Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

In this piece, we explore how social media, as a pervasive cultural force, impacts the educational journey and engagement of undergraduate students while shaping their persistence and success in academia. Staci Gilpin, PhD, an esteemed adjunct faculty member at the University of North Dakota, and the University of Wisconsin-Superior.

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The PIE News

MAY 18, 2023

“We recognise concerns about overseas interference in our higher education sector, including through Confucius Institutes, and regularly assess the risks facing academia,” the spokesperson said. Meanwhile, some stakeholders are calling for the end to university-based Confucius Institutes.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

One such plan was the innovation strategy released by the UAE in 2015. Historically, innovation and R&D have thrived when business, academia and the government collaborate to turn new ideas into profitable enterprises,” she continued, referring to Silicon Valley as a prime example of this type of endeavour.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 24, 2023

We often don’t allow ourselves these moments of connection because connection requires vulnerability and vulnerability goes against everything we’ve been taught about expertise, authority, and credibility in academia. 2 (Fall 2015): 96–103. Kanat-Maymon, Benjamin, Stavsky, Shoshani, & Roth (2015). Resources Bartlett, J.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

In this piece, we explore how social media, as a pervasive cultural force, impacts the educational journey and engagement of undergraduate students while shaping their persistence and success in academia. Staci Gilpin, PhD, an esteemed adjunct faculty member at the University of North Dakota, and the University of Wisconsin-Superior.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The assignment created a bridge between academia and business (Rohm, 2019), and emphasized active learning by requiring students to develop a style guide (“Sprout Social”, 2024) and use GenAi tools such as ChatGPT, an AI tool owned by Open AI, to generate social media content for a real business. University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The assignment created a bridge between academia and business (Rohm, 2019), and emphasized active learning by requiring students to develop a style guide (“Sprout Social”, 2024) and use GenAi tools such as ChatGPT, an AI tool owned by Open AI, to generate social media content for a real business. University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Sol Gittleman has penned a must-read book for anyone with a vested interest in the past, present, and future of American academia. Dr. Sol Gittleman Gittleman, who is the Alice and Nathan Gantcher University Professor Emeritus, has emerged as one of the nation’s most important interpreters of the history of higher education.

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HEPI

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

No University will invest in staffing, equipment, facilities, new programmes without a degree of certainty. Choice matters, and universities should be subject to market forces. The removal of the Student Number Cap in 2015 had deleterious as well as positive effects. Everyone accepts that costs increase. Save BTEC.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 16, 2023

Dr. Shana Stoddard Having first come to Rhodes as a William Randolph Hearst Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in 2015, Stoddard has cemented a role for herself at the school over time, attaining the position of associate professor of chemistry in 2022. “I in chemistry and biochemistry from the University of Mississippi, an M.Ed.

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University Business

MARCH 9, 2023

An unexpected 2% decline in K12 enrollment is putting a kink in the higher education pipeline, spreading the ramifications from kindergarten up into the halls of academia. million students attended those grades, compared to fall 2015 which saw a peak of 18.75 million students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Title: Associate Professor of Counseling, Department of Disability & Psychoeducational Studies, University of Arizona, Affiliate Faculty, Education Policy Center, University of Arizona Tenured: Yes Age: 37 Education: B.S., middle school math & social studies education, University of Missouri, Columbia; M.Ed.,

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 15, 2022

in New York University’s joint Ph.D. program in French and history, tells a story that resembles that of many humanities graduate students: that “the transformative experience I had in the classroom led me to dedicate my whole life to academia. Cloud State University: 10 down to 6 (in 6 years); St.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 24, 2023

We often don’t allow ourselves these moments of connection because connection requires vulnerability and vulnerability goes against everything we’ve been taught about expertise, authority, and credibility in academia. 2 (Fall 2015): 96–103. Kanat-Maymon, Benjamin, Stavsky, Shoshani, & Roth (2015). Resources Bartlett, J.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 3, 2023

Among the latest efforts are HB 715 in North Carolina, which would remove tenure for future faculty in the University of North Carolina (UNC) system and at public community colleges, and SB 266 in Florida, which would give the state more control over the content of core classes and limit funding for DEI efforts.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Nostalgia, by definition, is a personal response to the past, and confusing the personal for the universal has the potential to do great damage. ” It has been well documented that many who intersect with academia have not found it to be particularly fun but instead have found it arbitrary, hostile and punishing. Resilient.

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SRHE

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Part of our role as universities is to produce (and facilitate the production of) knowledge. As the REF puts it we should be “illustrating the benefits research delivers beyond academia, including how it brings tangible changes to aspects of society and life, and the public value it delivers”. by Finley Lawson.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2023

Image: When Julianna Barnes set her sights on a career in academia, she envisioned eventually becoming a vice president of an institution and assumed it would be her pinnacle role in the profession. percent were Black.

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SRHE

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

by Claudio Morrison and Janroj Yilmaz Keles Introduction A paper for the Symposium on ‘Inequalities in HE during Covid-19’ (SRHE Conference, 6 December 2023, Birmingham) provides new evidence on the ‘social suffering’ that university students endure due to precarious employment.

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Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Resolutions and Safe Spaces — Adelphi University. Adelphi University’s Office of Community Concerns and Resolution was established in fall 2021 to simplify and enhance the system for reporting discrimination, bias, and abuse. AmeriCorps Tutors for Youth — Arkansas State University.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Unpacking the AAUP Report: A Critical Look at Political Interference in Florida’s Higher Education The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) recently released its comprehensive report titled “ Political Interference and Academic Freedom in Florida’s Public Higher Education System.”

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HEPI

APRIL 18, 2025

OBITUARY Claire Sorrel Callender By Simon Marginson * Professor Claire Callender OBE, who held joint professorships at UCL Institute of Education and Birkbeck, University of London, died at home amid her family on Tuesday, 15 April, after the cancer which developed in one lung and was in remission had moved to the other.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

For universities that don’t have the cushion of the Ivy League list, the stark reality of declining enrollment and soaring costs looms large. Universities are discovering that austerity measures alone can’t bridge the gap between dwindling revenues and rising expenses. covers the global shift in Higher Education.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JULY 18, 2023

David shares how much the cost of education has risen from 1969 to 2020, why most college and university managers plan to budget, why this doesn’t help address the problem, and what higher ed can do to improve this. Podcast Highlights The cost of higher ed in terms of percentage of household income has risen dramatically in the past 50 years.

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University Business

JANUARY 10, 2025

Hired Jay Hartzell – Southern Methodist University (Texas) Jay Hartzell, Southern Methodist University Southern Methodist University has chosen Jay Hartzell as its next president, effective in June. His 10-year strategic plan enacted in 2022 aimed to make it the world’s highest-impact public research university.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 9, 2022

During the 2020 global pandemic, Historically Black Universities and Colleges (HBCUs) were challenged with maintaining access to learning and student attendance. 2016); however, the model should be accompanied by a course design that applies the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework to augment accessibility. Representation.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Image: A Harvard University professor who was publicly scorned in 2014 over his reaction to being overcharged for Chinese takeout didn’t earn tenure. On Tuesday, that now former associate professor, Ben Edelman (at right), sued Harvard over that rejection. classes,” he told Inside Higher Ed Wednesday.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Curwood (The University of North Carolina Press) is a fascinating and timely book that traces the political trajectory of the first African American congresswoman who would later break barriers as the first Black major party presidential candidate. Curwood was published by The University of North Carolina Press. “By

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Image: Cameron Mozafari wasn’t surprised when a student walked into his office at Cornell University and started crying. ” The University of North Carolina system recently received a $5 million state grant to extend and update its Mental Health First Aid program , first launched in 2015.

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SRHE

OCTOBER 20, 2022

suggesting that universities should take their share of responsibility for the plight of HE: For many of our universities the “student experience” has become the organising concept, the fount of a thousand strategic priorities and key performance indicators. By 2015 we were picking over REF outcomes (No19 Was that a foul REF?

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HESA

APRIL 13, 2023

This week’s guest on The World of Higher Education podcast is Enora Bennetot Pruvot, Deputy Director Governance, Funding & Public Policy Development at the European University Association and she joins me today from Brussels to talk about the EUA’s recently-released University Autonomy Scorecard, of which she was a co-author.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 9, 2023

After three decades in academia, Dr. Janet R. She earned her doctorate in ethics and society in the Graduate Division of Religion at Emory University. When she ended her 15 years as director of BCRW in 2015, the college devoted a day-long colloquium to celebrate her contributions to feminist scholarship and research.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

As Black male scholars deeply invested in education reform, we believe it is essential to reshape the narrative surrounding Black males, especially in academia. 2015; Harper & Davis, III, 2012). This shift in perception must also extend beyond K-12 education to colleges and universities. 2016) Dr. Ronald W. Whitaker, II.

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OCTOBER 30, 2022

Quick, name five things that academia and journalism have in common. These commonalities between academia and journalism, universities and print/digital publications, provide all the motivation required to recommend Newsroom Confidential to our Inside Higher Ed community. Published in October 2022.

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SRHE

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

These studies involved a total of 11,790 participants and assessed 9,992 university programmes and courses. Rania Hassan is a PhD student and a research assistant at the University of Greenwich. Out of 6,161 articles that we identified as potentially relevant, 92 studies met the inclusion criteria and are reviewed in the report.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

Steven Jones is Professor of Higher Education at the University of Manchester and his latest book is Universities Under Fire (2022). In Bad Education , Matt Goodwin makes the argument that Western universities have moved ‘sharply and radically to the left’ (p.51) No other explanation is countenanced.

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JANUARY 6, 2025

Academia Next: The Futures of Higher Education. Universities on Fire. Johns Hopkins University Press. The Road Ahead for America's Colleges & Universities. Oxford University Press. Harvard University Press. University of Chicago Press. Creating the Market University. Johns Hopkins Press.

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