Wonkhe
OCTOBER 27, 2024
Getting to sustainable international recruitment means understanding international student experience and outcomes, say Rachel MacSween and Debbie McVitty
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 27, 2024
The Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions (CMSIs) has released a new report that highlights the unique challenges and needs of early-career faculty at Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs). “Supporting Early Career Faculty at Minority Serving Institutions,” examines CMSI’s ELEVATE program launched in 2015, which supports professional development, mentorship, and retention for MSI faculty.
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Faculty Focus
OCTOBER 27, 2024
Connecting with students is a step towards increasing engagement in the classroom—whether face-to-face or online. In higher education, “building rapport” is often cited (e.g., Fitzgerald & Hooker , 2022; Hammond , 2014; Michael et al. , 2023), but that practice is not enough. When we teach, there is an unspoken power differential, and real connections have the potential to change that power dynamic.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 27, 2024
Legacy college admissions — the practice of selective institutions giving preference to children and relatives of alumni — is under intense scrutiny today. Originally established to exclude certain populations of students, legacy admissions provides a significant boost to children of ultrawealthy families who apply to elite institutions. Legacy admissions has an even more corrosive influence: It widens equity gaps in higher education.
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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.
THE (Times Higher Education)
OCTOBER 27, 2024
Let's not overlook the transformative power of education to spark curiosity, build resilience and drive positive change, says Rahim Somani
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 27, 2024
Amir Abdur-Rahim, the head basketball coach for the University of South Florida, died Thursday following complications from a medical procedure. He was 43 and is survived by his wife and three children. A rising star within collegiate basketball, Abdur-Rahim’s 2022-23 team at Kennesaw State went 26-9 and made the NCAA Tournament, catapulting him to the head coach position at USF.
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Faculty Focus
OCTOBER 27, 2024
Connecting with students is a step towards increasing engagement in the classroom—whether face-to-face or online. In higher education, “building rapport” is often cited (e.g., Fitzgerald & Hooker , 2022; Hammond , 2014; Michael et al. , 2023), but that practice is not enough. When we teach, there is an unspoken power differential, and real connections have the potential to change that power dynamic.
Academe Blog
OCTOBER 27, 2024
POSTED BY HANK REICHMAN On October 26, the Executive Committee of the University of Pennsylvania AAUP chapter issued the following public statement regarding the recent police raid on Penn undergraduate students: We are alarmed by the Penn administration’s escalating use of police action against Penn students.
HEPI
OCTOBER 27, 2024
This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Tim Blackman, Vice-Chancellor of The Open University ( @TimJBlackman ). He writes in a personal capacity. If education is about growth as a person, as it surely must be, then the worst message we can send a student is that because this is what you achieved in the past, that is what we expect you to achieve in the future.
THE (Times Higher Education)
OCTOBER 27, 2024
Civil servants appreciate a relational approach that responds to their needs and convenes evidence they will actually find useful, says Sally Hogg
The Guardian - Higher Education
OCTOBER 27, 2024
UCL’s Grade I-listed building being turned into a mixed-use space under redevelopment proposals Academics are outraged that University College London (UCL) has failed to put its Art Museum and significant art collection at the heart of its bicentennial redevelopment plans. David Bindman, UCL’s emeritus professor of the history of art, voiced concern that the museum in the South Cloisters – the centre of William Wilkins’ 1820s building – is being turned into a mixed-use space under proposals subm
THE (Times Higher Education)
OCTOBER 27, 2024
A ‘Fortress Australia’ that remains open to international trade and talent needs an educated, innovative and globally minded population, says Philipp Ivanov
College Viability
OCTOBER 27, 2024
Here is the link to the 2024 College Viability TOP-bottom report on all U.S. private religious colleges.
THE (Times Higher Education)
OCTOBER 27, 2024
Wales’ groundbreaking Medr must boldly rethink how education and training work for society and the economy, says Ellen Hazelkorn
Higher Education Inquirer
OCTOBER 27, 2024
I am from rural America, sort of. I’m an intellectual, sort of. I’m certainly on the political left, but some comrades believe I’ve turned conservative. Like many people, I don’t fit easily into conventional labels used in today’s polarized political debates. To understand me—and anyone else—takes some sorting out. Here’s how I sort myself out. I was born in North Dakota and grew up mostly in the big city of Fargo (well, it’s the largest city in the state).
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