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FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The agency is temporarily rolling back administrative requirements as colleges grapple with an abridged financial aid timeline.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2024

With an ever-expanding student body and increasing pressure on staff, Louise Banahene reflects on recent insights into effective personal tutoring for diverse students The post Diverse students need bespoke personal tutoring appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Higher Ed Dive

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The congresswoman has been a vocal critic of the Education Department, including its pandemic spending and Title IX regulatory efforts.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The Office for Students is promising guidance on equitable access partnerships. Ruth Squire thinks through the issues The post Getting serious about third sector collaboration requires clarity over its purpose and power dynamics appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Higher Ed Dive

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The move comes after the private nonprofit in Ohio unveiled plans last year to eliminate 10 academic programs with low enrollment.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Citing FAFSA Delays, U.S. to Ease Requirements on Colleges Katherine Knott Tue, 02/13/2024 - 06:00 AM The Education Department will limit verification of aid applications and reduce program reviews to let institutions focus on students.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

How AI Has Begun Changing University Roles, Responsibilities Lauren.Coffey@… Tue, 02/13/2024 - 03:00 AM While job titles and descriptions have not changed, more faculty are being given AI-focused tasks, according to a new Educause survey.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Civics education could be the next battleground for control of the classroom. By Timothy Messer-Kruse Joan Wong for the Chronicle, photos from iStock Civics education could be the next battleground for control of the classroom.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Constrained by the Presidency Josh Moody Tue, 02/13/2024 - 03:00 AM Colorado College president L. Song Richardson is stepping down in order to “fully engage” in national debates in a way she feels unable to do in her current role.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Many stakeholders in Scotland are celebrating the country’s first international education strategy, but some believe there are key elements yet to be developed if the sector is to reach its full potential. “This is our strategy to work in partnership, right across the sector and make Scotland an absolutely terrific place for international students to come, study, live and work,” said Julie Ramsay, chair of the Scottish Universities International Group and director of admissions

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The results of a recent survey from New America, a left-leaning think tank, show that nearly half of students who left community college before fall 2023 with some credit but no degree or credential cite having to work as a major reason why.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

By Eric Hoover The government will ease a major burden for students and colleges, but it offered no timeline for fixing problems preventing families from submitting the federal-aid form.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Researchers Fear ‘Unintended Consequences’ of Plan to Lower Drug Prices kathryn.palmer… Tue, 02/13/2024 - 03:00 AM They say the plan to allow a government agency to take control of high-priced, federally funded inventions could undermine public-private research partnerships that spur technological innovation.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Visa rejection rates to Australia rose drastically in 2023, with only 78% of visas for higher education approved in August last year. It is a record low for the month, with approval rates only twice before falling below 90%. In August of 2015/16 and 2019/20, 89.9% and 89.4% of visas for primary applicants for higher education, respectively, were approved.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Prompting Progress: Advancing Your AI Skills jdimaggio@upcea.edu Tue, 02/13/2024 - 04:05 PM Generative artificial intelligence has the potential to greatly enhance your creativity, efficiency, productivity and relevance in nearly every role in higher education.

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Academe Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

BY HANK REICHMAN I’m a historian of Russia by training, but I guess I didn’t realize that there’s apparently no double jeopardy rule, at least with respect to sentencing, in Russia.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The University of Missouri system is extending its test-optional policy for another year following a unanimous vote by the system’s Board of Curators. It first adopted a test-optional policy in 2020, along with the vast majority of institutions. At the board meeting, curators said they wanted to gather enough data on graduation rates before making a permanent decision, according to a report from KBIA.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

A not-for-profit agent association specialising in recruiting students wishing to study in New Zealand has launched. New Zealand Education Representatives in India comprises members who are “qualified, trusted, tested and established organisations promoting Education in New Zealand for decades” The announcement comes months after Education NZ said it would disband its Recognised Agencies program with some stakeholders suggesting it was not “fit for purpose” For over 25

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Dr. Kristie Bowers Kristie Bowers has been named associate vice president and director of athletics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. Bowers holds a bachelor’s degree in human development and a Ph.D. in community and public affairs from Binghamton University as well as a master’s in teaching from Western Carolina University.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

An Imagined ‘Economics in America’ Dinner Conversation on Inequality in Higher Education joshua.m.kim@d… Tue, 02/13/2024 - 03:00 AM What I’d ask Sir Angus Deaton.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The consequences of climate change worldwide are not borne equally across all communities as communities of color most often bear the brunt of these environmental challenges, according to a new report from the United Negro College Fund (UNCF). Alexandria McBride As such, UNCF and its Institute for Capacity Building released, “ The HBCU Climate Action Blueprint: Sustainable Campuses, Empowered Communities ,” examining the current activities and future aspirations of historically Black colleges an

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Right-wing president Javier Milei’s proposal to introduce international students fees in Argentina has been voted down in congress for breaching the constitution’s principle of free and equitable public education. Milei’s attempt to introduce international student fees, included as an article in his sweeping Omnibus Bill, was seen by many as the first step in the libertarian president’s dismantling of free education and has sparked debate across Latin America.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Dr. Heather Carter Heather Carter has been named senior vice chancellor of external affairs at Maricopa County Community College District in Arizona. Carter holds a bachelor’s degree in communication and master’s in educational technology from Arizona State University as well as a doctorate in education leadership from Northern Arizona University.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The Quad Fellowship program for STEM students in Australia, India, Japan and the US was expanded last week to include students from the 10 ASEAN countries. The expansion was announced at an event at the White House on February 7 to celebrate the success of the inaugural cohort of Quad Fellows who enrolled on the scholarship in 2021. People-to-people exchange in science and technology was a cornerstone of the Quad summit that year.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The Wentworth Institute of Technology is dropping its pre-Calculus admissions requirement, opening its doors to a wider range of students looking to pursue STEM degrees there. Dr. Deirdre Donovan “We're just recognizing that that Pre-Calculus requirement was just another bar to entry for a whole lot of students,” said Dr. Deirdre Donovan, the inaugural director of first-year math in Wentworth's School of Computing and Data Science.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Fourteen land-grant universities benefit from money made off “trust lands,” or lands taken from Native Americans and managed by the states in which they’re located to produce income to sustain these institutions, according to Grist, an online news magazine focused on environmental issues. Trust lands include surface and subsurface acres, meaning underground resources such as oil, gas and minerals.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster and Marshall University President Brad D. Smith will co-chair the new Southern Regional Education Board Commission on Artificial Intelligence and Education (SREB). The two-year commission convenes leaders in education and business to chart a course for how artificial intelligence, or AI, is used in classrooms and how to prepare a workforce that is being transformed by technology.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The world of higher education was shocked when Marc Tessier-Lavigne, the former president of Stanford University, stepped down after an independent review found his published research fell short of “scientific rigor and process” and was mired with flaws and manipulated data. As the news broke, another prominent researcher at Harvard University, lauded for her research on dishonesty, was placed on administrative leave for her allegedly fraudulent research.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

In the desperate scramble to combat AI, there is a real danger of penalising students who have done nothing wrong Robert Topinka a senior lecturer in media and cultural studies at Birkbeck, University of London When I sat down to mark undergraduate student essays in the spring of 2023, the hype around ChatGPT was already at giddy heights. Like teachers everywhere, I was worried that students would succumb to the temptation to outsource their thinking to the machine.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Historically Black colleges and universities are poised to play a role in combating climate change, according to a new report by the United Negro College Fund, an organization representing private HBCUs.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The London MP has battled to get the Home Office to take responsibility for its mistaken allegations of cheating against many thousands of overseas students There was one crucial statistic in the cheating allegations that the Home Office levelled against more than 35,000 overseas students that instantly alerted Labour MP Stephen Timms to the likely presence of a huge miscarriage of justice.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

By Julia Piper Bowdoin College was the top producer of students among baccalaureate institutions for the fourth year in a row.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Even though the number of international students and employees within US organizations is increasing (Rivas, Burke, and Hale, 2019), intercultural differences, language barriers, and a desire to avoid conflict and/or offensive language continue to be common communication struggles for both American and international individuals (Rivas et al., 2019; Subtirelu et al., 2022).

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Liaison International

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Each February, communities across the United States and around the world unite to pay tribute to the enduring legacies of extraordinary Black leaders, scholars, activists, artists, and unsung heroes. Black History Month exists to honor and celebrate the resilience and strength of the Black community in the face of adversity, and it’s the perfect time to commit to broadening our perspectives and foster understanding through the power of literature.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Even though the number of international students and employees within US organizations is increasing (Rivas, Burke, and Hale, 2019), intercultural differences, language barriers, and a desire to avoid conflict and/or offensive language continue to be common communication struggles for both American and international individuals (Rivas et al., 2019; Subtirelu et al., 2022).

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Educause

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

In November 2023, the Federal Communications Commission issued a proposed rule to reclassify broadband internet access as a telecommunications service under Title II of the Communications Act, thus reestablishing its 2015 net neutrality regulations. EDUCAUSE and the Association for Research Libraries submitted joint comments in December 2023 expressing the associations' support for an open internet.

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