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JULY 3, 2024

The ruling marks another hit for the U.S. Department of Education's controversial regulation, which is now blocked from taking effect in 14 states.

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JULY 3, 2024

Zeki Dolen argues that universities need to face up to the challenges to protect the benefits of international students to the UK The post Further international expansion needs a plan appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Higher Ed Dive

JULY 3, 2024

The system’s legal affairs division released a 4-page letter explaining the impacts of a new policy rolling back diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.

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JULY 3, 2024

Debbie McVitty gallops through the final decade of our manifestos series with the reflection that even when it's been uncomfortable for HE, the political endorsement of the value of universities has been more consistently present than not The post Higher education in general election manifestos – the 2010s appeared first on Wonkhe.

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The article addresses the Social Change Model of Leadership Development. It elucidates the SMC background, key assumptions, and the main pillars of the model to form a a change agent who could be helpful with institutional in-service delivery.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

JULY 3, 2024

Analysis shows hippos get all four feet off the ground at once up to 15% of the time when at full pelt It takes a scientific mind to see the grunting hulk of a hippopotamus and wonder whether, given sufficient motivation, such an improbable beast might ever become airborne. And so to researchers at the Royal Veterinary College in North Mymms, Hertfordshire, whose painstaking examination of footage of the creatures revealed that when the hefty herbivores reach top speed they do indeed take off.

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Inside Higher Ed

JULY 3, 2024

A suite of new regulations governing higher education took effect Monday. Here’s what you should know about the key measures now in place—and the legal challenges they face. A host of new federal regulations took effect Monday, and Education Department officials say the new rules make up part of “the most effective system ever to oversee predatory and low-quality institutions of postsecondary education.

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Inside Higher Ed

JULY 3, 2024

As microcredential programs slowly gain traction, more universities are looking for leaders to coordinate the efforts. Amy Heitzman noticed a new trend when UPCEA, an online and professional education association, put out calls last year to institutions looking to bulk up microcredential programs. “Five of the 40 [applicants] said, ‘We’re going to hire someone to head this up,’” said Heitzman, UPCEA’s deputy CEO and chief learning officer.

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The PIE News

JULY 3, 2024

Introduce yourself in three words or phrases. Industrious, commercially driven and collaborative. What do you like most about your job ? I get a great sense of pleasure from making a positive difference in students’ lives and assisting them in realising their academic goals and assuming new roles and responsibilities. Personally, I have enjoyed the chance to collaborate with amazing individuals from different nations who all contribute positively to the educational experience.

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Inside Higher Ed

JULY 3, 2024

A new report by the Vera Institute of Justice marks one year since the return of Pell Grants to incarcerated students and analyzes how programs can improve. A decision by Congress to restore Pell Grants to incarcerated students took effect last summer, a win for students and their advocates after imprisoned people attending college were barred from the federal financial aid for almost three decades.

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The Berkeley Blog

JULY 3, 2024

The next-generation microgravity printer — dubbed SpaceCAL — could help astronauts fabricate spare parts on the fly. The post Berkeley engineers send 3D printer into space appeared first on Berkeley News.

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Inside Higher Ed

JULY 3, 2024

Citing the Supreme Court’s ruling striking down affirmative action, a conservative group filed a lawsuit against Northwestern University’s Pritzker School of Law on Tuesday, accusing it of illegally discriminating against white men in faculty hiring.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

JULY 3, 2024

By Kate Hidalgo Bellows Luke Duggleby, Bloomberg, Getty Images A new classification could enable more studies.

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Inside Higher Ed

JULY 3, 2024

The Tennessee Higher Education Commission recently reported the largest year-over-year increase in the state’s college-going rate since the 2015 launch of Tennessee Promise, a last-dollar free tuition scholarship for community college students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 3, 2024

When Nicole Lynn Lewis founded Generation Hope in 2010, she realized that her organization could be the first place that parenting students are ever told “Yes.” “The families we serve go out into the world, in educational and community settings, where the answer is often, ‘No.’ They face a ton of red tape and are asked to perform their poverty time and time again to get their foot in the door to resources,” said Lewis.

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Inside Higher Ed

JULY 3, 2024

Christine Moskell offers lessons she’s learned about how colleges can tap staff members’ expertise and harness their full potential. I am a staff member with a Ph.D. who has taken an alternative academic career path from a contingent faculty member to an instructional designer position. My professional journey in higher education never exposed me to the broad scope of roles and responsibilities that staff members play to support a college.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

JULY 3, 2024

There’s no point in waiting any longer: If your college or university doesn’t have a generative AI use policy, it’s time to build one before the fall semester gets here. There’s plenty of guidance from schools that already have policies on generative artificial intelligence, including dozens of examples from across the higher education landscape. There’s also plenty of need for AI policy guidance, judging by the 2024 EDUCAUSE AI Landscape Study, which asked higher education leaders how well thei

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Inside Higher Ed

JULY 3, 2024

More than 100 instructors at Front Range Community College have had to wait for their summer paychecks, according to The Colorado Sun. It’s the latest in a string of payroll lags from the college, which has campuses in Longmont, Westminster and Fort Collins. As a result of the latest delay, some staff members have been forced to pick up extra jobs and pay bills late.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 3, 2024

Georgia Gov. Brian P. Kemp has been re-elected to a second, one-year term as chair of the Southern Regional Education Board. Gov. Brian Kemp Kemp will help lead the nonprofit, nonpartisan interstate compact comprising Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia.

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Inside Higher Ed

JULY 3, 2024

Students today are more willing to take a stand and advocate for each other than their predecessors, so higher ed leaders can tap into these voices to transform campus life for the better, writes student affairs VP Matt Gregory. For the last five years, infinite digital ink has been spilled over how Generation Z is reshaping commerce, the workforce and even politics.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

JULY 3, 2024

By Nell Gluckman Andrew Hancock for The Chronicle Ted Roberts at Tarleton State U. Ted Roberts, a history instructor at Tarleton State University, was rehired on Wednesday after The Chronicle reported on his case, which drew outrage on the Texas campus.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

JULY 3, 2024

Staff, students and writers criticise decision to issue programme’s co-founder with a redundancy notice Goldsmiths, University of London has been accused of being “determined” to close its Black British literature course after selecting its co-founder for redundancy as part of a cost-cutting programme. On Monday provisional redundancy notices were issued to 97 academic staff across 11 university departments, the Guardian understands, including Prof Deirdre Osborne.

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University Business

JULY 3, 2024

Western Governors University is the titanium needle in the haystack in the U.S. higher education landscape. It boasts some of the highest student satisfaction rates in the country despite being one of the only universities to follow a self-paced, competency-based learning model. It enrolls 20 times more students than the average institution. In a heated political climate, the private nonprofit garners the respect and attention of higher ed leaders from both sides of the political spectrum.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 3, 2024

Dr. Carmen S. Dixon Carmen S. Dixon has been appointed dean of the School of Education at Capital University. She serves as an associate professor of education. Dixon holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Ohio University, a master’s in curriculum and instruction from Mount Vernon Nazarene University, and a doctorate in curriculum and instruction from Ohio University.

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ACRLog

JULY 3, 2024

I’m not going to sit here and lie to all you loyal readers and say I haven’t had “ Damn It Feels Good to Be a Gangsta ” by the Geto Boys playing in my head after I nail yet another info lit session, coming up with the perfect keywords and a search strategy chock full of Boolean operators, fields, and parentheses to do a live demonstration in Scopus, without Scopus freezing or needing to reload the screen once.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

JULY 3, 2024

Appointments, resignations, retirements, deaths By Julia Piper The next chancellor of the University of California at Los Angeles comes from the University of Miami.

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Inside Higher Ed

JULY 3, 2024

A new episode of Inside Higher Ed's Key podcast digs into one of the knottier problems in higher education: how learning is recognized across institutions.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

JULY 3, 2024

We’d like to hear from people who have taken out a loan to cover university tuition fees or student maintenance loans in the UK, and how this is affecting them We’d like to hear from people who have taken out a student finance loan in the UK to cover university tuition fees or living costs, and how this is affecting them. Whether you have already been repaying your student loan for years, or have just begun, or are yet to start repaying it, we’re interested to hear how this debt has been affecti

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College Viability

JULY 3, 2024

Ryan Craig's 'Gap Letter' is one I always read. Craig and his team are on top of the higher education-world's thought leaders.

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University Business

JULY 3, 2024

In an already difficult year for college applicants, when it came down to picking a school, there was one factor that outweighed all others: financial aid. Even in ordinary years, choosing a college largely hinges on the amount of financial aid offered and the breakdown among grants, scholarships, work-study opportunities and student loans. In 2024, however, ongoing issues with the new federal financial-aid application have heightened the role of aid in college choices.

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Terminalfour

JULY 3, 2024

New accessibility standards for websites and mobile apps are making digital access better for everyone. There have been updates to the ADA legislation. We look at what they are and what you’ll need to do to ensure inclusivity (and stay compliant!). Guest blog by Little Forest.

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University Business

JULY 3, 2024

Clarks Summit University in Pennsylvania is the latest religious school to announce it will shut its doors due to financial stress. The school’s closing highlights the brutal landscape for small colleges grappling with enrollment declines and rising costs. Those challenges can be particularly acute for religious colleges, which confront the same issues secular schools do while struggling to appeal to a declining number of young people who say organized faith is a part of their lives.

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Creatrix Campus

JULY 3, 2024

Revolutionizing Student Living: Cutting-Edge Innovations in Housing editor Wed, 07/03/2024 - 04:21 Of late, the modern definition of student housing is all about establishing a vibrant living environment that fosters both personal, physiological, and intellectual development in addition to offering a place to sleep and study. It is true that to address the growing demand for innovative student housing, higher educational decision-makers are looking for innovative housing solutions that the stude

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University Business

JULY 3, 2024

Hampshire College in Amherst announced cuts to staff benefits Monday, just months after the school’s leaders said it had recovered from enrollment and financial problems. Five years ago, Hampshire’s money problems forced it to consider either a merger or a potential closure. And that was before the pandemic caused college enrollment to plummet. Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and other alumni tried to stem the crisis by raising funds, which temporarily secured the college’s future.

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

JULY 3, 2024

Reading Time: 11 minutes What search engine does China use ? As an educational institution trying to reach the Chinese market, the answer to this question is vital to your marketing strategy. In the realm of search engines, Baidu reigns supreme in China, commanding over 70% of the market share. For educational institutions looking to recruit international students from China, understanding and leveraging Baidu’s unique SEO landscape is essential.

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University Business

JULY 3, 2024

Say I hop into a large language model (LLM) to do cursory research for a University Business piece and the query, “What can universities do to eliminate bias in AI systems they use?” returns results that are irrelevant, off the mark or inherently biased. No harm done, probably. But what if a university uses a customized LLM-based AI to filter thousands of student applications and even a small percentage of the AI’s assessments are irrelevant, off the mark or inherently biased?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 3, 2024

In April , I outlined the challenges Black students and historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are facing with the rollout of the new Better FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) form, a dynamic that has since led to a multitude of challenges, setbacks, and concerns among students, caregivers and educators as completing the form is a prerequisite for college students to receive federal student aid such as grants, work-study funds, and loans.

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