Higher Ed Dive

JANUARY 12, 2023

At an ACE event, faith-based colleges discussed problems dogging higher ed — like accessibility and completion — in a religious context.

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Wonkhe

JANUARY 9, 2023

Ahead of this weeks' big admissions data drop, David Kernohan goes behind the headlines on applying to university from an independent school. The post Independent schools and university entry appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 12, 2023

Image: Ever since the chat bot ChatGPT burst into public view in late 2022, students, professors and administrators have been woozy from a chaotic cocktail of excitement, uncertainty and fear. The bot writes poems, sonnets and essays. It also serves as a convincing debate partner on a seemingly unlimited number of subjects. Given that the natural language model earned passing scores on the evidence and torts portion of the bar exam, among other feats, some in academe fret that the technology may

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HEPI

JANUARY 11, 2023

This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Kim Eccleston, Head of Strategy and Reform – Strategy, Policy and Public Affairs, at UCA S. HEPI’s recent paper on reforming UCAS personal statements is here. At UCAS, we are continually working to improve the admissions service to serve applicants better and broaden participation for all students, whether pursuing a traditional undergraduate degree or an apprenticeship.

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Higher Ed Dive

JANUARY 13, 2023

Turnover hampered a unit overseeing a ban on colleges lying about programs, costs and student outcomes, the Government Accountability Office said.

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Wonkhe

JANUARY 8, 2023

Team Wonkhe speculates on the debates that will take place at the collective HE water cooler in the year ahead. The post Conversations on campus – what higher education will be talking about in 2023 appeared first on Wonkhe.

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HEPI

JANUARY 8, 2023

Like many people, I am sceptical that a graduate tax is a good answer to either the funding crisis affecting higher education institutions and students or the political challenges faced by Keir Starmer and others who have spoken of getting rid of tuition fees in England. Promising a big new tax that would, in a few years’ time, come to affect over half of all younger adults seems unlikely to go down all that well on the doorstep as the next election approaches.

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Higher Ed Dive

JANUARY 9, 2023

Rulings are expected in several high-profile cases, including those that could determine the fate of race-conscious admissions and the DACA program.

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Wonkhe

JANUARY 9, 2023

An external review praises the intent but criticises the implementation of a strategy on gender-based violence. Jim Dickinson wonders whether it understands power. The post Should students and staff trust a university’s review of gender-based violence? appeared first on Wonkhe.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

The stuff of science fiction isn’t nearly as far away as it once seemed. The speed of progress in tech continues to change higher education at a dramatic pace. Ideas that seemed far-fetched three years ago, like earning a four-year college degree solely by completing courses online and without ever meeting a professor in person, are now fairly common practice.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

Image: Manhattanville College in Purchase, N.Y., laid off eight tenured and tenure-track faculty members and froze various programs last month, citing realignment of academics with changing student demands. “Manhattanville is continuously monitoring, evaluating, and seeking to understand and adjust the academic curriculum and overall campus life to the needs of today’s students,” Louise Feroe, interim president, said in a related announcement.

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Higher Ed Dive

JANUARY 12, 2023

A recent lawsuit accuses executives of Frank, a platform to help students apply for federal financial aid, of lying about the number of users it had.

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Wonkhe

JANUARY 12, 2023

For George Bryant-Aird, a revolution in the way his SU uses local data started with a Wonkhe event. The post Data sharing between universities and SUs has huge benefits for both appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

Technical jobs are receiving fewer applications from younger generations. According to Handshake, a network of institutions and employers that helps connect students with early career opportunities, trade careers saw 49% fewer applications in 2022 than 2020. Applications for jobs like automotive technicians or respiratory therapists went from an average of 10 applications each to only five.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 9, 2023

A growing number of community college systems, in California , Florida , Louisiana , Tennessee , Texas , New York City and elsewhere, have stopped requiring students to take remedial courses before they can enroll in college-level courses—the long-standing model for remedial education. With this policy change, states have lifted a significant barrier to college progress that affects millions of students and disproportionately impacts first-generation and low-income students and students of

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Higher Ed Dive

JANUARY 10, 2023

Almost 9 in 10 financial officers predicted financial stability for their colleges, an uptick software vendor Syntellis called "optimism against the odds.

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Wonkhe

JANUARY 12, 2023

This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag demands your attention, you ‘orrible lot…. The post Higher Education Postcard: military matters appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Educause

JANUARY 11, 2023

The use of constrained choice activities in higher education classrooms can improve students’ critical thinking and real-world decision-making skills.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 11, 2023

Teaching Today Faculty members today too rarely recognize a significant impediment to student success: students’ own refusal—not inability—to simply do the work, writes Louis Haas. Job Tags: FACULTY JOBS Ad keywords: teachinglearning Section: Teaching and Learning Editorial Tags: Teaching Show on Jobs site: Image Source: IcemanJ/istock/getty images plus Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?

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Higher Ed Dive

JANUARY 12, 2023

Disagreements over when and how to use data, along with decentralized systems, prevent universities from making the most of what they have.

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Wonkhe

JANUARY 12, 2023

This week in a special European episode of the podcast we’re in Münster, Germany for the Wonkhe SUs study tour, discussing where HE policy could go in 2023. The post Podcast: Drugs, year ahead, study tour appeared first on Wonkhe.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

JANUARY 7, 2023

ACLU and Pen America back former Human Rights Watch chief Kenneth Roth and say decision ‘raises serious questions’ Leading civil rights organisations have condemned Harvard Kennedy School’s denial of a position to the former head of Human Rights Watch over the organisation’s criticism of Israel. The American Civil Liberties Union called the refusal of a fellowship to Kenneth Roth “profoundly troubling”.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

JANUARY 13, 2023

Noticed any fantasy-inspired portrait posts showing up on your social media feeds lately? You might just be looking at artificial intelligence-generated content, a new development in the exponentially expanding world of AI tech that has emerged over the past few years. Platforms like Stable Diffusion and DALL-E 2 allow users to input a text prompt, which creates an AI-generated image that may or may not accurately reflect what the user intended.

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Higher Ed Dive

JANUARY 10, 2023

Undergraduate borrowers would pay less of their discretionary income and unpaid interest wouldn't accumulate under proposed rule.

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Wonkhe

JANUARY 10, 2023

More coverage of QAA subject benchmarks over the Christmas break prompted Richard Harrison to consider how the benchmarks are really used and perceived in universities. The post Benchmarks are reference points, so why do so many see them as requirements? appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 13, 2023

Over half of undergraduate students in the U.S. are the first in their family to attend an institution of higher learning. These first-generation students are likelier than their peers to be from minoritized backgrounds, to face economic challenges, and to juggle jobs and families in addition to school. And they may be less familiar with the “hidden curriculum”—the implicit norms and knowledge that help students navigate college life.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

JANUARY 13, 2023

The Hamline debacle demonstrates the perils of ignoring religious disagreement. By Eboo Patel. Pat Kinsella for The Chronicle. The Hamline debacle demonstrates the perils of ignoring religious disagreement.

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Higher Ed Dive

JANUARY 13, 2023

Over half of those surveyed said employers should invest more in mental health, according to a new report.

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Wonkhe

JANUARY 13, 2023

Former universities minister Chris Skidmore has published his Independent Review of Net Zero and there is a lot for universities to ponder. The post Mission zero appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

Dr. Kelisha B. Graves remembers being a young student in public school, looking forward to the third Monday of every January as a day off. “Every King holiday is a day out of school, without intentional reflection,” said Graves. “At The King Center, we always say that the King holiday is a day on, not a day off. It’s a day of not just reflection but concrete action.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

An excellent and diverse faculty is vital to individual colleges and universities and to our communities, states, nation and globe. A diverse faculty brings diverse perspectives, and these diverse perspectives enhance teaching and advising, research and scholarship, clinical practice, and engagement with the community and world. Yet, at most U.S. colleges and universities, the faculty is less diverse than the students.

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Higher Ed Dive

JANUARY 11, 2023

For-profits worry about being targeted, while others fear the plan will contribute to the narrative that higher ed's benefits are purely financial.

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Wonkhe

JANUARY 11, 2023

Who gets made an offer when they apply to university? David Kernohan plots the data. The post End of cycle 2022: equality and offer making appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 10, 2023

As students, faculty, and staff figure out the “newish-normalish” of college learning during the age of COVID-19, prioritizing a “pedagogy of care” (informed by Noddings, 1984, 2013) is essential to re-connecting peer-to-peer and professor-to-student relationships so that mutual care and respect can be re-established in college classrooms. Prompted by my own creativity-based journey of self-healing and self-care during the quarantine phase of the pandemic, I have developed four quick activities

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 9, 2023

Even though Saint Augustine’s University (SAU) in Raleigh, NC has been placed on probation by the accrediting agency The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC), SAU President Dr. Christine McPhail isn’t slowing down. Dr. Christine McPhail, president of Saint Augustine's University, “Nobody wants probation, but I’m a seasoned administrator with multiple decades of experience in the area,” said McPhail.

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Higher Ed Dive

JANUARY 9, 2023

The president of Muhlenberg College shares strategies the institution used in Pennsylvania to sharply boost voting.

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