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Podcasting with Allanté Whitmore, PhD of Blk + In Grad School

The Academic Designer

Allanté Whitmore started her podcast Blk + In Grad School on an air mattress with her cell phone. Looking forward to a new season of motivation and inspiration for grad students.

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Why not take a risk-based approach to discrimination or harassment on campus?

Wonkhe

Jim Dickinson considers the best way to approach the risks to equality of opportunity that students really care about. The post Why not take a risk-based approach to discrimination or harassment on campus? appeared first on Wonkhe.

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An introduction to our brand refresh

Deans for Impact

Notice something different? Our updated visual brand identity conveys a new look and feel that more accurately reflects our growing network and current priorities. . In 2015, Deans for Impact launched with an unwavering commitment to ensure that every child in this country is taught by well-prepared teachers. At the time, our work focused primarily on convening solutions-oriented education deans.

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Disruption, Evolution, and Leadership

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

Disruption, Evolution, and Leadership. A Conversation With Paul LeBlanc, President, Southern New Hampshire University. bridget. Thu, 10/06/2022 - 06:00. Image. Higher Ed Leadership. Inside Higher Ed. Weekly Wisdom. Dr. Paul LeBlanc has been President at Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) since 2003, and he joined us on the Weekly Wisdom Podcast to talk about how he first introduced online education through disruptive innovation, what happens to schools that can't or won't evolve, the neces

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How faculty can unintentionally encourage impostor syndrome (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

Certain classroom practices that faculty unconsciously engage in can make students question their intelligence, competence and sense of belonging, writes Angelica S. Gutierrez. Job Tags: FACULTY JOBS Ad keywords: faculty Section: Teaching and Learning Editorial Tags: Career Advice Teaching Show on Jobs site: Image Source: useng/istock/getty images plus Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?

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How Conducting a Mixed-mode Class is Similar to Hosting a Late-night Talk Show

Faculty Focus

Faculty are increasingly called on to conduct “mixed-mode” classes, sometimes called hybrid or HyFlex classes. These sessions are conducted with some students in-person and others using Zoom or other conferencing tools to view and participate at a distance. Mixed-mode classes present new challenges for faculty who are used to teaching an in-person or online class, where all the students are using one mode of access.

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Honoring identities and pursuing excellence: meet Valerie Sakimura, DFI’s new executive director

Deans for Impact

Growing up in Hawai’i, Valerie Sakimura and many of her peers spoke Hawaiian Pidgin, a local dialect often used at home and heard in everyday conversation – but never at school. In academic and formal settings, “it was looked down on as an uneducated way to speak and write,” she explains. But Valerie encountered a surprisingly different experience through her high school English teacher.

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Why one professor would swap tenure for a union (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

The recent firing of 33 employees, including tenured professors, at Emporia State University in Kansas was deplorable. On the faculty Listserv at my university, it led to a wringing of hands from tenured professors, who lamented it as heralding the dismantling of tenure and the further deterioration of higher education. According to Inside Higher Ed ’s reporting , those at Emporia State regard it in the same light.

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PeopleAdmin wins Gold and Silver Globee® in the 12th Annual 2022 Business Excellence Awards

PeopleAdmin

PeopleAdmin Named Winner in the 12th Annual 2022 Business Excellence Awards. Austin, TX – October 6, 2022 – PeopleAdmin , the leading provider of solutions for higher education, announced today that The Globee® Awards, organizers of world’s premier business awards programs and business ranking lists, has named both the Faculty Information System and the HigherEd Platform winners in the 12th Annual 2022 Business Excellence Awards.

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College Viability Manifesto

College Viability

Much of what College Viability produces focuses on the financial health of poorly performing colleges - mostly private. As a first-generation college graduate (from many years ago), I have benefitted greatly from multip.

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10 ways to maximize your higher education conference experience

Terminalfour

It’s higher education conference season, and many of us are feeling a little rusty since the pandemic. Here are some tips on making the most of attending conferences based on our own experience attending and sponsoring several dozens of higher ed events.

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Pepperdine law dean talks openly about his stutter

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Some of Paul Caron’s most vivid childhood memories are about his stutter: disappearing to the restroom whenever the server came to his family’s table at a restaurant so his parents would order for him; children laughing at him in fourth grade when the teacher asked him his name and he couldn’t say it. Today, Caron is dean of law at Pepperdine University.

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American Universities Are Going to Implode

Academe Blog

BY JANE S. GABIN Many have read the Chronicle of Higher Education’s latest survey of public university presidents’ salaries and are appropriately horrified: sixteen presidents make over $1 million a year. This underlines the overall problem with US higher education: too many people are making too much money.

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Highlights from Higher Ed: Stress-Induced “Examiety,” Appetites for Amenities, Enrollment Decline Theories, and Doubts about Value 

Liaison International

Vast majority of Gen Z students suffer from exam-related anxiety. Exam-related stress and anxiety among Gen Z students are now so common that they have inspired a neologism: examiety. According to a report summarizing the survey responses of 1,000 recently polled students, 86% said they had suffered from “exam anxiety” at least once in the past; 76% said they have experienced it within the last six months.

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Promotional Videos for Schools: Simple Yet Effective Approaches to Video Marketing

HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

Reading Time: 11 minutes A compelling video can do wonders to improve your school’s engagement and brand awareness. After all, it can serve as a visually captivating way to showcase your school and its community. But when it comes to producing these types of promotional videos for schools, you may be picturing a difficult process that requires a lot of time and resources—not to mention complex equipment and tools. .

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Hurricane Ian leaves Florida campuses flooded and damaged

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Colleges and universities in southwestern and central Florida are assessing damage and evaluating reopening plans in the wake of Hurricane Ian. Some colleges that prepared for severe conditions, including the University of Tampa and the University of South Florida, emerged from the storm with minimal damage and were able to reopen residence halls by Friday morning.

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Mired in War, Ukraine Starts a New Academic Year

WENR

University students in Ukraine continue to struggle, and international students forced to leave because of the war encounter barriers in their own homelands. But those who are seeking to attend university in the United States have found support at many of the country’s academic institutions. The post Mired in War, Ukraine Starts a New Academic Year appeared first on WENR.

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Colleges Leverage Tech to Improve Mental Health Options

Campus Technology

Particularly with stresses induced by the pandemic, new and better tech-flavored ways of providing mental health support and care are being fielded in higher ed institutions.

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Don’t Blame Me, I Assign Homework

Academe Blog

BY ALEX SMALL Breathe easy, everyone. We physicists have a strategy to help all students pass tough introductory classes. Hear me out. An administrator recently said that more students would pass freshman physics if faculty gave more frequent and early feedback.

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Oberlin's board seeks to limit faculty power

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Much about Oberlin College is unique, including long-standing policies guaranteeing the faculty a say in matters that extend well beyond academics. Many faculty members say it’s this level of input that keeps them at Oberlin. Most importantly, they say, it’s a big part of what keeps Oberlin … Oberlin. So these faculty members are perplexed—and angry—that the college is trying to change its bylaws to restrict faculty control to academics only.

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Afterthoughts

Faculty Focus

This article first appeared in the Teaching Professor on October 1, 2017. © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. In face-to-face courses, learning is compartmentalized into blocks that meet a prescribed number of times per week across the term or semester. It’s a format that’s simultaneously efficient and inhibiting. It effectively facilitates sequenced and accretive design but regularly loses opportunities to maximize deep learning between class units.

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Why Is College Enrollment Declining?

Higher Education Today

Title: Exploring the Exodus From Higher Education Source: Edge Research, HCM Strategies, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation A collaborative study between Edge Research, HCM Strategies and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation aims to shed light on why an increasing number of people are choosing not to attend college. As enrollment has been.

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Howard U, National Education Equity Lab Expand Access to College-Level Algebra for Underserved High School Students

Campus Technology

Howard University and the nonprofit National Education Equity Lab have announced they are expanding a program that allows high school students in historically underserved communities to take college Algebra in their high school classrooms and earn college credit at no cost.

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How to benefit from the tenure process's underlying laws (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

Paul J. Croft shares some underlying laws that govern the tenure process and how to make that process work best for you. Job Tags: FACULTY JOBS Ad keywords: faculty Topic: Seeking Tenure Editorial Tags: Career Advice Show on Jobs site: Image Source: marchmeena29/istock/getty images plus Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?

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Ready for an In-class Sharing Reset? Try the “TRI” Method!

Faculty Focus

Now that many of us have returned to in-person teaching, how can we maximize the setting and incorporate an adapted student-to-student learning structure to support in-class sharing activities? Instead of using an in-class model in which one person shares with the whole class (one at a time), or using a pair-share method, consider a reset and try the use of trios. .

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Spanish PM leads outcry over students filmed chanting abuse at women’s halls

The Guardian - Higher Education

Ministers join censure after male student cheered on by mob for calling women in Madrid residence ‘whores’ and ‘nymphomaniacs’ Senior Spanish government figures, including the prime minister, have condemned the behaviour of a group of male university students who were filmed cheering and howling after one of them hurled threatening, obscene and sexist insults at female students in a neighbouring block.

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AI/ML in EdTech: An Incomplete Inventory

eLiterate

My recent post on the challenges of using artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) in EdTech received various responses. Both some positive and some negative responses gave me the sense that focusing on the one rather extreme example of an open-ended chatbot suggested to some readers that I was arguing that all AI/ML is equally fraught, whether they agreed or disagreed with that proposition.

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Campus leaders accuse Michigan State board of overstepping

Inside Higher Ed

Image: For nearly a month, the fate of Michigan State president Dr. Samuel Stanley Jr. has remained uncertain amid an effort by some members of the Board of Trustees to force him out. Dueling narratives have emerged , with the board claiming that Dr. Stanley has made missteps on Title IX procedures, while the president contends the mistakes belong to the trustees who failed to adequately certify Title IX compliance reports as required by state law.

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What Is CEDS and How Can Universities Use It?

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

Data is a language, and getting the world of higher education to speak the same one is at the heart of what the Common Education Data Standards initiative is trying to achieve. It’s an ambitious goal, one that has been in the works for more than a decade inside the National Center for Education Statistics, a division of the U.S. Department of Education.

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Increasing Investment in HBCUs

Higher Education Today

Title: A Call to Action for HBCU Investment Authors: Andre Perry and Anthony Barr Source: Brookings Institution Attention has focused in recent years on public underinvestment in historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). A new report from the Brookings Institution now sheds light on how HBCUs can build wealth from private capital through banks, philanthropies, Read more » The post Increasing Investment in HBCUs appeared first on Higher Education Today.

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Retaining Students at Minority Serving Institutions

Today's Learner

Reading Time: 3 minutes Ting Jiang, Ph.D. is a Professor of Sociology at the Metropolitan State University of Denver. Retention has always been a buzzword in higher education, even before the pandemic. But for Minority Serving Institutions , retention means more than keeping students on the registration roster – it’s also a primary pathway to achieving educational equity.

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Fall books from university presses on digital life

Inside Higher Ed

Column: Intellectual Affairs Without making any claim to exhaustiveness, here is a brief survey of new and forthcoming books on information technology and digital media published by academic presses this fall. They range from deep historical dives to guides for the perplexed—with some critical perspectives along the way. An old example of the gap between ordinary language and what computers were able to comprehend is the sentence “Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

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How Zero-Touch Deployment Can Help Higher Ed IT Departments

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

Higher education IT departments are managing more hardware than ever, with mobile devices, laptops and desktops now essential tools for faculty, staff and students. This is the hardware that powers modern learning, and in order to ensure all student have equal opportunities to take advantage of it, schools increasingly are providing it as well. Shenandoah University gives every incoming student a MacBook, an iPad device and an Apple Pencil.

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“High Impact Practices” Increase Students Civic Engagement

Higher Education Today

Title: The Effects of Community-based and Civic Engagement in Higher Education Author: Jessica R. Chittum, Kathryn A. E. Enke, Ashley P. Finley Source: AAC&U High-impact practices (HIPs) are staples in higher education teaching that can have a positive influence on learning indicators for undergraduate students. In a new report, AAC&U synthesized the literature on the.

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How to Catch New Donors by Going Where the Fish Are

Helix Education

If you’ve heard me talk about annual giving before you’ve probably heard me describe it as “casting the big net.” I like the idea that we send our large scale, omnichannel direct marketing messages to the masses and hope we can bring in as many fish (donors) as possible. It’s an apt metaphor, but I now wonder if the “big net” method, just like in real fishing, is sustainable or the wisest way to use our resources—particularly when it comes to acquiring first-time donors.

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Patty Limerick speaks out on her dismissal from her center

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Patty Limerick, co-founder and longtime faculty director of the University of Colorado at Boulder’s Center of the American West, says her firing last week continues to shock her, especially as she had been planning to step down soon anyway. “This has been a process that did not come with transparency, forthrightness and clear and steady communication.

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Antonio Souza opened the door to being a PhD student through the MS-EE program

Coursera blog

Antonio Souza had an extensive background in engineering prior to being admitted to the MS-EE on Coursera program. He has been a course facilitator for the program since spring 2021. Antonio has a background in Embedded Systems and has been accepted to CU Boulder’s Ph.D. program in Photonics & Quantum Engineering. When did you enroll in the MS-EE on Coursera program?