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Education Department faces calls to rescind outsourcing guidance

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Higher education associations, study abroad organizations, colleges and universities, and others are calling on the Department of Education to rescind guidance issued earlier this year that would expand the definition of outside companies that are subject the department’s oversight.

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Assume the Best: Trust-Based Strategies for Empowering College Students

Faculty Focus

Provide guidance and resources to ensure they feel confident in this role. Teaching with Technology: Empower and Encourage, Don’t Police and Instill Fear Technology tools like plagiarism detectors and AI checkers can erode trust if used as punitive measures. Instead, these tools should guide and empower students.

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Q&A: UNCF's Ed Smith-Lewis on the UNITE Convening and HBCU Transformation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Under the guidance and visionary leadership of our current President and CEO, Dr. Michael Lomax , ICB officially launched in 2006. Or look at the work happening at Morehouse around the metaverse, where they are taking technology and uplifting the stories, theories, and practices of their institution in a virtual world.

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Report: Outdated Funding Law Hampers Community College Student Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Technology that didn't exist when the law was draftedcomputers, the internet, online learning platformsnow consumes significant portions of college budgets. The sixty-four-year-old law remains literally unchanged while everything around it has transformedfrom technology to teaching methods to the students themselves. "If

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With proposed TPS changes, Biden admin overreached (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

However, the new, broadened definition seems to incorporate a vast majority of activities that occur at a college, not just activities related to student financial aid, such as companies providing courseware or those contractors assisting with student retention. 15, the U.S.

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Ed Department Shakes Up OPMs and Third-Party Servicers: This Is Huge

WCET Frontiers

Department of Education created its own rumblings by releasing new guidance with rules about any contracted services and a series of questions about companies helping institutions with online learning. Instead, the Department issued broad guidance on a wide range of “Third-Party Servicers”. For those in higher education, the U.S.

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Definitions of Digital and Distance Education Spotlighted by WCET this Fall

WCET Frontiers

What term do you use to describe a course where technology allows faculty and students to connect over space and time? One of the top three issues that the WCET Steering Committee sought to pursue in 2022 was a focus on sorting through these definitions. What are the policy expectations for the “distance education” definition?