Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 29, 2023

colleges and universities. Utilizing data from the National Center for Education Statistics on patterns of faculty appointments and graduate student employment, AAUP makes clear that there is an ever-increasing reliance on contingent faculty. colleges and universities were employed part-time. The report notes that U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Image: Campus and faculty leaders in the California Community College system are eagerly anticipating the selection of a new chancellor this week. Meanwhile, the system, like community colleges across the country, experienced significant enrollment declines during the pandemic. “We had a very strong pool,” she said.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Image: China’s Ministry of Education will no longer recognize online degrees from overseas colleges, per a Jan. The announcement, which arrived without notice and was effective immediately, impacts Chinese students enrolled at foreign colleges who had been studying online in their home country. Reputable U.S.

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Insight Into Diversity

JULY 1, 2024

Despite this shift, many colleges and universities still favor applicants with familial ties to alumni. A recent report by the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP) highlights the significant impact of these policies on furthering disparities in college access, particularly for Black, Hispanic, and low-income students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 22, 2023

For a prospective college student beleaguered by the complexities of the application process, direct admissions is like a dream come true. If their GPA or standardized test scores are high enough, colleges with direct admissions programs will send them acceptance letters without their even having to apply. points likelier.

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DECEMBER 20, 2021

Like many students across the country, Coleen began her journey to a four-year degree at a community college. When I was 18, I realized that I was going to be paying for college on my own and it hadn’t really hit me before, like exactly how much it costs,” Coleen explained. FOUR-YEAR INSTITUTIONS.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

At the time, Darling-Hammond was an endowed professor at Columbia University, Teachers College. Today, she is the president and CEO of the Learning Policy Institute and the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education Emeritus at Stanford University, where she founded the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Inflation and geopolitical disruptions caused endowment returns to fall by 8% in fiscal year 2022, according to an annual study released last week by the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) and the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America (TIAA). on average.

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AUGUST 26, 2024

It’s taken me almost 20 years but, over the summer, I eventually got around to reading a book I’ve been wanting to read on higher education policy since I started working in the area over 15 years ago: University to Uni – The Politics of Higher Education since 1944 by Robert Stevens.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

In both instances, the principal aim was to understand better the challenges to HE progression faced by those on advanced level applied and professional courses (including BTECs) at a Midlands based further education (FE) college. For context, progression rates are generally lower from FE colleges than sixth forms.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 2, 2022

In 2021, students sent a letter to the provost expressing their qualms about the financial and mental burdens. According to Dr. Kyle Greenwalt, associate director of teacher preparation at MSU’s College of Education, the fifth year had become a roadblock. They don't come back to complete student teaching.”

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 28, 2022

” For-profit institutions are required to bring in 10 percent of their revenue from nonfederal sources—a market viability test stemming from the 1992 reauthorization of the Higher Education Act of 1965. service members and veterans,” Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said in a statement.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 7, 2024

“Black kids are underrepresented in gifted services and overrepresented in special education services,” said report co-author Dr. Cassandra Hart, an associate professor of education policy at UC Davis. Most teachers are not Black.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 12, 2023

Although 80% of students who enroll in community colleges plan on getting a bachelor’s degree, only around 15% do so within six years. You need to have really clear lines of communication [and] consistent understanding of policies and processes to do everything that we wanted to do,” said Roberson.

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SRHE

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In 2015 and 2021, there were more, in the latter case possibly because of a focus on online learning due to the Covid-19 pandemic. She is especially interested in the relationship between the digital economy and the higher education sector; and in digitalisation, datafication and platformisation of knowledge production and dissemination.

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OCTOBER 15, 2023

So warns a new study of the career outcomes of 400,000 athletes and non-athletes attending Ivy League colleges in America from 1970 to 2021 – where prior athletic achievement is, ludicrously, often grounds for admission. A common reassurance is that the nerds shall inherit, if not the Earth, then at least the good jobs.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Image: New data from the Lumina Foundation on college degree or credential attainment rates for U.S. The national share of working-age Americans who hold college degrees increased across racial and ethnic groups and rose in all states between 2019 and 2021. adults show both good and bad news. ” The U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 15, 2023

Half are nonwhite, and most (60 percent) are the first in their families to attend college. That may change—or not—depending on the outcome of UoPeople’s bid for accreditation from the WASC Senior College and University Commission (WSCUC), whose decision is expected this month. It’s a delicate balance.”

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

23 article in The New York Times , “ How College and Sports-Betting Companies ‘Caesarized’ Campus Life ,” which chronicled how universities have signed lucrative contracts with sports betting companies to promote online gambling to their students and campus communities. Nowhere has this been more evident than in a Nov.

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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. The data show that attainment gaps are narrowing.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 19, 2023

The criteria, which were expected to be finalized later this month following consultation, clarify the rules for international universities setting up Indian campuses, a shift first announced in the 2020 National Education Policy (NEP). “Academic autonomy has been and is a major concern at the moment,” he said.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Image: Much about Oberlin College is unique, including long-standing policies guaranteeing the faculty a say in matters that extend well beyond academics. So these faculty members are perplexed—and angry—that the college is trying to change its bylaws to restrict faculty control to academics only.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 30, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Policy More than 80 percent of U.S. colleges and universities do not require applicants to take standardized tests like the SAT or the ACT. That proportion of institutions with test-optional policies has more than doubled since the spring of 2020. That includes the entire University of California system.

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The PIE News

APRIL 25, 2023

Expect disruption and new modes of innovative education but now is the time for international education providers to go to India, was the clear message at the Acumen Global Gateway conference in Delhi. The current model of international education for India needs to change… The one-way traffic needs to change,” he said. “We

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DECEMBER 12, 2022

[G]overnment, states, local communities, schools, colleges, companies, families, and personal and professional networks all help form the infrastructure of opportunity. Fiona Hill, There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century, 2021, New York: HarperCollins, p.11.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Institutions In India, there are more than 1,110 universities, over 43,000 colleges, and almost 11,300 standalone institutions according to the latest All India Survey on Higher Education ( AISHE ). The continuation of this investment is critical if India is to achieve its ambitious education goals.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Among those surveyed in the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education (NADOHE) 2023 State of the CDO report, 68 percent worked at an institution that has had a senior diversity officer position for five years or less, with 41 percent of those roles being created in the past two years.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 30, 2023

Blog: Beyond Transfer In 2021, the Indiana Commission for Higher Education reported that two out of three learners—we call them learners, not students, to dispel the image of the 18- to 22-year-old residential student—come to college with previous credit or prior learning. 2005 ) around what can or cannot be counted.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas, partners with over 62 high schools across the state, facilitating college access for Latino, rural, and other marginalized communities. It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students. We offer faculty workshops on culturally sensitive teaching.” Morishita, interim president at CSULA.

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SRHE

JULY 20, 2022

Research Excellence Framework 2021. The irritations researchers experience when working with secondary data are exemplified in looking at the REF 2021 results and comparing with 2014. The 2021 results by Unit of Assessment (UoA) on screen are laid out with all four profiles in one line across the page. by Ian McNay.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JUNE 13, 2023

college or university say their barriers have been to finishing their education over three years. The results come from a study by the Lumina Foundation called “ The State of Higher Education: Breaking down the barriers to student enrollment and retention ” in partnership with Gallup. Drumm McNaughton 04:38 That’s fabulous.

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HESA

MAY 24, 2023

This has been rattling around in my mind since HESA was asked to make a submission to the Ontario Blue-Ribbon Panel on Post-Secondary Education Financing. We were given a list of six questions – pointedly, they came from the Ministry of Colleges and Universities and not the Panel (the politics behind that must be pretty interesting).

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

As a policy area, it has evolved to incorporate a wide range of both policy sectors and policy actors on the federal level: GAC; Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC); Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC); and Research and Innovation. Creating consensus among all those diverse actors is difficult.

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HEPI

JANUARY 30, 2023

My last visit to this University, however, though not my last visit to Lancaster, came at the very start of 2021/22, when I spoke to a senior management strategy meeting. Yet, as I said in a recent speech to the Sixth Form Colleges Association , we are halfway through the original timeline for the LLE but have not yet left the station.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 15, 2022

” A “group of faculty,” added Burbules, Edward William and Jane Marr Gutgsell Professor of Education Policy, Organization and Leadership, “is not the same thing as a department. And that was the distinction that really kind of started us off down this road.”

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SRHE

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Similar anti-austerity movements erupted worldwide, with student protests in countries like the UK, Chile, Colombia, Quebec, and South Africa challenging tuition hikes and market-driven education policies. These movements also pushed for free education and an end to student loans ( Cini, 2021 ). i] Rios-Jara, H.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 15, 2023

The report is based on data from a survey of nearly 900 US colleges and institutions, who provided information on more than 370,000 full-time and 90,000 part-time faculty members. Colleges let short-term employees go to save money during the pandemic, and many of their courses were absorbed by other faculty members, he said.

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