for this fall’s national enrollment picture to emerge. Many of the signs suggest at least modest improvement over all, but with wide variation among sectors and institutions. National Student Clearinghouse data released in May showed the enrollment downturn slowing, but by no means reversing.

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What Is Belonging? Six Insights from a WES Twitter Chat

WENR

Practitioners discuss how to create rich, resilient, and welcoming communities that truly foster a sense of belonging for new immigrants and refugees. The post What Is Belonging? Six Insights from a WES Twitter Chat appeared first on WENR.

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What do employers want from graduates in 2022?

Wonkhe

What are employers looking for in current graduates – and how much are they paying them? The Institute of Student Employers' Stephen Isherwood unpacks the latest data. The post What do employers want from graduates in 2022? appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Half of regional admissions counselors are looking for new jobs, survey finds

Higher Ed Dive

They’re looking for positions at the same time the pandemic leads some colleges to beef up regional admissions programs.

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Academe Calls for Revolutionizing Higher Education Budget and Finance

Academe Blog

POSTED BY THE AAUP Fall 2022 | Vol. 108, No. 4 The fall 2022 issue of Academe calls on faculty to become actively engaged in budget and finance issues on their campuses and in their states.

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We need higher standards for entry into higher ed teaching (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

Susan N. Kahn calls for higher standards for entry into college and university teaching. Ad keywords: teachinglearning Section: Teaching and Learning Editorial Tags: Career Advice Teaching Show on Jobs site: Image Source: IIIerlok_Xolms/istock/getty images plus Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?

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Notifications might (eventually) lead to regulation

Wonkhe

What happens when you notify OfS of a concern? As David Kernohan finds out, not very much - for quite a long while. The post Notifications might (eventually) lead to regulation appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Undergraduate enrollment declines 1.1% this fall, dashing hopes of quick recovery

Higher Ed Dive

Although the decrease has slowed, colleges are further than ever from returning to pre-pandemic student levels.

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Post-Traditional Students are the New Premium Students

eLiterate

As I outlined recently in my “ e-Literate’s Changing Themes for Changing Times ” post, I am shifting my coverage somewhat. I’ll be developing and calling out tags I use for these themes so that you can go to an archive page on each one. This one will be listed under the “ changing-enrollment ” and “ future-of-academic-work ” tags.

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Becoming a Mindful Leader and Influencing the Educational Experience

Faculty Focus

Student performance is often a reflection of the school curriculum and school management. Many factors influence the educational experience of everyone involved in education, but the driving force is leadership. Leadership is the generator that provides the push to all those that need it, especially at-risk students. Research demonstrates a link between the quality of leadership and student achievement (Branch & Hanusheck, 2012).

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These boots are made for checking

Wonkhe

What's going on with quality and standards regulation in England? Paul Greatrix brings us up to speed. The post These boots are made for checking appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Colleges should use K-12 performance assessments for course placement, report says

Higher Ed Dive

Recommendations from Complete College America include better integrating postsecondary and K-12 systems for these evaluations.

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The Importance of Tabletop Exercises for Higher Ed IT Teams

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

An incident response plan is a critical part of any cybersecurity portfolio, but plans need to be tested and practiced to be executed successfully. Cybersecurity incidents are dynamic situations, and finding out that your plan is incomplete or inflexible as an incident unfolds is not ideal. What Are Tabletop Exercises? Tabletop exercises are an opportunity to put an incident response plan through its paces and identify what works and what doesn’t.

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Study: Zoom Live Chat Function Helped Students Feel More Comfortable

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The live chat function in Zoom classes helped students feel more comfortable, according to a recent University of Nevada, Las Vegas study. Dr. Rachael D. Robnett The study – published in the journal PLOS ONE – looked at anonymous chat summaries from Fall 2020 of 230 students in two introductory biology lecture courses with synchronous remote video instruction.

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The blend gets another tweak

Wonkhe

Susan Orr's blended learning report, and the OfS response, get Jim Dickinson and David Kernohan thinking about growth. The post The blend gets another tweak appeared first on Wonkhe.

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How a boot camp sold ISAs and ended up filing for bankruptcy protection

Higher Ed Dive

Prehired faces a glut of state investigations. A critic says the case could indicate larger problems for a vocational niche that had been booming.

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