Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The legislative ramblings in Florida and other states seeking to remove Black history from the curriculum and revise Black history should give us pause about what historical information students will enter university with. university policies and procedures) as presented is also decolonized.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 26, 2023

Along that same line, experts spent the webinar discussing strategies and recent briefs on equitable admissions in higher ed, specifically on topics such as recruitment, legacy admissions, early action practices, test-optional and test-free policies, and holistic review of student applications.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Global Affairs Canada (GAC) is currently leading the development of Canada’s third International Education Strategy (IES) to follow the current strategy that expires on March 31 next year. GAC’s task is further complicated as the responsibility of education policy lies exclusively with the provinces.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The conference underscored the mission of postsecondary institutions and academics to work against dehumanizing atmospheres and support the best policies and practices that improve student belonging, community connection, and create thriving faculty. “We They’re there to provide access to higher education to their communities.”

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HEPI

OCTOBER 26, 2023

I am delighted that the organisation I work for, the Higher Education Policy Institute, is publishing today’s report with Unipol. It is in a long line of HEPI papers on the issue of where students live. The Robbins Report is as interesting on student accommodation as it is on almost everything else.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

It is also unprecedented to have an educational policy expert leading as a provost at a major research institution that boasts a student population of about 24,000. “We in educational administration and policy analysis and a master’s degree in sociology from Stanford University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 7, 2023

For Dartmouth and Columbia, these are the first women presidents in their history, while Harvard welcomes its first African American president. Robert McCaughey, retired professor of history and Janet H. Dartmouth College, Harvard University, and Columbia University named new presidents, each to take office in July.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 22, 2023

HEPI has marked the event with a Policy Note on the influence of the Robbins Report and a blog series – you can access all the material here. The review made a series of recommendations which have provided a reference point for comment on UK Government higher education policy ever since. Institute for Public Policy Research.

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HEPI

MAY 30, 2023

There is a long history of people getting their predictions about the future of technology, including the future of technology in education, wrong. Just ten years ago, in the words of Wired magazine, Sebastian Thrun declared that ‘ In 50 years … there will be only ten institutions in the world delivering higher education ’.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

MARCH 31, 2024

Move coincides with financial difficulties for universities arising from high inflation and freezing of domestic tuition fees Warning of over-reliance on Chinese students Rishi Sunak may not go down in history as “the man who destroyed UK higher education,” as one former university leader put it, but the prime minister’s sabre rattling on international (..)

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Their contracts have raised a number of ethical and policy flags. A college or university has a right and responsibility to determine its own campus policies on all kinds of activities. His email address is jthelin@uky.edu.

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HEPI

JANUARY 24, 2024

Never mind that the 50% target he refers to relates to tertiary education, I am certain he is not alone in believing that too many people go to university. It is an argument I have heard many times throughout the two decades that I have worked in higher education policy and politics. Our job must be to examine the evidence.

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HEPI

AUGUST 31, 2023

Creating a parity of esteem between Further Education and Higher Education, or between ‘vocational’ and ‘academic’, is often suggested as a good idea to improve skills shortages, achieve levelling up and promote economic growth. Widening participation: We can develop full pathway education, with progression mapped from Levels 1 to 7.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 7, 2022

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.

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Insight Into Diversity

APRIL 18, 2023

His advisor in the program, Kayla Johnson, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation, says Cummings is the “epitome of a champion.” Improving education, specifically for marginalized students, is his passion. We are poised to make our impact in DEI,” Cummings says.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 15, 2022

“Departments as such should avoid statements on what we call here ‘external’ matters (state, national, or international policy matters),” the guidelines say. The guidelines are friendlier to departmental utterances about internal matters, namely the unit’s core academic research, teaching and university policy.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The focus, he says, must be on the creation and the implementation of policies that ultimately help to improve communities over the long haul. No matter what area of education you’re in, you should at least be asking some questions that have to do with race. You cannot talk about education in this country without talking about race.

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HEPI

JANUARY 30, 2023

Paul’s piece is a takedown of a controversial new book about the demise of grammar schools and we have separately run a flattering review of the same book by a grammar school teacher – showing yet again that HEPI’s purpose is to stimulate debate as a way of improving policy rather than lobbying for any one position or another.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The book brings together 55 different authors – including academics, a vice-chancellor and numerous education policy experts (such as Sam Freedman, Lord Lucas, Jonathan Simons , Ann Mroz and Tom Richmond). 235-55 ‘The Public Schools Commission: “Impractical, Expensive and Harmful to Children”?’ , History of Education , 2012, pp.235-55

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SRHE

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The HEFCE-commissioned evaluation tells us only that it was not very ‘useful’ in the terms defined by the current policy framework. It tells us next to nothing about its value in other frames of reference, or even in a policy frame over a longer timescale. It may not be Virgin territory, but is higher education on the right track?” (No

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SRHE

OCTOBER 3, 2023

It should do so ‘with respect to how it implements its policies and procedures, as well as how it develops them’. The drawbacks of this policy change are now apparent. SRHE member GR Evans is Emeritus Professor of Medieval Theology and Intellectual History in the University of Cambridge.

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HEPI

APRIL 14, 2024

Nick Hillman (Director of HEPI) Last month (March 2024) came the devastating news that Dr Tony Bruce, who wrote HEPI’s termly Policy Briefing Paper for HEPI Partners, had died after a short illness. Tony was an exceptionally gifted policy professional. Bahram could not have found a better person. Tony was a natural at this.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Image: As recently as a decade ago, the concept of “value” rarely found its way into discussions about federal policy making about higher education. Policy makers also wind up making poor investments in some colleges and some programs that can’t live up to that promise.

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Creatrix Campus

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

In 2006, the HEC was established as a government body responsible for overseeing and regulating higher education in Bahrain. Encouraging collaboration between higher education institutions and industry Supporting and promoting research in higher education Setting educational policies and standards for higher education institutions in Bahrain.

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Creatrix Campus

JUNE 12, 2023

It ensures that the curriculum can be modified or adjusted based on feedback, emerging research, or changes in educational policies. Continuous Improvement - Curriculum development facilitates ongoing evaluation and improvement of educational programs.

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HEPI

MARCH 7, 2023

I left my job teaching History in schools because I was attracted by the taught Master’s course in Contemporary British History that was on offer here back then. Some of you may know his books about the history of the Conservative Party and Churchill , or his books about films like the Dam Busters and Anglo-German relations.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Excelencia in Education works to advance Latino student success in higher education by promoting Latino student achievement, conducting analysis to inform educational policies and advancing institutional practices. It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 10, 2023

For most of its 50-year history, the Pell Grant has not covered summer classes, with two brief exceptions: 2009-2011 and 2017 to the present. A lot of policies, you expect to have an effect within that semester and then maybe in one year, but very rarely do you find consistent positive impact down the road,” she said.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JUNE 13, 2023

Before 2011, Brown was a senior research associate at the Center for Evaluation and Education Policy at Indiana University. There, she led studies and evaluations focused on education and post-high school programs within the United States and across Europe. We know from history that during recessions, enrollment goes up, right?

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HEPI

JANUARY 2, 2023

This books is worth a mention here too because of the range of contributing authors, many of whom have been deeply involved in higher education policy debates, such as Sam Freedman, Claire Fox, Ralph Lucas, Ann Mroz and Jonathan Simons as well as the Vice-Chancellor James Tooley and the Social Mobility Commission Chair Katherine Birbalsingh.

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University Business

JULY 6, 2023

Across the country, new education policies took effect on July 1st, the beginning of the new fiscal year in most states. A handful of them tackle some of the most pressing issues K12 and higher education leaders face today, including school safety and inclusion.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 16, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Policy It’s hard to believe that we are already halfway through January! I’m also digging into a fantastic stack of books on higher ed and I’ll be writing about these books in the coming weeks: Unwelcome Guests: A History of Access to American Higher Education (2022)—Harold S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

DeSantis is doing in a way that stigmatizes those who are genuinely concerned about parental rights or who care about teaching history the way that they learned it.” When community colleges are mentioned in the State of the Union address, it elevates our sector across policy circles,” said Dr. Walter G. Dr. Kenneth K.

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SRHE

JULY 20, 2022

Yet, in Education, only 42 UoAs, out of 83, met that criterion; eight being modern universities. There were other overshoots: in History, Cambridge submitted 170%, Oxford 120%, perhaps linked to college staff not based in a department. They noted concentrations of high quality work in history and philosophy in some smaller submissions.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JUNE 29, 2023

The History of Higher Education in the US over the last 4 centuries is worse than horrible--from a People's perspective. To make history, it's helpful to know history. Higher education in the United States has always reflected and reinforced larger (sick) society and its ills. In many cases it has been horrifying.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Across states like South Carolina to Florida , local school boards are actively involved in banning books, removing school leaders committed to equity, and imposing limitations on classroom teachers, preventing them from teaching an accurate and honest portrayal of the United States' history.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 17, 2023

If we do not interrupt it, then our efforts to impact issues like economic policy and education policy will be academic exercises.” This will require partnerships with higher education, and, they argue, more funding for registered apprenticeships. It’s more a call to action,” he said.

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