Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Image: Years of dwindling enrollment and ongoing financial challenges have led to deep cuts at Cabrini University as administrators seek long-term stability. Following the latest wave of cuts, university leaders are making an appeal for partnerships. The university will also downsize from 18 department chairs to eight.

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APRIL 4, 2023

Image: Villanova University took a new approach on translating major skills into career opportunities for students with its biotechnology boot camp, introducing learners to alumni and employers in a difficult-to-enter field. Employers are also looking at younger talent and hiring STEM major undergraduates instead of just Ph.D.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Hilton, a young Black professional at Southern University at New Orleans (SUNO), wrote an op-ed in Diverse Issues in Higher Education , entitled “Are career paths of young Black professionals in higher education being impeded by implicit racism?” I, Adriel A. I concluded that the answer is yes. Dr. Adriel A. My cowriter, Peter St.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 15, 2023

Jackson said her mother was more inclined to the language arts. Throughout her life and career, Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson has proven to be a leader, innovator, and motivator. Jackson was a 2009 recipient of the Dr. John Hope Franklin Award but was recognized at this year’s American Council on Education (ACE) annual meeting in Washington, D.C.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

When it comes to communicating their value to the public, universities have not been shy. They have hired staff, redirected precious time and resources, and even taken out magazine ads and billboards to toot their horns and tout their feats in important markets. The university must make such dialogue an ongoing priority.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 8, 2023

Breese , provost and vice president for academic affairs at the University of Mount Union, in Ohio, has been appointed provost and vice president for academic affairs at Gwynedd Mercy University, in Pennsylvania. Joy Bodin , interim president of Hennepin Technical College, in Minnesota, has been named to the job on a permanent basis.

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AUGUST 26, 2022

Gloria Oikelome , vice president of academic affairs at Montgomery County Community College, in Pennsylvania, has been chosen as provost and vice president for academic affairs at Delaware Valley University, also in Pennsylvania. Editorial Tags: College administration New presidents Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 24, 2023

By discipline, this concern is least prevalent among arts and humanities students (42 percent) and most common in the natural sciences (55 percent). ” Outside of the education program at USC Aiken, nearly all of Walsh’s professors lecture nearly all the time, he says. This was the No.

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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

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

million freshmen enrolled in a college or university last semester, a 4.3 Finney, director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Institute for Research on Higher Education. percent increase over fall 2021 and a healthy jump from the 2.24 million who enrolled in fall 2020, soon after the COVID-19 pandemic began. and 2 percent.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Image: A professor who accused Auburn University officials of retaliating against him for blowing the whistle on the athletics program intervening in academics prevailed in court last week—in part. While we disagree with the [trial’s] outcome, the university respects the judicial process. I’m going to hear about this.”

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Image: Utica University’s president on Jan. She has provided some numbers to justify the proposal to stop offering degrees including the bachelor’s in chemistry, a bachelor of science and a bachelor of arts in geoscience, the bachelor’s in Spanish, and the bachelor’s in philosophy. She said 4.4

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Then, seven years ago, the university launched the ATLAS Care program, which refreshes departmental devices using a bulk pricing model… But keeping the older equipment in use, Wood says, often equated to increased support time and costs. But keeping the older equipment in use, Wood says, often equated to increased support time and costs.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Image: Newly available data from the National Science Foundation suggest that the first full year of the pandemic had a major, negative impact on graduate students’ ability to finish their Ph.D.s. Degrees awarded in the life sciences fell 6 percent between 2020 and 2021, and by about 8 percent in the physical and earth sciences.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

These are a few of the innovative designs developed by researchers for people with disabilities at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). The researchers developed PURE over the last five years with grant funding from the National Science Foundation.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 7, 2023

By field, arts and humanities students are likeliest to say they rely on deadlines (57 percent). Additionally, students in the arts and humanities (57 percent) seem to want more general flexibility than students in the sciences (41 percent) or the social sciences (48 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

MARCH 6, 2023

in educational leadership from the University of New England that he earned after getting a bachelor’s degree in political science and government and a master’s degree from Western Illinois University. He now has a Ph.D.

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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. in public health in 2022.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 3, 2023

King , vice chancellor for inclusivity and student affairs at the University of Wisconsin at Green Bay, has been selected as chancellor of the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater. King , vice president for advancement at University of Mount Union, in Ohio, has been named president there. Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 19, 2023

Image: Citing dwindling enrollment, the University of Pittsburgh plans to close its nearly 60-year-old English Language Institute on June 30. ” He also said Pitt is an R-1 research university, and closing the ELI would reduce his department’s research capacity regarding how people learn English.

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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

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. In Minnesota, the College of Saint Benedict, for women, and Saint John’s University, for men, are about 10 minutes apart. percent,” the association wrote.

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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. MS in Business Analytics – STEM-designated Adelphi University Robert B. Read about them here.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 30, 2022

Ben Fisler, theater and performing arts. University of Hawai‘i at West O‘ahu. Romine, mathematics, natural and health sciences. Romine, mathematics, natural and health sciences. Ross, mathematics, natural and health sciences. Regina Johnson, English. Cynthia Kelly, health and physical education.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 7, 2023

Image: Huddled around a table in the Georgetown University Alumni House, roughly two dozen academics convened last week to address two of the most persistent challenges in higher education: improving student outcomes and lowering the cost of a bachelor’s degree. Now, nearly 15 years later, the idea has fresh momentum.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

Image: For students in Sarah Blackwood’s How to Read Moby-Dick class at Pace University, learning about Herman Melville’s work isn’t confined to lectures, essays or classroom discussions. percent from 2012 to 2018, according to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences’ Humanities Indicators.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 12, 2022

Image: New Jersey City University is facing scrutiny from the state government following a financial collapse that saw a dramatic reversal of fortune with the institution reportedly going from a surplus of $108 million in 2013 to a deficit of $67 million amid plans to expand NJCU's campus. The Financial Collapse.

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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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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. Hope, assistant professor of psychology at North Carolina State University. population in terms of race by 2050. Meanwhile, the U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Image: Sacred Heart University administrators have long encouraged students to understand the institution’s mission and values by attending seminars and events designed to reflect and promote the “Pioneer Journey,” the academic, spiritual and social-emotional learning path that encompasses the student experience at the university.

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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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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

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

In its prime, middlebrow culture filled the gap between the avant-garde and kitsch, garish, overly sentimental and tasteless, schlock and between elite and pulp fiction, ivory tower, egghead academic writing and trash and art music and popular tunes and jingles.

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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

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Jennifer Shaw, a research associate in the social work department at Northwestern State University, a public institution in Natchitoches, La., But universities are looking for solutions, too. Image: It started with a casual conversation in a senior-level research methods class. One young man’s answer surprised her.

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