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Bridget Phillipson increases fees by 3.1 per cent

Wonkhe

Westminster's Secretary of State for Education has resolved to increase undergraduate fees and maintenance by forecast inflation.

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Has North Idaho College successfully addressed accreditor concerns?

Higher Ed Dive

The community college has been plagued by years of board governance issues and legal battles — all of which have cost it money and good will.

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UPCEA’s Jim Fong Wants More Flexible Learning Pathways

MindMax

In a conversation with MindMax’s Lee Maxey, Jim Fong, Chief Research Officer at UPCEA, delves into the latest evolution of the higher education landscape. Drawing on nearly two decades of expertise, Fong discusses the urgency for institutions to move beyond legacy systems and embrace stackable credentials, microcredentials, and other flexible learning pathways that meet the needs of today’s adult learners.

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A GOP-Backed Center Stoked Faculty Paranoia at the U. of Florida. Then Ben Sasse Got Mad.

The Chronicle of Higher Education

How the U. of Florida forced faculty cooperation with a GOP-backed civics center. By Garrett Shanley The inside story of how a president and a dean forced professors to cooperate with the Hamilton Center for Classical and Civic Education.

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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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Columbia needs to stop doing politics and start doing higher education

FIRE

As the situation on Columbia’s campus deteriorated earlier this year, the university’s then-president consulted with powerful politicians about the bad optics of the protests.

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Cheating Has Become Normal

The Chronicle of Higher Education

Faculty members are overwhelmed, and the solutions aren't clear. By Beth McMurtrie Faculty members are overwhelmed, and the solutions aren't clear.

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Providing Tuition Assistance to Native American Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Michigan State University (MSU) will offer in-state tuition to out-of-state Native American students through their Native American Tuition Advantage Program (NATAP), beginning in Fall 2025. Dr. Kevin Leonard, director of the Native American Institute at MSU, was speaking with a Native, out-of-state student whose tribal affiliation was in Michigan when she began to share the struggles that come with paying out-of-state tuition.

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Are 3 Years of Medical School as Good as 4?

Inside Higher Ed

Are 3 Years of Medical School as Good as 4? kathryn.palmer… Mon, 11/04/2024 - 03:00 AM The number of accelerated medical degree programs has tripled over the past decade. New research shows that outcomes are similar to those of four-year programs.

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Let’s hear it for interns!

HEPI

When Ivan Cameron died fifteen years ago, his father David Cameron said , ‘When we were first told the extent of Ivan’s disability, I thought that we would suffer having to care for him but at least he would benefit from our care. Now as I look back I see that it was all the other way round. It was only him that ever really suffered and it was us – Sam, me, Nancy and Elwen – who gained more than I ever believed possible from having and loving such a wonderfully special and beautiful boy.

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Rockefeller University to Sell 2 Abstract Expressionist Paintings

Inside Higher Ed

Rockefeller University in New York City plans to sell two paintings by the abstract expressionist Joan Mitchell to help fund biomedical research, The New York Times reported. The paintings, “Untitled” and “City Landscape,” are expected to fetch as much as $32 million when Christie’s puts them on the auction block later this month.

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Labour set to raise tuition fees amid deepening university financial crisis – UK politics live

The Guardian - Higher Education

Fees could rise from £9,250 to about £9,500 and the move is expected to come into force from September 2025 Starmer went on to say the government was “going to treat people smugglers like terrorists”. And he explained what that meant. So we’re taking our approach to counter terrorism, which we know works, and apply it to the gangs with our new Border Security Command.

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How Some Faculty Plan to Handle Class on Election Day

Inside Higher Ed

How Some Faculty Plan to Handle Class on Election Day Johanna Alonso Mon, 11/04/2024 - 03:00 AM Some professors plan to bring the election into the classroom Tuesday to encourage civic engagement, while others will cancel class altogether to facilitate voting.

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Dr. Lester McCorn Selected to Lead Paine College

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Lester McCorn, who led Clinton College in South Carolina for the past 7 years, has been named the new president of Paine College in Augusta, Georgia. Both institutions are historically Black colleges and universities. McCorn is scheduled to take the helm of Paine College in January. While at the helm of Clinton College, he has helped the institution secure millions of dollars in grants for new programming and presided over the transition of the school from a a two-year school to a four- year

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With the help of AI, UC Berkeley researchers confirm Hollywood is getting more diverse

The Berkeley Blog

A new study used facial recognition technology to track the amount of time actors appear on screen in more than 2,300 films. The post With the help of AI, UC Berkeley researchers confirm Hollywood is getting more diverse appeared first on Berkeley News.

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How Personhood Credentials Could Impact Higher Education

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

Remember the days when clicking on all the squares that contained a bicycle used to be proof enough that you were human online and not a bot? Well, the era of CAPTCHA is coming to an end as AI is learning to bypass what once used to be a reliable security check. As cyberattacks and data breaches continue to rise each year, and as artificial intelligence becomes ubiquitous and better at common tasks, it’s growing increasingly difficult to use established security measures to verify personhood onl

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Mozaik Play launches community platform for the world’s creatives

The PIE News

Initially available through an invite-only model, the platform seeks to provide a seamless space for collaboration, learning and inspiration, with plans to open worldwide in the coming months. The platform is tailored to empower those deemed the ‘no-collars’, including creatives in industries such as gaming, film, animation, fashion, design, and music, and many more.

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University fees in England to rise next autumn for first time in eight years

The Guardian - Higher Education

Ministers to announce increase in annual fees, which have been capped at £9,250 since 2017 UK politics live – latest updates University tuition fees in England are to go up next autumn for the first time in eight years, the government is to announce. If linked to inflation, it could take fees up by £250 a year to a record £9,500 in October 2025, providing some respite for universities that have been struggling with a deepening financial crisis.

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It's Election Day. Here Are 4 Questions for Higher Ed.

The Chronicle of Higher Education

By Christa Dutton and Amanda Friedman Even though the presidential candidates haven't talked much about colleges, the sector still intersects with the election in important ways.

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Funding Student Success: Endowed Directorships in Student Supports

Inside Higher Ed

Funding Student Success: Endowed Directorships in Student Supports Ashley Mowreader Mon, 11/04/2024 - 03:00 AM To promote sustainability in student supports, Stanford donors have endowed four directorships of community centers, creating additional funding for student services and co-curriculars.

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Data, AI Lead Educause Top 10 List for 2025

Campus Technology

Educause recently released its annual Top 10 list of the most important technology issues facing colleges and universities in the coming year, with a familiar trio leading the bunch: data, analytics, and AI. But the report presents these critical technologies through a new lens: restoring trust in higher education.

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Harrisburg University President Resigns

Inside Higher Ed

Harrisburg University of Science and Technology president Eric Darr announced his resignation Friday afternoon, according to a statement from the university that offered no details about the decision. “On behalf of the Board of Trustees, I would like to thank Dr. Darr for his work on behalf of our students,” read a statement from board chair Mark Singel posted on the website.

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Providing Tuition Assistance to Native American Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Michigan State University (MSU) will offer in-state tuition to out-of-state Native American students through their Native American Tuition Advantage Program (NATAP), beginning in Fall 2025. Dr. Kevin Leonard, director of the Native American Institute at MSU, was speaking with a Native, out-of-state student whose tribal affiliation was in Michigan when she began to share the struggles that come with paying out-of-state tuition.

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Jordi Robert-Ribes, EDUopinions

The PIE News

Introduce yourself in three words or phrases. Born in Andorra, a small country with no university at the time. I studied at institutions in three countries and two continents. Two daughters, who despite having a university in the country now, decided to follow in their father’s footsteps and study abroad as well. What do you like most about your job?

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Supreme Court's Hollow Ruling One Year Later: Asian American and Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Students Left Behind in the Pursuit of a 'Race-Blind' Agenda’

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In the fall of 2018, I was a student organizer for affirmative action and one of eight alumni who took the federal witness stand in the lawsuit Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA), Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College. Students and alumni fought to voice the importance of race-conscious policies, campus diversity, and solidarity among communities of color.

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On Meme Culture Today

Academe Blog

BY AMIR HUSSAIN Critics and educators may plausibly perceive social media as preferring and promulgating fragmentary thinking, consumerist scrolling, and buzzwords over the attention to nuance and context that is cultivated in university settings.

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IoT in Bangladesh Libraries: A Path to Transformation

ACRLog

Editor’s Note: This guest post has been authored by Shaharima Parvin (Senior Assistant Librarian at East West University in Dhaka, Bangladesh) and Md. Abdul Latif (Assistant Librarian at East West University in Dhaka, Bangladesh). Libraries have always been the centers of knowledge and community. With the advancement of technology, changes in libraries should also occur to ensure user needs are met.

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Tuition fees to rise in England as unis depend more on int’l students

The PIE News

Speaking in the House of Commons on November 4, Phillipson revealed that as of April 2025, the maximum cap for domestic tuition fees will rise by £285 to £9,535 per academic year. Tuition fees have been set at £9,250 per year since 2017, with many arguing that universities have become over-reliant on the heftier fees paid by international students to sustain their finances.

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Commitment to democracy doesn’t end at the ballot box

FIRE

We need to support a robust culture of free speech for democracy to thrive.

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Amid Student Protests, Iowa Regents Begin Messy Process of Rooting out DEI

The Chronicle of Higher Education

By J. Brian Charles Figuring out what student-retention efforts are legal or illegal under a new anti-DEI law set to go into effect next year is harder than it looks.

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N. Idaho College Receives Final Report Before Accreditation Vote

Inside Higher Ed

With a vote on North Idaho College’s accreditation status expected in January, the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities issued its final report to the college last week. It offers a mixed outlook on the beleaguered community college in Coeur d’Alene, once again highlighting governance issues as the key concern.

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Internet2: Network Routing Security and RPKI Adoption in Research and Education

Campus Technology

We ask James Deaton, vice president of network services, about Internet2's initiatives and leadership efforts to promote routing security and RPKI adoption in research and higher education networks.

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Scaling Up: Providing Paid Research Opportunities for Students

Inside Higher Ed

Scaling Up: Providing Paid Research Opportunities for Students Ashley Mowreader Mon, 11/04/2024 - 03:00 AM A program at the University of Dayton provides undergraduate students interested in faculty-led research with a stipend to close equity gaps in participation. The initiative has grown over the past few years, requiring intentional communication and structure to support expansion.

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Protest Monitors, Art Therapy, Civil Discourse: How Colleges Have Prepared for the Election

The Chronicle of Higher Education

By Graham Vyse As ever, higher ed will have to balance the promotion of campus safety with the protection of free expression — an increasingly challenging task.

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N.J. Community College Faculty Strike Against Student Advising Grant

Inside Higher Ed

A union of full-time faculty at a New Jersey community college say they’re striking—against participating in a single grant program.

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Report: Cloud Certifications Bring Biggest Salary Payoff

Campus Technology

It pays to be conversant in cloud, according to a new study from Skillsoft The company's annual IT skills and salary survey report found that the top three certifications resulting in the highest payoffs salarywise are for skills in the cloud, specifically related to Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, and Nutanix.

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Neutrality Is Meant to Be Broken

The Chronicle of Higher Education

The current debates about institutional speech miss the point. By Agnes Callard The current debates about institutional speech miss the point.