Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 14, 2023

Deslauriers, director of science teaching and learning in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and a senior preceptor in physics, and his colleagues measured students’ perception of learning when active learning is toggled on and off. Yet in the test of learning, those in the active group did better.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

Image: Manhattanville College in Purchase, N.Y., The college says it froze undergraduate majors with “very low student enrollment.” laid off eight tenured and tenure-track faculty members and froze various programs last month, citing realignment of academics with changing student demands.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The University of Wyoming (UW) and five community colleges in the state are building a faculty network to share best practices and make science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education more inclusive. The IE3 initiative will function similarly to a pilot program instituted by UW and NWC in July 2022.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 7, 2023

In a new Student Voice pulse survey out today from Inside Higher Ed and College Pulse, nearly three in four students say that deadlines should be flexible when there are extenuating circumstances. By field, arts and humanities students are likeliest to say they rely on deadlines (57 percent). But how do students define flexibility?

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Faculty Focus

MAY 21, 2024

Like many of our colleagues, the emergence of ChatGPT and other generative artificial intelligence sites initially created a mild panic. Out of the panic, an emerging field of practical, practitioner-based research has begun to emerge. The call for calm, patient reflection has been noted (Naidu 2023, para 10).

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Image: Some colleges and universities have offered mental health days or experimented with work-from-home policies to address burnout and low employee morale during the pandemic. Meredith College, a private women’s liberal arts institution in Raleigh, N.C., Participants don’t have to use their vacation days anymore.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

If Blackwood’s course sounds like a divergence from the humdrum small-group discussions that college English courses bring to mind, well, you probably haven’t taken a college English class recently. percent from 2012 to 2018, according to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences’ Humanities Indicators.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 16, 2023

The provost of the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University has cited overall enrollment decreases and specifically low enrollments in these courses. ” But he said there are financial issues at smaller colleges that “are general problems, not just of humanities. percent,” the association wrote.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 8, 2023

Joy Bodin , interim president of Hennepin Technical College, in Minnesota, has been named to the job on a permanent basis. Cloud Technical & Community College, in Minnesota, has been named to the job on a permanent basis. Editorial Tags: College administration New presidents Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

The half-day event promoted business and career advice and networking opportunities for science, technology, engineering and math students interested in pharmaceuticals and biotech, boosting students’ interest and confidence in postgraduate opportunities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Jean, Interim Dean, College of Arts and Sciences & Professor of Sociology at North Park University, and I are suggesting training in High Impact Cultural Competency (HICC) (Vaughn, 2007) as a potential solution. These include depression, burnout, poor work performance, and work-related stress. My cowriter, Peter St.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 24, 2023

” Lectures are a “great tool for college courses, but they are just used way too often,” he says. And while the idea that “learning can be fun is thrown out the window once in college,” it can be “just as exciting for us.” 1 barrier to academic success cited by students in the survey over all.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

million freshmen enrolled in a college or university last semester, a 4.3 Freshman enrollment was up across all higher education sectors, with the greatest growth coming from community colleges, which gained 42,000 first-year students since last fall, an increase of 6.1 In 2020, community college enrollment dropped a whopping 10.5

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

in a way that could also describe many women’s colleges across the country. “In fact, we are something of a unicorn, being still primarily a women’s college,” she said. Trinity’s College of Arts & Sciences, the institution’s largest program, remains all women.) and Canada.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 30, 2022

Harford Community College. Ben Fisler, theater and performing arts. Romine, mathematics, natural and health sciences. Ross, mathematics, natural and health sciences. Claudia Brown, mass communications. John Donahue, sociology. Regina Johnson, English. Cynthia Kelly, health and physical education.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Image: Bloomfield College will become part of Montclair State University, the institutions announced Wednesday, formalizing a merger that had been in the works for months since Montclair State stepped up to help the financially struggling Bloomfield. Going forward, Bloomfield will be known as Bloomfield College of Montclair State University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 7, 2023

At a time in academia when STEM is increasingly evolving into STEAM, colleges and universities with intensely driven, career-focused students are endeavoring to create space for arts education. STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) is expanding into STEAM, with the addition of art.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 26, 2022

Bearce , interim vice president for academic affairs at Northampton Community College, in Pennsylvania, has been appointed provost and vice president of academic affairs at Raritan Valley Community College, in New Jersey. Editorial Tags: College administration New presidents Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Faculty Focus

MAY 21, 2024

Like many of our colleagues, the emergence of ChatGPT and other generative artificial intelligence sites initially created a mild panic. Out of the panic, an emerging field of practical, practitioner-based research has begun to emerge. The call for calm, patient reflection has been noted (Naidu 2023, para 10).

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Image: The Whittier College Board of Trustees was scheduled for a rare in-person meeting this Friday, after conducting most business virtually during the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, with her address looming, Oubré and her critics have radically different views of what the state of the college is.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

Image: Gustavus Adolphus College went 161 years without any graduate programs. Like other small private institutions, Gustavus Adolphus, a Lutheran college in southern Minnesota, faces a shrinking pool of traditional-age students, even ahead of the projected decline in college-age students due to kick in later this decade.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

In retaliation for Stern’s internal and external activism, Auburn in 2009 suddenly moved the department of economics out of the College of Business and into the College of Liberal Arts, the lawsuit said. The First Amendment and academic freedom are the cornerstones of higher education.”

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Image: It’s finals season at Moorpark College, a community college in Ventura County, Calif. The college also boasts successful performing arts, nursing and biotechnology programs. As of 2018, it had a six-year completion rate of 64 percent, which was the highest of any California community college.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Image: In the perpetual tug-of-war between openness and confidentiality in searches for new college and university presidents, secrecy has been winning in a rout. The recent search for a new president at Pitzer College offers a counterpoint.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 3, 2023

Marta Yera Cronin , president of Columbia Gorge Community College, in Oregon, has been chosen as president of Delaware County Community College, in Pennsylvania. Georj Lewis , president of Atlanta Metropolitan State College, in Georgia, has been appointed president of Clayton State University, also in Georgia.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The private New York college’s public comment period on the changes ends Thursday. Image: Utica University’s president on Jan. 18 recommended ending a dozen degree offerings, moves the institution says were informed by a report it won’t release. She said 4.4 “We have experienced such a letdown,” Fleming said.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Kevin Beardmore , vice president of student affairs at Owensboro Community and Technical College, in Kentucky, has been appointed president of Southeast New Mexico College. Jack Bourla , owner of Providence Chiropractic Center, in California, has been selected as president of Sherman College of Chiropractic, in South Carolina.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 7, 2023

Their proposed solution is an unconventional one—to create a three-year bachelor’s program equivalent to a four-year college degree. Zemsky, who has long pursued the idea of a three-year degree, held court at Georgetown alongside Carrell with representatives from a dozen colleges in attendance.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

INSIGHT Into Diversity 2023 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award winners are recognized for their exemplary and innovative initiatives designed to recruit and retain underrepresented individuals in science, technology, engineering, and math. Read about them here. MS in Business Analytics – STEM-designated Adelphi University Robert B.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 6, 2023

Image: Tabitha Edson always knew she wanted to work in health sciences. She earned a nursing assistant certification in high school but decided not to pursue the field at Westminster College, a small private institution in Salt Lake City; she worried that it would limit her job opportunities when she graduated.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 15, 2023

Sarah Wu, the academic assessment manager at the Office of Academic Effectiveness at Georgia Tech, shared the results of a feedback project her team orchestrated at the American Association of Colleges and Universities’ recent conference on general education, pedagogy and assessment.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

And Cabrini will make a big structural change, shrinking from three colleges to two, with the School of Education moving into the School of Arts and Sciences. Image: Years of dwindling enrollment and ongoing financial challenges have led to deep cuts at Cabrini University as administrators seek long-term stability.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 13, 2023

But this isn’t an art class; the students will be illustrating their moods as part of a new one-credit course at the University of Maryland, College Park, that Morgan developed to teach students basic emotional regulation skills. The images they produce might run the gamut from abstract doodles to colorful narrative scenes.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 23, 2023

Sabrina Jamal-Eddine During her Bachelor of Science in Nursing studies, Sabrina Jamal-Eddine informed a clinical instructor about her back disability and lifting limitation as well as explaining that she could do everything but except lift a patient.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 3, 2023

Image: Twenty-three Lafayette College department heads and program chairs say there are serious issues with governance at the college, according to “points of concern” four of them shared with the president and provost. “Trust and institutional culture are broken,” the first of the five points said.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Image: College and universities will need to diversify their faculties at about 3.5 Nathan Matias, assistant professor of communication and information science at Cornell University; Neil A. The rate was a bit higher among liberal arts colleges: an increase of 0.33 population in terms of race by 2050. Meanwhile, the U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 16, 2022

Buffalo State College, of the State University of New York. Eric Dolph, art and design. Theresa Smith, art conservation. Suparna Soni, political science and public administration. McDaniel College. Chloe Irla, art. Chloe Irla, art. Chia-En Lin, computer science. Catherine Mazzotta, social work.

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