The PIE News

AUGUST 1, 2023

Universities in the UK and US are forging new partnerships in a bid to boost international student recruitment at their campuses. Edinburgh’s new, and only, embedded pathway college will see international students able to join pathway courses from January 2024.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

International students wrongly accused of cheating on Home Office-approved English language tests between 2011-2014 were inspired by the success of the ITV Post Office drama, which sparked public outcry and persuaded politicians to look again at an unresolved scandal concerning the national postal service’s computer systems.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2024

Just as spring brings the promise of new life, the new year brings hope for a new beginning. A new academic term offers a similar opportunity for continuous growth and fulfillment. When it comes to increasing rates of student achievement, satisfaction, and graduation, what really makes the difference?

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The National Indian Students and Alumni Union UK honoured a group of high-achieving Indian alumni from British universities, celebrating the ‘living bridge’ between the two nations. Her success led to roles as UN World Food Programme’s chef advocate and on the Mayor of London’s Business Advisory.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Image: Fifty percent of Utah Valley University students identify as female, but this wasn’t always the case: historically—and in ways that defied national trends about women’s college achievement—women enrolled and graduated from the university at significantly lower rates than men.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 16, 2023

Drew University of Medicine and Science (CDU) in Los Angeles, opened in early July with 60 students. CDU joins Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee, the Howard University College of Medicine in Washington, D.C., Supreme Court decided in July to strike down race-based college and university admissions.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 12, 2022

Northwestern University selected Michael Schill to be its next president yesterday, 16 months after longtime Northwestern President Morton Schapiro announced his intention to retire. It will be his second position in the windy city, after serving as dean of the University of Chicago Law School from 2010 to 2015. Hide by line?:

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Stakeholders in the UK sector are reporting increasing numbers of international students dropping out soon after enrolment in order to accept employment offers in the care sector. Lexan Law promoting the opportunity on social media states, “attention all international students! Attention all international students!

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University Business

APRIL 5, 2024

Hired Andrea Chapdelaine – Connecticut College Andrea Chapdelaine, president of Hood College in Maryland, has been tapped as the incoming leader at Connecticut College. Patricia Draves – Monmouth College (Ill.) Patricia Draves will be embarking on a new chapter as the president of Monmouth College.

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The PIE News

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Not surprisingly, there is a pervasive sense of cynicism among this generation who are “deeply worried about the state of the world and are fighting to reconcile their desire for change with the demands and constraints of everyday life.”. For this generation, it has been one crisis after another. It’s not hard to understand why.

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Helix Education

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

It’s critical to keep students engaged and informed during the FAFSA delays. The rollout of the improved FAFSA, after much anticipation and some delay, has had a bumpy start. Students who successfully submit a FAFSA receive a Student Aid Index (SAI). What does the FAFSA delay mean?

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Image: It’s finals season at Moorpark College, a community college in Ventura County, Calif. For students in the Exotic Animal Training and Management program, that requires some pretty unconventional demonstrations of knowledge. For what it’s worth, EATM isn’t Moorpark’s only successful program.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2024

Just as spring brings the promise of new life, the new year brings hope for a new beginning. A new academic term offers a similar opportunity for continuous growth and fulfillment. When it comes to increasing rates of student achievement, satisfaction, and graduation, what really makes the difference?

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 17, 2023

Image: The City College of San Francisco Board of Trustees held an emergency meeting Tuesday to approve funds for much-needed fixes to the heating systems on several campuses. But a new deluge of messages about the problem came this winter. “I had a student last week literally ask me why nobody cares,” Finkelstein said.

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EAB

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Our LGBTQ students’ lives and wellbeing are at risk—here are 5 things campus leaders can do to help. The two of us shared our thoughts with a reporter about how college campuses have been impacted by anti-LGBTQ speech and legislative actions over the past several years. My experience was no different.

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Helix Education

AUGUST 16, 2023

A year ago, my friends at ZeeMee were brave and decided to join me in a journey to understand better the emotions that come into play during the last year of high school during college planning. Now see what the students told us about how they are feeling. Students are no different. This image summarizes what they said.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Canada recently released news that it had smashed its 2014 target of hosting 450,000 international students by 2022 – over 800,000 are now on its shores. One emerging demographic that has crept up in the student population is from the countries of Latin America.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

APRIL 1, 2024

However, in this episode of the Weekly Wisdom Series , we spoke with President Casey Sacks , who began working at West Virginia’s BridgeValley Community and Technical College after serving two years as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Community Colleges at the U.S. Sometimes that collaborative approach will be more successful.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 30, 2023

Located at Morehouse College, the Historically Black College has several professors exploring this subject and has been encouraging deeper conversations about understanding manhood and masculinity. Morehouse psychology student Steven Riley responded to what he learned from Watkins’ research. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

It became the first tribal college and university, or TCU, to offer a Ph.D. is not just about learning, reading, or writing Navajo, it’s really preparing [its students] with tools so that they will be efficient in designing their research studies, conducting research, and finding solutions to some of the challenges that we have,” says Guy.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Develop copy for a news release or marketing email? How about a blog post on a complex research breakthrough, a compelling profile of a donor or engaging stories about successful alumni? But for university and college marcomm departments, ChatGPT may allow you to work more effectively and efficiently—if you use it wisely.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

But while the state is spending millions to close the gap by expanding access to college credentials and good jobs, those efforts will fall short without a crucial, under-the-radar reform effort—transforming the delivery of developmental education. The student is then placed in a series of courses designed to get them up to speed.

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The PIE News

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Mike Magee might have just had the busiest five months of his life after he embarked in his post in April 2022. While Minerva operates largely online, it also serves students on the ground. Name: Mike Magee. Occupation: President, Minerva University. Location: San Francisco, US. The PIE talks to him amidst an already busy week.

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The PIE News

AUGUST 3, 2023

Wellbeing and sustainability are increasingly at the forefront of international students’ minds, but what impact do these values have on their choice when it comes to finding student accommodation, and what are providers doing to meet these modern needs? “This is a value add. It’s not a huge cost.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 17, 2022

Image: Students at Virginia Commonwealth University might run across a new but familiar sight while walking through the Richmond campus this fall: a man on an electric bicycle, the words “free naloxone bike” laser-etched into a wooden lockbox above the handlebars.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 25, 2022

Blog: Beyond Transfer The University of Illinois system is fortunate to be located in a state that historically has placed a great emphasis on transfer student success. As a system, the University of Illinois is committed to our transfer student population—from early transfer planning to graduation and beyond.

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eLiterate

OCTOBER 20, 2022

First, post-traditional students being recruited aggressively by a surprisingly broad swath of colleges and universities. One could argue this trend started with the MOOCs and with OPMs like 2U moving upmarket, if you consider employed white-collar college graduates as post-traditional. Enrollment shifts.

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The PIE News

MARCH 16, 2023

And Chinese students, who tend to want to return to their home country after graduating, will seek those top ranked universities, she continues. That is why these students want to go abroad – to top up their education, go back, and upgrade their own chances back at home.” That’s when parents turn to rankings.”

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Image: Not long after a gunman killed 10 people at Santa Fe High School in Texas in 2018, the Texas Department of Public Safety created iWatchTexas , an anonymous reporting system in which community members may offer tips to authorities about suspicious activities. Or is iWatchTexas the best system available?

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Creatrix Campus

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Top Strategies for Improving Student Retention in Higher Education admin Fri, 12/23/2022 - 05:27 It is the rule of Gen Z now. Student Retention is picking up like haywire. The main blowgun to combat this issue would be to walk along with the students, providing help whenever needed.

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The PIE News

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The eldest of six siblings, Sadiq Basha, CEO and founder of application platform Edvoy and language school provider New College Group , started his entrepreneurial journey as an international student coming to the UK from India. “I came from India to study as an international student,” explains Basha.

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SRHE

JANUARY 18, 2023

This year every university and college is putting on its own pantomime. Higher Education Cinderella has been condemned to a life of servitude, enforced by the ugly sisters DfE and the Office for Students (you can’t usually tell them apart). He spends years trying to make his fortune, without success. Cinderella.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

DECEMBER 1, 2023

I think when people are planning to take on leadership roles, the decision to go to different institutions can be part of the growth that allows you to be more successful.” Initially unfamiliar with the world of higher ed, President Stokes admitted that her leadership trajectory was unexpected: “I'm a first-generation student.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

OCTOBER 17, 2023

At age 39, he was appointed to his first presidency at Hampden-Sydney College , and was well into his second presidency at Robert Morris University when he started considering a different type of role at Arizona State University: “ASU President Michael Crow kind of collects people. Most of the job of the presidency is bad news.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 1, 2023

The board was following a new set of principles adopted earlier that year to ensure the namesakes of buildings, colleges and professorships lived up to the university’s values; the trustees decided that Williams, a wealthy tobacco farmer and slave owner, did not. Williams enrolled at what was then called Richmond College in 1848.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 13, 2023

At a holiday party, just weeks after ChatGPT was released, a team leader for a large networking company’s cybersecurity division told me his team had just used ChatGPT to write thousands of lines of code for a project (in just minutes), saving them hundreds of hours of outside contracting. Those are distinctly human jobs.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

JUNE 9, 2022

Student Success. Since he began his distinguished academic career after transitioning from the private sector, we were eager to hear his wisdom about how it affected his approach to academic leadership, the guidance and opportunities that he's offering his students, and the perceptions and expectations around a job well done.

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