Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Students are turning to YouTube, podcasts and ChatGPT-crafted summaries rather than actually reading their assignments for class. Professors are unsure how to adapt. Ava Wherley likes to read—especially thrillers. She rarely reads nonfiction, but when she does, she prefers suspenseful tales of true crime. Reading for school is another matter. Wherley, a sophomore biology major at the University of Florida, is assigned about 100 pages of reading a week for three classes—most of which she skips in

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Outcomes get all the attention, but what about the experience gaps by ethnicity which persist in UK higher education?

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Higher Ed Dive

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Georgetown University researchers said that tuition and fees tripled over two decades, while earnings prospects remain uneven.

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FIRE

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Professor Maura Finkelstein's social media advocacy prompted the college to violate her tenure protections.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Pennsylvania’s Muhlenberg College may have become the first institution since Oct. 7 to oust a tenured faculty member for such statements, though the professor is appealing the decision and still receiving a salary. In January of this year, Maura Finkelstein, a tenured associate professor at Muhlenberg College, temporarily reposted on Instagram a statement from a Palestinian American poet.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Katy Shaw introduces some of the work universities are doing to support local areas in the way they support cultural activity

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The Berkeley Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Existence of Earth-like planet around dead sun offers hope for our planet's ultimate survival The post This rocky planet around a white dwarf resembles Earth — 8 billion years from now appeared first on Berkeley News.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Now, I try to be amused, but it’s not working.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag has some errors and a mystery Higher education postcard: shields of empire

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Experts pointed to pay audits, pay transparency, standardizing promotions and improving workplaces as ways to tackle the issue.

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The Berkeley Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The top-ranked Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures is undertaking a $9 million campaign to add more Ukrainian scholarship and programming. The post With $3 million gift, Berkeley prepares to build premier Ukrainian studies program appeared first on Berkeley News.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The Prestige Factor Propping Up Academic Publishers kathryn.palmer… Mon, 09/23/2024 - 03:00 AM A federal antitrust lawsuit against a group of megapublishers highlights how academia’s system of rewarding researchers for publishing in certain journals has undermined their leverage.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Considerable confusion still surrounds competence standards and reasonable adjustments in higher education. Duncan Abrahart hits the minimum Considerable confusion still surrounds competence standards and reasonable adjustments in higher education.

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Higher Ed Dive

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

A monthslong investigation found the department failed to properly oversee vendors and communicate with colleges and students.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

For over two decades, Berkeley has almost always been ranked as the No. 1 or No. 2 public school in the country. The post ‘U.S. News’ ranks UC Berkeley No. 2 public school in the country appeared first on Berkeley News.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Dozens of restrictive laws passed since 2020 could impact student voters this year, from shortened timelines for absentee ballots to new restrictions on using student IDs. In the last presidential election, an out-of-state student going to college in Ohio wouldn’t have to do much to vote in the state beyond registering and bringing proof of residence—a bank statement, a utility bill or even a paycheck listing their Ohio address—to the polls.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

Mack Marshall and Jim Dickinson spent the summer training up this year’s batch of student leaders. There wasn’t much discussion about the future. Mack Marshall and Jim Dickinson spent the summer training up this year’s batch of student leaders. There wasn’t much discussion about the future.

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Higher Ed Dive

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Top education executives most commonly listed attributes like trustworthiness and resilience as very relevant to their presidencies in a recent study by Academic Search.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

It’s finally happened. After years of studying higher education and teaching thousands of students, I’m now the parent of a high school senior who’s running the so-called college admissions gauntlet. Earlier this month I attended a parent meeting at his Philadelphia public school and listened as an experienced educator told us, “At some point during this process you will hate your child.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

The Long-Awaited FAFSA Autopsy Is Here Liam Knox Tue, 09/24/2024 - 10:26 AM A new government investigation dissects the federal aid form’s botched rollout. It paints a familiar picture of bureaucratic bungling, with some telling new details.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Competition is everywhere in higher education, but Nic Beech and Jackie Njoroge see the value in - messy, complex, but ultimately rewarding - collaboration

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Higher Ed Dive

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

A wealth-based supplemental financial aid program would even the playing field for Black and Latine students, a new analysis shows.

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FIRE

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

NYU has repeatedly violated the expressive rights of students and faculty who engage in pro-Palestinian speech.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

The Universities of Wisconsin Board of Regents voted to fire former UW-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow from his tenured faculty job over making pornography. The Universities of Wisconsin has fired Joe Gow for a second time over his pornographic double life: the Board of Regents voted unanimously on Friday to oust him from his tenured faculty position.

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Wonkhe

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

A new paper proposes that graduates start repaying student loans when jobless or bedridden.

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Higher Ed Dive

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Just miles apart, both institutions struggled with declining enrollment in recent years. But Birmingham-Southern couldn’t rebound financially.

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FIRE

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

When you donate to FIRE in lieu of your alma mater, we’ll let campus leadership know it's their speech climate that cost them.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Have Americans Actually Lost Faith in Higher Education? jessica.blake@… Tue, 09/24/2024 - 03:00 AM A policy brief from New America argues the answer is no and that media organizations have oversimplified the results of public perception polls.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

As the dust settles on Labour’s annual conference, Jonathan Simons has scried an emerging policy agenda – and even come up with an acronym for it As the dust settles on Labour’s annual conference, Jonathan Simons has scried an emerging policy agenda – and even come up with an acronym for it

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Higher Ed Dive

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

With a $24 million reduction in public funds, the Arizona university warned of impacts to students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Black males need support from childhood through graduate education to improve, fulfill, and correct inequitable access to careers in science and engineering. Broadening Black males’ participation in science and engineering extends our country’s ability to solve our — and the world’s — grand challenges. Implementing new strategies aimed at increasing Black males’ participation in these fields is key, and the new Black Males in Engineering (BME) project can help fulfill this goal.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

A newly launched, HBCU-specific $10 million grant program from the National Science Foundation is part of the federal government’s broader push to diversify scientific research and the STEM workforce. In the 14 years Michael Curry worked as a chemistry and materials science professor at Tuskegee University, he and his colleagues got research funding from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health and other federal agencies.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

England's newest education agency has produced a first annual report. David Kernohan has a read.

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Higher Ed Dive

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The resolution comes amid threats of a labor strike after protracted negotiations over compensation and healthcare.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Higher education has a reputation for being slow to embrace some of the technological advancements that other industries might jump at the chance to adopt. Whether that’s because of administrative red tape or a lack of funds, colleges and universities often approach large-scale technology projects in manageable phases rather than with an overnight transformation.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The Cliff, the Pandemic and the Hurricane Elizabeth Redden Mon, 09/23/2024 - 03:00 AM Who said fairy tales can’t be scary? Rick Clark distills higher ed’s enrollment challenges in a children’s story.

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