October, 2022

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Covid-19 safety on campus, in 2022

Wonkhe

Are our working and learning places safe from Covid-19? Sol Gamsu surveys the state of the campus in 2022. The post Covid-19 safety on campus, in 2022 appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Colleges have more data than ever. Here are 3 things to consider as they use it.

Higher Ed Dive

Higher education institutions house troves of student data. College leaders at Educause's annual conference shared innovative ways to use it.

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Podcasting with Allanté Whitmore, PhD of Blk + In Grad School

The Academic Designer

Allanté Whitmore started her podcast Blk + In Grad School on an air mattress with her cell phone. Looking forward to a new season of motivation and inspiration for grad students.

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Yes, your yield rate is still falling, redux (2021)

Higher Ed Data Stories

I've been creating this data visualization, or some form of it, for several years now. I think it's most useful for higher education enrollment professionals who have to explain to people at their university why their yield rate is falling. The short answer is that applications and admits are increasing faster than student populations: If a student today applies to an average of seven colleges, compared to four colleges twenty years ago, yield rate almost has to go down.

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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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New Study Reveals the Anti-CRT Agenda is Really about Denying Racism and Revising History

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A new study conducted by the ultra-conservative Manhattan Institute and published by the City Journal claims to prove that Critical Race Theory (CRT) is being taught in K-12 education. However, their claim is false, because they misrepresented CRT to prove their point. According to the study, evidence that CRT is being taught in school comes from recent high school graduates endorsing the following four statements: (1) “America is a systemically racist country,” (2) “white people have white priv

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Top 10 IT Issues, 2023: Foundation Models

Educause

The EDUCAUSE 2023 Top 10 IT Issues help describe the foundation models that colleges and universities will develop next year and beyond, acting on what was learned in the pandemic and framed by the three building blocks of leadership, data, and work and learning.

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Community college students need help meeting basic needs

Higher Ed Dive

Many facing basic needs insecurity didn't receive help from their campuses, researchers found. They suggested opening resources to all students.

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How to Get Media Attention For Your Research With Dr. Sheena Howard

The Academic Designer

How can academics get publicity and media attention for their work? Plus, what to charge for speaking engagements. Meet Dr. Sheena Howard.

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Private colleges and discount, 2020

Higher Ed Data Stories

Discount rate is a hot topic among private college leaders, and although it's an interesting measure, it's not as helpful as some people might think it is. And it's a little hard to grasp and hard to explain. But I'm going to try. Discount rate can be helpful when measuring yourself against yourself over time; and it can be helpful when measuring yourself against similar peers.

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National HBCU Scholarship Program Seeks to Address Student Financial Hurdles

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A national scholarship program for historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) is set to be launched. The program aims to help financially support civic-minded high school students who are interested in attending HBCUs. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The program strives to encourage students to follow in the footsteps of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and develop into advocates and champions for universal rights.

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New medical schools: the story so far

HEPI

In September, HEPI, with support from the University of Sunderland, hosted a roundtable dinner on the future of medical education in the UK. When the then health secretary, Thérèse Coffey, unveiled her winter plan, criticism focused on her failure to address shortages in the NHS workforce. This is a longstanding issue and universities have been at the heart of attempts to tackle it.

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We must not let our disabled students down

Wonkhe

The Disabled Students Commission is launching a consultation building on what it has learned about the needs of disabled students during the pandemic. Geoff Layer tells us more. The post We must not let our disabled students down appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Colleges are becoming less affordable for Pell Grant recipients, report finds

Higher Ed Dive

The average Pell-eligible student increasingly faces unmet financial need that could leave them in debt or prevent them from enrolling in the first place.

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Guide to the pros and cons of outsourcing online education

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Like a lot of professors whose field of study is higher education, Jeffrey C. Sun frequently gets asked by administrators at his institution to weigh in on thorny issues they’re debating. When his bosses at the University of Louisville were considering how best to expand their online learning offerings, they asked Sun, a Distinguished University Scholar, for his thoughts on whether the university should hire an online program management (OPM) company or build the in-house expertise

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‘We’re Done Waiting’: In Economics, Frustrations Over Harassment Take an Explicit Turn Online

The Chronicle of Higher Education

By Carolyn Kuimelis. Chronicle Illustration; Images from Twitter. On Twitter, a public airing of economists alleged to have behaved badly has begun. Supporters say it's a needed last resort, while others say it's the wrong venue for an important conversation.

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How and Why to Use Asynchronous Videos in Your Online Courses

Faculty Focus

While Zoom was the “it” word during the pivot to online learning throughout COVID-19, it is high time to consider alternatives to synchronous online classes that benefit student learning. After all, “Zoom fatigue” has real effects on cognitive processing (Waldbieser, 2021). While people will still be Zooming for some time, taking time to create, produce, and implement asynchronous videos or asynchronous video assignments for your online class can yield multiple benefits.

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Fair Access and Participation: Sector-wide challenges need sector-wide collaboration

HEPI

This blog was contributed by Professor Antony Moss, Associate Pro Vice Chancellor, Education and Student Experience, London South Bank University, and Chair, London Uni Connect. In the summer, all universities with an approved Access and Participation Plan (APP) were asked by our regulator, the Office for Students (OfS), to submit a mid-cycle variation responding to a set of new priorities.

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There are no easy answers for university finances this year

Wonkhe

David Kernohan talks to Marc Finer of KPMG about how university finances are looking right now. The post There are no easy answers for university finances this year appeared first on Wonkhe.

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It’s time for colleges to abandon legacy admissions, new research says

Higher Ed Dive

A report from think tank Education Reform Now shows a growing contingent of institutions are spurning the practice — though it’s still widespread.

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Machines can craft essays. How should writing be taught now?

Inside Higher Ed

Image: “It doesn’t feel like something I’d write, but it also doesn’t not feel like something I’d write,” a North Carolina State University student said about their work integrating prose from an artificial intelligence text-generating program into a final course essay. Paul Fyfe, associate professor of English and the student’s instructor in the Data and the Human course, had asked students to “cheat” in this way and then reflect on how the

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An Inflection Point for the Creation of New Cybersecurity Operating Models in Higher Education

Educause

Accumulating pressures on higher education have created an inflection point requiring two new cybersecurity operating models.

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On the Contribution of Extension: In memory of Tim Wallace

The Berkeley Blog

When I arrived in Berkeley for my Ph.D. about 50 years ago (1973, before the Yom Kippur War), I learned that the department of Agricultural Economics, which I joined, had several faculty members who were extension specialists. Their job has been to do real applied research and to provide information and education to adults (regular.

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Freedom of speech, lifts, and the importance of terminology

HEPI

As the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill returns to Parliament today, HEPI is running two blogs on the issue. This blog was kindly contributed by Andrew. M. Boggs, University Clerk at Kingston University and Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Higher Education Policy Studies (OxCHEPs). He writes here on behalf of London Higher, a group representing more than 40 London universities and higher education institutions.

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For growth, we need to be sure that training really pays

Wonkhe

Analysis shows that people are keen to develop skills, but only if they can be sure the benefits outweigh the costs. Patrick Thomson tells us more. The post For growth, we need to be sure that training really pays appeared first on Wonkhe.

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How a “magical alignment” let one university quickly launch widespread student equity measures

Higher Ed Dive

Northern Arizona University developed and launched an initiative that broke down its biggest obstacles for student access — in eight months.

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West Virginia U proposal outlines process for firing faculty

Inside Higher Ed

Image: There’s a lot to like about proposed changes to West Virginia University’s appointment, tenure and promotion guidelines, from a faculty rights perspective. The draft document urges credit for faculty members supporting the university’s diversity, equity and inclusion mission, or who are otherwise doing community-engaged or interdisciplinary work; this presumably addresses long-standing concerns across academe that such efforts go unrecognized in traditional faculty rewar

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Digital Transformation in Higher Education: 7 Areas for Enhancing Digital Learning

Educause

This article reflects on current practices and directions for digital transformation through a framework that supports the strategic responses and structural changes that higher education institutions could implement to enhance digital teaching and learning.

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How and Why to Evaluate Open Educational Resources (OERs)

Faculty Focus

Open Educational Resources (OERs) are teaching materials that typically have a Creative Commons license specifying permission and parameters for copying, distributing, attributing, or altering. Truly open OERs do not require registration or payment to access. The availability (open) and price (free) make OERs a great addition to an institution’s curriculum and an instructor’s cache of teaching material.

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Emotional labour in the ivory tower: highlighting the experiences of academics of colour

HEPI

HEPI is running a series of blogs on the changing faces of academia in collaboration with the British Academy. This post was kindly contributed by Dr Blessing Marandure, Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Fair Outcomes Champion on the Decolonising DMU Project at De Montfort University. Emotional labour has several meanings, and inevitably some are context dependent.

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Isn’t OfS supposed to support students to make good choices?

Wonkhe

Paul Wiltshire raises concerns with the regulation of commitments made to students about the nature of delivery on their programme. The post Isn’t OfS supposed to support students to make good choices? appeared first on Wonkhe.

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5 enrollment trends to keep an eye on for fall 2022

Higher Ed Dive

Although undergraduate and graduate enrollment are both down overall, HBCUs and online colleges saw notable increases.

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Big Oil Pours Millions Into Elite Universities' Climate Research. Is Its Time Up?

The Chronicle of Higher Education

A movement to get oil money out of academic research is taking shape on campuses. By Stephanie M. Lee. Chronicle Illustration. Princeton says it will reject funding from the fossil-fuel industry’s biggest polluters. But a multimillion-dollar exception points to how difficult it may be to unwind such partnerships.

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CIO and Senior Technology Leaders' Perspectives on the EDUCAUSE 2023 Top 10 IT Issues

Educause

EDUCAUSE community members offer CIO and senior technology leaders’ perspectives on the 2023 Top 10 IT Issues.

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New digital texts shake up monograph publishing (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

Is A New Vision for Islamic Pasts and Futures —an interactive, open-access, born-digital monograph developed by Brown University Digital Publications and published in August by MIT Press —the monograph of the future? Asking readers to imagine Islam anew, as a vast web of interconnected traces seen through the prism of time, the book opens with a networked table of contents.

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Universities stepping up to promote free speech and academic freedom

HEPI

As the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill returns to Parliament today, HEPI is running two blogs on the issue. This blog was kindly contributed by Professor Steve West, President of Universities UK and Vice-Chancellor of the University of the West of England, Bristol (UWE). Freedom of speech and academic freedom are central to the role and purpose of universities.

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Why universities should care about government proposals to cut community education

Wonkhe

The government is consulting on cuts to community education. Jonathan Michie argues that universities need to speak up. The post Why universities should care about government proposals to cut community education appeared first on Wonkhe.

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