The Guardian - Higher Education

APRIL 21, 2023

Last year saw 15 strikes, the highest number of strikes in academia in at least 20 years, and the surge has continued into 2023 Thousands of workers at universities have gone on strike in 2023 amid new union contract negotiations in demand of pay increases that align with the effect high inflation rates have had on the cost of living.

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Creatrix Campus

JULY 11, 2024

The Evolution of Campus Management System: Navigating the Future of Higher Education editor Thu, 07/11/2024 - 07:48 Campus Effectiveness Header Menu White 1NoneFooter base 1Blog Style 1Right Team CreatrixOff Introduction: What is a Campus Management System? Important courses in academia usually consist of: 1.

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HEPI

JUNE 27, 2024

These experiences provide academics with an updated understanding of employer needs, foster opportunities for industry-relevant research, secure funding, and establish improved links between academia and businesses. The university has a history of providing academics with paid placements.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

MAY 4, 2023

Technology Partnerships and Higher Education A Conversation With Drew Magliozzi, CEO of Mainstay Alan Thu, 05/11/2023 - 06:00 Chatbots Higher Ed Leadership Innovation Spotlight In our mission to promote equity in higher education, the University Innovation Alliance (UIA) highlights the strategies of our member institutions.

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totallyrewired

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Mick Grierson (Professor and Research Leader, CCI) *AI and Languages with Helen McAllister (Associate Dean of International Student Experince, UAL) *A Short History of AI in Art Schools with Catherine Mason (Author) *Generative AI and the Automating of Academia with Prof. Where This event will take place online.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 30, 2022

HEPI is running a series of blogs on the changing faces of academia in collaboration with the British Academy. In this blog, my aim is to bring together a few exemplars of experiences by people of colour within academia. Emotional labour has several meanings, and inevitably some are context dependent.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 5, 2024

Across higher education, the desire for diversity among student populations is usually the responsibility of recruitment efforts but falls short in retention strategies. Colleges typically use a variety of assessments such as standardized tests, essays, and GPA to determine a student's readiness for life in academia.

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University Business

MAY 3, 2024

Two presidents have been hired at small private colleges in the past two weeks and one leader is choosing to retire after four decades in higher education. Bates has a proven track record as a higher education leader around Ohio, as well as in the private sector.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Kayon Hall wants to change the way academia thinks about undocumented students. Black and undocumented students are socially and politically left out of the conversation,” said Hall, an assistant professor of higher education administration at Kent State University in Ohio.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

OCTOBER 2, 2021

In this second post of our five-part series on Embracing a New Higher Education Governance Model , we discuss the updated board duties in higher ed and how boards can embrace their new roles and responsibilities as they work to meet the challenges facing colleges and universities today. Take duty of loyalty, for example.

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Insight Into Diversity

MAY 14, 2023

To ensure music students gain a more inclusive education, universities are beginning to expand their areas of study. As part of its mission, the center will explore the history of Black and African diaspora music, particularly gospel, and its widespread influence on modern music genres.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 3, 2023

As legislative sessions in many states head towards their conclusions, new attempts to exert control over higher education have continued to appear. Erik Gellman, a tenured associate professor of history at UNC, of HB 715, officially called the Higher Education Modernization & Affordability Act.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

A professor of Chicano/Latino studies and history at the University of California, Irvine, Anita was a high school teacher at 23, then a K-12 school director of curriculum and assessment, a freelance journalist and a migrant rights activist, before earning her Ph.D.

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Navigating the Crossroads of Tradition and Modern Market Dynamics Colleges and universities have a long history of helping students transform their lives. Prospective students now approach higher education opportunities with the savvy and skepticism of seasoned buyers. We buy homes to create stability and harmony in our lives.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 16, 2022

” After the Ivory Tower Falls is a book we in academia should be engaging with. Bunch’s thesis that the deep political and cultural divisions that increasingly define the US can be traced to failures of higher education around access, costs, debt, and relevance will make for a fascinating campus conversation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

His scholarly focus is on African American religion, philosophy, history, and culture. Outside of academia, Walker was founding president of the Center for Faith, Justice and Reconciliation; senior fellow for Religious Freedom at the Freedom Forum Institute; and member of the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Rebecca Blank Blank stepped down from the role in 2022 to become the first female president of Northwestern University, was one of the longest-serving chancellors in recent UWM history, having led the school for almost 10 years. Blank Center for Campus History and a professorship in her honor. UWM recently named the Rebecca M.

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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 He also leads work at Humanities Indicators and holds a Ph.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 19, 2023

These are some of the schools embroiled in a wave of recent strikes in higher education in the U.S., Unions in higher ed may go on strike after months of bargaining and impasse in negotiations on issues and demands from higher ed employees such as wage increases, better working conditions, and reliable job security.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

A graduate of Morehouse College, Canton earned a master’s degree in Black studies at The Ohio State University and a doctorate in history at Temple University. Canton, who is also an associate professor of history, hired two faculty members in year one. Last year, he hired another faculty person. Two new hires are expected this year.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma The December 2022 issue of Jacobin , which bills itself as “a leading voice of the American left, offering socialist perspectives on politics, economics and culture,” contains a provocative article entitled “I Love Higher Education. The institution has a storied history.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 17, 2023

The UN’s Higher Education Sustainability Initiative sees a clear link between research and scholarship and building a workforce for the future. Its Education for Green Jobs initiative brings together researchers, industry and educators to outline workforce needs and support curricula to build the workforce needed for the future.

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PeopleAdmin

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Being a tenured or adjunct professor is a job that is unique to higher education, and the different types of faculty roles leave some asking: what is a tenured professor? PeopleAdmin is constantly innovating to solve the challenges faced by HigherEd, and that includes streamlining and simplifying the tenure review process.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

Higher Education Administration and Policy Education:   M.Ed. I was afforded opportunities to navigate higher education because of the presence of faculty of color, because of the presence of Latino faculty,” Galan said. Carlos Galan Institution:  University of California, Riverside Graduate Program:   Ph.D.,

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University Business

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

But something exciting is happening in the world of higher education. More from UB: Scammers, fraudsters are putting academia in peril. Meanwhile, the humanities and social sciences are taking a back seat. What can we do?

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WCET Frontiers

JUNE 8, 2023

The short book does cover that history briefly, but goes deeper into racism and struggles to overcome it in her life in Texas. It also gives a deep history of how racism was built into that state’s structures from the first settlers who came to Texas from what became the Confederacy to a state constitution that favored some over others.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The free material my instructors used in those courses was high quality, and I came away with a positive perception of OER use in higher education. Brenda Thomas has worked in online higher education as an adjunct teaching courses created by others and as an instructional designer creating courses for others to teach.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 22, 2023

Significant progress has also been made in academia. Dr. Donald Collins, an assistant professor for the Department of History at Loyola University Maryland, said people have to consider the history of what this report has highlighted. Black high school attainment in the last 60 years has increased from 24.8%

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HEPI

DECEMBER 8, 2022

This blog was kindly contributed by Dr Emily Danvers, Lecturer in Higher Education Pedagogy (Education), School of Education and Social Work, University of Sussex. of Irish Travellers access higher education by the age of 19 compared to around 40% of all young people. Emily is on Twitter @EmilyDanvers.

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University Business

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The coursework in the crosshairs isn’t hard to divine, either: liberal arts mainstays such as literature, history, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and psychology. If no one studies history, we don’t get the next Doris Kearns Goodwin; if no one studies English literature, whence the next David McCullough? New tools.

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University Business

AUGUST 11, 2023

has endured a record-breaking heat wave this summer, and with it, a cluster of turnovers in higher education’s top position. Upon assuming American’s highest administrative position, Burwell boasted an ironclad resume despite not serving once in the higher education space. Retiring Dr. Lonnie A. Dr. Lonnie A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 26, 2022

She feels it’s important to share her stories with women — in and out of academia — and build community with other scholars. I was always very conscious of the small number of Black women in the profession, in academia, but then in the discipline of political science,” she continues. I thought, ‘Why don’t we know this history?’”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

And then I'm interested in complicating them with the other truths of American history.” And having grown up in the education-oriented African Methodist Episcopal Church, learning and the Bible played prominent roles in her own ‘becoming’ as a writer. “As Entering higher ed and academia, she went on to earn a B.A.

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SRHE

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The benefit of the SRHE and its Blog has been in providing a sense of community for those who have to and do think about the purpose, the benefits and the travails of higher education. It is the stuff of academia. There have been insights shared and arguments made. Was that Marx or Martin Luther King Jr?

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SRHE

MAY 2, 2023

Jack Grove had reported for Times Higher Education on 15 March 2023 that analysis by economist Paolo Crosetto (National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment, France) showed “the number of MDPI’s special issues continued to rise sharply in 2022. or rob.gresham@srhe.ac.uk.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Higher education professionals have long been concerned with how to raise public awareness about climate change. block:block=176] This apocalyptic narrative has a long history in the environmental movement and within academia. Yet today we face a different problem.

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