Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Column: Intellectual Affairs These seasonal overviews of forthcoming books from university presses usually focus on public and topical concerns: technology, the election cycle, pandemic impacts and so on. But several titles appearing in the spring catalogs stand out as narratives of personal difficulty. Peter Benson’s Stuck Moving.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Learning to manage course expectations and juggle deadlines at the university level is a developmental skill that successful students continuously work on to strengthen and refine. This tool can be shared with a student electronically, posted in an LMS, provided in a printable document, or handed out in class.

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ACRLog

DECEMBER 10, 2024

This time of year, at my university, and perhaps at yours as well, we are preparing to submit documentation for our annual performance reviews. As much of the population moved into cities where they no longer knew their neighbors, the art of selling yourself became a crucial means of survival.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Midlands Innovation is a strategic research partnership of eight research intensive universities in the Midlands. per cent of university-educated technical workers, which is significantly lower than the share observed in other occupations (59.8 The TALENT Commission report was published in 2022. percentage points, respectively).

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 22, 2022

A data science pathway as an alternative to the standard Algebra II, precalculus and calculus sequence. A data science pathway as an alternative to the standard Algebra II, precalculus and calculus sequence. At stake are hot-button issues involving equity, privilege, socioeconomic class and gender, ethnicity and race.

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Insight Into Diversity

APRIL 18, 2023

To document the stories of those who experienced this disaster, and help them envision their hopes for the future, researchers at the University of Idaho (U of I) held a creative mapping workshop for residents to share their experiences and visualize through artwork how they will rebuild. “It It was really moving to see.”

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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

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Image: Patty Limerick, co-founder and longtime faculty director of the University of Colorado at Boulder’s Center of the American West, says her firing last week continues to shock her, especially as she had been planning to step down soon anyway. He referred questions Tuesday to a university spokesperson.

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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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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Students view the work as simply a hurdle to be crossed, and once submitted and assessed, worthy of nothing more than being discarded. What a waste! Students want to contribute something to make a difference—if only we gave them the chance. The reason for this is the strength of the emotions we felt at the time. 2010; Bransford et al., Significance.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

” Woke University? According to SUNY documents, for a class to meet the new requirement, it must not only “describe the historical and contemporary societal factors that shape the development of individual and group identity involving race, class and gender. We all recall “Headless Body in Topless Bar.”

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Image: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill leaders have given mixed messages about what sounded, at least initially, like the university is trying to resurrect plans for a conservative campus center. “We expect state funds to be matched with private support,” the document says. million next year but $12.7

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 17, 2023

I found the essay touching, but thought it evaded the question posed by its title: To what extent should works of art be judged by their creators? ” The spiritual’s composer and lyricist, Robert MacGimsey, was in McCaulley’s words, “a product of his time and someone who was attempting to transcend it.”

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Image: Few answers have emerged more than a week after four University of Idaho students were stabbed to death in a home less than a mile from campus. University of Idaho crime statistics reveal a campus with the same safety and behavioral concerns as other U.S. The University Response. The Investigation. On Saturday night, Nov.

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HESA

MAY 16, 2023

I was sitting at home this weekend, reading the UNESCO World Science Report (2021) , as one does, when I started poking around with the actual bibliometric numbers. First: what is the UNESCO World Science Report? Well, it’s a pretty interesting document which has appeared periodically since 1993. The biggest gainers?

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 8, 2023

Similarly, in a science class, students can collaborate on a virtual whiteboard to solve complex problems, draw diagrams, and illustrate scientific processes—promoting collaborative problem-solving skills. The key to unlocking this new era of educational success lies in the integration of active learning strategies.

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eLiterate

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

This is part of a larger series I’m starting on a term of art called “product/market fit.” In my next post, I’ll examine product/market fit for universities in a changing landscape, focusing on applying CBE to an unusual test case. In practice, achieving product/market fit is complex, multifaceted, and hard.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

The city and area hold a large population of people from places such as India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, along with more recent refugees from Afghanistan and Syria, according to Dr. Jason Oliver Chang, director of the Asian and Asian American Studies Institute at the University of Connecticut. Census Bureau’s 2020 Census.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 8, 2023

Similarly, in a science class, students can collaborate on a virtual whiteboard to solve complex problems, draw diagrams, and illustrate scientific processes—promoting collaborative problem-solving skills. The key to unlocking this new era of educational success lies in the integration of active learning strategies.

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SRHE

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

These studies involved a total of 11,790 participants and assessed 9,992 university programmes and courses. In 2022, our group received an SRHE Scoping Award to synthesise the literature on the development, teaching, and assessment of sustainability literacy in non-STEM higher education programmes.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 23, 2023

The concept of professional development is not the sole issue; the disdain comes from the lack of purpose and the ineffectiveness. Professional development should be an enriching and meaningful experience for adults. Faculty professional development is any type of continuing education effort for educators. Why are we here?

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Continuous Learning Institute

MARCH 5, 2023

Two teams: STEM & Humanities, Arts, Languages & Communication (HALC). The STEM team's projects included creating paired courses to better support students in math and a faculty-to-student mentoring program for science students. Scroll down to access the transcript.) 11:08:25: Launching the inquiry & action work.

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SRHE

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Two notable exceptions, both in the US context, are Peter Magolda’s (2016) ethnography of cleaners on two university campuses, The Lives of Campus Custodians , and Verónica Caridad Rabelo and Ramaswami Mahalingam’s ( 2019 ) article, reporting on a mixed-method study of cleaners conducted in a single institution.

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Helix Education

JULY 11, 2024

For example, a student in Los Angeles may prefer a program from a university in California over one in New York because of potential local networking events, job fairs, a local internship, or being able to go to campus if they have a problem. Differentiating between one program and the next can be hard for prospective students.

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eLiterate

OCTOBER 25, 2022

To what extent is the university’s leadership aware of the paper? Kothari was a Professor of Accounting at the University of Rochester during my brief stint as an English graduate student there. As I outlined recently in my “ e-Literate’s Changing Themes for Changing Times ” post, I am shifting my coverage somewhat.

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eLiterate

JULY 12, 2023

I don’t know if my idea will work yet—he promised to let me know once he tries it—but the idea got me thinking. Generative AI probably will change EdTech integration, interoperability, and the impact that interoperability standards can have on learning design. You can guess from the name what it’s supposed to do. It never worked well.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Create career transition guides Consider developing career transition documents that provide students with an overview of careers, job titles, employers, and advice on getting started in a given field. Your institution’s career services can be especially useful in navigating these transitions—and helping your programs stand out to students.

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SRHE

JUNE 7, 2023

Encourage or lead a course/subject group activity where colleagues start by looking at how they use their own spaces, then visit other parts of their university. For example, universities create specific spaces with the aim of helping to build a sense of community but then impose rules on how those spaces can be used.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

The city and area hold a large population of people from places such as India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, along with more recent refugees from Afghanistan and Syria, according to Dr. Jason Oliver Chang, director of the Asian and Asian American Studies Institute at the University of Connecticut. Census Bureau’s 2020 Census.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma I, like you, have no doubt asked ChatGPT, the open AI-powered text generator, to respond to some questions and been dazzled by the results. I asked ChatGPT to draft syllabi for two of my upcoming courses to see how its recommendations differ from my own course outlines. I found the results thought-provoking. Impressive.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 23, 2023

The concept of professional development is not the sole issue; the disdain comes from the lack of purpose and the ineffectiveness. Professional development should be an enriching and meaningful experience for adults. Faculty professional development is any type of continuing education effort for educators. Why are we here?

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eLiterate

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The prompt I cobbled together a DEI guidelines document from some existing ones I found on the web to create something focused on curricular materials generation. Let’s throw in a couple of more goals just to make it interesting: I want students to demonstrate competencies. Evaluating Court functions will be consistently required.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Most prominent are the differences in fees, with fees for almost all Scottish-domiciled undergraduates in Scottish universities paid for by the Scottish Government, fees of £4,750 in Northern Ireland and fees of £9,250 in England and Wales. The differences between the four nations of the UK in undergraduate higher education are well known.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

And with an increasingly high number of professional accrediting bodies now touching and impacting many colleges and universities, now is the time for higher ed leaders to strive to support and understand how accreditation can improve overall to strengthen post-secondary education even more.

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GlobalHigherEd

OCTOBER 4, 2015

Senior Fellow, Institute of Asian Research, University of British Columbia, Canada. Gisèle Yasmeen, University of British Columbia. Or as I was asked recently by a university Vice-President of Research, “what are the implications of digital media for post-secondary institutions?”.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Image: When Patricia McGuire, president of Trinity Washington University, was speaking at a conference on Catholic higher education last month, she referred to the university, a women’s institution in Washington, D.C., When she became president of Trinity in 1989, the university’s future seemed dire.

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LSE Higher Education Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Justin Wyatt Wicked: Elphaba comes to realise the horrendible truth; that the explanations being offered up by those she previously trusted for the changes taking place at the university are a crock of Dear Old Shiz. Got a 10th choice?

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