Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

The potential for community college students and adults with some college credit to obtain a future degree is limited by a higher education system that has not fully embraced the many pathways today’s learners take to complete a degree, according to a new white paper from the Center for Higher Education Policy and Practice’s (CHEPP).

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MAY 11, 2025

He was previously the Vice-Chancellor of Sheffield Hallam University. The Guardian quoted Peter Kyle, the Science Secretary, declaring an end to the war on universities. The OfS has reported that four in ten universities will report a deficit this year.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Image: A number of financial disincentives deter colleges from smoothly transferring students’ course credits from one institution to another, according to a new white paper by the Beyond Transfer Policy Advisory Board (PAB), a group of experts dedicated to transforming the transfer process.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

“At a time when Americans are losing trust in the value of college, policymakers should remember that labor market success is what most students say they want from their college experience,” the paper reads. State policymakers must avoid falling into the traps that have bedeviled half-baked OBF schemes.”

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Yet when I entered the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills as the Special Adviser to the Minister for Universities and Science in May 2010, we found so-called ‘alternative higher education providers’ – those that did not receive funding from the old Higher Education Funding Council for England – were off the departmental radar.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

This post was kindly authored for HEPI by Gill Evans, Emeritus Professor of Medieval Theology and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge. Under HERA, powers to register ‘higher education providers’ and grant degree-awarding powers and university title passed to the Office for Students.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Image: A new Free Application for Federal Student Aid is less than a year away, and colleges and universities are already planning for the expected overhaul of federal student aid. ” One group that will likely see significant changes in student aid eligibility is families that have more than one child in college.

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Today's Learner

JULY 8, 2024

Reading Time: 3 minutes Starting college is a huge social shift that can be challenging for new students to navigate. After completing my senior year online, I arrived at Arizona State University with rose-tinted visions of first few weeks ahead: Walking across the quad with people I met the day prior, who would be my best friends for life.

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Kortext University Leaders' Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Their StREAM platform gathers data from multiple university sources to offer a comprehensive view of student engagement and outcomes. took place on 25th April at Imperial College London. Setting the Curve October was a busy month, as we also launched a white paper in partnership with Wonkhe.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The sudden onset of the COVID-19 pandemic made digital literacy more urgent than ever on college campuses. Researchers call this phenomenon the digital divide, and college administrators striving for greater equity have a responsibility to take it seriously. . Here’s How Colleges Can Address It.

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Kortext University Leaders' Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

In this blog, we’ll explore the importance of digital capability in higher education by delving into key findings from our collaborative white paper with Wonkhe. Learning and teaching professional, FE college. Academic, post-92 university. Learning and teaching professional, post-92 university.

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EAB

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Awardees are chosen from among the colleges, universities, and individuals that use Navigate , EAB’s student success management system, or Starfish , the student success platform EAB acquired in 2021. Congratulations to our 2022 winners: Technology Pioneer Award: Bakersfield College. Pepperdine University. Past winners.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 5, 2023

There is more responsibility than ever for college faculty to deliver outstanding instruction in the classroom. With less than half of students who enter four-year colleges finishing within six years, they assert that faculty cannot be allowed to simply just be the expert in their field in the classroom.

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Helix Education

MAY 15, 2024

To that end, I’ve been working a white paper (to be published in June) that will lay out more than a dozen strategies that institutions can use to build alternative revenue (student) streams. Sources: Actual and Projected College Freshmen: Digest of Education Statistics 2016, 2020, 2022. Johns Hopkins University Press.

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HEPI

APRIL 12, 2025

Joseph Morrison-Howe is an undergraduate Economics student at the University of Nottingham. Executive summary Study at university can be hugely beneficial for students intellectually, socially and financially. The Universities of Oxford and Cambridge maintained a duopoly (a market dominated by two sellers) for nearly 500 years. [i]

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

If so, this belief seems to compound at the time of a student’s entrance to college. At my university, for example, we have a thriving “sandbox-style” working group comprised of interdisciplinary educators. Trista Nilsson is a senior lecturer in the English and Communication Department at Nazareth University.

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eLiterate

OCTOBER 31, 2022

But it also indicates Coursera’s ability to diversify revenue streams for its university content providers. The enterprise business provides a distribution channel between universities and employers. 2U historically made its money by helping premium-brand universities bring expensive graduate degree programs online.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 19, 2023

Please see the Beyond Transfer Policy Advisory Board’s full white paper on this topic here. Interviews with a broader group of accreditors and a literature review supplemented our engagement with WSCUC and its members. Show on Jobs site: Disable left side advertisement?: Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 5, 2023

There is more responsibility than ever for college faculty to deliver outstanding instruction in the classroom. With less than half of students who enter four-year colleges finishing within six years, they assert that faculty cannot be allowed to simply just be the expert in their field in the classroom.

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EAB

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Colleges and universities have a vital role to play in this work.”. According to our research, students with all five components are more likely to feel they belong and stay engaged with the university even after graduating. 6 Proven Ways to Boost Your College Enrollment. Download the white paper.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 30, 2023

Blog: Learning Innovation Kelly Heuer and I have been collaborating in the context of my college’s portfolio of online programs on the edX platform. A: I studied philosophy at Harvard and Georgetown University, with every intention of becoming a lifelong academic. Q: Your Ph.D. is in philosophy. How did you end up at edX?

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SRHE

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

by Sir Adrian Webb The publication on 13 September 2023 of the House of Lords Industry and Regulators Committee report on the Office for Students drew attention to the financial challenges facing universities in the UK and to the challenges associated with regulating and overseeing these risks.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

If so, this belief seems to compound at the time of a student’s entrance to college. At my university, for example, we have a thriving “sandbox-style” working group comprised of interdisciplinary educators. Trista Nilsson is a senior lecturer in the English and Communication Department at Nazareth University.

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EAB

APRIL 5, 2023

DOWNLOAD THE WHITE PAPER 1. Remain test optional to maximize enrollment opportunities Though standardized testing has been identified as one of the most significant enrollment barriers for marginalized students, many admissions practices equate these metrics to indicators of success for first-year college students.

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HEPI

MARCH 24, 2025

Professor David Phoenix OBE is Vice-Chancellor of London South Bank University and Chief Executive of LSBU Group. While elements of competition remain, the reintegration of the sector into the Department for Education presents new opportunities for colleges and universities to enhance their contributions to local communities.

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HEPI

APRIL 4, 2023

On 22 June 2023, John Cater will complete three decades as the Director and Vice-Chancellor of Edge Hill University, rendering him the longest-serving head of a higher education institution in the UK. Universities have the intellectual capacity to drive online learning, but no single university has the investment capacity to do so.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 11, 2022

It was an enactment of the ideas put forward in 2016 by Jo Johnson, then Universities Minister, in the White Paper, Success as a Knowledge Economy. Among other things, the White Paper posited that allowing new challenger institutions to flourish would help drive up quality across the sector.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

This post was kindly authored for HEPI by Gill Evans, Emeritus Professor of Medieval Theology and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge. On that basis, having taken advice from HEFCE, he had been able to forward ten institutions to the Privy Council for approval as universities. It remains important.

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HEPI

JANUARY 10, 2023

Nonetheless it’s dispiriting to hear that independent providers are advised to try to look like established universities, especially after all the effort put in prior to the beginning of the OfS era to allow providers to be themselves, while ensuring protection for students through robust and appropriate oversight by suitably qualified bodies.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

A 2021 survey found that 84 percent of university presidents believe that issues surrounding diversity, equity, and inclusion should be addressed. Let’s consider how different aspects of diversity can impact students’ communication abilities and what university leaders can do to offer support. . Some may not speak English at home.

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EAB

DECEMBER 13, 2022

EAB partners with more than 1,100 colleges and universities on enrollment strategy and conducts research on best practices and trends in recruitment. College fairs. Overview of college fairs. This brief guide from WACAC covers the basics of representing your college at a fair. Represent your college.

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Helix Education

APRIL 27, 2023

Susan will address a set of questions derived from feedback among attendees of RNL’s 2023 Graduate and Online Innovation Summit and include: “Why do some universities excel in launching online programs and others experience mediocre results?” and “What are the key variables that lead to scalability and sustainability?”

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EAB

JANUARY 30, 2023

Enrollment teams are sharpening their competitive tools The pandemic era has seen the convergence of several factors boosting competition between colleges, including a shrinking pool of college goers, growing consumer price sensitivity, widespread adoption of test-optional admissions, and a more general reduction in barriers to applying.

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SRHE

DECEMBER 5, 2023

by Michael Shattock From decentralised to centralised Until 1919 UK universities, except Oxbridge and Durham, were primarily civic institutions created by wealthy citizens and governed by councils strongly represented by the founders and by local authorities and the local industrial community.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

To recap some basics, on October 31 the Supreme Court heard arguments related to lawsuits that Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) brought against Harvard College and the University of North Carolina, in connection with these institutions’ race-conscious admissions practices. The situation in brief.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 19, 2023

T his post was kindly authored for HEPI by Gill Evans, Emeritus Professor of Medieval Theology and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge. It suggested that the ‘status of these colleges would best be assured and the problem of degrees satisfactorily solved by a closer association with the universities’.

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WCET Frontiers

JANUARY 5, 2023

And, finally, when asked to write a college application essay on one’s experiences of working in a soup kitchen which includes reflecting on what you learned and including an interaction with a small child, ChatGPT, in a matter of seconds, responded with a coherent, personalized, five paragraph essay. So why pick on us?

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