Wonkhe
OCTOBER 6, 2024
As more material emerges on the experiences of students in franchised higher education, Jim Dickinson sets out the case for a retrenchment from piled high, delivered cheap provision
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 6, 2024
Growing up in a working-class military family, Dr. Shawna Patterson-Stephens tended to move around quite a bit as a youngster. She lived in California, Florida and overseas in Turkey before settling down in Detroit where she skipped her junior year of high school and graduated valedictorian of her class. “I remember asking my mom as a kid, if she had put some money into savings for me to go to college, and she looked at me with indignance,” says Patterson-Stephens with a chuckle.
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Wonkhe
OCTOBER 6, 2024
A special commission from DfE saw five colleges accused of “draining public money” in further education teacher training.
Faculty Focus
OCTOBER 6, 2024
As we prepared for the start of fall semester 2024, there was buzz around our campus about administration raising the caps in our condensed 8-week online courses to match the high enrollment caps for our 16 week in person courses. Of course, with the mounting pressure on administration in light of budget shortfalls, lower enrollment and the general panic surrounding the narrative that students (and parents) are finding less value in post-secondary education, it is no surprise that those not teac
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 6, 2024
California State University LA honored tennis great Billie Jean King with the unveiling of a statue on its campus late last week. King, who attended Cal State LA from 1961 to 1964 but never graduated, was lauded for her work both on and off the court, in advancing gender equality, LGBTQIA+ rights, and other social justice issues. “I’m so honored,” King said, speaking before a crowd of about 500 people.
HEPI
OCTOBER 6, 2024
This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Sasha Roseneil, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sussex. In the run up to the General Election, then Shadow Secretary of State for Science, Innovation, and Technology, Peter Kyle, promised to end the war against universities. Shadow no more, Kyle has subsequently declared the war over. This is supremely welcome news.
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THE (Times Higher Education)
OCTOBER 6, 2024
Administrators at US colleges are increasingly defective and detached from education but I’m too old to try something new, says a faculty member
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 6, 2024
Ohio Wesleyan University has received an estate commitment of $12 million to support first-generation college students. The gift, made by 1992 Ohio Wesleyan alumna Kathrine Trine Grissom of Louisville, honors her mother, Mary Ellen Grissom who died in a car accident when Grissom was 8-month-old. Ohio Wesleyan University “I believe I would have fallen through the cracks at any other school,” Grissom said.
Faculty Focus
OCTOBER 6, 2024
As we prepared for the start of fall semester 2024, there was buzz around our campus about administration raising the caps in our condensed 8-week online courses to match the high enrollment caps for our 16 week in person courses. Of course, with the mounting pressure on administration in light of budget shortfalls, lower enrollment and the general panic surrounding the narrative that students (and parents) are finding less value in post-secondary education, it is no surprise that those not teac
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 6, 2024
Jennifer Eccles has been named vice president for advancement at Harvey Mudd College. She is expected to begin in the new post on October 28. Jennifer Eccles Eccles joins Harvey Mudd College from the Giant Magellan Telescope Corporation in Pasadena, CA, an international consortium dedicated to building one of the world’s most powerful observatories.
THE (Times Higher Education)
OCTOBER 6, 2024
Our student survey underlines the scale of the problem.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 6, 2024
TimelyCare and Active Minds released new data today that sheds light on students’ interest in mental health reform. According to the report, almost three-quarters (73.6%) of college students feel it is important to raise awareness about mental health, but only 42.5% of students plan to invest time and effort into helping people talk more openly about it.
THE (Times Higher Education)
OCTOBER 6, 2024
But radical thinking is needed to make its collaborative instruments more effective and convince sceptical governments of their value, says Jan Palmowski
College Viability
OCTOBER 6, 2024
This week we turn our program completion comparisons to graduate and undergraduate health care prgorams for midwestern private colleges.
THE (Times Higher Education)
OCTOBER 6, 2024
The new administration must also adopt systemic measures to rebuild trust within the academic community, says Roohola Ramezani
THE (Times Higher Education)
OCTOBER 6, 2024
Whatever happens in the Middle East, we must learn how to minimise harm when discussing emotive topics, says Emma Davies
THE (Times Higher Education)
OCTOBER 6, 2024
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