Deans for Impact
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
“ True social transformations are measured in decades, not years ,” our founder Benjamin Riley wrote in 2017. It’s a maxim that has guided Deans for Impact (DFI) since its formation. This summer, after eight years designing, launching, and leading DFI, Benjamin stepped away from his role as executive director and will pass the torch to Valerie Sakimura , a member of the founding team.
Inside Higher Ed
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
Image: After a two-plus-year pause, Johns Hopkins University is moving ahead with plans to establish a private, armed police force. This week it released a draft of its memorandum of understanding with the Baltimore Police Department, laying out the framework for their division of duties. The two police departments will share the authority to patrol the “campus area,” which includes any buildings owned, operated, leased or controlled by Hopkins within the three Baltimore campuses: th
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Campus Technology
SEPTEMBER 19, 2022
At Arizona State University Online, student success coaches cultivate deep relationships with students as individuals, get to know their unique life experiences and challenges, and leverage data to better understand the multitude of factors that can impact retention. We spoke with Nicolette Miller, senior director of student success initiatives, about her team’s student-centered approach and what institutions should be doing to help students reach the finish line of their education.
PeopleAdmin
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
PeopleAdmin and Duke University Launch Collaboration to Tackle Complex Faculty Processes. Austin, TX – September 23, 2022 — PeopleAdmin , a PowerSchool company (NYSE: PWSC), the leading provider of unified solutions for higher education, has announced a collaboration with TAMS , a teaching assignment management software built by Duke University. TAMS, already utilized at more than 50 higher education institutions, streamlines, and simplifies what has historically been a highly manual, complex pr
Liaison International
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
WATERTOWN, Mass., Sept. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Liai son International , a developer of technologies that support higher-education operations, admissions, and student success on more than 1,000 campuses, announced that Lea Cadieux joined Liaison as its new Vice President of Marketing. The addition comes as Liaison continues to refine its Total Enrollment marketing strategy to help drive engagement, enrollment, retention, and net tuition revenue for higher education institutions. “Lea
Inside Higher Ed
SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
Image: The Ford Foundation is ending its longtime fellowship program for graduate students and postdoctoral researchers from diverse backgrounds. The foundation says the decision is part of a longer-term pivot away from funding education—which ranks high among philanthropic causes—to supporting traditionally underfunded work in social and racial justice.
Campus Technology
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
The United States Department of Education has launched the Future Finder Challenge, calling for strategists, developers, user-centered designers, and educators to build digital tools that better support adult learners in their journey from education to the workforce.
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Caylor Solutions
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
Raising brand awareness and amplifying distinctives are big challenges for higher ed marketing. See how this school successfully did both. The post Amplifying Student Voices for Higher Ed Marketing Success appeared first on Caylor Solutions.
Inside Higher Ed
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
Image: In his new podcast series, Gatecrashers: The Hidden History of Jews and the Ivy League ( Tablet ), Mark Oppenheimer, writer and co-host of the podcast Unorthodox , examines how elite institutions sought to limit the number of Jewish students a century ago—and how the advent of that quota system has shaped U.S. higher education ever since.
WCET Frontiers
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
Welcome to the continuation of the WCET + WCET Steering work group series focused on microcredential initiatives. This series explores microcredential adoption, implementation, and evaluation. Previously, the series has reviewed the importance of understanding the strategic goals of microcredential projects , the value that clarity of terms plays in an emergent area, and considered the inception of a microcredential project.
Campus Technology
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
Mass personalization through data is key to innovation in higher education, according to Anthology Chairman and CEO Jim Milton. Here's how the company is moving forward after last year's Blackboard merger to enable data-informed decisions across the university.
HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
How to Use Search Terms to Boost Alternative Education Programs. The only constant society has experienced in the last couple of years is change. Education? Changing. Workplaces? Changing. Our culture as a whole? Changing. With all these shifts, there’s good news and bad news for the higher education market. The Bad News: Enrollments are dropping. According to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, total higher-ed enrollments fell to 16.2 million this spring , a 4.1% decline from la
Inside Higher Ed
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
You can do a number of small things to help publicize it and get your story out to a broader audience, writes Joanne W. Golann. Job Tags: FACULTY JOBS Ad keywords: faculty Editorial Tags: Career Advice Publishing Show on Jobs site: Image Source: Nuthawut Somsuk/istock/getty images plus Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?
Campus Sonar
SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
For the last three years, we’ve been researching and analyzing online conversation about higher ed. We shared some of the multi-year trends we captured along the way, which also led us to eight recommendations higher ed marketers can use to drive their communication and marketing strategy. Consider your goals. A successful marketing strategy is rooted in clearly articulated goals that reflect a campus’s values and priorities.
Campus Technology
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
Grammarly is rolling out two features to its AI-powered writing assistance software, aiming to help students writing research papers use citations correctly: citation style formatting and auto citations.
SRHE
SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
by Neil Raven. Efforts to widen higher education access have tended to focus on the provision of information and supportto those from under-represented backgrounds. This is perfectly understandable given the deep inequalities in HE progression rates that persist. However, such a focus can mean that insufficient attention is given to the student voice, and to listening to what they have to say.
Inside Higher Ed
SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
Image: The University of New Mexico became the latest stage for a now-familiar campus drama on Thursday, when student protesters disrupted a controversial speaker’s event and reignited discussion on the state of free speech on American college campuses. Over 100 students gathered on Thursday outside the Albuquerque university’s Student Union Building to protest conservative commentator Tomi Lahren, who the UNM chapter of right-wing campus group Turning Point USA invited to speak at a
HEM (Higher Education Marketing)
SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
Reading Time: 12 minutes At the beginning of their enrollment journey, students typically research their field of interest and explore different options for pursuing or continuing their education. With the right marketing and student recruitment techniques, what starts as a simple search can transform into a full conversion—giving your school the chance to appeal to new prospects and boost enrollments.
Campus Technology
SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
Virtual and hybrid learning company ClassIn is entering the United States education market this fall, hoping to attract educators’ attention with its integrated content management and learning management systems. The platform is used by more than 60,000 K–12 and higher education institutions in 160 countries.
Liaison International
SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
Top Schools (and Others) Fail to Hit Enrollment Goals for Low-Income Students. Since 2016, more than 125 U.S. colleges and universities — including all eight Ivy League institutions — have joined forces to increase the enrollment of lower-income students enrolled at “high performing” schools by at least 50,000 within ten years. So far, the results have failed to meet expectations.
Inside Higher Ed
SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
I thought if I tried to write about what could keep a person going when they want to leave, I might be able to get myself into a better place, writes Rachel Toor. Editorial Tags: Career Advice Show on Jobs site: Image Source: Nuthawut Somsuk/istock/getty images plus Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?
idfive agency
SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
National Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15 – October 15) is here! Before you fire up your brand’s content calendar for the celebration, you may be asking “is the word Hispanic really the right way to address this audience?”. It‘s an important question, and we’re glad you’re asking it. As with all important questions, the answer is as nuanced as the task at hand.
The Change Leader, Inc.
SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
The Changing Face of Collegiate Athletics – NCAA, Knight Commission, and Title IX – Changing Higher Ed Podcast 121 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Amy Privette Perko In this episode of Changing Higher Ed podcast, Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Amy Privette Perko discuss what’s happening with collegiate athletics and the key decisions […] The changing face of Collegiate Athletics prompts value-based decisions for college presidents and boards.
Campus Technology
SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
Students using the Moodle open source learning management platform can now listen to learning content in more than 50 languages, thanks to a new integration with digital voice and text-to-speech tool ReadSpeaker.
Inside Higher Ed
SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
Image: Frustrations with Alabama Community College System leaders came to a head among state lawmakers in Mobile this summer after the firing of the interim president at Bishop State Community College, Lawrence Brandyburg. The firing in June raised concerns about frequent leadership turnover at the historically Black community college and within the system as a whole.
Caylor Solutions
SEPTEMBER 19, 2022
Organizations in every industry across America are talking about centralizing marketing. But, while the strategy has its advantages, is it the magic bullet for your school's marketing needs? The post 4 Considerations for Centralizing Marketing at Your School appeared first on Caylor Solutions.
Dr. Missy Alexander
SEPTEMBER 19, 2022
A series of events last week led me to participate in several conversations about the alignment of our university’s program offerings with Connecticut’s workforce needs. These conversations are not new, nor are they surprising. Since our founding in 1913, WCSU has been responding to the needs of the region by growing our program offerings, assessing their quality, and evolving as new discoveries and career paths emerge.
Campus Technology
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
A new institutional tutoring solution from online tutoring company Tutor.com enables colleges and universities to centralize 24/7 academic support services for students.
Inside Higher Ed
SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
For a long time, colleges and universities pushed back on the idea that students are customers. Colleges and universities don’t like to think of themselves as serving customers, but as enrollment challenges persist, many campuses have adopted a “serving the customer” mind-set with the goal of helping students matriculate and thrive.
The Higher Ed Marketer
SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
The most important part of storytelling in higher education is creating stories where students can easily insert themselves and be an active participant. . . Chad Wilson is the Vice President and Executive Creative Director of Marketing at Grand Canyon Education , an education service company that provides an array of support services in the post-secondary education sector, including work with their key client, Grand Canyon University. .
Gray Associates
SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
Humanities majors continue to take a bit of a beating in the press. Nevertheless, we decided to delve deeper into what humanities majors do after they graduate from college. What we found was a little surprising. The post Fall Back Careers for Humanities Majors appeared first on Gray Associates | Program Evaluation.
ACPA
SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
Call for Proposals: ACPA Senior Scholars Grant Program. September 16, 2022. The American College Personnel Association (ACPA) and the Senior Scholars are committed to making policy programmatic decisions based on quality research data about the experiences of students, administrators, staff, and faculty at colleges and universities nationally and internationally.
Inside Higher Ed
SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
The GI Bill, signed into law in 1944 to provide World War II veterans with funds for college and housing, helped usher in much of today’s middle class. Approximately eight million veterans took advantage of educational benefits, and by 1950 the number of U.S. citizens with a college degree had more than doubled. For the first time, millions of veterans suddenly qualified for GI-backed mortgages, and by 1955, home loans worth about $340 billion had been granted to veterans, amounting to nea
Susquehanna President's Blog
SEPTEMBER 18, 2022
National Banned Book Week began today. Some of the most frequently banned books in American history include these classics: · 1984 – George Orwell · The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain · The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger · The Color Purple – Alice Walker · The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald · I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou · Lord of the Flies – William Golding · Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck · One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey · To Kill a Mocking
ACPA
SEPTEMBER 19, 2022
by Haleigh Zurek. Associate Director for Campus Programming, Marywood University. Vice Chair for Programs – Webinars and Convention Social. In early August, while on my morning walk, I took some time to reflect on my role and how life has changed since accepting my first professional role and how different life is now that I am entering my late twenties.
Inside Higher Ed
SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
Blog: Learning Innovation At the start of our DCAL (Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning - our CTL) team meetings, we kick things off with a quick icebreaker. The person running the meeting is responsible for writing or finding the prompt. Below are some of the icebreakers that have been effective for warming up our team meetings. Please feel free to use them as you see fit.
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