University Business

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

In his 2011 The New Yorker essay , Harvard professor Louis Menand conceptualized the function of higher education in three ways: to develop life skills, enhance career prospects and improve social status. “It takes courage to be an institution of education, and it takes courage to develop it in other people,” she says.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 29, 2024

It facilitates the comprehension of complex issues and equips students with the skills needed for complex jobs in STEM and the humanities (Spelt et al., Interdisciplinary studies prepare students for the challenges of a globalized world, where interconnected problems demand multidisciplinary solutions. 2009; Kezar & Elrod, 2012).

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

I work with students from all disciplines and cultural and linguistic backgrounds where I cover the whole spectrum of writing instruction. Some students might agree, while others may see tutoring as editorial services or language support (Lockett, 2019). For students continuing to graduate school, the writing stakes are even higher.

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Edu Alliance Journal

MARCH 3, 2025

The college enrolls approximately 1,800 students representing diverse backgrounds from 47 U.S. The student-to-faculty ratio is 11:1, ensuring personalized attention and mentorship. Notably, more than 85% of students receive financial aid, with an average award of $50,000. states and 76 countries. Diverse Community: With 27% U.S.

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The PIE News

JUNE 1, 2023

Christopher Thebing, managing partner of College of English Language in California said, “I joined ALTO around 2011 because it was recommended to me by a colleague. The association also revealed a new logo and website to enhance its growing community of professional development events, members and sector wide initiatives it is pursuing.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 4, 2023

As a faculty member, I often hear the blatant dismissal of students and their preoccupation with technology. Students are always on their phones. When I sit in advisory board meetings, what I hear from employers is they want students who can lead and serve. Many struggle to actively pay attention. The reality is very different.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 13, 2023

Wang and his colleague surveyed more than 400 researchers who were approached for the program’s first four cohorts starting in 2011. The findings also suggest that, once they returned home, some YTT scientists struggled to “reintegrate into China’s academia,” causing their research output to slow down.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 24, 2023

Who are you to your students? Oftentimes, it’s a sense of alienation from their students and a desire for authentic connection. Here are some examples of things I’ve heard from faculty when I ask them what they want for their students: “I wish they were more engaged in class/online.” “I Do they respect you? Do they trust you?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 29, 2024

Before 2011, Amy Chua would have described herself as a “mild mannered professor.” In 2018, Chua and her husband, fellow Yale Law School professor Jed Rubenfeld, were investigated for allegedly telling students to dress like models for a better chance at winning a clerkship with Brett Kavanaugh, now a U.S. I just love my students.

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SRHE

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

by John Donaghy At the SRHE International Conference in December 2023, I was delighted to have the opportunity to present an insight into my doctoral thesis: ‘ An Examination of University Paramedic Students’ Enculturation into the Ambulance Service.’

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 24, 2023

Who are you to your students? Oftentimes, it’s a sense of alienation from their students and a desire for authentic connection. Here are some examples of things I’ve heard from faculty when I ask them what they want for their students: “I wish they were more engaged in class/online.” “I Do they respect you? Do they trust you?

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SRHE

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The gap between higher education and the workplace will only widen should we overlook our role as educators in developing these personal skills in students. We must ask ourselves how do we nurture student ‘ being ’? How can we ensure that business and management students are equipped to ‘be’ competent practitioners?

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University Business

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Despite the abrupt upheaval and its ramifications, Reid and student body president Grace Keenan were the only trustees to vote against Corcoran’s permanent hire. Corcoran won out against two other presidential prospects with extensive experience in academia. She’s held her position there for the last two years.

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SRHE

JULY 21, 2023

From this perspective, the framing idea of flexibility was positioned as a critical aspect of how learning is situated relative to the demands of students seeking greater control in fitting their studies around their learning needs and preferences, as well as other aspects of their lives.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Drumm McNaughton speaks with Director Camille Dumont of the Center for Career and Professional Development (CCPD) about how she aligned career services with academia at Post University to better prepare students for the workforce. CCPD also meets virtually with online students throughout the week.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

MAY 4, 2023

Committing to Tech Integration Mainstay is a communication platform that deploys behaviorally intelligent chatbots to engage and support higher education students by starting and measuring meaningful conversations. We don't drive the outcomes; we help students make use of all the resources available to get the outcomes."

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 9, 2024

When a student from any of these community colleges applies to Franklin University, the system can instantly inform them about the transferability of their courses into their desired degree program. These agreements are not just on paper; they are integrated into a sophisticated technological system.

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University Business

JANUARY 10, 2025

An organized student walkout led to the arrest of 34 people and two journalists, The Texas Tribune reports. A Minnesota native, Hostetter has made a career out of academia in which she first began as a middle and high school teacher before attaining her master’s and doing research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 31, 2022

It is quite easy to wag fingers at undergraduate students for wanting to block conservative viewpoints from campus. This procession of public officials into academia is no doubt alluring to both the former public officials and the universities. What if a university faculty member tweets an unpopular view?

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 2, 2022

from Stanford in the 1980s and went on to become one of the leading scholars of climate science history, as well as a fierce advocate for the role of academia in advancing urgent climate solutions. Students and Scholars Push Back. Oreskes, a professor of the history of science at Harvard University, earned her Ph.D.

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Today's Learner

DECEMBER 8, 2023

1930-2011) worked for the U.S. John Henrik Clarke (1915-1998) created Pan-African and Africana studies and professional institutions in academia as a historian and professor. For example, Black students represented only 5% of undergraduates, 1% of law students and 5% of medical students. Derrick Albert Bell Jr.

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Today's Learner

DECEMBER 8, 2023

1930-2011) worked for the U.S. John Henrik Clarke (1915-1998) created Pan-African and Africana studies and professional institutions in academia as a historian and professor. For example, Black students represented only 5% of undergraduates, 1% of law students and 5% of medical students. Derrick Albert Bell Jr.

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SRHE

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

by Erika Kalocsányiová and Rania Hassan Promoting sustainability literacy in higher education is crucial for deepening students’ pro-environmental behaviour and mindset ( Buckler & Creech, 2014 ; UNESCO, 1997 ), while also fostering social transformation by embedding sustainability at the core of the student experience.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 6, 2025

Academia Next: The Futures of Higher Education. Diploma Mills: How For-profit Colleges Stiffed Students, Taxpayers, and the American Dream. 2014) The Student Loan Mess: How Good Intentions Created a Trillion-Dollar Problem. 2024) Whiteness in the Ivory Tower: Why Don't We Notice the White Students Sitting Together in the Quad?

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LSE Higher Education Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Jacob Engelberg Torso: As the rising student body count and academic red herrings accrue, Torso plays among the tensions of its sordid goriness Gary Needham Jurassic Park: Its a film in which a protagonists academic knowledge is the key to survival and includes perhaps the best validation of academic research in movie history.

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