Campus Sonar

JULY 23, 2024

This spring, we hosted virtual roundtables that brought more than 300 higher ed professionals together to discuss the value of a college degree, innovative strategic planning, and growing graduate enrollment. No matter the topic, the common thread was rebuilding trust in higher education. Here's what we heard.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2024

in educational policy and planning, Reid hopes to make an impact on federal and state policies related to education. When he went into his master’s degree [in educational psychology], he said, ‘Dr. Reid is already meeting with politicians in Texas about educational policy.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Psychology explains that humans frequently make decisions guided by short-term rewards rather than long-term rewards, and they are likely to discount delayed events. Therefore, in the postsecondary education arena, institutional decision-makers respond to short-term budgeting rewards. We welcome your ideas and suggestions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Title: Associate Professor of Counseling, Department of Disability & Psychoeducational Studies, University of Arizona, Affiliate Faculty, Education Policy Center, University of Arizona Tenured: Yes Age: 37 Education: B.S., middle school math & social studies education, University of Missouri, Columbia; M.Ed.,

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SRHE

JANUARY 6, 2023

Prospective university students were in a similar position, being expected to make a cost-conscious decision about their degree education with limited understanding of their options. In research conducted for my PhD, I invited first-year students to participate in focus groups to explore their orientations to their degree.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

Virginia Byrne, assistant professor of higher education and student affairs at Morgan State. “He The program at Morgan has allowed me to learn specific concepts I didn’t realize were systems within higher education or specific schools of thought,” he noted. He thinks about big strategies.” I was raised in the A.M.E.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 3, 2023

“It has been the desire of many entrepreneurs, foundations and policy leaders that microcredentials will become the substitute for expensive degrees,” Sean Gallagher, executive professor of educational policy at Northeastern University, said. “We have 39 million people in the U.S.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The Accord is “an opportunity to look at everything from funding and access, to affordability, transparency, regulation, employment conditions and how higher education and vocational education and training can and should work together”, he said. The Accord is our chance to do this,” she said.

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Coursera blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Micro-credentials are growing in acceptance and adoption globally Industry micro-credentials are redefining employability standards for universities, offering a flexible way for students to complement their broad-based education with practical skills aligned with their career goals.

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Coursera blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Micro-credentials are growing in acceptance and adoption globally Industry micro-credentials are redefining employability standards for universities, offering a flexible way for students to complement their broad-based education with practical skills aligned with their career goals.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 12, 2023

Virginia Byrne, assistant professor of higher education and student affairs at Morgan State. “He The program at Morgan has allowed me to learn specific concepts I didn’t realize were systems within higher education or specific schools of thought,” he noted. He thinks about big strategies.” I was raised in the A.M.E.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 15, 2023

Still others are climate refugees in search of land that supports human life. This means that the total approximate cost of a bachelor’s degree is $4,860, and scholarships are available for those who cannot afford those rates. Some, for example, are former wards of the state or undocumented immigrants living in the United States.

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SRHE

MAY 11, 2023

The grants from these bodies are relatively large (for the arts, humanities and social sciences), and are typically expected to make a theoretical, not only empirical, contribution. Researchers are likely to be, in part, responding to this political prioritisation.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Image: Amid faltering enrollment rates and increased national scrutiny of the price and worth of a college education, Colorado is weighing a new formula to measure the “economic value” of degree programs offered by the state’s public institutions of higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Prior to heading to graduate school at the University of Washington, Howard taught elementary school in the Compton Unified School District while working on his master’s degree at California State University, Dominguez Hills. While pursuing a master’s degree in education, Howard quickly developed a deep passion for research. “I

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SRHE

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

These are initiatives that aim to raise aspiration and attainment among those from disadvantaged backgrounds, as well as helping to inform them of the potential benefits that studying for a degree can offer. In each of the four nations, we found that our measure picked up a greater proportion of rural areas, albeit to varying degrees.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Leading Through Inclusion and Accountability While President Takeda-Tinker has seen all kinds of leadership throughout her career, she focuses on positive examples: “Leadership is about human connectedness. Facing the realities of our own human limitations is part of that work.” If people aren't following you, you're not leading.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2023

Some applicants enter information about their skills, professional experience and educational achievements into an organization’s hiring platform, including information about traditional college degrees and alternative nondegree credentials. “Why do these systems not call for more detailed information?

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The PIE News

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The PIE caught up with industry leaders across international and higher education to find out their predictions for 2024. While 2023 celebrated artificial intelligence, 2024 will celebrate human intelligence, predicts ETS CEO, Amit Sevak. “In 2024, major paradigm shifts in how we learn and work will accelerate.

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The PIE News

MAY 2, 2024

The layoffs would lead to almost half the academics in the schools of arts and humanities, culture and society, professional studies and science and technology losing their jobs.

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The PIE News

APRIL 11, 2024

Stakeholders in UK higher education are exploring a range of potential funding models for undergraduate education, against a backdrop of financial sustainability concerns, course cuts and redundancies for higher education institutions. “Higher education institutions across the UK are under financial strain. .

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SRHE

OCTOBER 13, 2023

No more rip off degrees; no more low aspiration; no more denigration of technical education. Just the best education system in the Western world. So, I propose that in future we raise the age at which young people are allowed to enrol on any arts, humanities or social science degree by one year, every year.

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SRHE

DECEMBER 5, 2023

In our study of the current intersectoral interface (Shattock and Horvath, 2023 Ch4) we were able to show, on a 45% return, that 89% of UK colleges had established programmatic partnerships with universities in at least one of student progression, franchising, validation arrangements or arrangements to extend apprenticeships into degree work.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 11, 2022

As a proud philosophy major, I always take offense when state policy makers say, “We’ve got to get rid of philosophy degrees.” Inside Higher Ed : Ernest, how do you come at this question about the role of policy in judging institutions’ value?

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Image: The University of California system has never had any fully online undergraduate degree programs at any of its 10 campuses. The UC Academic Senate exercises direct control over academic matters of central importance to the university, including determining academic policy and setting degree requirements, according to the UC website.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Nonetheless, the disaffiliation campaign was really about the theatre of student politics – especially among us middle-class arts and humanities students. He is unable to opt out, save by terminating his degree course. Student life continued uninterrupted and I suspect I am now one of the few who even remember it occurred.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 25, 2023

history and human communication. High school graduates who did not attend or who left college before degree completion cited high cost, stress associated with college and uncertainty about future careers as reasons for opting out, according to a recent survey for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

This guest post has been kindly written for HEPI by Colin McCaig, Professor of Higher Education Policy in the Sheffield Institute of Education, who has 20 years’ experience in education policy research. The Labour Party is ahead in the polls and has been since December 2021.

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SRHE

JANUARY 17, 2024

What has this got to do with an academic conference on higher education? The power of media, narrative story and the broader humanities have the capacity to convey stories through genres such as drama and comedy in compelling and accessible ways. Narratives play a key role in human communication. Narratives are not going away.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Final Thoughts The episode provides a comprehensive analysis of the evolving landscape in higher education policy, highlighting the need for higher education leaders to stay informed and proactive in adapting to these changes. Tom Netting, an individual who’s been in higher education policy for over 30 years now.

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