Fri.Feb 02, 2024

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Colleges begin pushing back deadlines amid FAFSA delay

Higher Ed Dive

The moves come after the U.S. Department of Education said it wouldn’t transmit Free Application for Federal Student Aid data to colleges until March.

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What’s Really at Stake When Colleges Lose Faculty of Color?

Inside Higher Ed

What’s Really at Stake When Colleges Lose Faculty of Color? Sarah Bray Fri, 02/02/2024 - 03:00 AM Top administrators must respond to increasingly pervasive legislation that hinders the recruitment, retention and vital work of those faculty members, writes Jackie Pedota.

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Does completing college influence borrowers’ ability to pay back their loans?

Higher Ed Dive

Students who didn’t complete their studies collectively owed more four years after entering repayment than they originally borrowed, a new analysis finds.

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Counseling Centers See a Rise in Traumatized Students

Inside Higher Ed

Counseling Centers See a Rise in Traumatized Students Johanna Alonso Fri, 02/02/2024 - 03:00 AM Nearly half of all students who visit counseling centers report trauma. In response, colleges are changing the treatments and supports they offer.

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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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This week in 5 numbers: Another FAFSA delay

Higher Ed Dive

We’re rounding up recent big stories, from a wrinkle in the Free Application for Federal Student Aid’s rollout to the closure of Florida Career College.

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‘Simply Stunned’: A Sudden Financial Crisis Has Left Arizona’s Flagship Fearful of What’s to Come

The Chronicle of Higher Education

By Michael Vasquez Megan Mendoza, The Republic, USA Today Network Robert Robbins, president of the U. of Arizona, listens at a meeting last month on the university’s finances. The university is bracing for cuts to close a $177-million budget hole. How painful will they be?

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Indian Ph.D. Students Protest ‘Paper Per Semester’ Rule

Inside Higher Ed

Indian Ph.D. Students Protest ‘Paper Per Semester’ Rule Marjorie Valbrun Fri, 02/02/2024 - 03:00 AM Pressure to publish is seen as “contributing factor” to recent deaths, as India’s leading university faces backlash on doctoral monitoring.

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President’s corner: How Eli Capilouto inspired a spate of gracious donations

University Business

The University of Kentucky is sitting on a cash cow. In October, the flagship land-grant university reached its colossal $2.1 billion fundraising goal , aided by contributions from over 162,000 donors across all 50 states and 50 countries. This past November, contractors began constructing a $380 million health education building approved by the Kentucky General Assembly.

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The Learning Room: Building Trust in One-on-One Student Appointments

Inside Higher Ed

The Learning Room: Building Trust in One-on-One Student Appointments Melissa Ezarik Fri, 02/02/2024 - 03:00 AM Effective campus support—academic or otherwise—involves the student trusting the staff member, the staff member trusting the student and the student having self-trust.

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Roanoke College to Launch Cannabis Studies Program

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Roanoke College students will soon get the opportunity to learn and even earn a degree in cannabis studies, after approval from school faculty. Dr. DB Poli This will make Roanoke College the first college in Virginia to offer a four-year degree in the field of cannabis studies, according to the school. Come this August, students will be able to declare either a major or a minor in cannabis studies.

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Temple Waives Tuition for Low-Income Locals

Inside Higher Ed

Temple University announced Thursday that it will cover tuition and fees for incoming full-time students from Philadelphia whose family income is $65,000 or less.

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Kean University Launches Visionary New Center for Africana Studies

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Lamont O. Repollet Kean University opened Black History Month announcing the creation of a new Center for Africana Studies. “This new center epitomizes the University’s commitment to equity and to serving our state, particularly our urban communities,” said Kean President Dr. Lamont O. Repollet. “All young people deserve to know their past. We are dedicated to establishing the best, most effective curriculum and programming to ensure they have a full understanding of history to help them sha

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UUK to review fair admissions and agent behaviour

The PIE News

The board of Universities UK – on behalf of 142 university members – has announced a series of immediate actions it says are required to give confidence that the admission system is “fair, transparent and robust” In recent weeks there has been “significant focus” on international student recruitment practices, it said, as it pledged to review quality and comparability of programs for international and domestic students, as well as a review into the Agent Quality Framework

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UTSA Faculty Hiring Program Aims to Compete for Researchers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The University of Texas System (UT System) has approved the creation of the Regents’ Research Excellence Program across its four Emerging Research Universities, including UT Arlington, UT Dallas, UT El Paso, and The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). The UT System has allocated $55 million across the ERUs to fund the recruitment of research-active faculty to increase its national research prominence and federal funding opportunities.

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Navigating data privacy in 2024 - 3 tips for higher education marketing

Terminalfour

By practicing privacy-first marketing and capturing and using data ethically, you can create more personalized experiences and bolster your university’s brand and recruitment efforts. Here’s a brief update about the data privacy landscape and 3 tips for higher education marketing.

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WENDY PEARSON

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Wendy Pearson Wendy Pearson has been appointed vice president for strategic initiatives at Stony Brook University in New York. She served as the senior advisor to the provost at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa. Pearson holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Michigan State University and a master’s in Asian studies from the University of Hawai’i at Manoa.

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Cal State Expands Aid to Cover Costs Beyond Tuition

Inside Higher Ed

The California State University Board of Trustees voted Wednesday to expand the system’s grant offerings to go beyond the cost of tuition and help students with the overall cost of attendance, EdSource reported.

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Looking Back to See Forward - Dr. Nic John Ramos

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Title: Assistant Professor, Department of History, Drexel University, Jointly Appointed, History and Africana Studies, Drexel University Tenured: No Age: 42 Education: B.A., political science, University of California at Irvine; B.A., Asian American studies, University of California at Irvine; M.A., American studies and ethnicity, University of Southern California; and Ph.D., American studies and ethnicity, University of Southern California Career mentors: Dr.

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UK universities to review international student admissions after recruitment controversy

The Guardian - Higher Education

Move comes after accusations of lowering entry standards to foreign applicants who pay far higher tuition fees Vice-chancellors are to review international student admissions by British universities, including how to identify “bad practice” among agents employed to attract people from overseas, after controversy over recruitment. Universities UK, which represents university leaders, announced a series of reviews into the use of recruitment agents and international foundation programmes, as well

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Can a President Have Friends on the Campus?

The Chronicle of Higher Education

Newcomers to a top leadership post aren’t prepared for the loneliness of the role. By Melody Rose and Patrick Sharry Jon Krause for The Chronicle Newcomers to a top leadership post aren’t prepared for the loneliness of the role.

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Oregon university drops failing grades for students, citing ‘GPA fixation’

University Business

An Oregon university announced they will abandon failing letter grades, citing a “GPA fixation” that negatively impacts students. Western Oregon University issued a news release earlier this month that revealed the school would be replacing “D-” and “F” grades with “no credit” to discourage undergrads from dropping out.

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Bloomfield College of Montclair Drops 6 Sports

Inside Higher Ed

When struggling Bloomfield College was absorbed by Montclair State University in 2022, officials announced Bloomfield would keep its Division II athletics programs, at least temporarily.

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Embracing Digital Connectivity and Educational Inclusivity: An Interview with Author Adam Stepan

WENR

Designed and delivered with intention, digital education can form “an integral part of a more inclusive and effective learning ecosystem,” Adam Stepan, director of Columbia University’s Picker Center Digital Educational Group, said in an interview with WENR. The post Embracing Digital Connectivity and Educational Inclusivity: An Interview with Author Adam Stepan appeared first on WENR.

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This Is Where New Ph.D.s Find Jobs

The Chronicle of Higher Education

By Audrey Williams June Increasingly, those jobs are in industry.

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PATRICK DAVIS SR.

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Patrick Davis Sr. Patrick Davis Sr. has been appointed vice president of the Tennessee College of Applied Technology Jackson (Blue Oval City). Davis holds master’s degrees in instruction and curriculum design and in business administration-technology management from the University of Phoenix and a doctorate in educational leadership and policy analysis from East Tennessee State.

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Do You Know What the Public Really Thinks of College?

The Chronicle of Higher Education

By Jacquelyn Elias Last summer The Chronicle polled the general population about how colleges serve students and society, and more than 1,000 American adults answered. In this quiz, see if you can guess what they said.

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Higher Ed Workforce Rebounding From Pandemic - Doug Lederman, Inside Higher Ed

Economics and Change in Higher Education

Colleges employed 3.9 million people in 2022, up 1.75 percent from 2020 but still down from more than four million in 2019. Community college employee rolls have continued to shrink. And the gains have come despite the fact that community college workforces have continued to shrink, dropping by more than 4 percent over all since 2020 and by nearly 6 percent among instructors.

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SCOTUS Blocks Injunction Targeting Race-Conscious Admissions at West Point

Insight Into Diversity

Despite ruling against race-conscious admissions processes in higher education last summer, the U.S. Supreme Court recently blocked a request to stop the practice at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. The request was made by Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA), the conservative advocacy group that filed the lawsuits against the University of North Carolina and Harvard that led to the court’s decision against race-conscious admissions.

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Top 12 WCET Frontiers Posts of 2023

WCET Frontiers

Happy 2024! I know you are probably a little sick of top 10 lists for things that went well, were trendy, or went poorly in 2023. So, I’ve made a top 12 list instead. Today we’re looking at our readership and views for the WCET Frontiers blog over the past year. In 2023, we published 61 blog posts with a total of 109,049 words (whoa!). We absolutely enjoyed not only sharing insights and discussions from the staff here at WCET and more importantly, highlighting and showcasing our amazing member i

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Scammers posing as Drexel University professor dupe student out of thousands of dollars

University Business

Clayton Justice said he answered a job listing that appeared to have been posted by a Drexel University professor in October. It offered a paid internship as a research assistant. The internship offer was supposedly being run by Drexel University Economics Professor Dr. Marco Airaudo. The Federal Trade Commissioner offered these tips when accepting offers to work from home, but the biggest item is: never send money supposedly given to you as an overpayment back unless it was from a proven and tr

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International Year One programs – what’s the deal?

The PIE News

International Year One programs are under scrutiny after an article in the national press pointed out the grade discrepancies it could expose – but what are they, and why are they causing the debate? Pathway providers like Kaplan, Study Group, Oxford International Education Group and others often partner with universities to offer Foundation programs, which are taken in addition to the full bachelor’s degree before it starts.

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Colleges dropped the SAT and ACT. Here’s why many high schools didn’t

University Business

Students applying to Indiana University, the state’s flagship school , don’t have to submit standardized test scores to be considered for admission. But they still have to take the SAT in high school. That is because Indiana started using the College Board’s SAT in spring 2022 as its way of measuring school quality under federal education law. Among its reasons: The SAT is nationally recognized, fairly short and—until recently—widely used in college admissions.

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Community college aid pushes enrollment — and strains staffs - Carrie Jung, WBUR

Economics and Change in Higher Education

"It’s been busier and there’s been a lot more adults coming," Rodriguez said. That's due, in part, to a new state program called MassReconnect, which covers community college tuition and fees for residents 25 and older who don't have a college degree and enroll in at least six credits per semester in an approved program of study. The program, which launched last August as part of a state initiative to make college more affordable, has boosted interest in the state's 15 community colleges, accord

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The Benefits of Traffic Roundabouts: Academic Minute

Inside Higher Ed

Today on the Academic Minute: Deogratias Eustace, professor and director of graduate studies at the University of Dayton, examines how traffic circles can make a big difference for drivers.

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UK ELT sector seeks clarity on Labour’s VAT proposal

The PIE News

The UK ELT sector is bracing for another blow as campaigners seek clarity on Labour’s proposed tax increase for private schools which could also include language providers. Keir Starmer, leader of the Labour party, announced his plans to hit independent schools with a 20% VAT increase if the party wins the general election. Labour has pledged to end the tax-empt status that services related to private school education currently benefit from.

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Neil Buchanan on Leaving Florida: Syllabus Podcast

Inside Higher Ed

This week’s episode of the Syllabus podcast, from the Office of Open Learning at American Jewish University and Inside Higher Ed, features a conversation with Neil H. Buchanan, an economist and legal scholar who decided to leave his job at the University of Florida.