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The sector is still struggling to explain the costs of higher education

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Have higher education providers got better at explaining the costs that students will face while at university? Jim Dickinson whiles away the hours to find out The post The sector is still struggling to explain the costs of higher education appeared first on Wonkhe.

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How to try direct admissions — from experts who have been there

Higher Ed Dive

The approach can be hard to implement but has few risks, a panelist told the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association's conference.

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How universities respond to the riots needs careful consideration

Wonkhe

In the wake of racist riots in the UK, Sunday Blake argues that work on equality, diversity, and inclusion needs to take a very serious turn The post How universities respond to the riots needs careful consideration appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Universities face constraints in efforts to build more graduate student housing, Moody’s says

Higher Ed Dive

Affordable housing is a major need for the cohort. But rising construction costs are slowing projects, according to the ratings agency.

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Understanding the Social Change Model of Leadership (SCM): Igniting Students’ Academic Development P

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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HESA Student data 2022-23, statistical bulletin

Wonkhe

The long-delayed release of 2022-23 student data makes DK come over all reflective The post HESA Student data 2022-23, statistical bulletin appeared first on Wonkhe.

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$238M gift promised to Florida A&M is deemed ‘fraudulent’

Higher Ed Dive

A damning 176-page independent review said officials could have avoided the fallout from the botched donation had they performed due diligence.

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UK international student numbers hit record levels in 2022/23

The PIE News

The UK hosted a total of 758,855 international students during the last academic year – with India, China and Nigeria sending the most students, new data released by HESA today revealed. It marked a record high for students coming to the UK, beating the previous record set in the 2021/22 academic year, when there were 675,200 international students.

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Community Colleges ‘Back to Reality’ After Federal Relief

Inside Higher Ed

Community colleges spent much of their federal COVID-19 relief funds on student supports, technology and infrastructure. Now those funds are drying up, and colleges are wondering what’s next. East Central College, a rural community college in Missouri, had HVAC units that were nearing two decades old, years past when they should have been replaced. Then the pandemic hit.

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How AI Solutions Can Impact the Student End-User Experience

Campus Technology

DeVry University applies an iterative and holistic approach to integrating artificial intelligence into the classroom, with a focus on how it can enhance the overall student experience. Here are key things to consider when implementing AI at your institution.

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Education Department Delays FAFSA Launch for Most Students

Inside Higher Ed

By pushing back the form’s mass release to Dec. 1, the department is hoping to avoid the technical issues that plagued this year’s application. The Education Department will release the 2025–26 Free Application for Federal Student Aid on Oct. 1 as planned, but only for a limited number of students and institutions, who will test the form and provide feedback.

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“Outsiderism” and Academic Freedom

Academe Blog

BY JOE LOCKARD Very few people other than faculty members pay attention to faculty statements directed at administrations. It is rare that they have political impact beyond colleges and universities. We nonetheless write and publish them as instruments for establishing a faculty voice.

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New Study Finds Students and Families Frustrated With FAFSA, Borrowing More

Inside Higher Ed

An annual study released Tuesday by student loan provider Sallie Mae and market research company Ipsos reveals frustrations over this year’s fraught federal financial aid process, increased student borrowing and more families using AI in the college application process.

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Beech-side views: a Labour of love?

The PIE News

Sir Keir Starmer has now been UK Prime Minister for a full calendar month and will soon be overtaking Liz Truss’s record-breaking 45-day stint in Number 10. During this time, he has been busy laying the groundwork with his new cabinet for how Labour intends to govern when parliament returns after recess. Laying the foundations On 17 July, the King’s Speech introduced the government’s intention to establish a new Skills England body to align education and training provision more closely with regi

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Survey: Most New Mexico Students Are Food Insecure

Inside Higher Ed

Nearly 60 percent of college students in New Mexico experienced food insecurity in the 2022–23 academic year, while 62 percent were housing insecure, according to a statewide study that included nearly all of the state’s institutions of higher education.

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This year’s FAFSA delayed until Dec. 1 to ensure successful rollout

University Business

The Department of Education announced Thursday that the Simplified FAFSA form for the 2025-26 academic year will be widely available on or before Dec. 1, foregoing its traditional October start for a second year in a row, according to a statement. A limited set of students and institutions will be granted entry beginning on Oct. 1 through a phased rollout, allowing the Office of Federal Student Aid to resolve any system errors that might arise before its official release.

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Rethinking Campus Spaces Amid Enrollment Declines

Inside Higher Ed

Some universities are knocking down aging facilities and redesigning campuses for fewer students with different needs than past generations. As colleges across the nation grapple with declining enrollment, many are simultaneously dealing with aging infrastructure and costly maintenance issues that are often deferred for years. Some institutions, particularly those battered by enrollment losses, find themselves with more physical space than they need to teach and house a shrinking number of stude

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Sharp fall in international applicants wanting to study at UK universities

The Guardian - Higher Education

Home Office figures show 15% fewer sponsored student visa applications were received in July The financial pressures facing universities continue to mount after the latest immigration figures showed a sharp fall in the number of international applicants wanting to study in the UK. The Home Office’s initial figures for July found that about 15% fewer sponsored student visa applications were received last month, continuing the downward trend seen since the start of the year and following the previ

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2 Factors Challenging Faculty’s Sense of Inclusion

Inside Higher Ed

Pandemic-related caregiving burdens and health concerns have played a particularly large role, write Shuyin Liu, Dessie Clark, Laurel Smith-Doerr and Joya Misra. Teaching classes on Zoom while entertaining a toddler who loudly asks for a snack. Finishing a grant submission after preparing dinner for an aging parent while worrying about running out of masks.

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The Thrill is Gone: What to Do When Your Course Doesn’t Excite You

Faculty Focus

This article first appeared in The Teaching Professor on August 19, 2019 © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. Try a FREE three-week trial of The Teaching Professor ! A new academic year is about to begin, and, well, there’s this course—maybe more than one—that you’re not exactly bristling with excitement to teach. What should you do? First, don’t beat yourself up for feeling this way.

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NCAA Severely Punishes Former Michigan Football Coach Harbaugh

Inside Higher Ed

Jim Harbaugh would be suspended for a year and could have his duties severely limited for up to four years if he sought to return to coaching football in college, under penalties imposed by the National Collegiate Athletic Association on Wednesday.

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Data Readiness Checklist for Predictive AI in Higher Education (Infographic)

Liaison International

Download your copy of the Data Readiness Checklist here. The post Data Readiness Checklist for Predictive AI in Higher Education (Infographic) appeared first on Liaison.

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The Thrill is Gone: What to Do When Your Course Doesn’t Excite You

Faculty Focus

This article first appeared in The Teaching Professor on August 19, 2019 © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. Try a FREE three-week trial of The Teaching Professor ! A new academic year is about to begin, and, well, there’s this course—maybe more than one—that you’re not exactly bristling with excitement to teach. What should you do? First, don’t beat yourself up for feeling this way.

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When Oversight Becomes Intimidation and Control

Inside Higher Ed

It’s a political problem with a likely political solution. There are a number of recent stories about political acts that are direct attacks on how higher ed institutions operate that have me worried because they lack contemporary precedent.

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DWAYNE LEE PINKNEY

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Dwayne Lee Pinkney Dwayne Lee Pinkney has been appointed executive senior vice chancellor for administration and finance and chief financial officer at the University of Pittsburgh. He served as executive vice president for finance and administration at Indiana University. Pinkney holds a bachelor’s degree in English and journalism from North Carolina A&T State University, an MPA from the University of Pittsburgh, and a Ph.D. in political science from the University of North Carolina at

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Reports of shots fired near Clark Kerr and Hill Campus

The Berkeley Blog

UCPD is on the scene. No injuries have been reported. The post Reports of shots fired near Clark Kerr and Hill Campus appeared first on Berkeley News.

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Team Integration and Mergers in the Evolving Marketing Space

Caylor Solutions

Discover actionable insights on team integration and building diverse marketing teams in higher ed. The post Team Integration and Mergers in the Evolving Marketing Space appeared first on Caylor Solutions.

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UC Berkeley student president discovers data science’s power in economics

The Berkeley Blog

Shrinidhi Gopal, a senior majoring in economics and data science, is the incoming president for UC Berkeley's undergraduate student government. She is one of 202 students who made these subjects the second most common combination of majors declared on campus this spring.Gopal spoke with Berkeley’s College of Computing, Data Science, and Society about how she discovered these fields and the power of combining data science with the social sciences.

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Curiosity: From Forbidden Fruit to Catalyst of Progress

Inside Higher Ed

How and why curiosity shifted from vice to virtue—and what colleges can do to drive it. Many of Western society’s urtexts treat curiosity as a sinful transgression and a threat to social order and divine authority.

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How East Carolina University Uses LoRaWAN to Drive Regional Innovation

Cisco blogs - Education

One university is using reliable and easy-to-deploy LoRaWAN technology to spur innovation in rural America. We reveal how in our latest blog.

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Global Mobility Program: Learnings for UK University cost sustainability with technology at the core

HEPI

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Mel Gomes, Head of IT Commercial Management and Contracts, Royal Holloway. In May 2024, a leading UK law firm, Mills and Reeve, ran a webinar for commercial providers of higher education addressing the potential consequence of a university becoming insolvent. This, alongside the leaked list complied by Sue Gray, Chief of Staff to the new Prime Minister, which includes universities going under as a potential crisis which might be faced by the new Labour gover

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Watch a UC Berkeley professor break down the origins and stories behind national anthems

The Berkeley Blog

From Britain's "God Save the King" to South Africa’s “Nkosi Sekelel’ iAfrika," here's what makes national anthems tick. The post Watch a UC Berkeley professor break down the origins and stories behind national anthems appeared first on Berkeley News.

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Friday Finance questions for college students & families

College Viability

What college has the best 4-year graduation rate? The worst? I went to the 2024 Private College Viability app to answer that question. There are just short of 1,300 private colleges listed. Nine of them had a 100 % gradu.

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UC Sets Record for Diversity in Admissions

Insight Into Diversity

The University of California (UC) has announced its largest and most diverse incoming class for fall 2024, surpassing previous records. For the first-year admissions, UC extended offers to 93,920 California students, marking a 4.3% increase from last year and setting a new record. The admission rate for California residents has also climbed to 70%, up from 68% in 2023.

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Good ideas are stolen. Great ideas are buried. We uncover both. And we publish them.

Higher Education Inquirer

Over the course of our tenure at the Higher Education Inquirer, we have discovered that the US political economy and the higher education system that serves it is in a state of dysfunction-that the situation is worsening--and that there is some resistance. This is not just a belief, but something that can be objectively measured, whether its child poverty, student loan debt, mental illness and suicide, union busting, social inequality, life expectancy, or global climate chaos.

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Dollars and Degrees – Continued Focus on Cost and Price of Digital Learning

WCET Frontiers

For today’s post we are happy to welcome members of the WCET Steering Committee to discuss the efforts of the Digital Learning Economics working group. The Steering Committee forms working groups each year to address critical issues in digital learning. In 2024, the focus is on helping digital learning leaders engage effectively in budget and funding discussions within their institutions.This initiative, sparked by round table discussions in October 2023, aims to ensure that financial deci

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The role of agents in the NIL era: What do they do for college athletes?

University Business

The role of sports agents was different when the Gophers hired Ben Johnson as men’s basketball coach in 2021 — just before name, image and likeness (NIL) rules were approved by the NCAA. Agents primarily inhabited the pro sports world then. Three years later, there’s a new, much more profitable landscape for college athletes. More money means more agents, specifically now dealing with NIL opportunities.

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