Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Learning About, For, and Through Enterprise Pittaway and Edwards (2012) provide classifications in forms of enterprise and entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurship education is presented as an academic discipline, much like history or sociology, with teaching, learning, and assessment methods aligned accordingly, such as lectures and essays.

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Kortext University Leaders' Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Although we’re living in a more progressive society, racial discrimination and inequality can be felt by people of colour in the UK to this very day, emphasising the importance of honouring Black History Month. . So, what is Black History Month and why should you care about it? . The importance of Black History Month.

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The PIE News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

This campus is the first university to award Japanese academic degrees overseas, thus becoming a groundbreaking university in the history of Japan’s higher education,” Ikuya Sugisato, international affairs employee at the Ministry of Education (MEXT) told The PIE News. “We

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MAY 6, 2025

May 6, 2025 · Episode 258 Strategic Affiliation in Higher Education: What Colleges Can Learn from the Colleges of Law and TCS Education System 32 Min · By The Change Leader, Inc. Strategic affiliation in higher education offers small colleges a sustainable alternative to mergers.

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Higher Education Inquirer

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

The Higher Education Inquirer is in solidarity with this effort for economic justice. By 2018, the union grew to majority membership statewide and won a new contract with new rights in several areas. In July 2021, the UC system boasted that it had grown to $168 Billion in assets.

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SRHE

MARCH 19, 2025

Rachel Reeds short but comprehensive book, Surviving and Thriving in Higher Education Professional Services: a guide to success (Routledge, 2025), is both an instruction manual for the professionals it was written for and an illuminating account of what they do for the academics and students who benefit.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 7, 2024

One of the most pressing issues for higher education within the last several years is the advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI). At the heart of composition faculty in particular, but of the entire higher education community as well, are those of us looking for solutions for students using AI to write papers.

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The PIE News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

India became the number one source of higher education students to America for the second year,” said Garcetti, who served as the guest of honour at the conference. “Over 1 million students in the US come from this incredible country. .” Eric Garcetti, US Ambassador to India.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 21, 2024

I like being able to work with students, faculty, and colleagues in a different kind of way [that] made me more aware of the community of higher education and not just a department, class, or advising relationship with a student. This return etched Allen all the more into the history of Meredith. To me, it felt bigger.”

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 7, 2024

One of the most pressing issues for higher education within the last several years is the advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI). At the heart of composition faculty in particular, but of the entire higher education community as well, are those of us looking for solutions for students using AI to write papers.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

APRIL 29, 2024

Lois Brooks has served in senior leadership positions at the University of Wisconsin–Madison since 2018, after eight years as CIO at Oregon State and 25 years at Stanford. EDTECH: What is the history of UW IT Connects? BROOKS: IT Connects was formed about a decade ago, and it was entirely a grassroots effort.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2024

In fact, this rate for English majors puts it below the unemployment rate for computer and information services majors, 2.8%, though still higher compared to a number of other majors – business, engineering, philosophy, physical science, and history. in history. “I But for women, that number falls to around $61,000.

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Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Campus unrest at predominantly white institutions may also have driven many talented Black students to consider HBCUs for their higher education. Alabama State University reported a 12.5%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The New School’s adjunct professors have not received a raise in four years, leaving their real earnings trailing behind inflation and down 18% from 2018, according to A.C.T.-U.A.W. Local 7902, the union organizing the strike. The union said that the school’s 3.5% wage increase offer was insufficient, given record inflation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 5, 2023

“We [are] deeply committed to the critical discipline of Africana Studies and underscore how vital it is for all our students, independent of their major field of study, to be able to learn about their (and other) cultures, histories, and identities,” said Seton Hall spokesman Michael Ricciardelli.

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University Business

OCTOBER 13, 2023

He is also making one last plea to the public on the importance of higher education while the light is still shining on him. Ron DeSantis’ efforts to abolish diversity, equity and inclusion in higher education and the state’s Board of Education changing its Black history standards.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Nicole holds an MA (Hons) from the University of Edinburgh in History and Politics and an MA in International Journalism from City, University of London. This project came about after Nicole heard about HEPI’s 2022 report on the educational outcomes of Gypsies, Roma and Travellers (GRT). A full transcript is also provided below.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 4, 2024

Race and higher education scholars are voicing criticism, concern, and cynicism after the University of Florida ended many of its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts, a move that the school cited it took to comply with a state law that was passed last year. Ahmed, vice provost for DEI at the University of Vermont. “It

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WCET Frontiers

JULY 25, 2024

HBCUs, with their history of academic excellence and commitment to inclusivity, are uniquely positioned to address these challenges, turning them into opportunities for their students and the broader community.” Its influence spans across all sectors, heralding a new age of innovation and problem-solving.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

Aaron Thompson, president of the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE), participated in the Attaining College Excellence and Equity Summit put together by the U.S. Department of Education and the Institute for Higher Education Policy.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 12, 2024

By Gill Evans, Emeritus Professor of Medieval Theology and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge. 1] Similar desiderata are explored in a recent Report of the Higher Education Policy Institute on the future of the Oxford to Cambridge Arc in the context of the regional working together of the other local universities.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

I suspect this pattern of continuous review and adjustment will define all of higher education in this country going forward.” Previously frozen programs are those in African studies, Asian studies, film studies, French, museum studies, music, music education and world religions, professors said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2023

Esther Kim Lee uncovers largely untold stories of Asian American history. “In My class dealing with history, it’s much more real,” she continued. in theater history from The Ohio State University. General education courses are very valuable,” said Lee. Theater is a communal experience. should be, Lee notes.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Understanding the rising cost of producing higher education starts with the fact that the wealthiest, most elite colleges and universities, which set the norms in higher education, are admitted "cookie monsters," whose insatiable and competitive need for revenue has long been viewed as beneficial -- until recent decades.

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Higher Education Inquirer

DECEMBER 17, 2023

More than a century ago, Thorstein Veblen and Upton Sinclair critically exposed the structure and history of US higher education. Yet there is still much that the public doesn't know about the higher education business. The Reemergence of "Fascism(s)" in US Higher Education Others have followed.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Higher Education Reading List One of our wonderful trustees recently asked me to recommend a higher-education reading list. Here it is: Newsletters and Magazines I start each weekday with a review of these three: Inside Higher Ed publishes a daily newsletter of current events in higher education.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Higher education stakeholders have been transfixed by declining student enrollment numbers in the past decade, which were only exacerbated further by the pandemic. The Class of 2027 at the University of South Alabama is one of the largest in school history, bumping first-year enrollment by 19% compared to last year.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

From 2008-09 to 2018-19, the total number of youth aged 6 to 18 playing tackle football fell by more than 620,000 participants from about 2.5 “Among higher education, Whittier is not alone in evaluating its football program. million to less than 1.9

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Title: Assistant Professor of Political Science; Director of the Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies at the University of Rhode Island Tenured: No Age: 38 Education: B.A., history, Tufts University; M.A., international affairs, The New School; and Ph.D., political science, Binghamton University Career mentors: Dr. David L.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 27, 2023

According to the Center for First-Generation Student Success 2018 survey results, the three most important student success factors driving institutional offerings for first-generation students were retention, completion and degree attainment, and academic performance (Figure 1). 2011) in higher education is essential.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 27, 2023

According to the Center for First-Generation Student Success 2018 survey results, the three most important student success factors driving institutional offerings for first-generation students were retention, completion and degree attainment, and academic performance (Figure 1). 2011) in higher education is essential.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 1, 2023

Image: Public university employees in states lacking collective bargaining rights aren’t letting that exclude them from the current wave of union organizing and action in higher education. Herbert, executive director of the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2024

But PSU’s science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) cultural groups helped him become acquainted with research, and, in 2018, he received an internship with the National Science Foundation’s Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU). “It was very isolating, a culture shock for sure,” says Delgado.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 19, 2023

Community colleges serve the most diverse students in all of higher education. of the history and organization of COD) and a broadened perspective that facilitated communication. Other program effects that contributed to participants’ increased capacity for community-building included increased institutional knowledge (e.g.,

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

As we reflect on the rise of extremism, we often overlook one powerful approach: the role that higher education can play in inoculating students against indoctrination into white nationalism. The recently released Final Report from the Select Committee to Investigate the Jan.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Even though higher education has its own hazing rituals and rites of passage, it doesn’t impose tests of character. I raise these examples to prompt a bigger issue: Are there things that higher education should do but can’t or won’t? We can dismiss flawed graduates as a handful of bad apples.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 25, 2024

Title: Assistant Professor of Political Science; Director of the Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies at the University of Rhode Island Tenured: No Age: 38 Education: B.A., history, Tufts University; M.A., international affairs, The New School; and Ph.D., political science, Binghamton University Career mentors: Dr. David L.

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