WCET Frontiers

AUGUST 31, 2023

The biggest topic in higher education right now, at least in my opinion, is artificial intelligence. There are various stories in higher education news about what impact AI will have on students, instructors, and the education field at large. This week, we welcome Marc Watkins, Academic Innovation Fellow from the University of Mississippi. Marc joins us to discuss the potential of AI in digital learning and to highlight the amazing work happening at his institution to prepare faculty and student

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Wonkhe

AUGUST 28, 2023

What’s the state of fundraising in UK higher education? Introducing a new report, Nik Miller and Joanna Motion are learning from the past and looking to the future The post The power and pace of philanthropy in higher education appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Higher Ed Dive

AUGUST 21, 2023

The lawsuit takes aim at documents that advise instructors to avoid inflicting “curricular trauma” on students and define merit as protecting White privilege.

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Higher Ed Ethics Watch

AUGUST 2, 2023

Give Credit Where Credit is Due I’m always on the lookout for articles about the use of ChatGPT, especially as it pertains to ethical behavior. I recently read an instructive piece on the Educate Wiser website. In it, the author points out some of the limitations of ChatGPT that include: Generating inaccurate or unreliable information. Reflecting biases that are present in the text it has been trained on.

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Educause

AUGUST 30, 2023

Integrating AI into higher education is not a futuristic vision but an inevitability. Colleges and universities must adapt and prepare students, faculty, and staff for their AI-infused futures.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 31, 2023

Reyna Gómez Tippetts says community colleges are “the gateway for education” and provide an opportunity “to help you get to the next step.” Earning a high school diploma, let alone a college degree, once seemed like an unattainable goal to Reyna Gómez Tippetts. When she was growing up with a poor, single mother in a shack with a dirt floor and cardboard walls, dreaming big wasn’t part of the culture.

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Wonkhe

AUGUST 31, 2023

Commuter students have all kinds of different experiences. Emma Maslin's research seeks to better understand their journeys The post I spent the last six months travelling alongside commuter students. Here’s what I learned appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Higher Ed Dive

AUGUST 31, 2023

The Education Department hasn’t even sent its regulatory plans to the Office of Management and Budget, which can take up to 120 days to review them.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 31, 2023

Using a grant from the U.S. National Park Service, Howard University is restoring the home of civil rights activist Mary Church Terrell. This endeavor was funded by an African American Civil Rights (AACR) grant from the National Park Service’s Historic Preservation Fund, which has given out more than a total of $2 billion in historic preservation grants since 1977.

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The PIE News

AUGUST 31, 2023

UK graduates unable to find work are actively seeking out opportunities teaching English abroad, according to a new survey. According to the survey conducted by The TEFL Academy , over 30% of UK respondents had chosen to teach English abroad as a direct result of challenges in finding employment in their field of study. “Finding out your degree is not worth the paper it’s printed on is hugely disappointing.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 28, 2023

Students spent three terrifying hours on lockdown while police investigated a fatal shooting at a science building in the center of the Chapel Hill campus. A University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty member was shot and killed on campus Monday, according to a statement from Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz. Police arrested the alleged shooter, whom local media organizations identified as a UNC graduate student after matching his photo with institutional records.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

AUGUST 30, 2023

By Megan Zahneis Pat Kinsella for The Chronicle Female professors at the college have been underpaid for two decades, and the disparity between them and male colleagues has only widened over time, a new lawsuit claims.

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Wonkhe

AUGUST 29, 2023

Jim Dickinson tries to make sense of regs defining a "full time" course that a student has to "attend", and finds a mess built on outdated assumptions that universities may nevertheless want to maintain The post What even is a “full-time” course anyway? appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Higher Ed Dive

AUGUST 31, 2023

The parties will participate in state-administered mediation after failing to find agreement on issues like pay and parental leave.

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University Business

AUGUST 30, 2023

Leading up to the new academic year, colleges and universities have signed numerous partnership agreements of different shapes and sizes to meet the country’s workforce needs, particularly in healthcare. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce estimates that 1.9 million fewer Americans are working today than a month before the pandemic started. Early retirement, low immigration rates and employees quitting after the Great Resignation have created such a delta that even if all 5.9 currently unemployed

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HEPI

AUGUST 31, 2023

This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by John Rushforth, Executive Secretary of the Committee of University Chairs , writing in a personal capacity. Discussions on vice-chancellors’ pay are not something I particularly enjoy. They tend to generate lots of emotion, be relatively short of facts and often turn unpleasant So, when the HEPI report on VC pay landed on my desk, my reaction was not unalloyed joy.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 31, 2023

Andrea Webb and Erica Machulak explore four ways faculty members and administrators can foster professional agency among graduate students. As universities across North America become more sensitive to the precarious career prospects of their graduate students, they are increasingly calling upon faculty members to find new ways to prepare Ph.D.s for life beyond the academy.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

AUGUST 28, 2023

How conservative activists use state legislatures to control what colleges can teach. By Steven Brint Ricardo Rey for The Chronicle How conservative activists use state legislatures to control what colleges can teach.

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Wonkhe

AUGUST 23, 2023

As students seek ways to bridge gaps between theoretical knowledge and real-world application, Elena Rodríguez Falcón senses opportunities amidst the "threats" of generative AI The post AI should cause us to adopt more progressive approaches to learning appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Higher Ed Dive

AUGUST 3, 2023

Florida will not permit schools to teach sections of AP Psychology on sexual orientation and gender identity, coursework the College Board, the nonprofit behind the course, describes as foundational.

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University Business

AUGUST 30, 2023

“We’re going to ride the wave and see what happens.” This was an intriguing response from one of Primacy’s higher education clients when discussing the possibility of adopting Meta’s latest social media platform, Threads. It’s a sentiment that captures the challenge many higher education institutions face today: How do we harness the potential of new social platforms while ensuring a well-founded strategy that increases awareness and aids in engagement?

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The PIE News

AUGUST 31, 2023

The Albanese government in Australia has announced that it is ending a visa that sector stakeholders say students have been utilising to end their studies early and access full-time work in the country. Estimates suggest that around 30% of 100,000 individuals currently on 408 Covid visas in Australia are former international students. Peak bodies have welcomed the government decision to end the visa as it closes a loophole that has been used to access the jobs market.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 30, 2023

The University of Arizona Global Campus, which acquired Ashford in 2020, might be on the hook for the discharged student loans. The former Ashford University repeatedly lied to students over a decade about the cost, time requirement and value of its degree program, making the education they obtained “effectively worthless,” the U.S.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

AUGUST 31, 2023

Eight-hundred pages of newly obtained documents show a surprising lack of foresight. By KC Johnson Derek Brahney for The Chronicle Eight-hundred pages of newly obtained documents show a surprising lack of foresight.

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Wonkhe

AUGUST 24, 2023

Amidst the apocalyptic nature of the climate crisis, Sean Porter calls for education that builds hope and liberation from the current state of the world The post How to convert climate grief and anxiety into hope in higher education appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Higher Ed Dive

AUGUST 31, 2023

The 26-institution system also prohibited colleges from requiring diversity statements as part of employee training.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 30, 2023

It’s not enough to make statements. It’s not enough to create working groups. It’s not enough to pay attention to only some parts of the larger problem. When it comes to improving mental health equity on college campuses, more work just needs to be done, mental health experts said during a webinar Wednesday. (left to right, top to bottom) Dr. Shawnté Elbert; Dr.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 31, 2023

Recently, I attended a conference and was sharing my new visual syllabus with some colleagues. After several interactions, I noticed the most frequent comment was, “What a cool syllabus…but is it accessible?” I was ecstatic to hear this question! You see, I’ve been working to expand the accessibility of resources at my college for a while, so it was great to see this on the mind of so many other educators.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 31, 2023

A Flagship Research University… Without Language Degrees or Math Ph.D.s? Featured Image at Top of Article WVU_01 (1).

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

AUGUST 28, 2023

By Zachary Schermele Illustration by The Chronicle; iStock images The once-popular, ever-controversial website is imploding, critics say. What, if anything, does higher ed stand to lose?

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Wonkhe

AUGUST 21, 2023

Can you be an artist and an entrepreneur? For Robert Phillips, the word might not fit but the action does. The post There’s more we could do to support entrepreneurship in the arts appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Higher Ed Dive

AUGUST 10, 2023

The president of the North Dakota college wants to distill its nine academic departments into four schools in part to counter a projected $1 million shortfall.

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Educause

AUGUST 29, 2023

By answering 10 calls to action, IT leaders can catalyze lasting transformations that will fundamentally redefine how higher education institutions provide access and services.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

AUGUST 31, 2023

Student says he has been pressured to remove a reference to Antoinette Sandbach, a descendant of a slave merchant The former Tory MP Antoinette Sandbach has threatened the University of Cambridge with legal action after a historian named her as a descendant of merchants who enslaved his ancestors. Malik Al Nasir, a third-year PhD history student at St Catharine’s College, has spent the past 20 years exploring his family’s history of slavery and the wealth that was built from those who enslaved t

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 31, 2023

Alderson Broaddus University, which has spent the past two months teetering on the edge of failure, filed for bankruptcy Thursday and told its employees, students and alumni that it would close.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

AUGUST 30, 2023

The wildfires, heat waves, and floods that increasingly appear on our news feeds are real. Small actions can be an antidote to despair. By Karen Costa LJ Davids for The Chronicle The wildfires, heat waves, and floods that increasingly appear on our news feeds are real. Small actions can be an antidote to despair.

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