Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2023

The school is “committed to preparing diverse leaders” and pledges “accountability and transparency, as well as consistent engagement to ensure that we create and maintain an inclusive environment.” It’s an important goal in a profession that serves people of all backgrounds but whose practitioners are over 80% white.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The road to completing a credential can be particularly challenging for minority male students, who may face systemic biases, a lack of financial resources, racism and microaggressions, and an absence of academic role models. more likely to stay in school. more likely to stay in school.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Blogs The 6 most in-demand topics for district leaders last year AskEAB's 6 most popular research requests in 2022-2023 Each year, EAB’s Dedicated Advisors pass hundreds of questions from district leaders and school administrators to our AskEAB team. This rise reflects districts’ post-COVID-19 concerns about student learning loss.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

JANUARY 23, 2024

Analysis also says not attending school is as deadly as smoking or heavy drinking Every year spent in school or university improves our life expectancy, while not attending school is as deadly as smoking or heavy drinking, according to the first systematic study directly linking education to gains in longevity.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

MARCH 22, 2022

Top Threats to Higher Ed 2022 Edition In 2019, I wrote a series of posts on the leading threats to higher education. In 2019, I wrote: In the absence of war or pestilence, we know how many 18-year-olds there will be for the next 18 years, which is why we know there will be a marked decline seven years from now. Market Disturbance 2.

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LSE Higher Education Blog

MARCH 9, 2023

Amy Paterson queries the absence of politics in the medical curriculum, and argues for its introduction. This time-out has offered me an opportunity to reflect on how my non-medical and medical colleagues engage differently in these more complex, political-leaning discussions.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Many ran along the lines of “As a student & educator who recently fell off the face of the earth due to a severe depression—thank you so much for approaching this situation with compassion and grace. Image: Cameron Mozafari wasn’t surprised when a student walked into his office at Cornell University and started crying.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 24, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma I don't think any of my undergraduate or graduate school professors taught in ways that teaching centers prescribe. In the absence of historical knowledge, we substitute myths, factoids, and nostalgia for a past that never was. No interactive lectures. Not much active learning, let alone flipped classrooms.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 13, 2023

Each year, EdWeek , the Inside Higher Ed or Chronicle of K-12 education, publishes a list of the 200 university-based scholars who it claims did the most last year to shape educational practice and policy. Larry Cuban is there (at 34), but many of the leading historians of education, like Roger Geiger and John Thelin, aren’t.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

For example, take the pace at which the English population can acquire higher education and skills. Many of the UK’s competitors have systems of higher education where the time taken to achieve a Bachelor’s level is much slower, which itself is a problem for them. In 2012 the fee was increased to £9000 and in 2017 to £9250.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 12, 2022

In the absence of a baseline figure, performance-funding allocation systems are vulnerable to the objection that poor performance may reflect underfunding in the first place; if that’s true, then cutting funding will only make matters worse. Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The younger Falwell, now 60, took over an institution on the brink of bankruptcy after his father’s death and turned it into an online education powerhouse that also boasts gleaming facilities, a $1.6 2005: Liberty begins its push into online education. 2005: Liberty begins its push into online education. 1988: Falwell Jr.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 31, 2023

“I don’t think that the [Louisiana] authorities or schools are trying to hide something,” said Alexandru Bardas, an assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Kansas who researches cybersecurity. The risks needed “immediate” attention, Quintin D. ” U.S.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

University Diversity and the Drive for Inclusive Campuses of Tomorrow In the wake of SCOTUS’ ruling against Affirmative Action in college recruitment, higher education institutions are struggling to identify alternative ways to diversify their student bodies. This move couldn’t have come at a worse time. Recent studies show that only 22.6%

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

“Our training includes vital areas like de-escalation training techniques, mental health, community-oriented policing, crisis intervention training, as well as civil rights history, education,” Dickens said at a City Hall press conference.

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