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

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.

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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’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag takes us to Oxford via Birmingham The post Higher education postcard: Mansfield College, Oxford appeared first on Wonkhe.

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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.

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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.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 11, 2024

2 SUNY Institutions, 1 Campus Sara Weissman Thu, 01/11/2024 - 03:00 AM Clinton Community College plans to move its operations to SUNY Plattsburgh’s campus by the 2025–26 academic year in response to enrollment and financial challenges.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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”.

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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.

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Liaison International

JANUARY 11, 2024

Are you passionate about innovation and its impact on higher education? Eager to share your knowledge and insights with like-minded individuals? If so, we invite you to become a part of experience: Liaison | Anaheim 2024, where innovation meets impact. experience: Liaison is a two-day, premier higher education conference dedicated to fostering collaboration and exploring cutting-edge solutions driving meaningful change on campuses.

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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.

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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.

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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

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