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The questions surrounding alleged human trafficking in Canada

The PIE News

Breaking over the holidays, news of a probe by India’s financial law enforcement agency into an alleged human trafficking scheme apparently using study visas to help individuals gain entry into Canada and then illegally spiriting them over the border into the US rocked the sector.

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They Don’t Really Care About Us? Ensuring a Better Connection Between Research, Policy, and Practice to Ensure Success for Black Men in Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

McMickens, Morris Thomas, and Calvin Hadley There is deep concern about the status of Black men in higher education. A recent report about the enrollment of Black men in postsecondary education indicates that Black men comprise 4.6% Palmer, Larry J. Walker, Tryan L. or a little over 850,000 of the 18.6

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Report: HBCU Humanities Programs Show Resilience Amid National Decline

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A new report from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences offers promising insights into the state of humanities programs at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), even as humanities degree completions decline across the nation. I can’t begin to stress how important the humanities are to liberation and freedom.”

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AI-Powered Teaching: Practical Tools for Community College Faculty

Faculty Focus

Artificial intelligence (AI) has transitioned from a speculative concept to a transformative tool in higher education, particularly within community colleges. Drawing on the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL), it argues that AI can enhance accessibility and efficiency while preserving the human essence of education.

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Maximizing Student Engagement During Live Online Seminars

Faculty Focus

So, educators must continue to shift their thinking and go back to the basics to deliver their online course content in a way that creates a direct relationship with their students (Meyer, 2014). After working for a Fortune 500 company in advertising for over two decades, he began his higher education teaching career 15 years ago.He

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Harvard will remove binding made of human skin from 1800s book

The Guardian - Higher Education

University says first owner of book by French novelist took the skin from a deceased female patient without consent Harvard University has said it will be removing the binding made of human skin from a 19th-century book held in its library because of the “ethically fraught nature” of how the unusual binding took place. Continue reading.

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Africa-China HE engagement: a one-way road?

LSE Higher Education Blog

While China is proactive in recruiting African students, Africa seems to play a relatively passive role does this stark imbalance in student mobility pose future risks to Africas higher education? However, the FOCAC framework and joint agreement is signed by both sides.