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What do attacks on ESG mean for college endowments?

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Even as conservative lawmakers have ratcheted up attacks on DEI—diversity, equity and inclusion—in higher education, another acronym has begun to attract their attention: ESG. ESG refers to an investment strategy that takes into account not just standard financial considerations but also environmental, social and governance concerns.

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Ripe for poaching: Will DeSantis’ higher ed policies drive out Florida faculty?

Higher Ed Dive

One university provost has already publicly promised to recruit Florida students and professors amid the state’s political strife.

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Regulating for students, with students

Wonkhe

OfS might regulate on behalf of students, but Martha Longdon and Ben Hunt wonder why they can't be more involved in making judgements The post Regulating for students, with students appeared first on Wonkhe.

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The Deafening Silence of Florida's College Presidents

The Chronicle of Higher Education

In the midst of a crisis, they've made clear their biggest priority: job security. By Brian Rosenberg Illustration by The Chronicle In the midst of a crisis, they've made clear their biggest priority: job security.

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Navigating Higher Ed’s Tech & Budget Crunch: Yes, You Can Survive

As Higher Ed institutions continue struggling with budget constraints and enrollment pressures, making smart decisions about technology is crucial. How do institutions enhance data security, optimize their tech stack and engage students effectively…all while managing limited resources? Bret Ingerman, former Vice President for Information Technology at Tallahassee State College, digs into these conundrums, exploring how Pathify offers solutions to enhance student engagement while giving instituti

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Historic faculty pay increase still beaten by inflation

Inside Higher Ed

Image: While this academic year saw the largest one-year increase in full-time faculty members’ average salaries in over three decades, that still wasn’t enough to stop their real wages from falling due to inflation, the American Association of University Professors noted this Thursday alongside its latest salary survey data. They are preliminary data for the 2022–23 academic year; AAUP plans to release the final data in July.

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North Carolina lawmakers ask UNC system for information on diversity-related trainings

Higher Ed Dive

Legislators want background and costs of diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility programs from the current and last three fiscal years.

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IDEAS Framework for Teaching Online

Educause

The IDEAS (Inclusion, Design, Engagement, Evaluation, Assessment, and Support) Framework for online teaching and learning highlights best practices for before, during, and after the delivery of an online course to help instructors deliver high-quality courses and improve learner experience and outcomes.

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Partnership aims to bring Head Start to community colleges

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Community colleges serve high numbers of parenting students, but too few institutions have campus childcare centers, or sufficient spots to meet demand, to help these students persist and graduate. At the same time, Head Start, a federally funded program offering free early childhood education to low-income families, is suffering from enrollment declines and staffing shortages.

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Medaille to become part of Trocaire, with both colleges citing enrollment issues

Higher Ed Dive

The private nonprofit institutions in New York are set to finalize the merger July 31, pending regulatory approvals.

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Developing research and knowledge exchange in England

Wonkhe

Chief Executive Jessica Corner unveils Research England's new strategic development plan The post Developing research and knowledge exchange in England appeared first on Wonkhe.

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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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This Questionable Study Caught Fire in Anti-Vaccine Circles. How Did It Get Through Peer Review?

The Chronicle of Higher Education

By Stephanie M. Lee Illustration by The Chronicle, Getty Images The study, now set to be retracted, used fuzzy methods to claim that hundreds of thousands had died from Covid vaccines, critics say.

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Beyond employability

HEPI

This guest blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Dr Doug Cole, Associate Director – Academic at Nottingham Trent University ( @DougFCole ), and Jon Down, the Director of Development at Grit Breakthrough Programmes, which delivers intensive personal development and coaching in UK universities ( @grit_2017 ). As the access and participation agenda moves beyond broadening the range of young people getting into university, the focus falls on the institutional readiness to support an increasingly

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Higher ed has an important role as communities fight over K-12 education

Higher Ed Dive

Fights over teaching about topics like race, slavery and sexuality might be centered in schools, but they’re affecting universities, one professor writes.

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Taking action on participation means building student agency

Wonkhe

OfS is recognising the impact that extra curriculars and the wider environment can have on student success. Jim Dickinson gets Tiggerish about the EORR The post Taking action on participation means building student agency appeared first on Wonkhe.

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What the Past Can Teach Us About the Future of AI and Education

Campus Technology

Current attitudes toward generative AI hearken back to early skepticism about the impact of the internet on education. Both then and now, technology has created challenges but also opportunities that can't be ignored.

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“Those who can, do; those who can’t, teach.”

Higher Ed Ethics Watch

Is it a Truth or Fallacy? It has been said that “Those who can, do; those who can’t, teach.” This was said by George Bernard Shaw in his 1905 stage play  Man and Superman. Over a century later, and the derogatory phrase often thrown at educators in a disparaging way stubbornly persists. In the event the phrase itself isn’t self-evident, the meaning carried is that teaching is first and foremost a role filled by individuals who fail to find adequate footing in their chosen vocation.

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University of Vermont failed to investigate allegations of antisemitism, Ed Department finds

Higher Ed Dive

The university and its State Agricultural College agreed to improve discrimination response protocols, in a resolution agreement entered into with the Office for Civil Rights on Monday.

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Student career choices are not a simple A to B

Wonkhe

Students’ career interests and plans often develop and shift in non-linear ways. Kathleen M Quinlan and James Corbin ring the changes The post Student career choices are not a simple A to B appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Turnitin's solution to AI cheating raises faculty concerns

Inside Higher Ed

Image: When Turnitin was launched in 1998, the early ed-tech start-up promised a solution to one of the most pressing threats to academic integrity in the nascent internet era: easy plagiarism from online sources. Twenty-five years later, the question on every classroom instructor’s lips has shifted from “how do I know if my student is copying someone else’s work?

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CUNY Graduate Center Selects 65 Black, Race, and Ethnic Studies Doctoral and Faculty Fellows

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The City University of New York’s (CUNY) Graduate Center has announced its 65 Black, Race, and Ethnic Studies (BRES) Fellows. The fellows – 20 CUNY Graduate Center doctoral student fellows and 45 faculty fellows – will be affiliated with CUNY’s BRES Collaboration Hub and will do research and create curricula to improve Black, race, and ethnic studies at CUNY.

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Turnitin unveils AI writing detection tool

Higher Ed Dive

Six in 10 college students surveyed said they expect AI tools like ChatGPT to become “the new normal,” a new survey found.

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The great, late, regulation debate

Wonkhe

Why research regulation can't be a little bit of everything all at once The post The great, late, regulation debate appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Housing, banking, labels remain issues for UK international students

The PIE News

International students studying at universities across the UK had an opportunity to share their experiences with university leaders at The PIE Live Europe last week. At the student roundtable breakout session, students candidly shared personal experiences about their time in the UK, as well as the extent to which they believe the UK is meeting their needs as international students.

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Alabama A&M Launches Effort to Combat Racial STEM Teacher Gap

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Experts believe that without a strong STEM workforce, America could lose its position as the world’s preeminent power. However, America is facing a STEM labor shortage, and part of the reason is racial. African Americans are underrepresented in STEM jobs , and Black students leave STEM majors at nearly double the rate of whites. The problem has roots at the K-12 level: while 15% of public school students are Black , only 7% of the STEM teacher population is.

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Legislators want short-term Pell — but can’t agree on the details

Higher Ed Dive

Congress is considering three proposals that would allow Pell Grants to go toward programs shorter than 15 weeks.

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Is the existing market for vocational short courses at risk?

Wonkhe

The release of HE-BCI data sees David Kernohan realise just how expensive the lifelong loan entitlement could be for universities The post Is the existing market for vocational short courses at risk? appeared first on Wonkhe.

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UK must “tap into” entrepreneurial spirit of int’ls

The PIE News

The international education sector in the UK is wasting an opportunity by not providing an avenue for students to build their own startups, according to a leading advocate for international students. Sanam Arora, one of The PIE’s 50 Voices in Europe and director of the National Indian Students and Alumni Union in the UK, said that the country is “missing a big trick” by not “tapping into their entrepreneurial spirit”.

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Librarians' "new normal" includes pain points

Inside Higher Ed

Image: DENVER—As snow fell from gray skies on Tuesday, higher education professionals, publishers, librarians, information technologists, government researchers and others met this week for the Coalition for Networked Information spring membership meeting. There, attendees gathered to discuss the use of information technology to advance scholarship and education.

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International applicants using the Common App increased by over a third

Higher Ed Dive

The biggest numbers came from China and India in the 2021-22 academic year, the organization reported.

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It’s time for students to TURN UP

Wonkhe

Launching a new campaign designed to drive up participation in elections, NUS VP Chloe Field issues a rallying call for students to turn up The post It’s time for students to TURN UP appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Dr. Martha Enciso Wins NASPA's 2023 Mena Valdez Award

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Martha Enciso, associate vice president of student affairs at California State University, Fullerton, has won the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators’ (NASPA) 2023 Mena Valdez Award. Dr. Martha Enciso She was given the Outstanding Senior Student Affairs Officer Award, which is given to senior student affairs officers that have provided advice, energy, leadership, and guidance to the Latino community.

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Strike starts at Chicago State University, more on the way

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Chicago State University faculty members and academic support professionals began striking Monday, and more walkouts are set to begin this week and next in Illinois. University Professionals of Illinois president John Miller said the union’s members will likely begin striking Thursday at Eastern Illinois University, in Charleston, and likely are walking out at Governors State University, in Chicago’s Southland, at the start of next week.

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Education Department proposes regulation that would block explicit bans on transgender athletes

Higher Ed Dive

In certain circumstances, however, federally funded schools would be able exclude transgender students from sports matching their gender identity.

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Who are Scotland’s new ministers?

Wonkhe

The new First Minister’s reshuffle sees changes to education secretary and higher education minister. Michael Salmon plunges into the archives to find out what we should expect The post Who are Scotland’s new ministers? appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Access Must be Front Burner for Community Colleges

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, community colleges across the country saw a decline in enrollment for myriad reasons — financial, family, illness, lack of internet or inability to adapt to online learning. As in-person and hybrid learning resume, enrollment numbers have not returned to pre-COVID levels. Economic issues still impact many community college students, a large number of whom are adult learners or have extensive family obligations.