July, 2022

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Professor Chinasa Elue on Grief, Trauma, and Talking About Loss Online

The Academic Designer

How do you talk about grief and loss online? Chinasa Elue, PhD opens up about the death of her mom, and the research she's doing to help leaders move forward with trauma-informed practices.

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The Last AP Post?

Higher Ed Data Stories

I'm not sure if this will be the last AP post I make, but it sure seems that way, unless people (including those of us who are members of the, you know, membership organization called College Board) put enough pressure on them to continue providing data in the detailed format like they've always done. In case you don't know, College Board used to put very granular data on its website, for anyone to download and examine.

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What Does a Higher Education Marketing Timeline Look Like?

MindMax

Partnering with a higher education marketing firm for marketing and enrollment services is a big, exciting decision. And once you’ve made a commitment, you’re understandably eager to get ads in market as quickly as possible. At MindMax, we share your enthusiasm and are just as committed to a new engagement as you are. We work diligently behind the scenes to streamline campaign kickoffs.

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Insights into the way universities responded to the global pandemic

Cisco blogs - Education

The resilience and creativity of universities was on show in equal measures as part of the 2022 Cisco higher education study tour. The tour was attended by more than a dozen university executives from around Australia with visits to RMIT, La Trobe, Adelaide and Flinders University. The tour provided some fascinating insights into the way that the higher education has responded to the global pandemic, including: Focus on digital innovation to improve how they teach and serve industry.

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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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Is your university or college prepared for the voice search revolution?

Terminalfour

As speech continues to rival traditional type search in popularity, we explore why and how you can make it an integral part of your higher education digital marketing strategies.

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Associate Deans Roundtable Starts in late September

Rena Seltzer, Leader Academic

Associate Deans Roundtable. Those “leading from the middle” must have a special knack for diplomacy, and in contrast to the hierarchical models found in most non-academic settings, the associate dean’s task of guiding a group of independent-minded faculty members to a common goal is frequently compared to herding cats. All of this is exponentially complicated when leading in times of uncertainty.

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Does the admissions process favor men?

Higher Ed Data Stories

There is another article making the rounds in higher education about the advantages men have in the admissions process. It's sort of interesting, because while you can look at the available data a lot of different ways, you'd really need to look at the data you can't see to draw the conclusions everyone seems to have drawn. Here is the article , and what you'll probably notice is that the headline--the part everyone reads--is sort of walked back in the article.

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Mindmaxing Podcast: Episode 23 with Mike Flanagan

MindMax

What skills do graduates need to be able to go out into the world? While some education leaders focus solely on getting students to graduate high school, Mike Flanagan, CEO of the Mastery Transcript Consortium, is focused on creating educational pathways that empower graduates even after they’ve collected their diplomas. In the latest episode of our MindMaxing Podcast series, “Adolescence to Adulthood,” Mike discusses how education—from curriculum to assessment to college admissions—is evolving

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Joining Forces at ISTELive 2022

Cisco blogs - Education

ISTELive 2022 has come and gone. It was phenomenal to be back in person. NOLA rolled out the red carpet as we made our way throughout the convention center and the always fantastic dining venues. I noticed a different vibe this year in that we all felt an urgency to catch up and network, as well as had the need to gather as much information about technology in education as possible.

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Reflections on Dagstuhl organisation

Academic Computing

Last week I attended Dagstuhl seminar 22302 , which I co-organised. I thought it might be useful to record some thoughts on what went well and what could have gone better from an organiser’s point of view. (Note: there were three other organisers; I speak only for myself and the others may well have different opinions.). Invitations. A Dagstuhl seminar is an invite-only event on a specific computer science related topic (proposed by the organisers) that is held at the Dagstuhl conference c

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Characteristics of Adult Learners and How to Engage Them

HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

Reaching Adult Learners Through Alternative Channels. The digital transformation higher education has experienced in recent years has flipped the entire industry on its head. In fact, the online degree market is expanding rapidly, with an expected global market value of $75 billion by 2025, according to HolonIQ. Thanks to this massive shift, adult learners have greater access to higher education through flexible learning models.

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Imagining alternative futures

LSE Higher Education Blog

In this excerpt from her book, Creative Universities – Reimagining Education for Global Challenges and Alternative Futures , Anke Schwittay introduces the case for a ‘critical-creative education’, which makes space for imagination, creativity and radical hope. .

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Doctoral recipients by bachelor's degree-granting institution, 2016-2020

Higher Ed Data Stories

Each time I publish this visualization I get a lot of traffic on the site, and I can see why. It shows all doctoral recipients (in 2016-2020) broken out by where they received their bachelor's degrees. So, for instance, the top level view shows that UC Berkeley is the alma mater of more doctoral recipients than any other institution, followed by The University of Michigan and Cornell University.

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CMOs Pushing Boundaries and Seeing Results

Campus Sonar

Higher ed marketing isn’t synonymous with pushing boundaries, but some CMOs are trying to change that. We sat down with Jenny Petty , University of Montana, and Gabriel Welsch , Duquesne University, to pick their brains on the importance of boundary pushing in higher ed marketing. What do you think stops higher ed marketing teams from getting to higher stages of marketing maturity?

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Fad or future: Can NFTs transform higher education?

Terminalfour

We look at how are NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, are being used by universities. From degree authentication to philanthropy, college sports, and student work, what do recent use cases for NFTs tell us about the future?

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The ultimate guide to Placement Management System

Creatrix Campus

The ultimate guide to Placement Management System. admin. Wed, 07/27/2022 - 05:23. To make the student placement programs work for everyone, every institution needs a placement management system. It is integral to any training and placement cells that consider placing students and improving their skills and learning how to stand out in a crowd. Given the current scenario, direct industry placements from college provide an opportunity to sharpen rusty skills and apply them in real-world situation

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Reinventing the Business Model for Small CollegesChanging Higher Ed Podcast 114 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Jayson Boyers, former President of Rosemont College

The Change Leader, Inc.

Jayson Boyers is part of a new breed of higher education leaders who come from the business world. When Boyers was working with a financial services company, he decided to work with mentoring young people. He got involved with a program, then became its educational director, helping highly at-risk youth get into college. Jayson Boyers is part of a new breed of higher education leaders delivering excellent results by reinventing the business model for small colleges.

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More Leadership Advice for the New Academic Year

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

More Leadership Advice for the New Academic Year. bridget. Thu, 07/21/2022 - 06:00. Image. Communication. COVID 19. Higher Ed Leadership. Inside Higher Ed. interim. Scholarship to Practice. Strategic Planning. academic. University Innovation Alliance. Weekly Wisdom. With a new academic year fast approaching, higher education leaders have a lot on their plates.

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Critical Digital Education Practice Sharing Day – call for presentations

totallyrewired

The Digital Education team at UAL is hosting a practice sharing event on Wednesday 21st September. Image: Bruce Mars, Unsplash. The overall theme for the day is Critical Digital Education. We welcome presentations from UAL staff and students in the following areas of digital education that: • Involve co-creation of knowledge between tutors and students • Is built on trust and belonging. • Relates to the lived experience of students and tutors. • Emphasises a human process • Encourages symbolic r

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Leader of Learning Podcast episode 139: EdTech Trends: Interviews from ISTELive 22 (Part 1)

Leader of Learning

I interviewed Kami’s CEO and co-founder, Hengjie Wang. Kami, recently named TIME100’s Most Influential Companies, is leading the charge in the edtech space with their innovative digital classroom tool that’s currently used by half of all US K-12 schools. The education tool allows teachers to effectively grade and provide tailored feedback on assignments based on a student’s individual learning ability while enriching the learning experience online and in-person.

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4 Tips for Launching Your Startup Website

idfive agency

Filing that paperwork is a big first step. You’re in business—congratulations! . But if you’re like most startups, you’re about to do a bunch of stuff you don’t know how to do yet. . Sometimes that “stuff” includes building a website that’ll serve your current needs while also scaling up to the big plans you have. It’s hard to know where to start and even harder to know that a misstep here can lead to major headaches later.

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What qualities to look for when purchasing Higher Education CRM?

Creatrix Campus

What qualities to look for when purchasing Higher Education CRM? admin. Tue, 07/19/2022 - 01:47. Higher education CRMs can increase your enrollment, and boost conversion, graduation rates, and revenue. They are powerful tools that can streamline customer support, communication, and management. Using the best CRM for higher education can help institutions overcome issues like disparate, outdated, or inaccurate data, lengthy tiresome processes, labor-intensive tasks, duplicate efforts, delayed inf

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The Helen Perkins era

SRHE

by Rob Cuthbert, SRHE News Editor. Helen Perkins was appointed as Director of the Society for Research into Higher Education in 2004. In December 2021, after another very successful Research Conference, she gave notice of her intention to retire. Her last day of office was 30 June 2022, fittingly coinciding with a meeting of SRHE Council, which was able to congratulate and thank her [1] for her outstanding contribution to the Society in her 18-year tenure.

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6 Higher Education SEO Strategies for 2022

HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

6 Higher Education SEO Strategies for 2022. Boost Your Enrollment Cycle With These SEO Strategies for Higher Education . Billions of searches occur daily across global search engines through desktop, mobile, and voice search devices. These organic searches are the largest drivers of website traffic, particularly for higher education institutions, making SEO the most essential ingredient in the recipe for generating student leads.

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Leadership Advice to Start the New Academic Year

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

Leadership Advice to Start the New Academic Year. bridget. Thu, 07/14/2022 - 06:00. Image. Higher Ed Leadership. Inside Higher Ed. Weekly Wisdom. For many of us in academic leadership, planning ahead is a constant feature of the job. On top of this, recent years of COVID and its variants, not to mention the political and cultural shifts through which we're living, have added layer upon layer of contingencies to the planning process.

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Equitable STEM Transfer Pathways with Dr. Xueli Wang

Continuous Learning Institute

LISTEN TO THE EPISODE: Learn about the challenges and opportunities of improving equitable outcomes for STEM transfer students. In this episode, I interview Dr. Xueli Wang , Professor of Higher Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison. (Scroll down to access the transcript.). We discuss the following topics: 6:42:25: The "Why": Impetus for writing the book, On My Own: The Challenge and Promise of Building Equitable STEM Transfer Pathways. 11:34:00: The research process and general themes: No c

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Are you ready for WCAG 2.2? What you need to know about accessibility in 2022

Terminalfour

WCAG 2.2 guidelines will soon be published. This week, we break down what you need to know about the upcoming changes to accessibility standards for higher education in 2022.

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do-not-reply@: the inefficiencies of email use demonstrated by graduates

Dr. Simon Paul Atkinson

I went from my undergraduate degree in 1988 into a role as a Logistics Manager for Vichy L’Oreal. The job involved using a stand-alone PC, a telephone to the factory in France, and a weekly Telex to Paris. I was appointed on the basis that I spoke French. I couldn’t write French for caramel au beurre (toffee), but I could speak it. No one asked me at my interview whether I had any computer skills or indeed whether I was numerate.

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Effectively Utilizing Your Website To Market Your College

The Higher Ed Marketer

People often look at websites from just a technical or aesthetic point of view but overlook how a website can be an excellent marketing tool to help shape communications and marketing goals. . Joshua Charles , the Director of Web Strategy and Technology at Rutgers Business School , joins us to discuss how you can utilize your website to market your college.

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Higher Ed Without Borders speak with President Jim Henderson of the University of Louisiana System

Edu Alliance Journal

On this podcast episode of Higher Ed Without Borders co-hosted by Edu Alliance Founders Dr. Senthil Nathan and Dean Hoke speak with Dr. Jim Henderson, President of the University of Louisiana System. Dr. James Henderson , President of the University of Louisiana System, a multi-university campus system with an enrollment of approximately 90,000 students.

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Washington Update: Proposed Changes to Title IX and Protecting Vulnerable StudentsChanging Higher Ed Podcast 113 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Tom Netting

The Change Leader, Inc.

In this episode, Tom Netting returns to the show for an intensive discussion about the proposed amendments to Title IX as well as the recently released notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) relating to several key issues left over from this year’s Neg Reg process, including borrower defense to repayment (BDR) and public service loan forgiveness (PLSF).

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REF 2021: reflecting on results, rules and regulations, and reform (again)

SRHE

by Ian McNay. Research Excellence Framework 2021. The irritations researchers experience when working with secondary data are exemplified in looking at the REF 2021 results and comparing with 2014. The 2021 results by Unit of Assessment (UoA) on screen are laid out with all four profiles in one line across the page. Four are fitted on to one page. When you try to print, or, at least when I do, they are laid out in a single column, so one UoA takes a full page.

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How to Attract, Enroll & Retain Adult Learners: Attention Retention, Episode 3

HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

Listen Now: Attention Retention, Episode 3. Together with our friends at Enrollify, Archer Education is bringing you a podcast about attracting and retaining the modern, adult learner. Listen in every other Tuesday this summer for Attention Retention : a six-part series with Angie Mohr, Clayton Dean, and Zach Busekrus. Episode 3: How To Successfully Attract, Enroll, And Retain Adult Learners.

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New Program Proves to Be What Is Needed for Those Ascending to the CEO Position

Community College League of California

The Community College League of California (League) would like to congratulate the 2021 program cohort and those that have ascended to a new role at a college. To date, eight participants from the 2021 inaugural cohort have either secured a CEO position or are currently serving in an acting or interim CEO Position.

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The Key to Successful Content Marketing

The Higher Ed Marketer

The goal is not to be good at social media; the goal is to be better in Higher Ed because of social media. . Jay Bear , founder of Convince & Convert , a content marketing consulting and social media strategy company. Jay is also a bestselling author of 6 content marketing and customer experience, a hall of fame keynote speaker, and an emcee. Jay joins Troy and Bart to offer a wealth of knowledge on how successful content marketing can benefit higher ed. .

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How do you define hybrid, or hyflex, learning?

Dr. Simon Paul Atkinson

I struggled recently to define hybrid learning to a client. They asked how they could go about creating ‘hybrid learning’ for their learners. A reasonable question? There appears to be some confusion, in practice and in the literature, as to the differences between hybrid, hyflex (hiflex, hi-flex, etc), and blended learning. So, I would like to take a minute to propose some definitional parameters, and wait to see if you agree or disagree.