Policymakers must strengthen — not dismantle — the college accreditation system
Higher Ed Dive
DECEMBER 22, 2023
Recent attacks on accreditation pose a dire threat to students and the nation’s postsecondary institutions.
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A Decade of Ideological Transformation Comes Undone
The Chronicle of Higher Education
DECEMBER 22, 2023
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Higher ed groups, researchers ask Education Department to preserve key sample studies
Higher Ed Dive
DECEMBER 22, 2023
The organizations want to keep three large-scale studies that track college students, their outcomes and how they pay for their education.
Can Colleges Protect Jewish Students?
The Chronicle of Higher Education
DECEMBER 22, 2023
Administrators, advocates, and students are at odds over how to define and effectively fight antisemitism. By Katherine Mangan and Maggie Hicks Administrators, advocates, and students are at odds over how to define and effectively fight antisemitism.
Understanding the Social Change Model of Leadership (SCM): Igniting Students’ Academic Development P
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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.
This week in 5 numbers: Penn rejects outside influence
Higher Ed Dive
DECEMBER 22, 2023
We’re rounding up some of our top stories from the week, from a faculty letter at the University of Pennsylvania to a petition at the University of Utah.
Coventry £40m cuts after “challenging” year
The PIE News
DECEMBER 22, 2023
Coventry University has said government policies and rhetoric are making international student recruitment “harder” after it emerged the institution will be forced to make £40 million in cuts next year. The British university is expected to make £85m less than originally forecast as a result of spending growing faster than income. In its 2022/23 annual report, Coventry said staff costs have risen 3% year-on-year, partly due to “inflationary pressures”.
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‘We did it together’: New York mother and daughter graduate college on same day
The Guardian - Higher Education
DECEMBER 22, 2023
Tanisha, 36, and Barbara Wiggins, received degrees in human services together from Onondaga Community College in Syracuse A New York mother and daughter duo have earned their college degrees together on the same day, fulfilling a lifelong dream for both of them. With her toddler in tow, Tanisha Wiggins, 36, walked across the stage alongside her mother, Barbara Wiggins, 58, at their college, Onondaga Community College in Syracuse, New York.
Google’s Gemini: is the new AI model really better than ChatGPT? - Michael G. Madden, Money Control
Economics and Change in Higher Education
DECEMBER 22, 2023
GPT-4 was trained on about 500 billion words – essentially all good-quality, publicly available text. The performance of deep learning models is generally driven by increasing model complexity and amount of training data. This has led to the question of how further improvements could be achieved, since we have almost run out of new training data for language models.
Boise State Cybersecurity Institute Partners with Sophos to Expand Experiential Learning with Latest EDR Solutions
Campus Technology
DECEMBER 22, 2023
Boise State University’s Institute for Pervasive Cybersecurity has announced a new partnership with cybersecurity-as-a-service provider Sophos, giving Boise State access to Sophos’ endpoint security offerings and adding the latest technology to students' experiential learning, according to a news release.
South African university students use AI to help them understand – not to avoid work - the Conversation
Economics and Change in Higher Education
DECEMBER 22, 2023
We’re a group of academics in the field of media and communication, teaching in South African universities. We wanted to understand how university students were using generative AI and AI-powered tools in their academic practices. We administered an online survey to undergraduate students at five South African universities: the University of Cape Town, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Stellenbosch University, Rhodes University, and the University of the Witwatersrand.
Copyleaks Intros Grammar Checker API
Campus Technology
DECEMBER 22, 2023
As it continues to add more artificial intelligence features to improve writing tasks, AI content and plagiarism detection company Copyleaks has introduced a new tool — Grammar Checker API — as part of its platform to assist personalized learning and administrative tasks in education.
Global ELT recovery remains “uneven” in 2023
The PIE News
DECEMBER 22, 2023
The annual report by BONARD into the global ELT sector trends shows “uneven” recovery continuing across major ELT destinations as 2023 comes to a close. Factors that shaped the recovery in 2022 included a slower recovery in the junior market, a lower average age of English learners, extended lengths of stay and the critical role of staff and accommodation.
Education expenditure to reach $10 trillion by 2030
The PIE News
DECEMBER 22, 2023
Global education and training expenditure is set to reach $10 trillion by 2030, but international educators should “expect disruption” to flows and trends. That was the message sent to educators from HolonIQ, the global market intelligence platform for education, as the experts shared predictions for the future of the sector. Population growth from developing markets, mostly in Asia and Africa, and an “enormous aging population” is set to fuel the staggering expenditure g
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