The PIE News

JANUARY 31, 2024

” The ministry is engaging with the New England Commission on Higher Education and the UK’s QAA to give a clear signal that Kazakhstan is serious about quality, he added. Special government decrees are issued to ensure any incoming institutions maintain their autonomies. We don’t have billions to invest in education.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The professor, Samuel Joeckel, said in an email that the dean of his department and the university’s provost waited outside the class he was teaching last week to inform him of the news. An FAQ on working at the university says, “PBA does not offer tenure; all beginning faculty sign a one-year letter of agreement.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Image: Scholars in Florida are angry, disappointed and divided over a recent joint statement , signed by Florida College System presidents, promising to “not fund or support any institutional practice, policy, or academic requirement that compels belief in critical race theory or related concepts.”

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 27, 2023

These days it is becoming more common for academic institutions to request diversity statements with job application materials. Today’s college students are demographically, ideologically, neurologically and culturally diverse, and diversity statements are seen as a way to recruit faculty and staff who will serve these students well.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 5, 2023

Academic freedom under attack. Or are concerns publicized by a sensationalist press overblown, consisting of relatively isolated issues that are far less general than we think? Within the Cal State system, the share of faculty who are in tenured or tenure track positions fell from 66.6 Accreditors facing political heat.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

AUGUST 2, 2022

We certainly have a surplus of pundits, or at least talking heads promoted as subject experts across the spectrum of news outlets and media feeds, but Meacham may be right in recognizing that we are experiencing a time in which the recognition and value of public intellectuals has ebbed. That was typical across higher education.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Leaders, especially university presidents dealing with issues like enrollment declines and high turnover rates of higher ed presidents , can greatly benefit from a perspective of gratitude. This approach benefits not only the leaders themselves but also the broader academic community they serve. Yesterday was Thanksgiving.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 23, 2022

‘A Horrendous Move’ “Through her platform on news outlets and social media, Dr. Wen has promoted unscientific , unsafe , ableist , fatphobic , and unethical practices during the COVID-19 pandemic,” the petition says. Most of her commentary in the past few years has focused on COVID-19, however.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Image: Campus and faculty leaders in the California Community College system are eagerly anticipating the selection of a new chancellor this week. million students were enrolled in the 2019–20 academic year, but that number dropped to around 1.8 million in 2021–22, according to the system’s website.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Image: Student interest will continue to grow when it comes to virtual courses and remote learning options for live courses, the desire for creating richer academic and on-campus experiences, and new technology options. “My role is to push this issue as an optionality topic rather than just an online topic.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Perhaps the following conversation between Anita Casavantes Bradford and Steven Mintz about how R-1s can support their faculty to find fulfillment in meaningful research and as transformative teachers and mentors can suggest some answers. ” However, our campuses and our faculty roles have changed dramatically in the last few decades.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 2, 2024

The Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (AGB) has recently issued a statement on board independence and leadership, marking a critical moment for academic institutions. Academic Freedom: Central to the institution’s role in society and economy, academic freedom must be protected.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 19, 2022

These officials have no right to ignore this issue. “He is profiting from the moral panic over transness through new followers, advertisers and pageviews. As targeted harassment has the potential to chill free expression, the AAUP views it as a threat to academic freedom. “Now it’s time to escalate.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The most visible scandals involve sexual harassment, molestation, and abuse, bribery and favoritism in admissions, fraternity hazing, gross violations of academic integrity, plagiarized speeches and public presentations, outsize donor or trustee influence, and failure by senior administrators to act.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Image: Two faculty members at Brigham Young University’s Idaho campus say they were suddenly told they can’t work there anymore. Last academic year, BYU’s Utah campus let go a longtime professor of writing under similarly mysterious circumstances. ” More recently, Clark G.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 4, 2023

These are real issues that certainly deserve all the attention they receive. But there are three other issues that are equally important yet aren’t front and center on the radar screen. These are issues that need to be addressed if we are to improve the quality of the education our campuses offer.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 16, 2022

In the initial news sub-headline, author Josh Moody incorrectly described the reason Seattle Pacific University (SPU) was compelled to file a federal lawsuit in the Washington Western District Court against the state attorney general. There was never a change of policy or foundational belief by either entity.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Image: A recent move by the Yeshiva University administration has revealed fractures among students, faculty and staff members regarding what LGBTQ inclusion on campus should look like and who has the right to decide. The case will now continue to be hashed out in the New York court system. law firm focused on religious freedom issues.

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EAB

MARCH 7, 2023

So, as you've noted, the Reis Group is a small public relations woman-owned PR firm here in Washington DC and we focus on health, healthcare, and societal issues. Well, the reality is crisis communications are issues management. All that planning should ideally happen long before there's an issue or a crisis to manage.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

International students on US campuses from some of the USA’s biggest student source markets are being targeted by foreign governments, a new report has claimed. Abramowitz, president of Freedom House.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 11, 2023

The involvement of faculty in the enrollment and retention process is critical. But higher ed has unfortunately created an environment that does not necessarily reward faculty for their capacity to develop and maintain relationships with students. Loyalty” is executed on the back of retention. Amrit, welcome to the show.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 17, 2023

Image: The Stop WOKE Act continues to be blocked at Florida public colleges and universities, and it will likely stay that way at least through the end of this academic year. ” Academic Freedom Diversity Editorial Tags: Academic freedom Faculty Free speech Florida Image Source: University of South Florida Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

News & World Report again ranked Florida the No. Yet DeSantis and his team have made systematic efforts to dismantle the freedoms of students and faculty to teach and learn at the cutting edge of all fields. Students are permitted to secretly record class lectures for use in disciplinary or legal actions against faculty.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2023

“We want our universities to be marketplaces of ideas where issues that are difficult can be discussed rigorously, passionately, but in a civil manner,” he told Inside Higher Ed. Student protests, especially of conservative speakers, continue to make the news. ” He’s not the only higher ed leader in the U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Image: Leaders of West Virginia’s Bluefield State University eliminated the Faculty Senate and instituted a posttenure review process that an American Association of University Professors officer says diverges significantly from that organization’s recommendations.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

By Sunday evening, students at nearly 80 campuses across China were demonstrating against the lockdown measures, according to University World News ; by Monday the movement had gone global , with Chinese international students on dozens of campuses organizing similar gatherings. Solidarity From Abroad. “And that’s being noticed.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

So most of the publicly available information about the relationships between companies that recruit and market on behalf of colleges has come from contracts collected through Freedom of Information Act requests from public universities. So no one was remotely surprised that the U.S. David Sherwood, CEO and co-founder of BibliU, a U.K.

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GlobalHigherEd

JANUARY 14, 2018

It is important to address international education in this era of globalisation and unsettling geopolitical issues, in particular on Malaysia’s response to preparing Malaysians for future global and regional scenarios. I must emphasize here that we are more interested in a working definition and not an academic definition.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 3, 2023

It wasn’t an auspicious start to the new semester—at least from my perspective as a humanities scholar who believes that our job is to help students acquire the messy skills of information collection, critical evaluation and meaningful synthesizing. Academic essays today have a more rigid framework than those Montaigne wrote.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

At a press conference last Tuesday , DeSantis said that defunding DEI programs—which he called “hostile to academic freedom”—will make them “wither on the vine.” Florida’s proposed legislation is expected to be considered in March when state lawmakers convene. “Gov.

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FIRE

OCTOBER 19, 2022

First Amendment experts,” Klasfeld noted, “scoffed at the theory that bestowing honors on news coverage can be defamatory.”. Over the course of his business and political career, Mr. Trump has frequently threatened to sue media organizations over news coverage that he deems unfair or disrespectful. Cable News Network, Inc.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Critics consider the bill an attack on higher education related to broader culture war issues—ahead of a potential DeSantis presidential run in 2024—rather than a serious piece of legislation aimed at fixing current issues or improving higher education.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Image: Tearful apologies for board actions and defiant condemnations of faculty no-confidence votes were both on display at a Michigan State University Board of Trustees meeting Friday that highlighted the divisions among members who pressured MSU’s president to step down or be fired amid ongoing Title IX concerns.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

(The board is comprised of six members appointed by DeSantis, five appointed by the Republican-led Florida Board of Governors and one representative each from the student body and the faculty.) FIRE also weighed in on plans to expand the power of presidents over faculty tenure.

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GlobalHigherEd

APRIL 5, 2017

The bill was passed apparently without taking into consideration the many statements of support from politicians and academics underlining the important achievements of the Central European University in the past 25 years. The purging of the basic features of academic freedom at CEU would create a wasteland out of a fertile intellectual soil.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2023

15 August · Episode 168 Nurturing Free Speech and Respectful Dialogue in Higher Education 40 Min · By Drumm McNaughton Eric shares how faculty, staff, and students can approach free speech and respectful dialogue by conducting co-teaching practices and exercises. This allows students to see arguments from other people’s views.

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University Business

JANUARY 1, 2024

News & World Report’s longstanding college rankings was called into question as institutions vie to personalize their brand to match students’ needs. Reflecting some of the most significant news developments in 2023, our readers at University Business gravitated toward topics reflecting issues most top-of-mind.

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