Higher Ed Data Stories
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
It's been said the Internet is like a party: You don't have to announce that you're leaving. But this will be the final post on Higher Ed Data Stories. After 4,183 days, it's time to call it quits. To save myself the time necessary to reply to both of you who are still faithfully reading these posts, I feel compelled to offer a few words of explanation.
The PIE News
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
The rise in job scams in the UK has raised concerns among international students, who are being targeted by fraudsters and losing thousands of pounds under the pretence of securing employment. A BBC report last year revealed that middlemen posing as recruitment agents are scamming international students seeking skilled work visas, with some paying up to 17,000 for sponsorship certificates that should have been free.
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University Business
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
As micro-credentials grow in popularity, campus leaders can look to new research and state support to expand access, reduce costs and strengthen workforce readiness. A Manhattan Institute report , “How Micro-credentials are Revolutionizing the Higher Education Business Model,” examines how states are investing in the short-term programs that now appeal to high school students and non-enrolled adults ages 18 to 30.
Wonkhe
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
Effective feedback allows students to experience the results of their decisions and thereby refine their practice.
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As Higher Ed institutions continue struggling with budget constraints and enrollment pressures, making smart decisions about technology is crucial. How do institutions enhance data security, optimize their tech stack and engage students effectively…all while managing limited resources? Bret Ingerman, former Vice President for Information Technology at Tallahassee State College, digs into these conundrums, exploring how Pathify offers solutions to enhance student engagement while giving instituti
University Business
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
(Updated: Feb. 24) College closings are expected to uptick over the next five years due to the demographic cliff, and Northland College may be the first of 2025. This page will be continuously updated as University Business monitors the changing landscape of college closings, as well as mergers and acquisitions, in the coming year and beyond. The college closings and mergers of 2025 Northland College (Wisconsin) Despite recent attempt to save Northland College from financial exigency, the Board
Wonkhe
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
The recent 100-year partnership agreement between the UK and Ukraine sets out an agenda for continued cooperation between the two countries, including in education, science and innovation
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Higher Ed Dive
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
After laying off staff to fill a $20 million budget hole, the private college brought in new funds to keep it afloat, including from Nvidia’s billionaire founder.
The Guardian - Higher Education
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
I can find essential and unusual facts for my arts journalism in the dusty old tomes information not readily available on Google. And, as I did as a child, I lose myself in a world of books. Last September, I started walking to the library every day. As a University College London alumnus, I get free membership of both the Senate House library and the universitys main library.
University Business
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
Public and employer demand for workforce relevant credentials is driving selective four-year institutions to rethink how they can scale their academic programs for a broader audience while maintaining quality and financial soundness. That was the dominating discussion among three higher education leaders at the cutting edge of academic and research innovation when speaking about the future of the sector in an inaugural webinar hosted by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s College of E
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
The Southern University System Board of Supervisors today has named Alvin R. Washington as the chancellor of Southern University Law Center. Alvin Washington Washington is the managing professor for the Law Centers Mediation Clinic. He also serves as a faculty member, teaching courses such as legal research, statutory analysis, alternate dispute resolution, and legal negotiations.
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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.
University Business
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
It is a basic fact of American life, so widely known that it hardly needs to be said: College is getting ever more unaffordable. In survey after survey, Americans say that the cost of getting a degree just keeps rising. But this basic fact of life is not a fact at all. In reality, Americans are paying less for college, on average, than they were a decade ago.
Inside Higher Ed
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
A College Degree Isnt for Everyone Susan H. Greenberg Mon, 02/24/2025 - 03:00 AM Kathleen deLaski unpacks her new book, which envisions higher education as a stepladder to skills that learners collect over a lifetime and present to employers. Byline(s) Susan H.
University Business
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
For some famously progressive colleges in Ohio, a new state law designed to keep transgender women from using womens restrooms at schools is bringing a moment of soul-searching for students, alumni and administrators. Its one of many such laws adopted around the country, with the stated intent of protecting female students. The Ohio lawwhich applies fully to private colleges, unlike the othersallows individual institutions to decide how they will obey and enforce the measure.
Campus Technology
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
The Southern Regional Education Board's Commission on AI in Education has published six recommendations for states on adopting artificial intelligence in schools, colleges, and universities. The guidance mark's the commission's first release since it was established last February, with more recommendations planned in the coming year.
Higher Education Inquirer
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
Our journalism is different than most others who cover higher education. Like those other outlets, we report the news, but that is not our focus. And like a few outlets, we also do time-consuming investigative work. We recognize the outstanding contributions of dedicated journalists, but these times, the 2020s, call good people to do more--much more.
Inside Higher Ed
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
Weeks and Months After Natural Disaster, Colleges Stand By Their Students Johanna Alonso Mon, 02/24/2025 - 03:00 AM Students say they are still being impacted by wildfires and floods that cost them their housing, jobs and transportation weeks or months ago.
FIRE
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
The criticisms, from Professor Kenneth Lawson were made 2 years ago. Why the lawsuit now? Could it be because Lawson went public last month with claims the university doctored his course materials?
Inside Higher Ed
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
After pausing most civil rights investigations, the Education Departments Office for Civil Rights is resuming some inquiries, but only those related to disability-based discrimination, according to a memo obtained by ProPublica. Those involving race or gender will remain on hold, the nonprofit news organization reported.
FIRE
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
How critiques of campus officials printed in a student publication led to a surreal battle for free expression.
Caylor Solutions
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
Overcoming fear of AI in marketing starts with curiosity. Learn how higher ed marketers can embrace AI as a tool for creativity and strategy. The post Overcoming Fear of AI in Marketing: The AI Mindset Shift Higher Ed Marketers Need appeared first on Caylor Solutions.
Inside Higher Ed
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
Hobart and William Smith Colleges has received the largest gift in its history: $70million from the late Thomas Melly, an alum and former board chair, and his wife, Judith Hershey Melly.
Academe Blog
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
BY MATTHEW BOEDY In the past few days, as president of the Georgia conference of the AAUP, I have received two interesting comments from faculty in my state. The first was a plea to organize, rally, and protest more to build collective strength.
Inside Higher Ed
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
Make Friends Early in Your Career Elizabeth Redden Mon, 02/24/2025 - 03:00 AM Graduate students and postdoctoral scholars can benefit in many ways from prioritizing friendships, Yi Hao and Mallory Neil write.
Educause
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
Higher education institutions are investing in sustainability initiatives, but their specific goals and challenges remain unclear to many. Student and campus community engagement continues to be a key force in advancing these efforts.
Inside Higher Ed
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
Negative experiences with trying to transfer credits toward a college credential are prevalent among American adults, according to a new survey from the research organization Public Agenda, the higher education consulting firm Sova and the Beyond Transfer Policy Advisory Board.
HEPI
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
Martin Williams is Chair of the University of Cumbria and a former higher education policy official in the Department for Education. It was interesting to read Jo Johnsons 28 January HEPI blog about the OfSs suspension of new applications to the Register and for Degree Awarding Powers ( The Office for Students needs to walk and chew gum, by Jo Johnson ).
Educause
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
Financial aid fraud has surged over the last five years. The same sophisticated tools used by the financial services industry can help colleges and universities fight back.
Higher Education Inquirer
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
The Higher Education Inquirer has decided to remove Google Ads from our website. We believe this is in the best interest of our readers, who are often inundated with commercial advertising throughout their lives. We will, however, continue to promote businesses like College Viability App and TuitionFit that benefit consumers.
Higher Ed Dive
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
The ruling said plaintiffs were likely to succeed in their arguments that the directives undermined free speech and were unconstitutionally vague.
The PIE News
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
A report in The Times had suggested that the UK is set to table a deal for a reciprocal scheme that will see young EU citizens, aged 18-30, able to live and work in the UK for up to three years. However, the government has since insisted it has no plans for such a scheme. “We do not have plans for a youth mobility agreement,” a spokesperson told The PIE News on February 21.
Academe Blog
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
BY EVA CHERNIAVSKY AND AMIT R. BAISHYA We write as former members of the Modern Language Association (MLA) and its Committee on Academic Freedom and Professional Rights and Responsibilities (CAFPRR). Both of us resigned from CAFPRR after the refusal of the MLA Executive Council to advance Resolution 2025-1 to the organizations delegate assembly.
The PIE News
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
Conestoga College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning gave Brazilian student Victor Barbosa Nogueira the opportunity to study at the top college in Ontario and immerse himself in Canadian culture, as well as learn about countries all around the world from his fellow international classmates. Even though I came to Canada, Im not just learning about Canadian culture.
University Business
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
Hired Rev. John Butler – Boston College (Mass.) John Butler, Boston College Boston College has announced its next president, the Rev. John Butler, who has been involved with administrative leadership since 2010. Serving on the president’s senior leadership team since 2010, Boston College considers Butler an architect of its revamped core curriculum.
Inside Higher Ed
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
As scrutiny mounts over governing boards in New Mexico following a payout for an embattled president, Democratic governor Michelle Lujan Grisham has appointed her 64-year-old brother, Greg Lujan, as a student regent at New Mexico Highland University, The Albuquerque Journal reported.
Insight Into Diversity
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
The University of Maine (UM) is under review by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for alleged Title IX violations under Executive Order 14201 (EO14201), which dictates the division of sports by sex assigned at birth and imposes funding cuts for defiance. The order, signed February 5, effectively bans transgender athletes from participating in sports based on their gender identity, conflicting with Maine’s gender identity protections.
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