Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Image: After booming returns from a red-hot market last year, endowments across higher education have taken a hit this year, with declines seen across the sector. Higher education endowments had a median return of 30.1 percent in fiscal year 2021. Higher education endowments had a median return of 30.1

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MindMax

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

MindMax recently hosted an interactive event with higher education leaders to discuss higher education trends regarding summer sessions : past, present, and future. Davis Lowell kicked off the conversation by focusing on a word that he joked higher education leaders would be happy never to hear again: pivot.

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Kortext University Leaders' Blog

MARCH 8, 2023

Things are looking up… There have been positive trends and progress in promoting women’s leadership in higher education in recent years. But we’re not there yet. There is still a fair amount of work to be done. Women are underrepresented in senior leadership positions across all disciplines, with only 28.4%

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Faculty Focus

JULY 2, 2023

Distance learning in colleges and universities is now recognized as more than an alternative to the traditional face-to-face classroom (Higher Ed Partners, 2021), which is how distance learning was largely viewed at the time that institutions turned entirely to virtual teaching and learning during COVID-19 (Suruchi & Dutt, 2021).

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HEPI

JUNE 20, 2024

The carbon cost of higher education Universities and higher education (HE) institutions have an important role to play in meeting carbon reduction targets. Data from the Higher Education Statistics Agency demonstrates that 133 UK universities accounted for 1.4

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Image: Student interest will continue to grow when it comes to virtual courses and remote learning options for live courses, the desire for creating richer academic and on-campus experiences, and new technology options. Yet, on many campuses, technology dollars are limited, with a wide variety of initiatives competing for that funding.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 23, 2022

This is the case in politics, but it’s also true in higher education. Shifts in demography, the economy and cultural values have far greater influence than the stories that dot the higher ed press. What were the most important events in higher education in 2022? percent over 2021. What might we see?

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WCET Frontiers

MARCH 30, 2023

Admittedly, we might see some of that same misreporting in 2021, but colleges and universities were starting to, and please excuse me for using this phrase, “get back to normal.” The post The Shift in Digital Learning Modalities: Is Higher Education Ready? appeared first on WICHE Cooperative for Educational Technologies.

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University Business

OCTOBER 28, 2022

One of the greatest challenges higher education has ever had to face was the pandemic. Colleges didn’t choose but were forced to overcome barriers to instruction through innovative educational technology solutions with little to no turnaround as students returned home for remote learning.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 29, 2023

In spring 2021, inspired by feedback from students, I redesigned my two undergraduate education courses as blended learning courses. As we look to the future of higher education, blended learning might be the model students need as they navigate an ever-changing and ever-challenging world. 2019; Vallée et al.,

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The PIE News

AUGUST 4, 2023

International students’ contribution to Dutch society and its knowledge economy, especially in growth sectors in technology, have also been emphasised often. The government notes that the total 115,000 international students enrolled at institutions across the country in the 2021/22 academic year was 3.5 Read it here.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 2, 2023

Distance learning in colleges and universities is now recognized as more than an alternative to the traditional face-to-face classroom (Higher Ed Partners, 2021), which is how distance learning was largely viewed at the time that institutions turned entirely to virtual teaching and learning during COVID-19 (Suruchi & Dutt, 2021).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 12, 2024

Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) educated over two million Hispanic students during the 2021-22 school year, but continued to demonstrate extensive facility needs, according to a new U.S. They also had technology needs, such as, to improve student internet access, cybersecurity, and hybrid learning efforts.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Nicola McCullough, Director of Education at Ahead in Sport and a mentor for Women in Football, and Joel Roberts, Chief Executive at Ahead in Sport. UK higher education has had a strong international reputation for many years. The OECD has estimated that 1.1

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HEPI

JULY 8, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Andrew Connors, Managing Director for Higher Education, Lloyds Banking Group; Katy Heaphy, Environmental and Social Business at Lloyds Banking Group; and Paul Kett, Senior Advisor and Global Director for Education and Skills at PwC. students and contributed £71bn to UK GDP.

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University Business

APRIL 20, 2023

Higher education institutions are in a race to replace 20-year-old administrative systems to modernize the faculty and student online experience, yet new findings show that investments across student, finance and human capital management technology systems dipped harshly following a surge in 2022.

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University Business

JANUARY 6, 2023

billion on research and development in math, science, engineering and other major fields during FY 2021, an increase of $3.4 Higher ed R&D got a jolt from the largest increase in federal R&D spending since 2011, when Great Recession relief funding came to the rescue. Georgia Institute of Technology: $1.1

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Higher education is re-envisioning its offerings from the ground up to acclimate itself to the emerging demands of a digital workforce. Land-grant universities are building new colleges , HBCUs are racing to secure better funding and even liberal arts colleges are reviewing their general education curriculum.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 3, 2024

The pandemic in 2020 accelerated the adoption of learning technologies in education. Inevitably, the quality of student learning has taken center stage, and with it is an emerging focus on changing teaching and learning pedagogy and harnessing technology to deliver new modes of learning (APLU). 2018; Zhao et al.,

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EAB

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Below are four key lessons from the experience, and three broad questions to consider as we all contemplate what VR and the ‘metaverse’ might mean for higher education: 1. How and when will these technologies achieve scale in society and higher ed? Click on the image to open larger in a new window.

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HEPI

APRIL 7, 2024

In 2022, and in recognition of similar challenges facing Australia’s higher education sector, the newly elected Labor government established the Universities Accord to outline the path to lasting and transformative reform in the higher education system.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

As I reflect on my journey through higher education, I find myself looking back on a career that began in the small, rural community of Calhoun in Lowndes County, Alabama. It was there that I first understood the profound impact that education could have on a person’s life.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

With Thanksgiving break under wraps, school districts and higher education institutions have their final holiday to look forward to as 2022 comes to a close: Christmas break. Unfortunately, administrators must understand that while they’re on break, criminal actors simply aren’t.

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University Business

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The higher education sector can relax knowing that employers still greatly value the merit a degree grants job applicants. Over 85% of organizations surveyed found that frontier technological trends would transform their operations, according to a report from The World Economic Forum. .” About a fifth of all U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The report found that although 47% of institutions saw accelerating internationalization between 2017 and the start of the pandemic, only 21% described acceleration between 2020 and 2021. The report was based on a survey of 903 institutions of higher education and is conducted every five years.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

A degree from a university on this last can add over $94,000 on top of the $61,600 median salary earned by a 25-34-year-old in 2021. Five Ivy League schools made this list, while only one public university (Missouri University of Science and Technology) clawed onto it. Massachusetts featured the most institutions, regardless of sector.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 24, 2023

Image: Since the Taliban suspended the rights of Afghan women to pursue higher education last month, many American higher education institutions and leaders have decried the ban. ” IIE has been working to provide Afghan refugees with access to higher education since the Taliban took control in 2021, Kokodyniak said.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 4, 2024

Adult learners are defined as those who may have delayed enrollment in higher education, may enroll as a part-time student, may be employed full-time, and may be responsible for family members (i.e., million, with trends expected to rise over time (US Department of Education, 2021). children, spouses).

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The PIE News

JANUARY 11, 2023

The 2022 COBIS Annual Research Survey , based on responses from 130 schools globally, found that 62% have increased student numbers when compared with the previous year, up from 51% reporting an increase in the 2021 survey. Those opting for further studies in the UK rose from 42% in 2021 to 44% in the latest survey.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 30, 2024

That’s according to a new report by the Center on Education and the Workforce (CEW) at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. " The Future of Good Jobs: Projections through 2031 " reminds readers that higher education has a critical role to play in the future earnings of their students and the stability of the American economy. “It

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Insight Into Diversity

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Eastern Michigan University (EMU) has become the first higher education institution in the state to utilize technology across campus by ZeroEyes, the only AI- (artificial intelligence) based gun detection video analytics platform. A Q&A posted by EMU about the company and technology can be found here.

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The PIE News

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The northeastern Australian technical and further education provider has been using a new insight reporting tool to develop localised adverts targeting students in Japan and South Korea. It can also reference pre-existing data on higher education campaign performance to further enhance results.

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HEPI

MAY 21, 2024

There is a lot of discussion at the moment about AI and how we navigate this use of technology with our students. However, in having this discussion, we also need to be mindful of our incoming students’ prior experience with technology, including the type of technology used (e.g. Microsoft Word and VLEs).

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 16, 2022

After all, “Zoom fatigue” has real effects on cognitive processing (Waldbieser, 2021). Furthermore, asynchronous videos allow for “improved collaboration and sense of ‘trust’ of group members” (West, 2021, p. 2021) provide a comprehensive guide and workflow for creating asynchronous videos for your class. Castillo et al.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2024

The landscape of higher education has witnessed a significant shift in recent years, with an increasing number of students opting for nontraditional avenues to pursue their academic goals. This trend underscores the growing popularity of online education as a means of accessing higher education opportunities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2023

What that quote means is, as an institution, if we don’t start to think about the future—if we’re not thinking about trends in higher education and in business, if we’re not looking at what our competitors are doing—we’ll fall far behind,” said Alexander. Discriminatory funding has deprived HBCUs of roughly $12.8

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Education was a significant theme. Our report found that many young people we interviewed failed to get to higher education, or even had the option to go, as a result of their estrangement. This is either because EYP do not have the technology, stability at home or mental wellness to truly engage.

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