Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Even though financial skills start developing in adolescence, and we are expected to master them in adulthood, many adults do not have well-developed financial literacy and budgeting skills. First, educational needs must be evaluated, established, and prioritized with input from stakeholders.

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The PIE News

JANUARY 24, 2023

January 24 is the UN’s International Day of Education. The theme for 2023 is “Invest in people, prioritise education.” UNESCO, the UN’s education arm, makes a compelling case for such investment. Of course governments do already invest vast sums of money in education. In total, GPE has spent more than $5.7

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Accompanying the growing contestation of language is a supposed crisis of literacy. One hundred and thirty million Americans—more than half of all adults—read below a sixth-grade level. Some observers consider the so-called crisis of literacy overblown. That’s why NGOs routinely call literacy a human right.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

OCTOBER 6, 2023

His research on the penalties of the poor literacy and numeracy revealed in young adults by the cohort studies led to a national campaign. Skills for Life provided training to 14 million adults. John believed that data should inform policy to help people who are disadvantaged.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The grant – from the California Department of Health Care Access and Information (HCAI) and to be distributed over five years – will help fund the “UC San Diego Health Career Experience,” an annual program meant to educate and train students interested in nursing and allied health professions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2024

UNT and LaGuardia’s student centered, data-driven approaches are helping their students succeed in the classroom and beyond, offering considerable returns on their educational investment. ESOL is housed in the school’s Adult Continuing Education (ACE) division. Students at LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City, NY.

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EAB

DECEMBER 27, 2023

As a former university CMO, I always come away from this convening of higher ed marketers energized about the future of marketing and what it means to engage evolving adult learner audiences in the coming year. So, what are the implications of these changes—and how will they impact marketing to graduate and adult students in 2024?

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Even though financial skills start developing in adolescence, and we are expected to master them in adulthood, many adults do not have well-developed financial literacy and budgeting skills. First, educational needs must be evaluated, established, and prioritized with input from stakeholders.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

“This is the first exposure many incarcerated learners have to independent, self-directed research, which is foundational to an immersive, quality college education.” But with the revival of a way for those in prison to better access higher education, per the Second Chance Pell pilot program in 2015 , ITHAKA saw the potential to do more.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 14, 2023

The rapid advance of artificial intelligence in the world of higher education has continued with the report that Harvard University has plans to use an AI chatbot as part of its introductory computer science course. Others are teaching information literacy by having students fact-check bots’ responses to research questions.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Broadly speaking, “noncredit” programs fall into three major categories: adult basic education, workforce development and personal enrichment. ABE refers to programs like adult literacy or entry-level ESL. It quickly became clear that I should have qualified the question.

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WCET Frontiers

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The Ups and Downs of Remote Learning By most measures, the COVID-19 pandemic – and the resulting shift to remote learning– was devastating to education in the United States. We can track similar achievement gaps in adult learners: COVID-related shutdowns propelled a 25% decrease in workers’ participation in on-the-job training.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 23, 2023

Professional development should be an enriching and meaningful experience for adults. From my professional experiences in both K-12 and higher education, I have found the secret sauce to effective professional development is ENGAGEMENT. Faculty professional development is any type of continuing education effort for educators.

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WCET Frontiers

APRIL 20, 2023

The higher education press continues to increase its coverage with multiple articles , blogs , and op-ed pieces in The Chronicle of Higher Education and Inside Higher Education among other outlets. Department of Education’s Office of Educational Technology , “Technology can be a powerful tool for transformation learning.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 23, 2023

Professional development should be an enriching and meaningful experience for adults. From my professional experiences in both K-12 and higher education, I have found the secret sauce to effective professional development is ENGAGEMENT. Faculty professional development is any type of continuing education effort for educators.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

INSIGHT Into Diversity presents the 2023 Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award Field Guide with examples of strategies and best practices used by HEED Award-winning schools to foster an inclusive campus culture that promotes belonging and equal success opportunities. View the full list of 2023 recipients here.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 6, 2023

Sure, there is at least one young contemporary poet, Amanda Gorman, whose name the educated public might recognize, along with such stalwarts as Maya Angelou, John Ashbery, and John Betjeman. The share of adults who said that they had read a poem (not plural) not for school or work, 12 percent in 2017, was nearly a third less than in 1992.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 16, 2023

Much as AI text generation can, I am convinced, strengthen student writing, AI image generators can inform visual literacy and arts education and set a new bar for artistic creativity. Katz have pointed out, technology and education are engaged in an ongoing race. It was doomed to defeat in the face of industrialization.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

The culminating experience for the EAB Rising Higher Education Leaders Fellowship was the capstone project that substantively contributed to the fellows’ professional advancement and helped solve a pressing challenge facing their home institutions. The topics covered included student success, budget models, change management, and more.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 24, 2022

One statement in Higdon and Butler’s article stood out for us: “One additional risk of a remote conference—and, by extension, remote education—is that it keeps us isolated from each other.” ” More than 300 participants from five continents joined us. Aspire toward participant agency and reflection.

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EAB

OCTOBER 24, 2022

are the most likely to choose community college as their first step when pursuing a higher education. gap in degree attainment between Hispanic and White adults during that time. 5 Tips to Recruit and Enroll Latine/x Students in Your Community College. Prospective Latine/x college students in the U.S. Engage the whole family.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 10, 2023

Build Relationships Jennifer Bloom, professor of educational leadership and research methodology at Florida Atlantic University, recommends connecting with students via appreciative advising , a framework she co-founded 20 years ago that’s now widely practiced. Experts offer the following eight actions: 1.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

At a time when the Latino population in the United States is growing and students are still facing daunting obstacles, Excelencia in Education is recognizing nine institutions for their clear and decisive commitment to Latino student success with the Seal of Excelencia. It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

JANUARY 8, 2023

Whether you are stuck in a rut or have ambitions you’d still like to pursue, adult education gives you a second chance. Six people tell Michael Segalov how taking a course inspired them I studied biology in Iraq for my undergraduate degree and worked in a pathology lab.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 15, 2023

Adult learners are arguably one group of learners who are at greatest risk for stress—not only at the end-of-term but throughout their academic program. For adult learners, being risk-informed goes a long way toward preventing these negative outcomes—both the adult learner and faculty are integral to this process. The outcome?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Creating awareness Financial literacy among college-going students has been a concern among many experts. In recent years, new efforts have been put in place to educate and support students on their journey to become financially secure and independent.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Without grants—either public or private—most adult basic education courses (English as a second language, GED, adult literacy) couldn’t happen. From the standpoint of a working adult, that’s a feature, not a bug; it allows noncredit programs to run on whatever calendars make sense locally.

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Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Binghamton University reestablished the Affirmative Action Office and adopted the Bias Incident Response Team model comprised of campus partners representing a diversity of voices that employ education, counseling, and cultural competency training to help resolve incident reports. Urban STEM Education — Davenport University.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 13, 2023

Today, college serves, for many late adolescents and young adults, a somewhat similar function. According to the United Negro College Fund, a college education produces community-oriented individuals. The most significant divide in American society today is between the college educated and non-college graduates.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2023

In addition, the ease with which students can use smartphones to spread their peers’ offending remarks or gestures via social media has a chilling effect on young adults trying to figure out who they are and what they think. “The mistakes you make in college are now public forever.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 9, 2023

This remarkable achievement sent shockwaves throughout the education sector, especially among teachers in schools and colleges. Perhaps it is not surprising that the educational sector is not best prepared for such an innovation. Consequently, education and learning were due for a revolution.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 9, 2023

This remarkable achievement sent shockwaves throughout the education sector, especially among teachers in schools and colleges. Perhaps it is not surprising that the educational sector is not best prepared for such an innovation. Consequently, education and learning were due for a revolution.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Why, then, should my thoughts about the future of higher education be any more accurate? Graff, an expert on literacy who also writes widely on colleges and universities. Graff, an expert on literacy who also writes widely on colleges and universities. How about offering classes in adulting? Let’s look at three.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 26, 2023

These practices also exclude persons with limited schooling and literacy skills. In Latin America, education and literacy gaps are most prominent in Indigenous and Afro-descendant communities. So what’s wrong with trends that claim to support inclusivity but are limited to writing? Meanwhile, U.S.

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