Wonkhe
JANUARY 11, 2024
It now looks like providers won't need to retain every piece of assessed work for five years. But for Paul Greatrix, even retaining a sample represents a burden The post Sampling isn’t the answer to the OfS B4 requirement burden appeared first on Wonkhe.
Higher Ed Dive
JANUARY 11, 2024
The future student housing location has been walled off with stacks of shipping containers, according to the university.
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Wonkhe
JANUARY 11, 2024
This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag takes us to Oxford via Birmingham The post Higher education postcard: Mansfield College, Oxford appeared first on Wonkhe.
Inside Higher Ed
JANUARY 11, 2024
House Investigations of Harvard, Others Mark a ‘Watershed Moment’ Katherine Knott Thu, 01/11/2024 - 03:00 AM Deep-diving probes into antisemitism, plagiarism and university leaders signal a dangerous new era in congressional oversight, experts and scholars say. Some see echoes of McCarthyism.
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Wonkhe
JANUARY 11, 2024
This week on the podcast SU officers and staff from around the UK have been to the Baltics learn about student representation, political advocacy and belonging on a budget The post Podcast: Baltics and Finland special appeared first on Wonkhe.
Coursera blog
JANUARY 11, 2024
Launch partners include Microsoft, Stanford Online, Google Cloud, AWS, DeepLearning.AI and Vanderbilt University By Jeff Maggioncalda, CEO Generative AI will unleash the next wave of innovation and productivity. As the fastest-growing technology in human history, it has the potential to transform every aspect of our lives. However, organizations must balance its enormous potential against considerable risks.
University Leadership Central brings together the best content for university leaders and administrators from the widest variety of thought leaders.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 11, 2024
Community college students in California will now have an easier time lining up their academic progress to transfer to a California State University (CSU) system school, now that CSU has opened up access to its recent Transfer Planner to even more students. Cal State LA CSU’s Transfer Planner – created by enrollment management technology company Liaison International – is an online platform where students who are attending or going to attend a California community college can see whether their p
Inside Higher Ed
JANUARY 11, 2024
Announcing Inside Higher Ed’s New Editor in Chief Doug Lederman Thu, 01/11/2024 - 03:00 AM A note from Inside Higher Ed’s editor and co-founder about our new editorial leader, Sara Custer.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
JANUARY 11, 2024
Emory University debates when it’s acceptable to shut down a demonstration. By Calli McMurray Illustration by The Chronicle; iStock images Emory University debates when it’s acceptable to shut down a demonstration.
EdTech Magazine - Higher Education
JANUARY 11, 2024
Outsourcing has been a near-universal strategy for IT teams in every industry, and higher education is no exception. From cloud-based data centers to outsourced call centers, these solutions allow teams to focus on supporting education and leave nonstrategic IT tasks to specialists. Though outsourcing can save your institution money and deliver better service to your users, it also means that players outside of your institution will be handling sensitive data and connecting to your network, maki
The Chronicle of Higher Education
JANUARY 11, 2024
The job is increasingly untenable. Change is needed. By Holden Thorp Illustration by The Chronicle; AP photo The job is increasingly untenable. Change is needed.
Faculty Focus
JANUARY 11, 2024
When I started my encore career as an adjunct professor, I threw myself into the one class I was teaching, eager to update myself on theories and concepts I hadn’t paid much attention to since grad school (which was a long time ago). I read course materials, created assignments, and graded student work in my free time. It was only one class, after all, and I could do a lot of the work while my daughter was at school and my husband was at work.
The Guardian - Higher Education
JANUARY 11, 2024
A 1.3bn light year-sized ring discovered by PhD student in Lancashire appears to defy the cosmological principle assumption Astronomers have discovered a ring-shaped cosmic megastructure, the proportions of which challenge existing theories of the universe. The so-called Big Ring has a diameter of about 1.3bn light years, making it among the largest structures ever observed.
The PIE News
JANUARY 11, 2024
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada has launched a new online portal which Canada’s Designated Learning Institutes are now required to use to verify letters of acceptance. The new process is a digital solution for DLIs to ensure the letters of acceptance that students submit are genuine, and is part of IRCC’s wider crackdown on fraud. “The goal is to protect vulnerable students and preserve the integrity of the International Student Program,” said IRCC in a state
Inside Higher Ed
JANUARY 11, 2024
New York governor Kathy Hochul is championing an initiative to offer the top 10 percent of the state’s high school graduates direct admission to a public university.
Faculty Focus
JANUARY 11, 2024
When I started my encore career as an adjunct professor, I threw myself into the one class I was teaching, eager to update myself on theories and concepts I hadn’t paid much attention to since grad school (which was a long time ago). I read course materials, created assignments, and graded student work in my free time. It was only one class, after all, and I could do a lot of the work while my daughter was at school and my husband was at work.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 11, 2024
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has announced the recipients of 10 seed grants to launch its Sloan Centers for Systemic Change (SCSC) initiative to transform their doctoral education programs in STEM fields. Dr. Christa Mahlobo is honored at a ceremony recognizing her attainment of a Ph.D. in human development from The Pennsylvania State University. National Action Council For Minorities In Engineering The grants, totaling $2.5 million, mark the start of a new phase of grant-making in the Sloan F
The Chronicle of Higher Education
JANUARY 11, 2024
By Karin Fischer Illustration by The Chronicle; Getty Images; Jens Kalaene, picture-alliance, dpa, AP They say the the liberal-arts institution, which has a reputation for standing up to authoritarian governments, has done little to support them.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 11, 2024
Rachel Nosowsky Rachel Nosowsky has been appointed chief counsel for University of California, San Francisco Health. She served as an advisor for the University of California Office of the General Counsel based in Oakland. Nosowsky holds a law degree from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law.
HEPI
JANUARY 11, 2024
This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Sahil Shah , Managing Director, and Ari Soonawalla , Director, both at Say No to Disinfo. What have recent changes in AI been? Rapid advances in AI have greatly improved its capabilities across content generation and sentiment analysis. By drastically pushing down the costs, they have also reduced barriers to entry.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 11, 2024
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has announced the recipients of 10 seed grants to launch its Sloan Centers for Systemic Change (SCSC) initiative to transform their doctoral education programs in STEM fields. Dr. Christa Mahlobo is honored at a ceremony recognizing her attainment of a Ph.D. in human development from The Pennsylvania State University. National Action Council For Minorities In Engineering The grants, totaling $2.5 million, mark the start of a new phase of grant-making in the Sloan F
The Chronicle of Higher Education
JANUARY 11, 2024
Too often colleges look to policies and procedures for solutions. By Mike Magee Too often colleges look to policies and procedures for solutions.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 11, 2024
PHOENIX-- Overall drug use among student-athletes is down and a fewer number of student-athletes are reporting mental health concerns than they did several years ago during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, binge drinking has dropped to a historic low and tobacco use among student-athletes is also on the decline. Those are among the many findings included in the NCAA Student-Athlete Health and Wellness Study that was revealed this week at the NCAA Convention that has converged i
The Guardian - Higher Education
JANUARY 11, 2024
Staff told to take ‘more flexible approach’ in move university says will bring rules into line with those for UK offer-holders The University of York has told staff to take a “more flexible approach” to admitting overseas students with lower-than-expected grades, in the latest sign that UK higher education is facing severe recruitment and financial pressures.
Liaison International
JANUARY 11, 2024
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Inside Higher Ed
JANUARY 11, 2024
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, a museum and art school in Philadelphia, is shutting down its degree programs at the end of the 2024–25 academic year, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported.
The Guardian - Higher Education
JANUARY 11, 2024
Head of foreign intelligence service says US may mobilise ‘fifth column’ of exchange programme graduates The head of the SVR, Russia’s foreign intelligence service, has claimed that the US is planning to interfere in the re-election campaign of Vladimir Putin, saying that the country’s graduates of US education programmes could be mobilised to serve as a potential “fifth column”.
Inside Higher Ed
JANUARY 11, 2024
The student loan crisis has hit minority borrowers especially hard, according to a new survey by WGU Labs, an affiliate of Western Governors University, and Savi, a loan forgiveness technology company.
Caylor Solutions
JANUARY 11, 2024
Transform your brand with insights from the University of Louisville's journey. Discover the power of an effective brand framework! The post Brand Framework: Reshaping and Rediscovering Your School’s Promise appeared first on Caylor Solutions.
Educause
JANUARY 11, 2024
Hosts Sarah and Wes discuss how to disengage from work concerns when it's time for a long break and how to avoid vacation whiplash on your return.
Inside Higher Ed
JANUARY 11, 2024
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit upheld a district court’s ruling allowing a lawsuit brought by a campus police officer against his employer, the University of Michigan at Dearborn, to proceed.
WCET Frontiers
JANUARY 11, 2024
In Hanna-Barbera’s 1962-63 space age cartoon, The Jetsons , Jetson’s son Elroy is enrolled in Little Dipper School with a robotic teacher, Miss Brainmocker. In this depiction, there is not a human teacher in sight, just robotic Miss Brainmocker. It’s safe to say, that in the future there is either no Department of Education or a Department that has made its peace with the role of technology-assisted instruction, or at least the role of artificial intelligence.
Inside Higher Ed
JANUARY 11, 2024
The San Francisco Conservatory of Music’s response to a student’s report of sexual assault and stalking “violated Title IX at every stage” and was “deliberately indifferent,” the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights found in its investigation of the private college.
Coursera blog
JANUARY 11, 2024
By Sedinam Worlanyo, Senior Product Researcher and Eli Fogle, Senior Learning Design Consultant, Coursera Context The way we learn and therefore the way we must teach is changing rapidly. At the heart of this recent change lies Generative AI (GenAI), a technology that allows students to both learn and demonstrate their learning in entirely new ways.
Economics and Change in Higher Education
JANUARY 11, 2024
Adam Falk, president of the Alfred Sloan Foundation and former president of Williams College, told GBH News people will think twice before running the risk of getting publicly savaged by critics and forced to address profoundly divisive and politicized issues sweeping college campuses. “College presidents are in an absolutely impossible position at the moment, trying to satisfy constituencies whether it's faculty or students or alumni or donors, each of whom think they have a primary call on the
Jon Boeckenstedt
JANUARY 11, 2024
Blog posts have half-lives of about 72 hours, and my most recent one is no exception.
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