Wonkhe
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
In England and in Scotland universities are struggling financially. As Peter Scott notes, though the policy conversation is different the root causes are the same The post Across the UK, providers are struggling appeared first on Wonkhe.
Higher Ed Dive
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Nine higher ed groups said institutions should provide prospective students and their families with flexibility during a tumultuous application cycle.
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Wonkhe
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
For home students, we accept that HE is partly about career building - but are similar supports there for international students? Brenda Hernandez explains the struggle for professional opportunities The post Are professional opportunities within international students’ grasp? appeared first on Wonkhe.
Higher Ed Dive
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
The public university’s leader pointed to “current conditions and the higher education landscape” as reasons for the program eliminations.
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Wonkhe
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
This week’s card from Hugh Jones’s postbag takes us to Ghana. And Wolverhampton The post Higher education postcard: University of Cape Coast appeared first on Wonkhe.
Higher Ed Data Stories
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
I started this visualization to show how first-year classes at the highly rejective colleges had changed since COVID-19 forced them all to go to a test-optional approach for the Fall of 2021. But it sort of took on a life of its own after that, as big, beefy data sets often do. The original point was to help discount the conventional wisdom, which is propped up by a limited, old study of a small set of colleges that showed test-optional policies didn't affect diversity.
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The Chronicle of Higher Education
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
A new biography of one of the 20th century's premier intellectuals. By Vaughn Rasberry Illustration by The Chronicle; Newscom image A new biography of one of the 20th century's premier intellectuals.
Inside Higher Ed
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Privileging outputs can steer us away from quality. I am in the midst of revising a book about writing, which has me simultaneously thinking about writing in the context of what I’m saying in the book and reflecting on the writing I am doing as the book is being written. This has surfaced a desire to get a little Zen on y’all regarding a minor epiphany I’ve had while making my way through the revision process following receiving feedback from my editor and some trusted readers.
EdTech Magazine - Higher Education
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
College students are the lifeblood of higher education. Everyone in university administration — including in the IT office — knows how valuable it is to truly understand how those students feel, what they want, what they appreciate and what they dislike about their college experience. Our series of student-authored content, which began in 2020 as the pandemic upended our world, aims to help institutions get an unfiltered student perspective.
Inside Higher Ed
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
American University Bans Indoor Protests jessica.blake@… Thu, 02/01/2024 - 03:00 AM Administrators say the new policy was a necessary response to antisemitism, but many faculty members, students and free speech advocates fear it will chill free speech on campus.
The PIE News
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Controversial legislation that was set to hike fees for international students in France has been overturned, as the president makes a fresh call for international talent. In December 2023, as part of France’s proposed immigration law , it was announced that international students would be subject to paying a deposit when applying for a student visa, as well as increased tuition fees for non-EU students.
Inside Higher Ed
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Tenure Extensions Were Popular Amid the Pandemic. That May Not Be Good. Ryan Quinn Thu, 02/01/2024 - 03:00 AM Colleges gave tenure candidates more time due to COVID-19. Women, who may be more likely to fall behind due to extensions, reported more disruption to their research than men.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Dr. Daniel Jean often recounts with sadness the story of Robert Daniel Cuadra, an 18-year-old honor student from Paterson, New Jersey, who was planning to embark on a promising college career at Montclair State University in the summer of 2022. Dr. Junius Gonzales Mike Peters/Montclair State University But Cuadra would never actually enroll at the public research university just a few miles from his home.
Inside Higher Ed
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
State Support for Colleges Grew as Stimulus Funds Ebbed Doug Lederman Thu, 02/01/2024 - 03:00 AM Even with a reduction in federal stimulus funding, state support for higher education was up 10 percent in fiscal 2024.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
By Sonel Cutler State funding is up 10 percent this year. Many legislatures have directed more money to public colleges in an effort to keep tuition flat.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
A dozen higher education institutions have been selected to participate in the Equitable and Inclusive Curriculum-to-Career Models Project, according to the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U). The two-year project — supported by a grant from Lumina Foundation — builds on campus work initiated through AAC&U’s Curriculum-to-Career Innovations Institute.
The PIE News
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Kaplan Business School has announced a new campus on the Gold Coast in Australia, bringing its total locations in the country to six. It comes after the provider – which prides itself on its “future-focused, innovative” community – opened a school in Perth in 2020. In 2023, Kaplan Business School won the inaugural Business School of the Year category at The PIEoneer Awards.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Ruth L. Okediji Ruth L. Okediji has been appointed the Oppenheimer Faculty Director of the Center for African Studies at Harvard University. She serves as the Jeremiah Smith Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Okediji holds a Bachelor of Law degree from University of Jos in Nigeria as well as a master’s and a juris doctorate from Harvard Law School.
Inside Higher Ed
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
A coalition of higher ed professional associations and advocacy organizations issued a letter Wednesday urging colleges to extend their typical May 1 commitment deadline for accepted students in light of a nearly two-month delay in the delivery of FAFSA information to c
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
As New York is projected to experience a dearth of 40,000 nurses by 2030, the City University of New York (CUNY) has planned to get ahead of the potential shortage. Dr. Fernando Delgado CUNY is opening a $95 million Nursing Education, Research and Practice Center that will include 22 robotic patient simulators that can be programmed to replicate hundreds of medical conditions, including breathing difficulty and childbirth.
Faculty Focus
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
I have had the honor and privilege to teach community college students for the past 14 years and have learned so much about their strengths and challenges during this time. Some of their experiences are unique and must be carefully understood while others are common to all individuals transitioning to a new phase in life. In general, this is a student population with amazing resiliency and competing priorities that must be recognized and understood by administration and faculty.
University Business
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Providing higher education access for rural learners in the United States has pushed state leaders in Kentucky to think about building a new university and the USDA to help sustain the financial health of some colleges to prevent an “education desert” in the region. One foundation is stepping up to bridge these underserved students’ college and university access.
Academe Blog
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
BY THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY AAUP CHAPTER The following statement was issued January 29, 2024. In 2022, American University reaffirmed its commitment to freedom of expression, stating in relevant part: When we engage in inquiry, we may have to confront truths that are unpleasant and ideas and perspectives with which we disagree or even find loathsome.
Coursera blog
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Riphah International University, located in Pakistan, is a private educational institution with over 25,000 students spread across multiple campuses. In the wake of the global COVID-19 pandemic, higher education institutions such as Riphah were faced with unprecedented challenges. The disruptions caused by the pandemic highlighted how crucial it was for universities to swiftly enhance their digital capabilities to ensure uninterrupted learning for their students.
Inside Higher Ed
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Accuracy in Media, the group behind what it calls infamous mobile billboards and what others call doxing trucks, has now targeted faculty members at the University of Colorado at Boulder, The Daily Camera reports.
Faculty Focus
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
I have had the honor and privilege to teach community college students for the past 14 years and have learned so much about their strengths and challenges during this time. Some of their experiences are unique and must be carefully understood while others are common to all individuals transitioning to a new phase in life. In general, this is a student population with amazing resiliency and competing priorities that must be recognized and understood by administration and faculty.
Inside Higher Ed
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Today on the Academic Minute: Alexandra Brozowski, research associate at Michigan State University, takes a look at one group of people who feel left out and underresearched. Learn more about the Academic Minute here.
HEPI
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Nicola McCullough, Director of Education at Ahead in Sport and a mentor for Women in Football, and Joel Roberts, Chief Executive at Ahead in Sport. UK higher education has had a strong international reputation for many years. However, increasing competition for international students and recent reputational challenges may hinder UK institutions’ ability to support global higher education growth, and the growing need for upskilling and reskilling.
Inside Higher Ed
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
The National Collegiate Athletic Association is engaged in another war of words (and potentially legal action) with its member universities, this time over the association’s enforcement of its rules governing athletes’ names, images and likenesses.
Caylor Solutions
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Using generative AI for higher education marketing can do more than save you time, it can open up new ways to make greater connections with your audience. The post Generative AI for Higher Education: Future-Proof Your School’s Marketing Tools appeared first on Caylor Solutions.
Inside Higher Ed
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Ensuring students are fully informed. Britt was a good but not outstanding student in high school. She had always planned to go to college, but as the first in her family to graduate from high school, she wasn’t exposed at home to information about the college selection or application process; because she wasn’t in high school honors classes, she didn’t hear much about them from peers or teachers.
The PIE News
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
While the higher education system in Mexico is one with great potential, the debate over how to augment access stands in its way, according to an expert panel. At the IFE Conference at the Tecnologico de Monterrey campus in northern Mexico, three experts in the field of HE discussed how the field could improve the country’s standing in education. Bernardo González Aréchiga, rector at the Universidad del Valle de Mexico, noted that the country is “on the route to a growing gap”.
Economics and Change in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
A whistleblower lawsuit accusing Colorado Technical University of artificially inflating how much educational content it provides students will move forward after a federal judge denied a motion to dismiss the complaint earlier this month. The suit, brought by an anonymous former employee, alleges that the for-profit college defrauded the federal government out of hundreds of millions of dollars by deliberately failing to provide students with the number of learning hours needed to meet federal
HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
A Good, Better, Best Approach to Online Program Growth Whether you have an existing online program portfolio or you’re just getting started in online education, this workshop is for you. Archer’s Good, Better, Best framework is a structured roadmap rooted in organizational development — Archer believes universities can build success from within.
University Business
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Financial aid experts worry the hurdles could discourage students from immigrant families from applying for financial aid at all, or put them off college altogether. Students from immigrant families have been getting stuck trying to add their parents as “contributors,” a new step that requires parents to verify their identity. There’s no option on the form right now that allows families to get verified without a Social Security number.
Economics and Change in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
At the University of California, Merced, lecturers make up almost half of faculty members, representing the largest percentage of lecturers when compared to other UC campuses. Those lecturers say they are now feeling the impact of flatlining enrollment and a budget crunch at the campus in the middle of the state's agricultural heartland. Amid efforts to contain that budget gap, lecturers say they have seen less work and their positions eliminated.
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