Wonkhe
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
A steer from government on its planned "wide-scale reform" of HE should prompt the sector in England to start working through the technical challenges of delivering change, says Debbie McVitty
Higher Ed Dive
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
The President-elect campaigned on polarizing proposals such as shutting down the U.S. Department of Education and rolling back the new Title IX rule.
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Wonkhe
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
Financial stress, social anxiety, and insufficient resources to practise self-care - Livia Scott and Jim Dickinson assess the results of the Student Mental Health Study 2024
Higher Ed Dive
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
The ruling denies a request from three higher education institutions seeking to block an agreement to cancel some $6 billion in student debt.
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Wonkhe
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
Gathering skills demand data to power a local skills revolution is hard work. David Kernohan appraises another attempt.
Inside Higher Ed
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
Modern Language Association members hoped to pass a statement supporting boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel. But the group’s Executive Council shot it down. In the 2010s, a handful of U.S.-based scholarly associations endorsed boycotting Israeli academic institutions. But not the Modern Language Association, the largest scholarly organization for the humanities.
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The Berkeley Blog
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
University of California President Michael V. Drake, M.D., California State University Chancellor Dr. Mildred García, and California Community Colleges Chancellor Dr. Sonya Christian released the following statement today, Wednesday, Nov.
Inside Higher Ed
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
Kamala Harris’s election night watch party at Howard University was the first-ever held on a college campus. The evening ended on an uncertain note, but it was still a watershed moment for the HBCU. WASHINGTON, D.C.—Kamala Harris’s election night watch party at Howard University kicked off with a boisterous sense of celebration and optimism. It ended with a pensive, tired crowd whose dreams of putting an HBCU alum, and the first woman, in the Oval Office appeared to be slipping away by the hour.
University Business
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
Northeast Ohio is encouraging stopped-adult learners to re-enroll by promising to erase up to $5,000 in unpaid balances as they progress toward earning their degree. Two years into the experiment, tuition generated by the 500 students who’ve returned approaches $1.6 million— 25 times greater than their canceled debt , according to Ithaka S+R, a research nonprofit focused on higher ed accessibility.
Inside Higher Ed
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
The University of Arizona shed hundreds of jobs, replaced leaders and slashed budgets in an effort to shave $100 million off a major shortfall announced one year ago. Last fall the University of Arizona made a stunning announcement: Officials had miscalculated cash on hand by millions of dollars due to a flawed revenue-projection model and other missteps.
EdTech Magazine - Higher Education
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
Esports has come a long way from its beginnings as a misunderstood, niche extracurricular activity bubbling up on college campuses in the early 21st century. Today, it’s not a question of whether a university should support esports on campus but a matter of how and to what extent. At San Diego State University, a grassroots, student-led esports team grew so much that school officials decided to invest in a new Esports Engagement Center inside the school library.
Inside Higher Ed
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
More than 13,000 mail-in ballots in Nevada’s two most populous counties—Clark and Washoe—had been rejected as of Monday afternoon, in part because of young voters’ signatures, The New York Times reported.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
Many faculty members feel the squeeze. We looked at the data. By Megan Zahneis, Brian O’Leary, and Julia Piper A Chronicle project explores how professors’ purchasing power is affected by the cost of living.
Inside Higher Ed
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
Pepperdine students and facilities staff practice speaking Spanish and English together, building relationships and facilitating learning across departments. For college students learning a new language, it can feel difficult applying concepts in class to real-life situations, particularly listening or speaking. At Pepperdine University, a partnership between a Spanish language instructor and facilities staff members has helped equip students with practical language skills and create relationshi
The Chronicle of Higher Education
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
By Declan Bradley The gap between how college graduates and non-college graduates voted was even wider than the past two presidential elections — but the pattern is limited to white voters.
Inside Higher Ed
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
Anthropic last month took the lead in providing early access to basic AI agents for the masses. This is a huge leap forward from the chat bots that have dominated early generative AI. Anthropic offers the new function that enables its Sonnet version to control your computer: “Claude 3.5 Sonnet is the first frontier AI model to offer computer use in public beta.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
Seven faculty members describe their personal finances. By Megan Zahneis and Adrienne Lu Seven faculty members describe what their economic lives look like.
Inside Higher Ed
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
A workshop discussion at Student Success US considered the challenges that hinder retention and completion of students beyond their first year. Many colleges and universities have well-developed systems and supports for new students, from specialized orientations to dedicated first-year seminars and cohort-based models that help students feel connected to the institution.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
In 1986, when Damon L. Williams, Jr., was seven years old, he and his family received an invitation to attend his friend’s birthday party at a local golfing country club. He had been very excited to attend, until the week of the event. “We got uninvited, because Blacks weren’t allowed in the country club,” says Williams. Damon L. Williams, Jr. Williams says he wasn’t hurt when he read the country club’s by-laws and regulations—rather, he was confused.
Inside Higher Ed
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
A group of for-profit colleges that challenged a legal settlement that canceled $6 billion in student loans lost its appeal to stop that agreement from taking effect.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
While higher education is a path to opportunity — many underrepresented, minoritized students face systemic barriers that make their graduate-level academic experience feel like an uphill challenge. Some barriers can be financial; others can be self-imposed, such as imposter syndrome and the struggle of questioning, “will I be able to measure up?” Dr.
Academe Blog
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
BY RYAN HARROD, DOUGLAS COST, ANDREA DEWEES, AND CINDY TRUSSELL Solidarity in collective bargaining for better wages and working conditions is the basis of any union activity. Pitting union members against each other is a common tactic employed by management in its union-busting strategy. It’s a tactic we are facing in Alaska.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
Despite the work of teachers laying the foundation for careers beyond secondary school, The Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) says there are not enough well-prepared educators in the pipeline to teach. SREB represents and works with 16 states to improve public education at every level. In their latest report, " Teacher Career Pathways and Advancement Options " they emphasize the urgency to make the teaching profession more attractive through accessible and high-quality teacher pathways
The PIE News
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
Highgate , a leading UK co-educational independent school, recently forged the union with Siam Motors Group to open its first international school outside of the UK. The collaboration aspires to combine the traditions of the 460 year old Highgate school with the modern “dynamism and ambition” of the Thai Motor group, said Highgate in an announcement.
Campus Technology
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
How will the technology landscape in higher education change in the coming year? We're inviting our readership to weigh in with their predictions, wishes, or worries for 2025.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
By J. Brian Charles The 99 colleges, once stereotyped as subpar, are having a moment. Can they sustain the momentum while still fulfilling their mission?
The PIE News
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
A spokesperson for the university told The PIE News that to ensure the institution does not exceed its cap it is “introducing offer rounds and a waitlist for 2025 international admissions with merit-based offers to be released progressively for programs where there is still availability.” The spokesperson continued: “UNSW Sydney has seen unprecedented demand over the last couple of years due to the strength of our offerings and our exceptional and growing reputation, including
SRHE
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
by Sam Spiegel How can online learning programmes help tackle systemic global injustices with creative pedagogies? How can universities build effective educational environments and pedagogies to support critical thinking and vigorously challenge contemporary forms of racism, colonialism and inequity? These are some of the questions I have reflected on over the past almost 14 years of teaching at the University of Edinburgh.
HEM (Higher Education Marketing)
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
Reading Time: 9 minutes Staying connected with parents and the wider school community has become more important than ever. For K-12 school administrators and marketers, email marketing offers an efficient, cost-effective, and personalized approach to keeping parents informed, engaged, and connected with the school. In this blog, we’ll explore various effective school email marketing strategies designed to help you increase parent and community engagement.
Inside Higher Ed
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
A group of colleges that challenged a legal settlement that canceled $6 billion in student loans lost its appeal to stop that agreement from taking effect.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
The average salary of an instructional faculty member is $92,823. But how far that salary goes can vary depending on where you teach and where you live. The Chronicle looked at how the salaries of instructional faculty stack up, and how the cost of living affects spending power. By Jacquelyn Elias Explore the faculty-pay transparency tool.
Campus Technology
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
Stability AI, developer of open source models focused on text-to-image generation, has released Stable Diffusion 3.5, the latest version of its deep learning, text-to-image model.
Educause
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
In a recent Cybersecurity and Privacy Program evaluation survey, EDUCAUSE asked IT professionals whether cybersecurity and privacy functions should be integrated or kept separate.
University Business
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
As cybersecurity risks increase across industries, colleges—which increasingly depend on apps and software for teaching, learning and operations—remain valuable targets for cybercriminals and data exploitation. For years, cybersecurity experts such as the FBI have been sounding the alarm about the risks surrounding widespread collection of student data and the rapid growth of education technologies.
Insight Into Diversity
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
Tabbye Chavous, PhD, vice provost for equity & inclusion and chief diversity officer at the University of Michigan (U-M), has responded critically to a recent New York Times article on the university’s DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) efforts in an open letter posted in the Michigan Chronicle. She contended the article is riddled with inaccuracies, biases, and a lack of evidence-based reporting, and frames DEI initiatives inaccurately.
University Business
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
A historic campus was devastated by fire Monday night as Knoxville College lost a building that has stood for over a century. “It’s just very sad, very sad to lose a part of history that needs to be saved. It’s a 100-year-old building that we lost,” Debra Espy, a neighbor near the college said. Knoxville College is a historically black college or university, also known as an HBCU.
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