University Business

MARCH 27, 2023

Third-party teletherapy solutions have been some of the most attractive options for colleges struggling to meet student counseling demands amid reportedly declining rates of campus mental health. As effective as these services may be, Mantra Health and TimelyCare—formerly TimelyMD—have taken time to recalibrate their philosophy to attend to students at all levels of their mental health journey rather than just addressing them in the counseling room.

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Wonkhe

MARCH 30, 2023

For Sean Porter, sustainability and decolonisation should be connected to meet challenges associated with the climate emergency, inequality, and social justice. The post How to decolonise the sustainable development agenda appeared first on Wonkhe.

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MARCH 31, 2023

This matches trends in previous iterations of the Wall Street Journal-NORC poll, though the share of Americans skeptical of higher ed has gradually grown.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

MARCH 31, 2023

Here’s a fun game: Say the word ChatGPT to a friend or colleague, then watch what happens. There’s a lot of drama swirling around this groundbreaking artificial intelligence chatbot, released in November by the startup OpenAI. A few months later, in early March, OpenAI’s GPT-4 was introduced and has already stunned many by easily outperforming its older AI sibling.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

MARCH 30, 2023

By J. Brian Charles Conservatives in some states want to deputize the general public to sue if they think a college is deploying banned diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts.

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Wonkhe

MARCH 26, 2023

Fresh from her appearance at committee, Rachel Sandby-Thomas sets out the regulatory issues that could blunt the power of the lifelong loan entitlement The post Regulatory burden could clog the lifelong learning revolution appeared first on Wonkhe.

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MARCH 28, 2023

UPDATE (April 6, 2023): On April 5, the Belleair Beach city attorney responded to FIRE’s letter and said the city has initiated a process to amend the ordinance to eliminate its unconstitutional defects.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

MARCH 30, 2023

By Kate Marijolovic Martin León Barreto for The Chronicle The far-reaching proposal covers diversity training, faculty performance reviews, graduation requirements, the enrollment of Chinese students, and more.

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Wonkhe

MARCH 26, 2023

UCAS is forecasting a million applicants to HE by 2030. Chief executive Clare Marchant introduces the data projections that will start a thousand conversations The post The Journey to a Million applicants to HE starts today appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Higher Ed Dive

MARCH 28, 2023

The private nonprofit institution attributed the decision to changing enrollment and the state’s governor refusal to provide federal pandemic aid funds.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 31, 2023

Image: University of Michigan graduate student instructors and staff assistants began striking Wednesday, seeking to raise their minimum annual salaries from $24,000 to about $38,500 and win easier access to health care for transgender members, an emergency fund for international students and other benefits. The Graduate Employees’ Organization (GEO) acknowledges that its strike in Ann Arbor is illegal under its own collective bargaining agreement with the university.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

MARCH 26, 2023

By Eva Surovell Racial equity and reproductive rights were the top policy issues cited by high-school seniors in weighing colleges, an Art & Science Group survey found.

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Wonkhe

MARCH 30, 2023

The demission of the QAA as Designated Quality Body appears to Richard Harrison to be another step in a long and concerning retreat from academic autonomy The post What’s happened to autonomy and peer review? appeared first on Wonkhe.

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MARCH 28, 2023

A new Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce analysis comes ahead of the highly anticipated Supreme Court ruling on the issue.

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Academe Blog

MARCH 30, 2023

BY JENNIFER RUTH In “Rutgers Unions Prepare to Surf the Strike Wave,” Hank Kalet wrote for the blog about the authorization-to-strike vote to be held at Rutgers. The vote was held and 94 percent of Rutgers AAUP-AFT members voted “yes.” Rutgers president Jonathan Holloway has been using scare tactics to intimidate the Rutgers community.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 30, 2023

Joya Misra, Dawn Culpepper and KerryAnn O’Meara offer four strategies for ensuring workload and rewards systems equitably recognize the efforts of women faculty of color. Job Tags: FACULTY JOBS Ad keywords: diversity faculty Section: Diversity Editorial Tags: Career Advice Faculty Show on Jobs site: Image Source: Drazen Zigic/istock/getty images plus Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Multiple Authors: Joya Misra Dawn Culpepper KerryAnn O'Meara Is this diversity newsletter?

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Wonkhe

MARCH 27, 2023

Great practitioners can struggle to fit in as academics. Jacqueline Baxter explores what the research says can help them The post Why an identity clash means practitioners can struggle as academics appeared first on Wonkhe.

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MARCH 31, 2023

The for-profit’s history of poor student outcomes is one reason the system should not go through with a purchase, the faculty senate said.

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HEPI

MARCH 29, 2023

Today’s HEPI blog is in the form of the Foreword to the recent HEPI / UPP Foundation report on Public Attitudes to Higher Education (February 2023). The Foreword was jointly written by Richard Brabner, the Director of the UPP Foundation, and Nick Hillman, the Director of the Higher Education Policy Institute. This morning, HEPI and the UPP Foundation will be hosting a HYBRID event to discuss the findings, with Mark Corver, Mo Hussein, Sunday Blake, Jonathan Simons and Mary Stuart.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 27, 2023

Image: On Friday, a federal judge in New York ruled that the Internet Archive violated U.S. copyright law when it digitized countless physical books from four major book publishers and offered them online. The highly anticipated verdict concerning the nonprofit’s behemoth online lending operation —3.6 million books protected by copyrights, including 33,000 of the publishers’ titles—was swift, landing days after the March 20 hearing.

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Wonkhe

MARCH 29, 2023

The idea that a postdoc is a route to an academic career downplays other career possibilities. Lucy Williams and James Howard have been helping postdocs prosper with tailored advice and support The post We need to talk about postdoc career development appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Higher Ed Dive

MARCH 30, 2023

Simplified rules for gaining food benefits will rescind shortly after the declared end of the COVID-19 public health emergency on May 11.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 29, 2023

The Black Men’s Research Institute (BMRI) at Morehouse College hosted its first Spring Symposium addressing health issues for African American men. Taken place at the Atlanta University Center’s Woodruff’s Library, the “Changing the Paradigm” symposium began its two-day conference with a discussion on mental health. Dr. Walter M. Kimbrough , Interim Executive Director for BMRI, wants the symposium to dive deeply into mental health and how it affects Black men and their communities.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2023

In the age of Google Translate and ChatGPT, one might reasonably ask what the goal of learning foreign languages is. After all, artificial intelligence is more than capable of getting most messages across, typo-free and complete with flawless grammar and punctuation. Why put ourselves and our students through the tedium of verb endings, endless pronouns and the often-stultifying niceties of syntax?

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Wonkhe

MARCH 30, 2023

Today’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag may bring you out in a cold sweat The post Higher education postcard: examinations appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Higher Ed Dive

MARCH 29, 2023

First-year and dual enrollment students drove increases, according to preliminary data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 29, 2023

Over the past three decades, U.S. academic employment has dramatically shifted from mostly full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty to mostly contingent positions. That's according to a new report from the American Association of University Professors (AAUP)which provides data depicting the shift away from tenure to contingent faculty at most U.S. colleges and universities.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 27, 2023

Category: Carpe Careers The impulse to reach out and talk to another human being is what will help you the most right now—and also in the future, writes Briana Mohan. Job Tags: Research staff / postdocs Editorial Tags: Career Advice Postdocs Show on Jobs site: Image Source: calvindexter/digitalvision vectors/getty images Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?

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Wonkhe

MARCH 26, 2023

UCAS projects a million applicants by 2030 - David Kernohan asks if the government is ready enough to ensure providers can cope The post Is everyone onboard the journey to a million? appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Higher Ed Dive

MARCH 30, 2023

Only 4% of Common App’s member institutions required test scores for 2022-23, according to new data from the organization.

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Campus Technology

MARCH 31, 2023

According to the latest Internet Security Report from data security provider WatchGuard, ransomware at the endpoint level has surged 627% — despite an observed decrease at the network level of detected malware last quarter.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 29, 2023

Image: Iowa Wesleyan University is closing, citing rising costs, shifting enrollment trends, declining fundraising and the governor’s rejection of a proposal for federal COVID-19 relief funds. The 181-year-old private university made the announcement Tuesday , following a unanimous vote by the Board of Trustees to cease operations at the end of the current academic year.

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Wonkhe

MARCH 30, 2023

In our final podcast before the Easter break, OfS has published the first Equality of Opportunity Risk Register for English HE. But are there some big risks missing? The post Podcast: Access and participation, applications, mental health, Turnitin appeared first on Wonkhe.

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MARCH 27, 2023

Colleges’ increasing dependence on private-sector ed tech firms leaves them open to risk, says the head of the Student Borrower Protection Center.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 29, 2023

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has announced awards totaling $5.5 million to create or strengthen Centers of Excellence (COE) conducting housing and community development research. Marcia Fudge The money – for historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) – was split between two schools. Texas Southern University (TSU) received $3 million and North Carolina A&T University (N.C.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 29, 2023

Image: Rising numbers of community college students kept total enrollment across all sectors of higher education flat this spring despite a decline in the largest category of institutions by share of enrollment: public four-year universities. Data released today by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center come after enrollment declines at colleges and universities across the country during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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