Fri.Jan 03, 2025

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Your 2025 higher education policy almanac

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Michael Salmon leafs through all the policy developments the higher education sector is looking forward to, dreading, or otherwise expecting for the year ahead

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Gannon University and Ursuline College announce official merger deal

Higher Ed Dive

The nonprofit institutions will combine to form "the largest Catholic system of higher education along Lake Erie" by December 2026.

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Forecasting the future of online education

The PIE News

When Al Tarzi founded Nexford University in 2019, he was an entrepreneur in an unfamiliar sector with a vision of making international higher education more affordable, more accessible and more aligned with the workplace. Educated across France and the Middle East, Al Tarzi was 16 years-old at high school in Egypt when he travelled to UCLA for a web development course, gearing him up to launch his first tech company at the age of 18.

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This week in 5 numbers: The rise in AI education

Higher Ed Dive

We’re rounding up our top stories of the week, from the colleges pivoting to artificial intelligence to the death of an influential education policymaker.

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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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Stakeholders call for action amid limited English proficiency claims

The PIE News

According to the news rep o rt , published last month, professors and academic unions are alleging that UK institutions are overlooking sub-par language skills due to the higher fees that international students pay. One professor told the BBC that “70% of his recent masters students had inadequate English” The report reiterates the concerns expressed by two anonymous academics at Russell Group universities that there is a quality crisis in English language proficiency among students

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The Evolution of the Traditional Admissions Funnel: Adapting to a New Era

Liaison International

The traditional admissions funnel has long served as a trusty blueprint for ushering prospective students from initial interest to enrollment. But times, they are a-changin. Technological leaps, shifting student expectations, and newfangled marketing strategies have all conspired to transform this once-straightforward model. So, lets dive into how the admissions funnel has evolved and what these changes spell out for colleges and universities.

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Engagement and wellbeing analytics: the whole is greater than the sum of the parts

HEPI

By Rachel Maxwell , Principal Advisor at Kortext. Data at the heart of student support A successful and integrated framework for academic support that is built around students comprises three core elements: data, theory and people. The university ethos around student support frames the collection and use of data that in turn are both interpreted and used by staff to collaboratively design meaningful interventions with students to support engagement, wellbeing and academic development.

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President’s corner: How a genuine student-first mentality propels Linda Livingstone

University Business

In the whirlwind of change occurring in college academics and athletics, Linda Livingstone has her hands full as president of Baylor University and board chair of the NCAA. As the nature of academic research changes at the R1 university, the world of transfer portals and name, image and likeness (NIL) deals have transformed college athletics. “It takes a community to do jobs like this,” the seven-year president says. “I have a family that understands the responsibilities I have

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College Students Guide to Mental Health (ABC News)

Higher Education Inquirer

According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration , nearly one in three young adults 18 to 25 have experienced a mental illness. Psychologist Mia Nosanow joins GMA for more.

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A western North Carolina college president looks back on a tumultuous semester

University Business

When Damian Fernndez first moved from Florida to Swannanoa, North Carolina, last year, he thought hed come to a “climate sanctuary.” For a while, Warren Wilson College was the weather safe haven Fernndez expected. The storms he initially saw as president of Warren Wilson College were nothing like the hurricanes he was used to navigating in St.

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Coalition for Disability Resources

ACPA

Professional Development Resources Coalition for Disability Resource List Information About Disability From ACPA Publications (Historical Documents) ACPA Developments May 1998: On the Road To Access ACPA Developments October 1998: Enhancing Diversity On Our Campuses: Colleagues with Disabilities (PDF) ACPA Developments March 1999: Vote YES to Amend ACPA Article IX Bylaws: Perspectives from two ACPA members with disabilities (PDF) ACPA Developments May 1999: You Get More Than You Pay For: Advanta

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Community colleges gear up to train workers for America’s proposed manufacturing future

University Business

In the next decade, millions of manufacturers jobs will open up in the U.S. as workers retire. Meanwhile, the sector is also supposed to add more jobs with help from federal subsidies. But, by some current estimates, only half of those jobs will be filled. So where will the workers needed come from? Well, how about some two-year colleges like Cincinnati State?

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Volunteer with the ACPA Leadership Council

ACPA

In October 2024, we shared with you the results of the 2025-26 ACPA Leadership Council Selection Process, highlighting the members who will provide governance leadership in the Association for the next year. One of the features of the new governance model that began this year is the opportunity for members to be involved in Association-level leadership through participation in one of the working councils ortaskforces that will support the overall work of the ACPA Leadership Council.

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Higher Education Must Champion Democracy, Not Surrender to Fascism (Henry Giroux)

Higher Education Inquirer

[Editor's note: This article first appeared in Truthout.] Critical education must become a key organizing principle to defeat the emerging authoritarianism in the US. For decades, neoliberalism has systematically attacked the welfare state, undermined public institutions and weakened the foundations of collective well-being. Shrouded in the alluring language of liberty, it transforms market principles into a dominant creed, insisting that every facet of life conform to the imperatives of profit