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OCTOBER 7, 2024

Who’s using the government’s new ARI database, and how are different government departments engaging with the researchers who get in touch?

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Higher Ed Dive

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Change management in higher ed faces unique challenges, from complex governance structures to a culture steeped in tradition. These efforts require a unique approach.

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The Berkeley Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Ruvkun obtained his B.A. in biophysics from UC Berkeley in 1973 The post Alumnus Gary Ruvkun shares 2024 Nobel Prize for discovering microRNA appeared first on Berkeley News.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Colleges throughout the Carolinas are picking up the pieces after the devastating storm. But officials are confident students will be able to finish the semester. As colleges and universities across the western Carolinas start the cleanup from Hurricane Helene, administrators say a full recovery will take not just days or weeks, but months and possibly even years.

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FIRE

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Plenty of free speech news out of Europe, the sedition crackdown in Hong Kong, efforts to control discussion of foreign governments in Canada and the U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Vanessa Doriott Anderson offers advice on a process that, if done well, should be anything but perfunctory. As the fall leaves begin to turn in my part of the country, I’m reminded that another season is upon us: the season of recommendations. Like piles of leaves, requests for these documents begin accumulating as the academic hiring cycle begins and graduate school applications come due.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Pre–COVID-19 data shows that the outcome divide between online and in-person learners existed long before the pandemic accelerated the online sector’s growth, according to a report published last week by Third Way, a center-left think tank.

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OCTOBER 7, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Ronald Barnett ( www.ronaldbarnett.co.uk ), Emeritus Professor of Higher Education at the Institute of Education and President of the Philosophy and Theory of Higher Education Society. In a recent and influential HEPI report, Four futures: Shaping the future of higher education in England , Professor Sir Chris Husbands has set out four scenarios offering alternative paths for English institutions.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Facing multimillion-dollar budget deficits, some colleges announced they would ax jobs and academic programs. Others noted cuts are on the horizon. Jobs, academic programs and athletic teams were all on the chopping block at many universities last month as they struggled to plug budget holes amid declining enrollment.

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The PIE News

OCTOBER 7, 2024

For university students graduating in bachelor’s, master’s, PhD, all fields remain eligible for PGWP For college-level programs and university programs outside of those listed above, 966 eligible fields have been announced across agriculture and agri-food, healthcare, STEM, trade, and transport All PGWP applicants must meet language requirements In an announcement many stakeholders have been anticipating, Canada’s new PGWP eligibility criteria have been revealed.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The president of Texas A&M International University in Laredo died unexpectedly on Thursday, according to a university announcement. No cause of death was given for Pablo Arenaz, the university’s sixth president, who had served in the role since 2016. TAMIU first hired him as provost in 2008.

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Campus Technology

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Educause recently released the 2024 Cybersecurity and Privacy Edition of its Horizon Report series, forecasting key trends, technologies, and practices shaping the future of cybersecurity and privacy in higher education.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Just hours after a federal judge allowed the Biden administration’s new student loan forgiveness plan to proceed, another judge blocked it.

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Caylor Solutions

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Dive into the potential of generative AI to build digital watering holes and captivate mission-fit students. The post Harness the Power of Generative AI to Build Digital Watering Holes appeared first on Caylor Solutions.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Two American scientists have won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of microRNA “and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation,” the Nobel committee announced Monday.

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The Berkeley Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The subsidies were introduced in 2023 as part of the national Inflation Reduction Act. The post Electric vehicle tax credits cut pollution but may not be cost-effective, study finds appeared first on Berkeley News.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The University of South Carolina launched an initiative to provide personalized advising for learners on scholarships who are at risk of losing financial aid. Since 2021, around 2,500 students have maintained their scholarships as a result. A May 2024 Student Voice survey by Inside Higher Ed and Generation Lab found a majority of college students identified balancing academics with personal, family and financial responsibilities as their greatest stressor.

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The Berkeley Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Cal fans brought passion and humorous signs to the historic broadcast. The post See photos from ESPN College GameDay’s visit to UC Berkeley appeared first on Berkeley News.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

OCTOBER 7, 2024

An effective incident response plan is essential for a university’s cybersecurity strategy and overall resilience. However, the plan’s success depends on all parties being well trained. Tabletop exercises are necessary for testing these plans, ensuring preparedness and identifying areas for improvement. Partnering with an outside organization on these exercises can offer additional benefits.

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Educause

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Institutional leaders want and plan to advance their use of analytics in many functional areas across campus, but doing so will require overcoming numerous challenges that call for new strategies and technologies.

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Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 7, 2024

In a groundbreaking move, the Utah System of Higher Education (USHE) has unveiled the Admit Utah initiative that guarantees admission to at least one of the state’s 16 public higher education institutions for every high school student, regardless of their GPA. This new program is the first of its kind in Utah and aims to simplify and streamline the college admissions process for students and families across the state.

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The PIE News

OCTOBER 7, 2024

It has been developed to offer test-takers a choice and an alternative to other high-stakes admission tests. The test experience is user-friendly and ‘human’, with a live proctor and speaking test examiner. Academic English and more LanguageCert Academic is, first and foremost, an English language proficiency test for academic purposes. The questions and tasks in the test are designed to elicit the language skills needed for academic success.

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University Business

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Major universities are beginning to report the performance of their endowments for the fiscal year that ended on June 30, 2024, and the early news finds several institutions realizing double-digit investment gains. Here’s a rundown of some initial results. Brown University’s endowment saw an 11.3% investment return during Fiscal Year 2024. It racked up $728 million in investment gains and $203 million in new endowed gifts.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Longtime enrollment professional Ryan J. Dougherty saw three disconnects and five surprising realities when he approached the college search as a parent. After more than 20 years in college enrollment, including several as a vice president, I thought helping my firstborn child choose a college would be second nature. Turns out, I was wrong. Being on the other side as a parent revealed how complex and emotionally charged the admissions process really is.

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University Business

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Flawed incentive structures for publishing scholarly work may be eroding faculty and research integrity at large, contributing to an “epidemic” of dishonesty and even cheating, says Phillip Magness, senior fellow at the Independent Institute, a think tank, and co-author of “ Cracks in the Ivory Tower: The Moral Mess of Higher Education.” “Academia is an industry,” he says. “Even though we have private universities, it’s really kind of a private-pub

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The Berkeley Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The post Two UC Berkeley alums awarded 2024 MacArthur ‘genius’ fellowships appeared first on Berkeley News.

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OCTOBER 7, 2024

Implementing pervasive connectivity on higher education campuses is essential for addressing emerging challenges and enabling new opportunities.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Dear EdTech: Focus on Higher Education reader, We at CDW want to thank you for being a part of the EdTech community and hope you find our content helpful as you’re researching the latest technology trends and best practices in the higher education industry. As we continue to evolve our offerings and better serve our readers, we want to get your feedback on what aspects of our content you like and what we can do better.

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Campus Technology

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The entry period for the 2024 Campus Technology Product Awards is now open.

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FIRE

OCTOBER 7, 2024

UMD’s dictate that ‘only university-sponsored events’ would take place on the one-year anniversary of Hamas’s attack on Israel ran headlong into the First Amendment.

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University Business

OCTOBER 7, 2024

How much can Arizona’s state universities charge students? There is a limit — but only on paper. The Arizona Constitution requires that instruction in the university system be “as nearly free as possible.’’ In 2003, John Kromko, then a Democratic state representative from Tucson and a student at the University of Arizona, cited that clause after the Arizona Board of Regents hiked tuition by a whopping 39.1%.

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Higher Education Inquirer

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The Higher Education Inquirer has been waiting since December 2017 for information from the US Department of Defense (DOD) about decades of predatory behavior by subprime colleges against military servicemembers, a disturbing pattern reduced by the Obama Administration and made worse again by the Trump Administration. We are still waiting for information, nearly seven years later and through multiple efforts, as Donald Trump runs again for President and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 7, 2024

We asked higher ed leaders and thinkers to take stock of the fraught year just past and offer a vision for the future. They gave us a quarrelsome, eloquent earful. In retrospect, perhaps it was inevitable that the horrifying Hamas attack on Israel last Oct. 7—and the escalation of horrors that ensued when Israel invaded Gaza—would light a spark on many U.S. campuses.

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Academe Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2024

BY BENJAMIN ROBINSON This post is part of a blog series, organized by Annelise Orleck, that will focus on recent crackdowns on protests at US college and university campuses against Israel’s war on Gaza. You can read the first post and an introduction to the series here.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Views essays in the year since Oct. 7 have spoken to the many challenges campuses have confronted. In the year since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel and the start of the ongoing war in Gaza, U.S. higher education has been rocked by accusations of antisemitism and Islamophobia and consumed with debates over free speech; diversity, equity and inclusion; political interference; the role of police on campuses; the wisdom, or not, of neutrality; the state of academic freedom—even the very values of

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The PIE News

OCTOBER 7, 2024

A survey conducted by IDP Education found that 54% of prospective international students said that the upcoming presidential election in the US will not impact their decision to study in the country. Just over one third of students said the election would influence their decision, with most favouring a Kamala Harris victory. “Regardless of the election outcome , many international students have lifelong goals of studying in the US – demonstrating the strong brand of US institutions globally,” sa

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