Higher Ed Dive

MARCH 28, 2024

Legislators are paying increased attention to policies that give alumni-related students a leg up when applying to college.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2024

University of Kentucky President Proposes to Strip Faculty Body’s Power Ryan Quinn Thu, 03/28/2024 - 03:00 AM Eli Capilouto released a “draft of principles” Wednesday that would dissolve the University Senate and replace it with an advisory group.

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Higher Ed Dive

MARCH 28, 2024

The measure would have cleared a legislative path for University of Idaho to purchase the for-profit, but lawmakers still voiced doubts about the deal.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2024

Fundamental restructuring must happen, along with an honest debate about what – and who – higher education is really for Imagine a beach before the tsunami. Out at sea, the wave is gathering force, yet on the sand people are still sunbathing, blissfully unaware. That’s how it feels, one professor tells me, to be working in higher education. Academics by their nature don’t look outwards much, he argues, so not all have registered the risk to their profession.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2024

Lincoln Alumni Outraged by Reinstatement of President Sara Weissman Thu, 03/28/2024 - 03:00 AM An investigation cleared Lincoln University’s president of charges he’d bullied an administrator who died by suicide. Some alumni and students object to his return.

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LSE Higher Education Blog

MARCH 28, 2024

With AI described variously as a co-author, creator, thinker, and even a teacher, Helen Beetham urges the sector to articulate AI's role in higher education more carefully, so that we're not inadvertently fuelling the hype and confusion.

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The PIE News

MARCH 28, 2024

A date looms ominously on the horizon. May 14 2024 is the day the Migration Advisory Committee will return its verdict on the UK’s graduate visa and one man has been thrust into the spotlight, chair of the committee, Brian Bell. The ‘rapid review’ of the post study visa route was instructed by the current home secretary just a few weeks ago, with the results timed to coincide with the release of the latest net migration figures.

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MARCH 28, 2024

In the rapidly evolving world of higher education and training, colleges and universities have a unique opportunity to leverage technology for the benefit of their student employees.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2024

The Benedict College Board of Trustees recently hosted a rededication and naming ceremony for the college’s administration building named in honor of Dr. Roslyn Clark Artis. Dr. Roslyn Clark Artis A. J. Shorter Photography “I am very grateful for the opportunity to lead Benedict College into the next chapter of her storied history,” said Artis, during the March 22 rededication.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2024

Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona sent a letter to state governors on Monday urging them to prepare for the consequences of FAFSA delays by pushing back state financial aid application deadlines and adjusting expectations for state grant eligibility.

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University Business

MARCH 28, 2024

There’s new momentum building on college and university campuses to rescue and reinvigorate diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs, vital initiatives that have been the target of a coordinated national assault for over a year. Conservative groups, politicians and organizations launched a coordinated attack on DEI in higher education in 2023, in some cases disrupting these programs established to promote fairness and student success, and to address decades of exclusionary policies and pra

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2024

Vanderbilt University police arrested students and one local reporter Wednesday, following student protests concerning divestment from Israel, The Tennessean reported.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2024

Dr. Keith Curry likes to walk the campus of Compton College, the two-year school that he has led for the last 13 years — two as interim president and chief executive officer (CEO) and 11 as its permanent leader. On this January day, Curry — who grew up just a short distance from the college — greets the groundworkers and buttonholes administrative staff about the latest developments taking place across campus.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2024

Student Chatbot Use ‘Could Be Increasing Loneliness’ Marjorie Valbrun Thu, 03/28/2024 - 03:00 AM Study finds students who rely on ChatGPT for academic tasks feel socially supported by artificial intelligence at the expense of their real-life relationships.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2024

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has announced new appointees to the Tennessee State University (TSU) Board of Trustees after signing a bill from the General Assembly to reconstitute the body. Lee said his “administration, in partnership with the General Assembly, is committed to ensuring students are being served.” Gov. Bill Lee On March 28, t he state House voted 66-25 to pass SB 1596 , which called for TSU’s board of trustees to be vacated and reconstituted with 10 members.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2024

Higher Ed Pay for Many Exceeds Inflation Rate kathryn.palmer… Thu, 03/28/2024 - 03:00 AM Despite getting raises this year, faculty and staff buying power is lower than it was before the pandemic.

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The PIE News

MARCH 28, 2024

Participants of the 2024 Sophomore Scholars Program, hosted by London Metropolitan University, feel the program has given them a “new perspective on life” Nine students travelled to the university’s London campus from the US, where they each study at Historically Black Colleges and Universities, to participate in the program. Over one week, participants worked with students and staff, taking part in workshops on subjects such as identity, designing a socially-just institution a

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2024

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has signed an executive order requiring public institutions of higher education in the state to update their free speech policies to include the definition of antisemitism and establish appropriate punishments, “including expulsion,” for antisemitic rhetoric,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2024

In the fall of 2023, at Compton College, we invited Dr. Gina Garcia, professor of policy, politics, and leadership at Berkeley School of Education, University of California, Berkeley, to serve as our fall professional development day opening speaker — to provide insight for our campus as we continue our journey, serving as an Hispanic Serving Institution.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2024

University says first owner of book by French novelist took the skin from a deceased female patient without consent Harvard University has said it will be removing the binding made of human skin from a 19th-century book held in its library because of the “ethically fraught nature” of how the unusual binding took place. The book, called Des Destinées de l’Ame (or Destinies of the Soul), has been held at the university’s Houghton Library since the 1930s but drew international attention in 2014 whe

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The PIE News

MARCH 28, 2024

The Forum on Education Abroad celebrated a 20-year milestone of annual conferences this month, with a focus on the impact of new technology and the climate crisis on study abroad. In a welcome to conference attendees, Forum president & CEO, Melissa Torres reflected that the 2024 conference allows “the opportunity to commemorate and recognise the robust learning and strong connections that have been made over the past two decades” “It’s also a chance to collaborate to set th

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Helix Education

MARCH 28, 2024

Graduate students face many challenges with work-life balance. In the pursuit of knowledge, students enrolled in higher education often find their educational path intersects with the pressures of performance. Amidst the excitement of discovery and the pursuit of scholarly excellence, they tend to focus on keeping up on coursework, maintaining their relationships, and attending to their work, all while disregarding their own personal needs.

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MARCH 28, 2024

by Samantha Wilkinson Feedback has been heralded the most significant single influence on student learning and achievement ( Gibbs and Simpson, 2004 ). Despite this, students critique feedback for being unfit for purpose, considering that it does not help them clarify things they do not understand ( Voelkel and Mello, 2014 ). Despite written feedback being the norm in Higher Education, the literature highlights the benefit of audio feedback.

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Helix Education

MARCH 28, 2024

At RNL’s recent Graduate and Online Innovation Summit, I had the chance to sit down with Stephen Drew, RNL’s Chief AI Officer , for a wide-ranging conversation on how AI is going to change how we do and what we do in higher education. Stephen and RNL’s AI development team are hard at work getting ready to launch RNL’s first AI-driven solutions in May of 2024, but he was happy to sit down to cover topics ranging from the highest level like “what is AI?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2024

The City University of New York has received $5 million from the Mellon Foundation to expand CUNY’s innovative Black, Race and Ethnic Studies Initiative. The project was created with support from the foundation to drive change across CUNY's 25 campuses and advance racial and social justice initiatives. Dr. Félix V. Matos Rodríguez The latest grant will allow CUNY to launch New York’s first dedicated graduate degree program in Black, Race, and Ethnic Studies.

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The PIE News

MARCH 28, 2024

Providing information for international students to make informed educational choices used to be about distributing hard-copy university prospectuses and organising recruitment exhibitions. Even 25 years ago, websites were very basic. Students would mostly browse through university brochures to make choices about their future study options. Today, the landscape has evolved but students want the same thing, to be reliably informed.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2024

Dr. Khalilah Brown-Dean was announced as one of this year’s winners in the 49th Annual Gracie Awards, presented by The Alliance for Women in Media Foundation (AWMF). Dr. Khalilah Brown-Dean Brown-Dean, a professor of political science at Quinnipiac University and associate provost for faculty affairs, won for her talk show, Disrupted with Khalilah Brown-Dean , on Connecticut Public Broadcasting (WNPR).

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The Guardian - Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2024

Union says cuts will make the creative powerhouse unrecognisable and risk unprecedented industrial unrest Staff at Goldsmiths, University of London have voted to strike over plans for an “almost incomprehensible” number of redundancies , a trade union has announced. More than 87% of University and College Union (UCU) members at the south London institution voted for strike action in a ballot with a turnout of 69%, as well as backing action short of a strike, such as a boycott on marking papers a

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2024

This week’s episode of The Key podcast explores the “guided pathways” model, which hundreds of community colleges have embraced to give students a clearer path to reaching their educational goals.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2024

Cal State Long Beach recently broke ground on a new five-story, 424-bed residence hall. The 108,000-square-foot residence hall, La Playa (Spanish for “The Beach”), comprises three towers named Tides, Palm, and Sands. The $115 million construction project is part of the Long Beach House Promise, a five-year program aimed at ensuring quality, affordable housing availability for residents, students, and families of students in Long Beach.

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HEPI

MARCH 28, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Alex Blower, Access and Participation Manager at Arts University Bournemouth. Over the last two years, pressure from policymakers for university outreach teams to play a strategic, proactive role in supporting the GCSE attainment of young people from underrepresented backgrounds has gradually increased. The debate about whether it is something that universities ‘should be doing’ rattles on.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2024

Jasmine Sanders Jasmine Sanders has been appointed executive director of human resources at Savannah Technical College in Georgia. She served as a talent development manager for Virginia Peninsula Community College. Sanders holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology and an MBA from Troy University.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2024

The Quandary of Presidential Constraints Sarah Bray Thu, 03/28/2024 - 03:00 AM Amid the controversies over whether and when presidents should speak out, Thomas A. Parham asks, whose voice are we listening to? Byline(s) Thomas A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2024

Robert Mitchell Jr. Robert Mitchell Jr. has been named assistant provost of enrollment services at Dillard University in New Orleans. He served as director of the Office of Academic, Financial, and Wealth Management. Mitchell holds a bachelor’s degree in management from Alabama State University and an MBA at the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut.

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Caylor Solutions

MARCH 28, 2024

Learn from our featured guests' stories how to leverage your communication and marketing tools to make your school’s image attractive to prospective students. The post Your 2023 Higher Ed Marketing All-Star Team appeared first on Caylor Solutions.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2024

The budget includes everything from education funding to environmental needs. Senator Mary Beth Carozza said she’s pleased with the momentum they have been making to finalize the funds, and the advocacy that the community has brought to the table. “Were in session for 90 days and that is our one constitutional requirements, to do that [budget] within the 90 days,” Senator Carozza said.

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