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JUNE 7, 2024

Founded as a radical experiment in education, the Vermont institution’s closure follows years of mounting tensions between administration and the rank and file.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

JUNE 7, 2024

As cybersecurity threats against higher education institutions evolve in complexity, colleges and universities need to be ready for anything. Because higher education is one of the sectors cybercriminals target most often, institutions must not think of cyberattacks as merely a possibility. Rather, they should be on guard against inevitable attacks on the valuable data on their networks.

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Higher Ed Dive

JUNE 7, 2024

We’re rounding up top recent stories, from an increase in working-age adults who left college before finishing their programs to another sudden closure.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

JUNE 7, 2024

By Eric Kelderman Illustration by The Chronicle; Pittsburgh Technical College photo Alicia B. Harvey-Smith The small institution has until the end of June to prove that it should keep its accreditation. Its access to federal financial aid hangs in the balance.

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Higher Ed Dive

JUNE 7, 2024

Institutions are downsizing in ways both large and small as they try to close budget gaps and manage enrollment declines.

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The PIE News

JUNE 7, 2024

Increasing financial challenges faced by international students in the UK the financial woes the sector will face if recruitment doesn’t diversify and damaging political rhetoric continues were also highlighted by the review. “Recruitment structures need to evolve and diversify, both with country and pathway. For too long the UK has relied on certain markets, putting all their eggs in only a few baskets.

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Insight Into Diversity

JUNE 7, 2024

Historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) took the spotlight in Charlotte, North Carolina last week as the city hosted its first ever HBCU Festival. The event kicked off Wednesday, May 29 with a networking mixer, and attendees enjoyed four days of programming celebrating the rich history and traditions of HBCUs. Thursday, May 30th included the pitch competition, career fair, and keynote speakers, and on May 31 musical guests Soulja Boy and Bow Wow performed, among others.

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The PIE News

JUNE 7, 2024

Sterling Partners – already Keypath’s majority shareholder – will become its sole owner, acquiring the outstanding shares for $0.87 per share at approximately $186.8 million. “The special committee has carefully considered the advantages and disadvantages of the proposed transaction and believes the offer price is attractive and provides the unaffiliated stockholders with provision of liquidity and certain value today for their investment in our business,” said Diana Eilert, chair of Keypath’s s

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Inside Higher Ed

JUNE 7, 2024

‘Is Our System of Free Speech Failing Us?’ jessica.blake@… Fri, 06/07/2024 - 03:00 AM In a Q&A with Inside Higher Ed, Jameel Jaffer, executive director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, discusses the impact of the pro-Palestinian protest movement on campus speech.

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The PIE News

JUNE 7, 2024

London Higher , which represents education providers in the UK capital, held its inaugural awards in London this week to shine a light on members’ successes and the outstanding quality of HE on offer. Finalists gathered at a glamorous awards ceremony at Chartered Accountants Hall in Moorgate, supported by media partner The PIE News. The evening featured electrifying musical performances from students at Guildhall School of Music & Drama and Urdang – City, University of London, as well

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Inside Higher Ed

JUNE 7, 2024

Long Waitlists for Introductory English at City College of San Francisco Sara Weissman Fri, 06/07/2024 - 03:00 AM Some faculty and students say the community college isn’t offering enough sections of the often required course, leading to program completion delays and frustration.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

JUNE 7, 2024

By Nell Gluckman Illustration by The Chronicle; iStock Most of Division I lacks the money to weather possible consequences of nonstop litigation. One group is proposing de-emphasis as a solution.

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Inside Higher Ed

JUNE 7, 2024

Long Wait Lists for Introductory English at City College of San Francisco Sara Weissman Fri, 06/07/2024 - 03:00 AM Some faculty and students say the community college isn’t offering enough sections of the often required course, leading to program completion delays and frustration.

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The PIE News

JUNE 7, 2024

It’s the Conservative party’s way of referring to what they call low-quality degrees – although they haven’t really specified what those degrees actually are – but there was previously some speculation the quality of these degrees would be calculated on graduate outcome earnings. Gillian Keegan, the education secretary, promised the measures would “crack down” on providers that insist on continuing to provide such courses.

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Inside Higher Ed

JUNE 7, 2024

Higher Education Is Not a Musical Sarah Bray Fri, 06/07/2024 - 03:00 AM The narrative that faculty can overcome anything through individual agency may be similar to that of a Broadway hit, yet it’s a fantasy, writes Juliet Shields.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

JUNE 7, 2024

It’s a bit uncomfortable to describe higher education institutions in harsh business terms, but universities have bills to pay, and they need the dollars to pay them. The top priority for higher education remains preparing young adults for the world and the workforce. But some of the best ways to provide those experiences are expensive. Tuitions have continued to rise over the years, and many colleges are stressing over how to keep students attending with the enrollment cliff growing closer.

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Inside Higher Ed

JUNE 7, 2024

Rockland Community College President Lester Edgardo Sandres Rápalo has been fired after less than a year on the job and a tenure marked by layoffs and clashes with faculty, lohud.com reported. He joined Rockland last July.

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totallyrewired

JUNE 7, 2024

Creative Online Education discussion: In conversation with experts, we will explore the challenges and opportunities for fully online and digital creative education, the implications for the identity of our subjects and institutions. Image created using DALL-E 21 June – Case Study: MA Illustration at Falmouth University with Barnaby Lickens-Richards (Course Leader) and Sara Feio (Online Tutor and Alumni) A discussion of Falmouth’s fully online illustration MA, exploring how the design of t

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Inside Higher Ed

JUNE 7, 2024

The University of Pennsylvania issued new, temporary protest guidelines on Thursday, explicitly banning encampments. This is the first time such a prohibition has been made at the Ivy League institution, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer.

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University Business

JUNE 7, 2024

Red Lake Nation College on Thursday celebrated the opening of its downtown Minneapolis location, with music and applause filling the air as supporters gathered to mark one of the first times an accredited tribal college has set up in an American city. “It’s really hard to do. If it was easy, it would have been done a long time ago,” College President Dan King told a crowd of tribal members, government officials and others packed into the school’s new building on 3rd Stree

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Inside Higher Ed

JUNE 7, 2024

Fears Mount Over Detention of Academics Who Traveled to China Marjorie Valbrun Fri, 06/07/2024 - 03:00 AM Several Chinese academics working overseas have disappeared or been detained on return to China as the country’s leaders expand national security laws.

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University Business

JUNE 7, 2024

The urgent calls and emails to Point Park University started within hours of the abrupt announcement that a venerable arts campus in Philadelphia would close within a week, leaving hundreds of students suddenly without fall college plans. University of the Arts, dating to the 1870s, had become the latest small private campus to succumb to enrollment losses and financial pressures.

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Inside Higher Ed

JUNE 7, 2024

Today on the Academic Minute, part of Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s Benefits of Project-Based Learning Week: Lindsay Davis, assistant professor of teaching in the humanities and arts department, looks into how academic projects can help narrow self-efficacy gaps for female students.

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JUNE 7, 2024

Top 10 Challenges in Higher Education Management and Simple Solutions admin Fri, 06/07/2024 - 15:04 Managing challenges in higher education and uniting departments and campuses to achieve the mission is always a big challenge for those involved in the management. Transforming higher education systems with high technology-enabled automation tools to support the academic and administrative processes will make it easy to achieve their goals.

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The PIE News

JUNE 7, 2024

We spoke to Luciana Radut-Gaghi, vice-présidente relations internationales et partenariats stratégiques, CY Cergy Paris Université in The PIE Live Studio. Watch the interview below. The post The PIE Live Studio – Luciana Radut-Gaghi appeared first on The PIE News.

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University Business

JUNE 7, 2024

Emily Lund tried so hard to make 21½-hour days work. For eight months, the 21-year-old farmer got up at 5 a.m. to feed the animals on the family farm nestled in the rolling hills just outside of Richland Center, which she’s been running for nearly three years. Most weekdays, after two hours of feeding animals, she’d leave her farm by 8 a.m. to make the 1½-hour trek to UW-Madison, where she was enrolled as a double major in agriculture business and science and is learning how to breed cattle.

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Inside Higher Ed

JUNE 7, 2024

Rebuilding Trust in an Age of Scarcity johnw@mcsweeneys.net Fri, 06/07/2024 - 03:00 AM There is no such thing as “higher education” writ large anymore. It’s now about moving forward in an age of scarcity.

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University Business

JUNE 7, 2024

Private colleges and universities are increasingly eager to tap into additional streams of revenue beyond enrollment and tuition. Some schools may be expecting to benefit from the good graces of a heavyweight donor ; others may operate an inn or theater. DeSales University’s windfall, on the other hand, started with a spammy-looking email. Mark Albert, CIO and associate vice president for information technology at the Pennsylvania-based university, remembers being bombarded by tech brokers

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Inside Higher Ed

JUNE 7, 2024

New Presidents or Provosts: Alamance, Ball State, Chowan, Clarkson, Colorado State-Pueblo, San Diego CC, Tampa Doug Lederman Fri, 06/07/2024 - 03:00 AM Byline(s) Doug Lederman

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The PIE News

JUNE 7, 2024

The proposal to treble international fees would only apply to the country’s two federal institutions It has not been confirmed yet, and would need to go through the country’s parliamentary upper house The move itself, according to stakeholders, could be part of a changing tide within Europe against internationalisation The National Council of Switzerland, which is the lower parliamentary house in the country, has been discussing possible increase for new international students “as pa

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

JUNE 7, 2024

The move away from true hands-on scholarship feels tragic. By Lisa Lieberman Harry Campbell for The Chronicle The move away from true hands-on scholarship feels tragic.

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The PIE News

JUNE 7, 2024

Despite Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party looking at a comfortable 240 seats in India’s parliament, it has fallen short of the 272 majority mark. This phenomenon, coupled with India’s opposition I.N.D.I.A alliance gaining 232 seats , could lead to a more balanced approach towards education policies on the domestic and international front, according to stakeholders.

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Insight Into Diversity

JUNE 7, 2024

Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences will no longer require diversity and inclusion statements as part of its hiring process. This change was detailed in a Monday email from Nina Zipser, PhD, dean of faculty affairs and planning. Previously, job applicants were asked to outline their contributions to diversity, inclusion, and belonging.

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Inside Higher Ed

JUNE 7, 2024

The Biden administration’s new income-driven repayment (IDR) plan known as Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) is “far more generous and costly” than what Congress intended when it passed the law authorizing IDR, argues a new report from the Defense of Freedom Institute, a conservative think tank.

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Insight Into Diversity

JUNE 7, 2024

Union College in New York has been selected to participate in the fifth cohort of schools in Hillel International’s 2024 Campus Climate Initiative (CCI). This cohort will connect higher education administrators with Hillel representatives in an immersive learning journey to combat hate in all forms and ensure a positive campus environment for Jewish students.

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