Wonkhe
JUNE 18, 2024
The election has offered classroom-based foundation years a stay of execution. Sarah Hale and Stephen Leech wonder how long it will last The post Threats to foundation years should worry us all appeared first on Wonkhe.
Higher Ed Dive
JUNE 18, 2024
The funding decreases could hit University of Arizona — already grappling with major deficits — especially hard.
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Wonkhe
JUNE 18, 2024
A new London Higher report finds further evidence that the cost of living crisis is driving educational inequality, through its impact on access. For Richard Boffey, we need the political will of the new government to match the resolve of the sector. The post The cost of living is an access risk appeared first on Wonkhe.
Higher Ed Dive
JUNE 18, 2024
Conservative states contest the rule’s inclusion of LGBTQ+ students and have filed multiple lawsuits seeking to stop the rule from taking effect Aug. 1.
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Inside Higher Ed
JUNE 18, 2024
More Downsizing at Beleaguered ETS Liam Knox Tue, 06/18/2024 - 03:00 PM The SAT administrator and owner of the GRE offered buyouts to most of its U.S. workforce Tuesday morning, kickstarting its second round of layoffs in under a year.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
JUNE 18, 2024
By Eric Kelderman Mike De Sisti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, USA TODAY NETWORK Thomas M. Nelson, county executive in Outagamie County, Wis. Nearly half of the state's two-year liberal-arts institutions are being shuttered. It wasn't supposed to be this way.
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The Berkeley Blog
JUNE 18, 2024
The post U.S. News ranks Berkeley Engineering No. 3 grad program nationally appeared first on Berkeley News.
Inside Higher Ed
JUNE 18, 2024
More Downsizing at Beleaguered ETS Liam Knox Tue, 06/18/2024 - 03:00 PM The former SAT administrator and owner of the GRE offered buyouts to most of its U.S. workforce Tuesday morning, kickstarting its second round of job cuts in under a year.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
JUNE 18, 2024
By Eric Hoover John Minchillo, AP Richard A. Cordray Acknowledging the rollout has been “a major challenge,” Federal Student Aid leaders were met with feelings of frustration, worry, and even some gratitude as they spoke at a national conference.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JUNE 18, 2024
Dr. Stephanie Luster-Teasley Pass Stephanie Luster-Teasley Pass has been appointed dean of the College of Engineering at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. She served as interim dean of the college. Luster-Teasley Pass holds a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from North Carolina A&T as well as a master’s in chemical engineering and Ph.D. in environmental engineering, both from Michigan State University.
EdTech Magazine - Higher Education
JUNE 18, 2024
In 2014, a vulnerability was discovered in a critical security library used by a massive number of systems worldwide. The Heartbleed Bug exploited a lack of bounds checking in the Transport Layer Security heartbeat protocol, and when an exploit was published in April 2014, millions of systems were immediately vulnerable. Ten years later, more than 34,000 systems in the United States alone remain vulnerable.
Academe Blog
JUNE 18, 2024
POSTED BY JENNIFER RUTH On June 18, the executive committee of AAUP Local 6741 of the American Federation of Teachers issued the following statement on University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee’s proposal to close the College of General Studies In the United States, the university is in crisis.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JUNE 18, 2024
Dr. Margaret Price’s life and work twines about the experiences of people with disabilities in higher education. “My aim is to help dismantle injustices and build forward from the present structures of academe through recognition of what is true now,” says Price, an associate professor of English at The Ohio State University, where she also serves as director of the Disability Studies Program.
Inside Higher Ed
JUNE 18, 2024
Are Students Who Protested Losing Out on Job Opportunities? Johanna Alonso Tue, 06/18/2024 - 03:00 AM In a survey by Intelligent.com, students who had job offers rescinded largely attributed it to their activism. Others suggested protesting could be seen as an asset.
The PIE News
JUNE 18, 2024
QS Best Student Cities considers the rankings, student mix, desirability, employer activity and affordability of university cities and the 2025 iteration saw London take the top spot as the world’s best student city, as it has done since 2018. Tokyo, Seoul, Munich, Melbourne, Sydney, Paris, Zurich, Berlin and Montreal rounded off the top 10 list.
Inside Higher Ed
JUNE 18, 2024
Texas public colleges are freezing or amending 131 scholarships with race-based eligibility requirements in order to comply with the state’s new law prohibiting spending on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, according to The Dallas Morning News.
The PIE News
JUNE 18, 2024
As part of a five-point plan to reduce net migration figures, MAC was commissioned by the home secretary in March 2024 to rapidly review the situation regarding the UK’s Graduate Student Visa and deduce whether this route to legal entry into the UK was being abused by individuals who largely subsequently entered into low paying employment. In 2023, 114,000 graduate student visas were granted, with an additional 30,000 visas granted to the dependents of these student visa holders.
Inside Higher Ed
JUNE 18, 2024
An AI Boost for Academic Advising Lauren.Coffey@… Tue, 06/18/2024 - 03:00 AM Finding courses that fit both a student’s schedule and degree path is getting help from new tech tools.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
JUNE 18, 2024
On prestige-obsessed forums, he counsels fit and affordability. By Francie Diep Illustration by The Chronicle; photos courtesy of Prashant Sehgal Prashant Sehgal is a moderator for three online college-admissions forums totaling more than 1.1 million users. Here’s what he’s learned about what college hopefuls are like these days.
Inside Higher Ed
JUNE 18, 2024
The University of Florida’s plan to open a tech- and business-focused graduate campus in Jacksonville is getting closer to becoming a reality.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JUNE 18, 2024
Brigid Flanigan The Portland Community College Foundation has received a $1 million gift pledge to launch the college’s First-Year Experience initiative, benefitting historically underserved students. The gift was made by Tenfold Senior Living founder and principal Brigid Flanigan. It provides $200,000 annually over five years for the initiative based on wrap-around support (coaching, mentoring, and scholarships) through the Future Connect Scholarship Program.
Inside Higher Ed
JUNE 18, 2024
The University of Texas at Austin is abruptly dismissing nearly two dozen staff members in the communications and marketing department after a tumultuous year of crisis communications, KUT News reported. According to four people “with firsthand knowledge of the changes” who were granted anonymity by KUT, about 20 people were laid off. Their last day is Aug. 31.
The Berkeley Blog
JUNE 18, 2024
UC Berkeley’s Omar Yaghi received a top sustainability prize on June 18 for his pioneering discoveries unlocking essential tools to combat the climate crisis.
Inside Higher Ed
JUNE 18, 2024
The U.S. Department of Education will not be opening next year’s Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FASFA) to public comment or making substantive changes to this past cycle’s form.
The PIE News
JUNE 18, 2024
Research conducted collaboratively by Intead and F1 Hire shows universities could invest more into their careers services for international students The H-1B visa applicant-to-sponsor ratio is highest in unexpected states, including North Carolina and Michigan Some nine out of 10 jobs sponsoring the PERM visa are in technology – but only 1.6% of companies are “sponsor friendly” in their job descriptions The Connecting Dots: How International Students Are Finding US Jobs research, con
The Chronicle of Higher Education
JUNE 18, 2024
How to take steps that will both help your struggling students and lessen the burden on you. By Katie Rose Guest Pryal How to take steps that will both help your struggling students and lessen the burden on you.
WCET Frontiers
JUNE 18, 2024
Juneteenth, celebrated annually on June 19th, marks a pivotal moment in American history—the day in 1865 when enslaved African Americans in Galveston, Texas, were informed of their freedom, years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed. This day symbolizes the end of slavery in the United States and is a profound reminder of the resilience and enduring spirit of African Americans.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JUNE 18, 2024
Recently, as I was working in downtown Miami, a flash flood warning went into effect for a large part of South Florida. Upon seeing the alerts on my phone, I left and started heading toward my home area. The estimated time of arrival on my GPS kept extending as I approached the exit that I needed to take. Upon reaching my usual exit, I detoured to an alternative route due to the closure of the main road.
Faculty Focus
JUNE 18, 2024
The best way I can describe my very first semester of teaching online asynchronously is “emotionally agonizing.” Having taught students in brick-and-mortar classrooms for most of my 23-year tenure in education, I had grown accustomed to witnessing the positive impact human connection can have on the life trajectory of my community college students. After transitioning to the virtual classroom, my first semester was consumed with fear and anxiety.
Academe Blog
JUNE 18, 2024
BY PHILIPP W. ROSEMANN On June 14, 2024, the Board of Trustees of the University of Kentucky followed President Eli Capilouto’s recommendation to approve a number of fundamental changes to the governance structures of Kentucky’s flagship university.
The Change Leader, Inc.
JUNE 18, 2024
In the latest episode of Changing Higher Ed, Drumm welcomes back Kathryn Campbell, Associate Director of Editorial Policy and Senior Editor/Writer and Zack Mabel, Research Professor and Director of Research from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce (CEW) to discuss the findings of their recent report, "The Great Misalignment: Addressing the Mismatch Between the Supply of Certificates and Associates Degrees and the Future Demand for Workers in the U.S.
Faculty Focus
JUNE 18, 2024
The best way I can describe my very first semester of teaching online asynchronously is “emotionally agonizing.” Having taught students in brick-and-mortar classrooms for most of my 23-year tenure in education, I had grown accustomed to witnessing the positive impact human connection can have on the life trajectory of my community college students. After transitioning to the virtual classroom, my first semester was consumed with fear and anxiety.
HEPI
JUNE 18, 2024
This long read was kindly authored by Martin Blakey, former CEO of Unipol, a student housing charity. Here, he introduces the issues raised by the scrapping of the Renters Reform Bill for student accommodation and considers how the issue might be addressed in the next Parliament. Oh, the grand old Duke of York He had ten thousand men He marched them up to the top of the hill And he marched them down again The Renters Reform Bill was part way through the House of Lords when the General Election w
The PIE News
JUNE 18, 2024
Which is not at all the same as saying everyone should just relax. The impacts of AI are already being felt across industries, with the World Economic Forum predicting that AI will replace 85 million jobs globally by 2025. Universities are knowledge factories producing knowledge workers for a global knowledge economy. Well, the knowledge economy is going through a radical reinvention, which means our graduates will soon need (“soon” as in now ) different skills in different areas of work, and un
totallyrewired
JUNE 18, 2024
Since the release of ChatGPT 3 in November 2022 AI has become a ‘hot topic’ in education, especially in higher education. Many new AI tools and digital spaces are being used for the first time in innovative and creative ways. However, there are many concerns about how and why we should use AI in Education. The debate has started to focus on AI literacy and this has started to raise a number of questions about it: How is AI literacy different from digital literacy?
Campus Technology
JUNE 18, 2024
After making Recall opt-in only, Microsoft is putting the brakes on its new AI feature for Windows that was designed to "retrace users' steps.
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