Higher Ed Data Stories

JUNE 25, 2024

This is a reboot of a visualization I did in 2018, which I found fascinating, but which didn't get much traffic at the time, and thus, I've not refreshed it. But I still find it compelling an instructive. Each year, the Association of American Medical Colleges publishes a lot of data about admission to medical colleges in the US. But frankly, it's a mess, and takes a lot of effort to clean up and visualize: Each link is a separate spreadsheet, and each spreadsheet has spacer rows and merged cell

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Wonkhe

JUNE 24, 2024

A new guide from Yorkshire Universities explores how sustainability is embedded into university curricula and highlights current good practice. Monika Antal presents the findings The post How to engage students with sustainability through service learning appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Higher Ed Dive

JUNE 20, 2024

A higher education researcher breaks down how a think tank attempted to quantify the return on investment for 53,000 different programs.

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Inside Higher Ed

JUNE 25, 2024

University of Southern California postdoctoral scholars have “resoundingly” voted to unionize, the new union announced Monday. The vote, held Thursday and Friday, was 200 to 15 to form USC Researchers and Fellows United, the organization announced in a news release. The union, affiliated with the UAW, said it will represent 450 total employees.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 25, 2024

Dr. Walter M. Kimbrough has been appointed interim president of Talladega College, a historically Black college in Alabama. Dr. Walter M. Kimbrough Dr. Edward L. Hill Jr., the college’s vice provost for Lifelong Learning and Professional Development and Dean of Graduate Studies, served as the immediate interim president following the June 4 resignation of Dr.

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Wonkhe

JUNE 20, 2024

The teaching of undergraduate research can suffer from being overly mechanical. Erica Cargill and James Cunningham call for deeper engagement The post Embracing the role of undergraduate students as engaged researchers appeared first on Wonkhe.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

JUNE 21, 2024

By Nell Gluckman Andrew Hancock for The Chronicle Ted Roberts at Tarleton State U. The military veteran had taught at Tarleton State for over a decade. His colleagues were stunned.

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Inside Higher Ed

JUNE 25, 2024

While both students and faculty have concerns with generative artificial intelligence, two new reports show a divergence in AI adoption. Students continue to run laps around faculty when it comes to using generative artificial intelligence, two unrelated surveys find.

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HEPI

JUNE 19, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Stephen Curry, Professor of Structural Biology and Consul at Imperial College London and Director of Strategy at the Research on Research Institute; Dorothy Bishop, Professor Emeritus of Developmental Neuropsychology at the University of Oxford; and Martin Paul Eve, Professor of Literature, Technology and Publishing at Birkbeck, University of London.

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Wonkhe

JUNE 20, 2024

This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag takes us to not-a-polytechnic in Peckham The post Higher education postcard: Camberwell College of Arts appeared first on Wonkhe.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2024

Laurence D. Bobo's proposal would turn academic freedom upside down. By Keith E. Whittington Suzanne Kreiter, The Boston Globe, Getty Images This would set the university back a hundred years.

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Higher Ed Dive

JUNE 24, 2024

AI and digital innovations streamline college admin, enhancing student support and experience.

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Inside Higher Ed

JUNE 25, 2024

Struggling Bacone College has filed for bankruptcy. The move likely brings an end to its status as a freestanding institution, given that bankruptcy will render it ineligible for federal student aid. Interim president Leslie Hannah told Inside Higher Ed that while the college doesn’t plan to close, it will take the next academic year off to reorganize in hopes of attracting a partner to merge with or to acquire Bacone.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 23, 2024

Kenneth E. Sigmon Jr. North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University has received a $20 million gift from an anonymous donor. “We are deeply honored and grateful for this extraordinary gift,” said Kenneth E. Sigmon Jr., vice chancellor of University Advancement. “This generous support will provide crucial resources to our students, faculty and programs, ensuring that N.C.

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Wonkhe

JUNE 25, 2024

Student maintenance has been ignored all election - until now. Jim Dickinson reviews the parties' answers on the issue to Britain's most trusted man. The post The Money Saving Expert gets answers on maintenance appeared first on Wonkhe.

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The PIE News

JUNE 21, 2024

Now in its sixth year, the rankings – published last week – highlighted universities from around the globe that are leading the charge in global sustainable development. HE institutions in Australasia dominated the top end of the list, having the most universities ranked in the overall 10 most sustainable universities among over 2,000 submissions. THE noted that “some institutions and regions are making more progress than others” “Oceania, in particular Australia, is a region t

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Higher Ed Dive

JUNE 24, 2024

A new state law requires every public postsecondary and K-12 classroom to display in easily readable font the Ten Commandments by Jan. 1.

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Inside Higher Ed

JUNE 25, 2024

Some feared the bungled rollout of the new federal aid form would halt momentum for state completion requirements. It appears to be doing just the opposite. This year’s rollout of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid was, by almost all accounts, a fiasco. What was supposed to be a simpler form made the process more complicated for many.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2024

The immediate losses as a result of continued and strategic legislative attacks against diversity, equity, and inclusion work are staggering: reduced funding for offices, the elimination of staff, diluted support for students, and the dismantling of progress made over the past 60 years to support students, faculty, and staff and move the U.S. closer to its ideals of being a great democracy.

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Wonkhe

JUNE 24, 2024

Digital transformation can be expensive, but worse, it can be ineffective. Jon Garritty advises on how to get set up for success The post It is possible to digitally transform a university without the heartache appeared first on Wonkhe.

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The PIE News

JUNE 24, 2024

The document, which was supposedly released on May 28 – entitled a “study sector brief” – claimed that financial documents from a total of nine banks in Pakistan that were used in visa applications would be rejected, including two of the country’s biggest banks, Allied Bank and and Bank Alfalah. It also noted that some English language tests – all well-known within the sector – would be rejected for visa approval to the UK, including the Pearson Test of English and IELTS Life Skills.

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Higher Ed Dive

JUNE 20, 2024

After a brush with potential closure five years ago, the college says admissions have rebounded but headwinds remain.

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Inside Higher Ed

JUNE 25, 2024

Marietta College was planning to welcome a new president in July. Instead it’s back to the drawing board after President-elect Susan Stuebner backed out of the job before it started. A news release Monday from the college described the sudden reversal as “the result of an unforeseen change in personal considerations for Stuebner.” College officials did not provide additional details on what prompted Stuebner to back out at the last minute.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2024

Iowa native Juana D. Hollingsworth had always dreamed of attending an historically Black college and university (HBCU). She saw what it could be like through movies and television and she wanted that experience. Though she grew up in a primarily Black community, spending her life in a mostly white state left her with few options nearby to pursue that desire.

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Wonkhe

JUNE 23, 2024

Katy Shaw sets out the possibilities for deep, mature and expansive partnerships between universities and their regions The post Successful devolution isn’t possible without universities appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Campus Technology

JUNE 24, 2024

Miami Dade College recently announced the launch of a new bachelor's degree in applied artificial intelligence — the first such degree in the state of Florida and one of the first in the country. At the heart of MDC's approach is the conviction that education in artificial intelligence is for everyone — people at all levels need understand how to apply AI in their lives and careers.

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Higher Ed Dive

JUNE 24, 2024

A university investigation comes after photos emerged of four administrators reportedly texting about a panel on Jewish student life.

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Inside Higher Ed

JUNE 24, 2024

After this year’s disastrous launch of the financial aid form, federal officials say next year’s version will be out on time and with fewer problems. College financial aid professionals are skeptical. The bungled rollout of this year’s new Free Application for Federal Student Aid started with a two-month delay, pushing the usual Oct. 1 launch date to the end of December—a shift that raised eyebrows across higher ed and portended the disastrous financial aid cycle that followed.

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Insight Into Diversity

JUNE 20, 2024

Since 2018, the U.S. Air Force has been exploring ways to broaden the representation of its talent pool; in 2020, recruiting efforts began focusing on historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and Hispanic Serving Institutions. Now, Tennessee State University (TSU) is the first HBCU to develop a formal Air Force collaboration with the Aim High Flight Academy.

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Wonkhe

JUNE 25, 2024

Consent education can be tricky to deliver. Harriet Smailes explains how universities and students' unions can get the messaging, content, and delivery right. The post How consent education can be more than a tick-box exercise appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 23, 2024

A new NCAA-Meta collaboration has launched a program to help women maximize their name, image and likeness (NIL) endeavors as college athletes. Charlie Baker "This is a great opportunity for women college athletes to enhance their personal brand, directly engage with college sports fans and make connections for their future," said NCAA President Charlie Baker in a virtual announcement June 23, during the third annual NIL Summit in Atlanta.

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Higher Ed Dive

JUNE 25, 2024

The department said it was reviewing the ruling prior to its appeal and that it “stands by” the final regulations, which conservative states have challenged.

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Inside Higher Ed

JUNE 24, 2024

College Board chief information officer Jeff Olson is joining the Education Department’s team in charge of implementing next year’s Free Application for Federal Student Aid, a department spokesperson confirmed exclusively to Inside Higher Ed Friday.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

JUNE 24, 2024

How Ross Perot, David Duke, Pat Buchanan, and others inaugurated a politics of betrayal. By Kim Phillips-Fein Illustration by The Chronicle; iStock; Getty photos by Acey Harper, Brooks Kraft; CBS Photo Archive How Ross Perot, David Duke, Pat Buchanan, and others inaugurated a politics of betrayal.

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Wonkhe

JUNE 19, 2024

Dani Payne argues that universities should prepare for less autonomy in exchange for a more secure future The post The taxpayer and businesses will demand more from universities appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 23, 2024

Dr. James Martin II has been elected chancellor of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University by the University of North Carolina Board of Governors. Dr. James Martin II “Our students, faculty, staff and alumni are on an incredible ascent, having accomplished so much in recent years,” said Martin, who succeeds retiring Dr. Harold Martin Sr., effective Aug. 15.

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Higher Ed Dive

JUNE 25, 2024

Amid operating pressures, some institutions are struggling to meet financial metrics stipulated in their bond and loan covenants.

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