Covid-19 safety on campus, in 2022
Wonkhe
OCTOBER 31, 2022
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 are becoming less affordable for Pell Grant recipients, report finds
Higher Ed Dive
OCTOBER 26, 2022
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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Yes, your yield rate is still falling, redux (2021)
Higher Ed Data Stories
OCTOBER 26, 2022
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.
Podcasting with Allanté Whitmore, PhD of Blk + In Grad School
The Academic Designer
OCTOBER 5, 2022
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.
Understanding the Social Change Model of Leadership (SCM): Igniting Students’ Academic Development P
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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.
New Study Reveals the Anti-CRT Agenda is Really about Denying Racism and Revising History
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 25, 2022
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
Top 10 IT Issues, 2023: Foundation Models
Educause
OCTOBER 31, 2022
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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How do colleges decide when to schedule courses?
Higher Ed Dive
OCTOBER 18, 2022
More colleges think about the courses students will need than avoiding conflicts in students' schedules, according to a scheduling software provider's research.
Private colleges and discount, 2020
Higher Ed Data Stories
OCTOBER 28, 2022
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.
New medical schools: the story so far
HEPI
OCTOBER 27, 2022
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.
How and Why to Use Asynchronous Videos in Your Online Courses
Faculty Focus
OCTOBER 16, 2022
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.
Digital Transformation in Higher Education: 7 Areas for Enhancing Digital Learning
Educause
OCTOBER 24, 2022
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.
We must not let our disabled students down
Wonkhe
OCTOBER 30, 2022
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.
Community college students need help meeting basic needs
Higher Ed Dive
OCTOBER 19, 2022
Many facing basic needs insecurity didn't receive help from their campuses, researchers found. They suggested opening resources to all students.
Machines can craft essays. How should writing be taught now?
Inside Higher Ed
OCTOBER 26, 2022
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
Fair Access and Participation: Sector-wide challenges need sector-wide collaboration
HEPI
OCTOBER 20, 2022
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.
How and Why to Evaluate Open Educational Resources (OERs)
Faculty Focus
OCTOBER 25, 2022
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.
On the Contribution of Extension: In memory of Tim Wallace
The Berkeley Blog
OCTOBER 18, 2022
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.
There are no easy answers for university finances this year
Wonkhe
OCTOBER 30, 2022
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.
Colleges have more data than ever. Here are 3 things to consider as they use it.
Higher Ed Dive
OCTOBER 28, 2022
Higher education institutions house troves of student data. College leaders at Educause's annual conference shared innovative ways to use it.
West Virginia U proposal outlines process for firing faculty
Inside Higher Ed
OCTOBER 27, 2022
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
Freedom of speech, lifts, and the importance of terminology
HEPI
OCTOBER 30, 2022
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.
Higher Education in Motion: The Digital and Cultural Transformations Ahead
Educause
OCTOBER 24, 2022
As we take stock of the twists and turns that lie ahead, two powerful transformations are keeping higher education in motion. Cx is converging with Dx, each unfolding individually as they simultaneously move together.
Assignments with Significance
Faculty Focus
OCTOBER 11, 2022
It has been estimated that college students across the globe devote in excess of a billion hours per year to “disposable” assignments (Wiley, 2016). Students view the work as simply a hurdle to be crossed, and once submitted and assessed, worthy of nothing more than being discarded. What a waste! Students want to contribute something to make a difference—if only we gave them the chance.
For growth, we need to be sure that training really pays
Wonkhe
OCTOBER 24, 2022
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.
It’s time for colleges to abandon legacy admissions, new research says
Higher Ed Dive
OCTOBER 31, 2022
A report from think tank Education Reform Now shows a growing contingent of institutions are spurning the practice — though it’s still widespread.
Norway arrests ‘Brazilian researcher’ accused of spying for Russia
The Guardian - Higher Education
OCTOBER 25, 2022
Investigators believe man posing as academic at University of Tromsø, in sensitive far north, was using false identity Norway’s domestic security agency has arrested a man claiming to be a Brazilian academic whom it suspects of being a Russian spy. “We have requested that a Brazilian researcher at the University of Tromsø be expelled from Norway because we believe he represents a threat to fundamental national interests,” the police security service (PST) deputy chief, Hedvig Moe, told the publi
Emotional labour in the ivory tower: highlighting the experiences of academics of colour
HEPI
OCTOBER 30, 2022
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.
Disruption, Evolution, and Leadership
UIA (University Innovation Alliance)
OCTOBER 6, 2022
Disruption, Evolution, and Leadership. A Conversation With Paul LeBlanc, President, Southern New Hampshire University. bridget. Thu, 10/06/2022 - 06:00. Image. Higher Ed Leadership. Inside Higher Ed. Weekly Wisdom. Dr. Paul LeBlanc has been President at Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) since 2003, and he joined us on the Weekly Wisdom Podcast to talk about how he first introduced online education through disruptive innovation, what happens to schools that can't or won't evolve, the neces
The Power of Role Modeling Self-compassion Practices in Your Class
Faculty Focus
OCTOBER 23, 2022
A self-compassion practice may sound a bit awkward and uncomfortable, yet research (Neff, et al.) clearly demonstrates that this intervention can support success in our personal, academic, and professional lives. Leading the way by role modeling self-compassion, in addition to teaching and supporting self-compassion practices to our students, can propel the transition to emotional wellness and resiliency in any academic or professional environment.
Why universities should care about government proposals to cut community education
Wonkhe
OCTOBER 10, 2022
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.
How a “magical alignment” let one university quickly launch widespread student equity measures
Higher Ed Dive
OCTOBER 21, 2022
Northern Arizona University developed and launched an initiative that broke down its biggest obstacles for student access — in eight months.
Student Preference for Online Learning Up 220% Since Pre-Pandemic
Campus Technology
OCTOBER 14, 2022
According to a recent Educause survey, the number of students expressing preferences for courses that are mostly or completely online has increased 220% since the onset of the pandemic, from 9% in 2020 (before March 11) to 29% in 2022.
Universities stepping up to promote free speech and academic freedom
HEPI
OCTOBER 30, 2022
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.
More traditional-age students enroll at fully online universities
Inside Higher Ed
OCTOBER 14, 2022
Image: When Ryan Weger was a high school student in Northern Virginia, he longed to attend Virginia Tech for college. But he changed his mind after his father returned to college in his late 30s and earned an online, competency-based bachelor’s degree at Western Governors University in a single year. “He slammed it,” Weger said of his father’s accomplishment.
National HBCU Scholarship Program Seeks to Address Student Financial Hurdles
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 25, 2022
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.
Isn’t OfS supposed to support students to make good choices?
Wonkhe
OCTOBER 27, 2022
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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