Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 9, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma I live my life according to a series of mantras. Reflecting on the past is as valuable in our personal and professional lives as it is in policy making. One of which is this: “We must look backward to move forward.” We can also identify patterns and trends that might otherwise go unseen.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

This blog was kindly authored by Annamaria Carusi , Director at Interchange Research. This is a much-needed part of higher education strategy, especially given Labours framing of its policies in terms of missions. The UK is recognised as a global leader in art and culture.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Professor David Law, Academic Director: Global Partnerships at Keele University. In HE, this would propel Chinese universities towards collaborative international models, within a policy framework designed by Chinese officials. We visited Beijing, Shanghai, and some other cities.

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HEPI

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

This blog was kindly authored for HEPI by George Blake , Policy and Networks Officer at London Higher. As new visa data shows a slowdown in international recruitment, the potentially staggering economic costs of sector contraction have become clear. Applications from January to July 2024 were 16% lower than the same period in 2023.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 17, 2023

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Priya Madina, Director of External Affairs and Policy at Taylor & Francis. In June 2022, HEPI and Taylor & Francis hosted a successful dinner discussion around open access and evidence-based based policymaking which produced a co-authored Policy Note , and webinar.

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HEPI

JUNE 6, 2024

This blog was kindly authored for HEPI by Professor Robin Banerjee , Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Global and Civic Engagement at the University of Sussex. But there is another huge and often overlooked benefit they bring to society. But there is another huge and often overlooked benefit they bring to society.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

This blog has been kindly contributed by Dr Diana Beech, Chief Executive Officer of London Higher – the voice of higher education in London, representing over 50 universities and higher education institutions across the capital. You can follow London Higher and Diana on X (formerly Twitter) via @LondonHigher and @dianajbeech.

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HEPI

MARCH 20, 2024

This blog was kindly written for HEPI by Dame Professor Jessica Corner , Executive Chair of Research England. I talk about that principle in a blog I wrote for Wonkhe in late 2023. In the Summer of 2023, we launched the Initial Decisions for the Research Excellence Framework.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 20, 2023

I feel confused when UK policy makers complain about there being too many students while simultaneously wanting more people to do ‘vocational education’ For the same reason, I feel confused when UK policy makers complain about there being too many students while simultaneously wanting more people to do ‘vocational education’.

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HEPI

MAY 11, 2023

This guest blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Professor Warren Manning, Provost for Innovation and Research at the University of Derby, and Dr Jenna Townend, FHEA, Principal Adviser to the Vice-Chancellor at the Uni versity of Derby. For more details, including how to book a free place, see here.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma The four-year graduation rate at the Cal State campuses reached a record high—33 percent—in 2021. A recent blog posting by Michael Feldstein, one of higher education’s most astute observers, asked a fascinating question: If you were designing Cal State today, what would you do differently?

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma NPR just pulled the plug on its once stunningly popular Invisibilia podcast, which explored “the invisible forces that shape human behavior.” Historians sometimes describe the social sciences as theory rich but often data poor. They are cultural, demographic, economic, historical, and sociological.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 5, 2023

Blog: Learning Innovation Sue Lorenson , vice dean for undergraduate education at Georgetown’s College of Arts and Sciences, is a close colleague and good friend of Eddie’s. A liberal arts education is the ultimate preprofessional education; it can prepare you for any career. Q: Your Ph.D. is in linguistics.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma What is an honors college? A small college within a much larger institution, with its own facilities, faculty, course offerings, scholarship and grant programs and perks for honors students. Aren’t there ways to give many more undergraduates the advantages currently reserved for honors students?

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 18, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Colleges pay tribute to diversity yet largely offer a cookie-cutter approach to education. Homogeneity and uniformity are generally the rule, not an education with distinguishing characteristics. Sure, there are exceptions. Columbia, Chicago, and St. Johns offer variations on a great books curriculum. In 2019, just 7.2

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Nonetheless, the disaffiliation campaign was really about the theatre of student politics – especially among us middle-class arts and humanities students. When it came to policy, it was vacillation (for example, over fees) that the NUS’s leadership of the time most disliked. Like all good political campaigns, it was huge fun.

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WCET Frontiers

JUNE 18, 2024

For educators, this day can inspire curriculum development, community engagement, and reflection on policies to ensure a commitment to equity and inclusion. This day symbolizes the end of slavery in the United States and is a profound reminder of the resilience and enduring spirit of African Americans.

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GlobalHigherEd

OCTOBER 4, 2015

When I started graduate studies more than 25 years ago, there was no talk of the world wide web, no blogs, no Twitterverse, Facebook, Academia.edu and so on. When I started graduate studies more than 25 years ago, there was no talk of the world wide web, no blogs, no Twitterverse, Facebook, Academia.edu and so on.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Blog: Beyond Transfer The broken record of broken transfer seems to be on constant repeat in the higher education sector. Going back decades, many states, systems and institutions have enacted sweeping policy changes and invested significant resources in supporting transfer student success.

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HEPI

MAY 25, 2024

HEPI recently published a collection of essays on the issue of funding undergraduate degrees, curated by HEPI Director of Policy and Advocacy Rose Stephenson. This chapter was written by James Purnell, President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of the Arts, London. University funding is not working. This is good.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

OCTOBER 6, 2022

And we did the first full degree program in e-commerce, the first master's of arts in teaching with the Internet. Disruption, Evolution, and Leadership. A Conversation With Paul LeBlanc, President, Southern New Hampshire University. Thu, 10/06/2022 - 06:00. Higher Ed Leadership. Inside Higher Ed. Weekly Wisdom.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Count on The New York Post to come up with the tabloids’ most incendiary headlines and news article leads. We all recall “Headless Body in Topless Bar.” ” But what about some other headlines that are much more inflammatory or offensive. ” Or Alec Baldwin: “Dolt 45.”

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Coursera blog

DECEMBER 19, 2023

UNT’s 100% online Bachelor of Applied Arts and Sciences (B.A.A.S.) program at UNT accepts traditional common core credits earned from community colleges (American history, political science, English, etc.) military credit. or other universities. But what makes the B.A.A.S The UNT B.A.A.S

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 11, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma. The company that Tony Blair’s son Euan founded, Multiverse, arranges professional apprenticeships in business operations, data science, and software engineering. I’m not referring to the Beta, Delta, or Omicron BA 1, BA4, and B5 COVID strains. It’s not alone.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

Our second cohort concluded in December 2021, our third cohort wrapped up in spring 2022, our fourth occurred in fall 2022, and our fifth occurred in spring 2023. All cohorts ended with presentations of the fellows’ capstone projects. The topics covered included student success, budget models, change management, and more.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 23, 2023

Professional development can be defined as structured professional learning that results in changes in teaching practices and improvements (Learning Policy Institute, 2017). The concept of professional development is not the sole issue; the disdain comes from the lack of purpose and the ineffectiveness. Why are we here?

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Publishing its Second Report in July 2012, the Lords’ Science and Technology Committee said it had ‘received substantial written evidence on the recent HE reforms’. This post was kindly authored for HEPI by Gill Evans, Emeritus Professor of Medieval Theology and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean Yesterday I asked my readers what rule they would enact for higher education in their state if they were somehow declared Grand Poohbah of Higher Education for a day. (I “Poohbae” connotes polyamory, which is another blog altogether. So many poohbahs! Big YES on this one!).

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HEPI

JULY 23, 2024

The ‘trade’ of Oxford and Cambridge as corporations lay in the study of the artes , the ‘liberal arts’. In both, a student ‘apprentice’ ‘graduated’ gradus by gradus , ‘degree’ by ‘degree’, to become a Bachelor then a Master of Arts. They have proliferated in range and subject. The question is whether that affects their ‘value’.

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HEPI

MARCH 23, 2023

Here, Professor Adam Tickell, Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Birmingham, writes as part of a series of blogs from Midlands Innovation on the key considerations for policy makers and the Higher Education sector on increasing investment into regional research and development (R&D) through universities.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

Blogs Assessing online courses—OSCQR rubric August 9, 2023 George Rus Assistant Dean for Online Education, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs The views and opinions expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of EAB. These expansions have not come without some challenges.

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SRHE

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Yet this group has attracted limited considerations from researchers and policy-makers alike. I was struck by the contrast between the significance of their work and its relative absence from research and policy discourses. It also involved an online survey of UK HE institutions followed by Freedom of Information (FoI) requests.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Want to know why John Guillory’s Professing Criticism has attracted such widespread attention? Because it’s widely read as a eulogy for a discipline that has lost its audience and lost its way. The challenges that literary studies faces are evident to anyone who cares to look. The field has fragmented.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 23, 2023

Professional development can be defined as structured professional learning that results in changes in teaching practices and improvements (Learning Policy Institute, 2017). The concept of professional development is not the sole issue; the disdain comes from the lack of purpose and the ineffectiveness. Why are we here?

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EAB

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Blogs The 6 most in-demand topics for district leaders last year AskEAB's 6 most popular research requests in 2022-2023 Each year, EAB’s Dedicated Advisors pass hundreds of questions from district leaders and school administrators to our AskEAB team. PE, science): 7.5% Secondary-level English language arts: 7.5% Other (e.g.,

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Susquehanna President's Blog

JUNE 17, 2022

Pomp and Circumstance Throughout graduation season, I have had a variety of conversations about the traditions, pageantry, and symbolism connected to commencement ceremonies and the trappings of the academy. I thought it would be timely to share some of the arcana that arises most frequently in those conversations.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Discussions of pedagogy, instructional design, technology integration, and assessment are no longer confined to K-12 teachers. Even more striking: Instructor-centered classrooms were nearly as common in seminars and discussion classes as it was in lecture courses.

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