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University survival will be pointless if students don’t

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Mack Marshall and Jim Dickinson spent the summer training up this year’s batch of student leaders. There wasn’t much discussion about the future. Mack Marshall and Jim Dickinson spent the summer training up this year’s batch of student leaders. There wasn’t much discussion about the future.

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OER is Full of Errors: I’m Okay With It

Faculty Focus

Back in 2018, I decided to take the plunge and move to an OER textbook. Now, for those who aren’t familiar, OER, or Open Educational Resources, are course materials under an open license which allows others to access and reuse them at no cost. There’s been a movement lately in institutions, particularly community colleges, to incorporate more OER materials as a way to curb the rising costs of higher education.

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Efficiency and effectiveness are harder to find than to talk about

Wonkhe

David Kernohan evaluates the impact of a 2011 report into efficiency in the higher education sector

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Report: Black Girls Receive More Frequent and More Severe Discipline in School Than Other Girls

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), points out that Black girls tend to face more and harsher forms of discipline than other girls including higher suspension and expulsion rates. The report’s conclusion is based on an analysis of U.S. Department of Education data in the 2017-2018 school year. At the time, Black girls comprised 15 percent of all girls in public schools but received almost half of suspensions and expulsions.

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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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OER is Full of Errors: I’m Okay With It

Faculty Focus

Back in 2018, I decided to take the plunge and move to an OER textbook. Now, for those who aren’t familiar, OER, or Open Educational Resources, are course materials under an open license which allows others to access and reuse them at no cost. There’s been a movement lately in institutions, particularly community colleges, to incorporate more OER materials as a way to curb the rising costs of higher education.

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Campus France launches new podcast

The PIE News

Campus France have launced a new podcast series called 'The French Teach' Listen to Episode 1 - France, at the cutting edge of Artificial Intelligence here.

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Internshala partners with NIELIT to facilitate jobs for students

The PIE News

As part of the MoU, students at NIELIT will gain access to the career platform for internships and job placements. The partnership comes as NIELIT , an autonomous scientific institution under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, aims to streamline campus recruitment processes at its centres. The institution will spread awareness about the platform among students and assign placement officers to manage student data and job activities on the portal.

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2024 TOP-bottom reports: Merge or Close these Ohio programs

College Viability

As more colleges consider their mix of programs, I adapted the weekly TOP-bottom reports to offer some data-driven guidance.

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Watch: QS 360 Student Recruitment

The PIE News

In response to the declining international student offers and the increasing competition among UK universities, QS has launched QS 360, a groundbreaking analytics and advisory solution designed to revolutionise how recruitment and marketing leaders inform their shifting student recruitment objectives.

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Wealth and Want

Higher Education Inquirer

US higher education reflects and reinforces a world of increasing wealth and want. While some institutions boast endowments that rival the GDPs of small nations, others struggle to provide basic amenities and academic resources. This report examines the chasm between the wealthiest university endowments and underfunded tribal colleges, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), and community colleges and how this leads to unnecessary human suffering.

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AAUP Criticizes Florida's State Chancellor for Violating Academic Freedom

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) has called on the Chancellor of the State University System of Florida to retract his directive requiring public university campuses in Florida to identify all courses that might have “antisemitic material and/or anti-Israel bias.” Chancellor Ray Rodrigues “This latest example of the state’s authoritarian approach to higher education dictates that university leaders screen all undergraduate and graduate-course descriptions and syllabi for

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