Higher Ed Data Stories

DECEMBER 9, 2022

This is a refresh of a popular post I've done a few times, asking the important question in the title. People tend to think of graduation rates as an output of the institution, and of course, in some sense, they are; they are certainly measured that way. But what if I told you that a college's six-year graduation rate (and, to a lesser extent, its four-year graduation rate) can be easily predicted by a single variable that we know before a student ever sets foot on campus?

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Wonkhe

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Gemma Ahearne and Matt Murphy argue that in order to prepare students for the workplace, they need to be able to communicate across different disciplines. The post Building Bridges: The Case for Inter-Faculty Learning appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Higher Ed Dive

DECEMBER 6, 2022

New regulations will allow the agency to review debt forgiveness claims for groups rather than individuals. For-profits question whether that’s fair.

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Deans for Impact

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Data, when interpreted in context and used appropriately, is a powerful tool for surfacing important trends and issues in education. For example, recent NAEP trend assessments reveal not only the consequences of pandemic-related disruptions on student learning, but also the varying results of education policies, remedial programs, and instructional priorities across state lines to address challenges.

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MindMax

DECEMBER 8, 2022

A few months ago, Education Secretary Miguel A. Cardona declared college rankings “a joke.” He made this bold statement in support of a broader point he presented in an article for The Chronicle of Higher Education : elite institutions “spend enormous resources to climb college rankings and compete for the most affluent, highest-scoring students.” Calling for “a new vision for college excellence,” Cardona championed equity, inclusivity, and upward mobility for disadvantaged demographics as new

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Wonkhe

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Has artificial intelligence become a legitimate concern for plagiarism? James Bagshaw investigates the discussion around the use of the AI chat tool, ChatGPT. The post What implications does ChatGPT have for assessment? appeared first on Wonkhe.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

DECEMBER 7, 2022

By Katherine Mangan. After a three-week-old walkout by 1,800 part-time faculty members, the university also demanded that full-timers certify they are working. Meanwhile, angry parents are threatening a lawsuit.

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University Business

DECEMBER 8, 2022

HBCUs are getting an admissions boost from a top-notch CRM system acquired through a nonprofit initiative to level the playing field in higher ed technology. CRM, for those who don’t know, stands for customer relationship management, and it can be critical to successful recruitment and enrollment. But due to the cost of some CRM technology, a number of HBCUs were losing ground due to their outdated admissions platforms—in fact, a few were still processing paper applications, says Cecilia M

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Wonkhe

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Report stage in the Lords for the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill brought a big surprise and a hefty government defeat. Jim Dickinson tries to avoid crashing the car. The post NDAs and the Tort are out as the Free Speech Bill clears Lords’ report stage appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Higher Ed Dive

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Enrollment, labor and wage pressures will mount, likely increasing the gulf between stronger and weaker colleges, the ratings agency projects.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Despite pledges from campus leaders to diversify all facets of their institutions, faculty have remained stubbornly white, according to a new report from the Education Trust, a non-profit that works to close opportunity and achievement gaps. “It reflects something that we’ve long known,” said Dr. Kimberly A. Griffin, professor and dean of the College of Education at the University of Maryland. “ That the student body is diversifying much faster than the faculty is. ” The report, based on 2020 da

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Academe Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

BY MICHAEL MERANZE The Strike continues with no end in sight. Although there have been tentative agreements concerning Post-Docs and Academic Researchers, in the Academic Student Employee and Student Researcher units, the parties appear to remain well apart on the fundamental economic issues.

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Wonkhe

DECEMBER 8, 2022

As a debate about medical school places continues, Charlie Sellar urges a focus on the social make-up of those medical trainees. The post Why do students have to suffer when taking on a medical degree? appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Higher Ed Dive

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The U.S. Government Accountability Office recommended Congress pursue legislation that would require institutions to give clear, standardized information.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Dr. Kayon Hall wants to change the way academia thinks about undocumented students. “Black and undocumented students are socially and politically left out of the conversation,” said Hall, an assistant professor of higher education administration at Kent State University in Ohio. This year, Hall published an article with the Journal of First-Generation Student Success about the lived experiences of Black undocumented students, highlighting the ways higher education has excluded them from immigrat

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The Academic Designer

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Announcing the winners of the 2022 Best Personal Academic Websites Contest! View examples of personal academic websites.

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Wonkhe

DECEMBER 6, 2022

It's not easy for refugees to access higher education. Liam Carson sets out what universities can do to help. The post How can we support refugees into higher education? appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Higher Ed Dive

DECEMBER 9, 2022

A coalition of higher ed groups will focus on outreach and coaching services for residents who are just shy of completing a college degree.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 9, 2022

A mantra of academic advice columns is that you need to talk yourself up in a competitive job market, but let’s be honest: things have gotten way out of hand, writes M. Brett Wilson. Editorial Tags: Career Advice Show on Jobs site: Image Source: z_wei/istock/getty images plus Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?

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Academe Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

BY HANK REICHMAN “We are deeply concerned that the crisis of the American university–the decline of tenure-track jobs and universities’ eroding commitment to the humanities and social sciences–has created a structural crisis for scholarship.

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Wonkhe

DECEMBER 7, 2022

After a report published by Wonkhe and Pearson on building belonging in higher education, Nandini Boodia-Canoo asks about the staff being asked tasked with nurturing it. The post Building belonging: what about staff? appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Higher Ed Dive

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Experts think the answer is probably not, but they see cracks in the foundation of a rankings system college admissions professionals largely abhor.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Image: College and universities will need to diversify their faculties at about 3.5 times the current pace if they want the professoriate to reflect the U.S. population in terms of race by 2050. And they’ll need to work together to do it. This is the upshot of a new analysis in Nature Human Behavior that challenges the persistent idea that faculty diversity amounts to a “pipeline” problem.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Typically, educational professionals focus on how to help students better access what is considered ‘typical’ learning (Ong-Dean, 2005). This is considered ‘deficit thinking,’ or thinking that defines a diagnosis by its challenges, in order to treat, fix, or minimize specific features of a student’s disability. This kind of approach to education is challenging for autistic students.

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Wonkhe

DECEMBER 7, 2022

We now have sector-level data for the 2022 admissions cycle – UCAS' Clare Marchant goes through the key takeaways. The post Five key findings from UCAS end of cycle data for 2022 appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Higher Ed Dive

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Nonacademic providers offer the most credentials, followed by postsecondary institutions. Researchers want more information.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Since late 2021, when Google announced that it would impose a 100-terabyte limit on the unlimited free storage it had been offering to higher education institutions through its Google Workspace for Education platform, universities around the country have been paying closer attention to the data stored by their users on Google Cloud. Google implemented the policy not only because the storage required by universities has grown unmanageable but also because universities — for the most part unwillin

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University Business

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Cover the basics, offer hands-on training and adhere to privacy and ethics. These are three of the six must-have modules for a cybersecurity course, and these 10 colleges have them all. Educational institutions are in dire need of cybersecurity professionals as criminal organizations continue to set their sights on the education sector. Since the pandemic, the increased reliance on digital technology, such as virtual meetings and online learning, has created additional pathways enabling bad acto

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Wonkhe

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Why are increasing numbers of academic staff reporting lecture theatres and seminar rooms as empty of students these days? Jim Dickinson gets real. The post What if they’re all part-time students now? appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Higher Ed Dive

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Prestigious institutions employ more graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, giving them a major labor advantage, new research finds.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government and higher education institutions have fed the public a steady diet of bad enrollment news. Public health concerns increased responsibilities to care for and educate school-aged children and disrupted jobs and industries. All these factors contribute to recent enrollment declines at institutions of higher education.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The Unite Foundation partnered with UCAS on their recent ‘Next Steps Report’ which shines a light on the potential and ambition of young people leaving care and the challenges they can face when exploring university options. Global Law student and Unite Foundation scholarship recipient Lisa reflects on her experiences in higher education opens and discusses why university represents such an important and transformative opportunity for care experienced and estranged students.

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Wonkhe

DECEMBER 4, 2022

After two reports looking into the experiences of care-experienced students were published, Sunday Blake reads between the lines and asks what else we can learn. The post The careers of care-experienced students paint a fascinating picture appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Higher Ed Dive

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The former college operator says the agency wanted to push its institutions to suddenly shutter so it could impose financial penalties.

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Campus Technology

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Starting in January 2023, Amazon Web Services Machine Learning University will offer a free AI educator enablement program prioritizing community colleges, minority-serving institutions, and historically Black colleges and universities in the United States, to help these institutions prioritize teaching database, artificial intelligence, and machine learning concepts to historically underserved students.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Perhaps you’ve heard of the Kobayashi Maru scenario, a training exercise at Star Trek ’s Starfleet Academy. Cadets who are being considered for leadership positions are confronted with an unwinnable situation in order to test their command capabilities. They must rescue a civilian freighter, avoid a fight with opposing forces and escape with their starship intact.

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