Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 23, 2024

Canada will sharply reduce the number of international student visas it issues for the next two years, the CBC reported. Immigration Minister Marc Miller said Monday that the government will approve about 360,000 undergraduate permits for 2024—a 35 percent decline from 2023.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Texas A&M University-San Antonio has received a $3 million grant to address economic issues and expand technology access for its student population. Department of Education (ED) – will help the school fund several initiatives in support of its diverse student body, particularly its large Hispanic and low-income student population.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Image: An associate professor of political science at Indiana University at Bloomington told graduate students that he can’t serve as the department’s job-placement director any longer, as he refuses to participate in the “official department charade.” program that doesn’t help your advancement.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The post Students’ top 10 most-regretted majors have everything to do with one issue appeared first on University Business. Among these most regretful graduates, there two majors they most wish they had chosen are computer science and business administration, although computer science is far less popular among women.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Category: Carpe Careers When mental health topics are taboo, grad students suffer in silence, write Christiann Gaines and Rebekah Layton, who explore ways the academic community can support trainees.

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Inside Higher Ed

JUNE 29, 2023

a professor and two students were stabbed Wednesday in a philosophy class on gender issues at the University of Waterloo, in Canada, the Associated Press reported. A suspect in the stabbings is a member of the “university community,” a spokesman said. The suspect is being questioned.

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Inside Higher Ed

JUNE 29, 2023

A professor and two students were stabbed Wednesday in a philosophy class on gender issues at the University of Waterloo, in Canada, the Associated Press reported. A suspect in the stabbings is a member of the “university community,” a spokesman said. The suspect is being questioned.

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University Business

JANUARY 13, 2023

The ballooning mental health crisis affecting college students across the country has become a focal point of stalled faculty contract negotiations at the University of Illinois Chicago. They are also asking the university to provide free psychological and neuropsychological testing for struggling students. Read more on WBEZ Chicago.

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Wonkhe

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Agents that recruit international students are under the spotlight - but what can be done? Meely Doherty explains the issues that come across her desk The post Agencies aren’t the only issue in international admissions appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Wonkhe

MARCH 22, 2024

Tonari Arikekpar worries that issues in the international student experience offer are being lost in the lobbying over immigration - and sets out a positive agenda for changing that The post If you don’t only see us as cash cows, it’s time to prove it appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Higher Ed Dive

MARCH 14, 2024

The agency also announced fixes to issues that prevented some students from completing the form, though it flagged several new glitches.

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Wonkhe

JANUARY 23, 2024

Stuart Nicholson, Beverly Gibbs and Manajit Chakraborty think through the issues when students are working with industry The post Caution is needed around generative AI, especially when work-based learning is involved appeared first on Wonkhe.

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University Business

DECEMBER 21, 2022

University of Phoenix is a Top 100 Degree Producer in the latest rankings released by Diverse: Issues In Higher Education identifying the institutions that confer the most undergraduate and graduate degrees to minority students, a ranking in which the University has been included since report launched in 2017. Read more on Yahoo!

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 24, 2024

The introduction and rollout of the new Better FASFA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) form has led to a multitude of challenges, setbacks, and concerns among students, caregivers, and educators.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Yale University and a student group announced Friday that they've reached a settlement in a federal lawsuit that accused the Ivy League school of discriminating against students with mental health disabilities, including pressuring them to withdraw.

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Higher Ed Dive

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The practice can help colleges optimally distribute their limited resources, but it could also cause issues for students and even create legal risk.

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Higher Ed Data Stories

APRIL 22, 2024

It will not show you net costs to students. This will show you the discount rate on first-year students at about 1,000 four-year, private, not-for-profit colleges in 2021-22. A university that charges (published tuition and fees times the number of students) $10,000,000 and awards $4,000,000 in aid has a discount rate of 40%.

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Wonkhe

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Ministers are proposing that incidents of harassment on campus be logged by a regulator that has taken five years to fail to act on the issue. Jim Dickinson argues that students are running out of patience The post The campus culture see-saw is about to snap appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Wonkhe

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The Office for Students is promising guidance on equitable access partnerships. Ruth Squire thinks through the issues The post Getting serious about third sector collaboration requires clarity over its purpose and power dynamics appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Wonkhe

APRIL 13, 2023

Are there students afraid to speak on campus, and if so why is that? Jim Dickinson uncovers the anxiety and confidence issues underpinning the silencing of student opinion The post The free speech problem is a crisis of confidence appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Wonkhe

JUNE 15, 2023

Jules Singh says that the issues commuters faced pre-pandemic have become prevalent again - and should be returned to The post Commuter students should be the centre of the campus appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Higher Ed Dive

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Accreditor Middle States Commission on Higher Education said ASA rejected plans to have students transfer to several colleges over compliance issues.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 15, 2024

I remember seeing copies of Black Issues in Higher Education in various administrators’ offices at Albany State, the historically Black university where I was an undergraduate student journalist in the mid-1990s. I was 19 when I first touched the pages of Black Issues ; later this year, I will be 49. It was love at first sight.

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The PIE News

APRIL 2, 2024

Tech companies offering immigration solutions to international students in Canada have developed new tools to help universities maximise international admissions under Canada’s study visa cap.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 14, 2024

The Politics of College Choice Liam Knox Thu, 03/14/2024 - 03:00 AM Research shows that students care a great deal about the policies of the state in which they attend college, especially on issues like gun control and abortion. Byline(s) Liam Knox

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Higher Ed Dive

JANUARY 26, 2023

Students facing issues like academic distress and anxiety were more likely to drop out, a new report found.

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ACRLog

MARCH 21, 2024

I’ll start this post with some examples of declining digital and computer literacy that me and my colleagues have noticed just in the past academic year with students. Oftentimes when students come to the desk for help with formatting a paper, they haven’t attempted to figure it out themselves. Students might not yet.

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University Business

APRIL 2, 2024

A working paper from the Community College Research Center (CCRC) at Columbia University studying two-year students’ habits has linked mental health-related issues, such as anxiety and depression, to worse persistence rates and credit accumulation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

Smith acknowledges that much progress has been made since she was a student-athlete at Stanford University in the 1990s — notably DEI divisions in athletic departments — but most athletic staffs don’t reflect the student-athlete populations. “We They were making demands and holding administration’s feet to the fire.”

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University Business

APRIL 22, 2024

Nearly a quarter of today’s undergraduate students have seriously considered leaving school or were nearly dismissed, according to a new Sallie Mae study conducted by Ipsos. First-generation (41%), lower-income (33%) and minority Black and Hispanic (31%) students were the most likely to be considered at risk.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

It took place in 1984 at a higher education conference at MIT, shortly after they had decided to confront the shortcomings in both the journalistic and academic communities by launching a new publication, Black Issues In Higher Education. In the best spirit of American entrepreneurship, they saw a need and they filled it. Dr. William B.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 22, 2024

The Education Department acknowledged Friday that a calculation error led to inaccurate aid estimates for a sizable portion of student aid forms processed in the past few months. This issue resulted in inaccurate ISIRs for dependent students with assets delivered [to institutions] prior to March 21, 2024.”

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The PIE News

APRIL 4, 2024

In what will be an election year for much of the Western world, governments are tightening their immigration rules related to student recruitment to address public concerns over the strain that significant student immigration can place on local housing and employment markets, and public services. Source: gov.uk Source: gov.uk

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 7, 2024

Two political leaders allege that a Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) form error is preventing students with contributors, including parents and spouses, who do not have a Social Security Number from completing the U.S. Department of Education’s new FAFSA form.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The summit, convening March 6-9 at the Tampa (Florida) Convention Center was founded by Hillsborough Community College and has emerged as one of the most preeminent national voices to address issues facing Black and Latino males enrolling in and completing college. The path to that success beginning with completing a college degree.”

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The PIE News

APRIL 10, 2024

In the wake of soaring international student visa rejections , 11 Australian universities and up to 100 colleges have recently had their risk rating downgraded, prompting further questions about government immigration policies and the competitiveness of the Australian education sector on the global stage.

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The PIE News

APRIL 23, 2024

They’re some of the best players from both the women’s and men’s National Collegiate Athletics Association March Madness tournament – and half of them are international students. Students from overseas have been gracing American television sets for multiple years in various sports.

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