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Ethical Issues of the NCAA Transfer Portal

Higher Ed Ethics Watch

Is it a Good Thing for Collegiate Athletics? The Transfer Portal was created as a way for student athletes to transfer from one NCAA school to another and not have to sit out one year. It seems to have created a ‘monster,’ in the sense that competition for student athletes can be intense with outside parties dangling payments to athletes in the form of being able to market their name, image, and likeness (NIL) thereby cashing in after they transfer.

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A Thousand Flowers Blooming

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

A Thousand Flowers Blooming. A Conversation With M. Brian Blake, President, Georgia State University. bridget. Thu, 06/09/2022 - 06:00. Image. Weekly Wisdom. Student Success. Higher Ed Leadership. Podcast. We spoke with M. Brian Blake on the Weekly Wisdom Podcast as he approached his one-year anniversary of becoming President at Georgia State University.

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What is 360 degree learning and why should higher ed institutes consider it?

Creatrix Campus

What is 360 degree learning and why should higher ed institutes consider it? admin. Tue, 06/07/2022 - 07:41. 360 degree learning - the concept of the new age. There is a sudden shift in ideas in the digital learning environment. With the rise in technology, the next-generation 360-degree learning and teaching approach is being emphasized—through hands-on, practical, and personalized learning.

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How campuses engage with the climate crisis: a taxonomy (Bryan Alexander*)

Higher Education Inquirer

[This article is part of the Transparency-Accountability-Value series.] How might colleges and universities grapple with the climate crisis? This question is the subject of much of my work now, as you can see from these posts. Researching answers can lead in a wide range of directions, not to mention down some twisty rabbit holes. Today I’d like to avoid those depths and instead look at a very macro, very ten-thousand-foot level.

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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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Rankings released: QS World University Rankings 2023 now live!

QS (Quacquarelli Symonds)

It’s one of the highlights of the QS calendar – the QS World University Rankings 2023 are now live! We are incredibly excited to be launching this year’s rankings in-person alongside data experts and education leaders from across the globe at the QS EduData Summit 2022, being held at the United Nations Delegates Dining Room in New York. This edition is the largest QS World University Rankings to date, with over 1,400 institutions from across the world, representing a 9% increase on the number of

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Aspirational Branding: What Makes Your Community College Exceptional

The Higher Ed Marketer

Community colleges often operate with limited resources. This can result in prospective students not knowing that there is an affordable and accessible path to higher education within their community. . In this episode, Shauna Davis and Mary Laphen from the Lumina Foundation , provide an overview of what the Million Dollar Community College Challenge is and why helping community colleges brand and market aspirationally is so crucial. .

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Celebrating an extraordinary year of returning traditions and new norms

UW Presidential Blog

This week marks the end of our academic year and a joyful return to many of the spring traditions that were on hiatus during the worst years of the pandemic: the Faculty Field Tour , the Celebration gala , the Awards of Excellence ceremony on June 9 and of course, in-person commencement exercises, including the long-anticipated in-person graduation celebrations for the classes of 2020 and 2021.

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How organisations should improve data synthesis to avoid being ‘data rich’ but ‘information poor’

QS (Quacquarelli Symonds)

Organisations often “get stuck” with data by gathering and sorting so many data points that it becomes easy to miss the opportunities to create valuable information, says Dr Paul Thurman, Professor of Management and Analytics at Columbia University. Dr Thurman joined keynote speakers from Google, Intel, IBM and MIT as well as data strategists, Chief Data Officers and data scientists from all over the world at the QS EduData Summit 2022, held on 8-10 June at the United Nations Delegat

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How AI can benefit education and educators

QS (Quacquarelli Symonds)

Among the keynote speakers at this year’s QS EduData Summit – held at the United Nations Delegates Dining Room in New York and online ? was Intel’s AI Ethics Lead Architect Ria Cheruvu. Ria, who joined Intel aged 14 and graduated from Harvard University with a master’s degree in data science aged 16, leads a team responsible for the development of trustworthy AI technologies.