Higher Ed Dive

APRIL 1, 2024

The Education Department will give colleges more time to gather data in light of the fraught financial aid cycle.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Political interference in higher education, we are told , is increasing. The partisan divide in views on higher education, we hear , is deepening. Campuses “ are driving political division.” It’s that loss of faith that gives traction to the recent political attacks.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

APRIL 24, 2024

State’s Randy Woodson has served nearly three times as long as most college leaders. What’s his secret? By Karin Fischer Julia Wall N.C. State’s Randy Woodson has served nearly three times as long as most college leaders. What’s his secret?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 1, 2024

The Center for Politics and Race in America at Rutgers University-Newark has been named in honor of the first Black woman in New Jersey to hold statewide office, Lt. Oliver Center for Politics and Race in America with Dr. Jacqueline Mattis, the university’s dean of the School of Arts and Sciences.

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HEPI

APRIL 11, 2024

It’s easy to criticise policies – such as the funding system for higher education in England. It’s far harder to offer something better that could be delivered in practice, given political and fiscal realities. That direct link with graduate earnings removes most of the politics from this discussion. seeks to do just that.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

JANUARY 16, 2024

By David Jesse Using campuses as political foils is a tradition that goes back a couple of centuries. Part of the tradition,” one expert said, “is to be surprised by it.”

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Wonkhe

OCTOBER 8, 2023

We've long seen a person's education level as a political dividing line in modern Britain. David Kernohan digs into Public First data to see what this means for opinions on education policy The post Are opinions about university funding shaped by education? appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Insight Into Diversity

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

A new survey of more than 4,250 professors from Texas, Georgia, North Carolina, and Florida found that nearly a third are actively seeking employment in a state with less political interference in higher education. Roughly a third of respondents said they would not recommend academic work in their state to colleagues.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

This year’s Race & Justice Imperative—a series of conversations with Black political leaders put on by the DC-based newspaper The Hill —came at an auspicious moment for Black power. And although she’s happy to see more Black people in political roles, she said that it was important that they serve the actual agendas of Black people.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

APRIL 29, 2024

Critics of the Kalven principles miss the point. By Tony Banout Illustration by The Chronicle; iStock image Critics of the Kalven principles miss the point.

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Academe Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

BY HANK REICHMAN On Monday, February 26, I’ll be talking about the AAUP’s recent special investigation report, “Political Interference and Academic Freedom in Florida’s Public Higher Education System,” online with John A. Douglass of the UC Berkeley Center for Studies in Higher Education.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

OCTOBER 24, 2023

By David Jesse Illustration by The Chronicle; photos from Matthew Dae Smith, Lansing State Journal, USA Today, and Alamy Michigan State’s board chair, Rema Vassar, and Michigan’s governor, Gretchen Whitmer State politics and enduring wounds from past scandals lurk beneath a sudden effort to unseat Rema Vassar.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In the United States, 574 federally recognized Native Nations continue to persevere, asserting their Indigenous futures through both political and intellectual forms of sovereignty. education or universities, specifically. These priorities often are not the focus in U.S. There are 37 TCUs within the U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 27, 2023

Tensions between individual and institutional politics are particularly pronounced in Catalonia, where university statements supporting pro-independence leaders have attracted legal penalties. “If a university expresses opinions like that, the people who don’t share them are going to feel excluded.”

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Wonkhe

MAY 7, 2024

Debbie McVitty finds the seeds of an emerging consensus around the value of higher education expansion in party manifestos of the post-war years The post Higher education in General Election manifestos – the 1940s and 50s appeared first on Wonkhe.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2024

A fracas at Barnard raises fundamental questions. By Keith E. Whittington Illustration by The Chronicle; iStock images A fracas at Barnard raises fundamental questions.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

MARCH 12, 2024

In a letter to the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC), Cleverly asked the body to investigate whether the graduate visa entitlement – allowing international students to work for two or three years after graduating – was failing to attract “the brightest and the best” to the UK.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

A sanction from the AAUP serves to inform professors and others of poor working conditions at higher education institutions, according to the organization’s sanction list. The post National college professors group sanctions New College: ‘politically motivated takeover’ appeared first on University Business.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

MINNEAPOLIS—Amid the ongoing attacks to higher education, experts who study the field are gathering this week to debate and respond to the growing political challenges that have impacted colleges and universities. It’s really about the importance of relationships,” he said of the association that will turn 50 in two years.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Image: The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Academic Senate approved guidelines for departmental statements on political subjects earlier this month. The guidance doesn’t—and, as mere advice, can’t—ban statements about social or political issues. Departments vs. Individuals.

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HEPI

MARCH 21, 2024

Political pressures appear to be driving the agenda So how have we got here, and why is the government wanting to examine the Graduate visa so quickly? The short answer is politics. In short, it appears to be political – not policy – concerns driving the timetable imposed on the MAC. After all, this is a new visa.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Educators who train and prepare students to become teachers, gathered this weekend at the annual meeting of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) to call attention to the ongoing challenges that face K-12 learning. AURORA, Colo.—

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The Guardian - Higher Education

MARCH 29, 2024

But any political benefits from this are decidedly mixed When I picture the state of the British economy outside London, it’s my sister I think of first. Graduates are more likely to migrate to the big cities. Born a year before me in the post-industrial town of Crewe in England’s north-west, at school there was little to separate us.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Connecticut this week saw still another indication that its public higher education is overpriced. The post Higher education is overpriced but politics prohibits reform appeared first on University Business. Central Connecticut State University waived the fees for two weeks. Read more on the Journal Inquirer.

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Wonkhe

JANUARY 28, 2024

As allegations of unfairness in university admissions stack up, Jim Dickinson argues that empathy and understanding should replace defensiveness when the mud is slung The post Maybe higher education is just as unfair as it seems appeared first on Wonkhe.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Behind the scenes of a controversial effort to combat 'uniformity' at the University of Florida. By Emma Pettit Behind the scenes of a controversial effort to combat "uniformity" at the University of Florida.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 11, 2023

Alexander has always been interested in the realms of law, politics, and democracy. And it is on this topic of democracy that Alexander sees room for improvement for the American people, amid ever-widening divisions in today’s political landscape, he said. He said it was one of the reasons he went to law school.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

AUGUST 1, 2023

By Emma Hall Illustration by The Chronicle A hotel-workers strike has prompted some scholars to call on the American Political Science Association to change or cancel its annual meeting.

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LSE Higher Education Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

On her return from the recent party conferences, Dr Diana Beech weighs up the current political climate and what it holds for London universities

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Insight Into Diversity

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

If the media is to be believed, the future of the senior diversity officer in higher education is bleak. In 1996, California voters passed a statewide ballot initiative, Proposition 209, that eliminated consideration of race in public education, contracting, and hiring. But is it really?

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LSE Higher Education Blog

JANUARY 31, 2023

In her winning entry to the LSE Higher Education Blog’s Essays in Education Blog Challenge , Teresa Piacentini argues that the classroom is always political and, despite student calls for ‘less bias’, should never be free of discomfort. In short, our politics shapes our work as researchers.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

APRIL 15, 2024

By Maggie Hicks Joseph Cress, Iowa City Press-Citizen, Imagn U. of Iowa dental students rally on campus in 2021, calling for more action on diversity and equity. A Chronicle analysis finds that at least 116 college campuses have responded, and in an uneven way.

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Wonkhe

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Following a Policy Exchange event on the topic, Iain Mansfield and Lucian Hudson explore what we need to do to build a true tertiary education system The post Bringing coherence to tertiary education appeared first on Wonkhe.

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University Business

DECEMBER 5, 2023

In a recent column on a legal commentary website , he accused Florida of “open hostility to professors and to higher education more generally.” Many are giving up coveted tenured positions and blaming their departures on Governor DeSantis and his effort to reshape the higher education system to fit his conservative principles.

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Higher Ed Dive

JANUARY 11, 2023

1, navigating a politically fraught and gridlocked Congress. His successor takes over Feb.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

DECEMBER 1, 2023

By Eric Kelderman By mandating a review of how colleges reach underserved students, SACSCOC would defend hundreds of institutions from pressure by state lawmakers to get rid of DEI offices.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 23, 2024

Today’s high school students are showing less interest in pursuing careers in education, and teachers in the profession are feeling burnt out and underpaid, according to a new report from the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB). In those two states, on average, education-related subjects are the sixth most popular intended major.

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