Inside Higher Ed
FEBRUARY 3, 2025
The Doctoral Dilemma Johanna Alonso Mon, 02/03/2025 - 03:00 AM More than half of those who earn Ph.D.s now decide to leave academia after graduation. Why, then, do so many graduate programs still assume their students will become professors?
HEPI
FEBRUARY 2, 2025
By David Lam, Activities Officer at the Students’ Union Bath. As a child, I always envisioned a very traditional educational journey. I would work my way through high school, do my A levels and then end up at a good university, graduating into a well-paid job. I think this is the journey most undertake or are pointed towards as we were told that university students almost always earn more than those without one.
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 2, 2025
Morgan State University, Maryland's largest Historically Black University, is taking decisive action to address a concerning trend: the steady decline in Black male Dr. David K. Wilson enrollment. University President Dr. David K. Wilson has announced the formation of a specialized task force to investigate and reverse this downturn, which mirrors a broader national challenge facing HBCUs across America.
EdTech Magazine - Higher Education
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
With generative artificial intelligence exploding in higher education, students, faculty and staff are eager to get their hands on these powerful tools. To meet the need, some IT teams are leveraging AI in the products they already have. In December 2023, for example, Microsoft made Copilot available to all higher education students and faculty as part of Microsoft 365.
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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
The PIE News
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
King’s College London, a 200-year-old university, has a long-standing relationship with India. It was one of the first universities to teach Sanskrit and Bengali, and has long been teaching Indian politics. “The great Indian freedom fighter and feminist Sarojini Naidu was one of the first female students of King’s,” shares Kapur.
Higher Ed Dive
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
The funding shortfall could eventually threaten recipients’ eligibility or benefits, one student advocacy group warned.
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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education
FEBRUARY 7, 2025
Mental health has become an increased focus recently for both students and the schools they attend. According to a 2024 U.S. News-Generation Lab report, 70% of students have experienced mental health challenges since starting college. However, only 37% sought mental health resources at their school in some cases, because they were uncertain about how to utilize them.
Wonkhe
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
The government has quietly revised its definition of a duty of care in universities.
Higher Ed Dive
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
Support for institutions is up by a third from five years ago, according to early data from the annual Grapevine report.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
Supporters of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) welcomed Howard University's announcement late last week of Dr. Ibram X. Kendi's appointment Dr. Crystal A. deGregory as a history professor and director of the Howard Institute for Advanced Study. Kendi, a historian and antiracist activist, has made waves since publishing Stamped from the Beginning , which won the 2016 National Book Award for Nonfiction.
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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.
Inside Higher Ed
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
The NorthCarolina Community College System is launching NC Community Colleges Boost, a new program to move students into high-demand careers in the state. The program is modeled after the City University of New Yorks Accelerated Study in Associate Programs, or CUNY ASAP, known for offering extensive wraparound supports for low-income students to increase their completion rates, including personalized academic advising and covering various college costs.
Academe Blog
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
BY JENNIFER RUTH Yesterday, the Department of Education announced investigations into Columbia University, Northwestern University, Portland State University, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of MinnesotaTwin Cities, explaining that widespread antisemitic harassment has been reported at these five institutions.
LSE Higher Education Blog
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
David Carless walks us through his recipe for academic research impact How might one develop an impactful paper that transcends a modest sub-field and enters the mainstream? What are some of the characteristics of highly cited papers that capture attention in unexpected ways? What is the respective importance of the publication venue, the authors, the topic, and the quality of the research?
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
As a teenager growing up in St. Louis, Dr. Shewanee Howard-Baptiste was certain shed become a doctor, but her college years told a different story. Dr. Shewanee Howard-Baptiste After a tough love encounter with science and biology courses, she realized the medical field wasnt her calling. Her pivot from medical school aspirations to a career in health education is now a lesson she shares with young people: life is a journey, not a checklist.
The PIE News
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
According to the latest data from the Open Doors report, the University of Notre Dame ranks #3 among Ph.D. granting institutions for the 2022/2023 academic year, with an 87.5% participation rate for undergraduates studying abroad. This remarkable statistic reflects the university’s strong commitment to providing students with transformative opportunities to immerse themselves in diverse cultures around the globe.
The Guardian - Higher Education
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
Arts and humanities are being hit hardest by cuts in higher education, write Prof Thea Pitman and Prof Emma Cayley , and Dr Ronan McLaverty-Head and another letter writer comment on cuts at Cardiff and another Russell Group university In response to the shocking news predicting up to 10,000 imminent job losses across the UK higher education sector ( Quarter of leading UK universities cutting staff due to budget shortfalls, 1 February ), we write to flag up a fact that the article largely misses:
Faculty Focus
FEBRUARY 2, 2025
Despite debate and disagreement about how to define and measure attention spans, numerous studies have put student attention spans in approximately the 10-minute range (Bradbury, 2016). Attention is a so-called gateway between information and learning and is compared to a spotlight on a large stage (Keller et al., 2020). Students cannot make connections and learn a topic if their spotlight isnt turned on or focused in the right area.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
California Assemblymember Mike A. Gipson introduced The Designation of California Black-Serving Institutions Grant Program ( AB 335), a bill that builds on the California Assemblymember Mike Gipson foundation of the states new recognition of Black-Serving institutions. As of Jan.1, to qualify as a California Black-Serving institution (BSI), an institution must enroll 1,500 Black students, or 10% of the total student population must be Black.
The PIE News
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
The motion, which received the backing of three coalition parties in January, calls on the government to prepare an action plan aimed at “encouraging international students and talented individuals to stay in the Netherlands. Dutch Universities have welcomed the governments efforts to retain international talent after graduation, pointing to recent data from the countrys Immigration and Naturalisation Service that revealed a falling number of skilled international workers.
Higher Ed Dive
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
The agency said it is investigating San José State University, the University of Pennsylvania and a middle and high school athletics association.
The Guardian - Higher Education
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
Writing on PHerc. 172 papyrus, found at Roman mansion in Herculaneum, revealed after 3D X-rays and software competition Researchers have peered inside an ancient scroll that was burned to a crisp in the volcanic eruption that destroyed Pompeii nearly 2,000 years ago. The scroll is one of hundreds found in the library of a Roman mansion in Herculaneum, a town on the west coast of Italy that was wiped out when Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD79.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
Dr. Michael Burawoy, a distinguished UC Berkeley professor emeritus who shaped global sociology over nearly five decades, died Monday evening after being struck Dr. Michael Burawoy by a hit-and-run driver in Oakland. He was 77. Oakland police reported that Burawoy was walking in a marked crosswalk at the intersection of Grand Avenue and Park View Terrace near Lake Merritt when he was hit by a dark-colored SUV around 7:10 p.m.
The PIE News
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
A new study has revealed the declining appeal of studying internationally for an MBA, with less than one in five prospective students expressing a preference for studying overseas. Survey responses from almost 2,000 prospective MBA students from 37 countries saw 19% express a preference for studying overseas, compared to 39% in the previous 2024 survey.
Higher Ed Dive
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
The partnership aims to have high school students graduate with an associate degree — and automatic admission to the historically Black college.
Inside Higher Ed
FEBRUARY 7, 2025
Common App is adding its first ever community college members, the organization announced in a press release Thursday. The seven new partner institutions are all members of the Illinois Community College system. Four of themSauk Valley Community, Rend Lake, Carl Sandburg and Black Hawk Collegesare joining the platform immediately; another three institutions, Lincoln Land Community, Oakton and Triton Colleges, will join next admissions cycle.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
UNCF will host its annual UNITE Summit July 20-24, 2025, in Atlanta, marking a historic first by offering five complimentary registrations to every historically Black Dr. Michael L. Lomax college and university (HBCU) and Predominantly Black Institution (PBI) nationwide. The five-day event at the Signia by Hilton Hotel will feature over 100 sessions focusing on institutional excellence, student success, research, economic mobility, and systems change.
The PIE News
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
At The PIE Live India 2025 in Delhi last week, The PIE’s CEO Amy Baker spoke to vice-president international and engagement at the University of Southampton and India Business Group CEO Amarjit Singh. Atherton and Singh were both instrumental in the University of Southampton’s plans to open a campus in the Gurgaon, located near Delhi, later this year.
Wonkhe
FEBRUARY 2, 2025
Students can struggle to make the most of university.
Academe Blog
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
BY JAMES VERNON Ed. note: On Monday, February 3, Michael Burawoy, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of California at Berkeley and lifelong activist, was killed by a hit-and-run driver while crossing the street near his Oakland home.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
Georgia's Board of Regents has named Dr. Jermaine Whirl as the sole finalist for the presidency of Savannah State University, the state's oldest historically Black Dr. Jermaine Whirl university. The announcement on Tuesday marks a potential new chapter for the institution, which has faced enrollment decline and financial challenges in recent years. Whirl, who currently serves as president of Augusta Technical College, has built a reputation for strengthening workforce education programs and fost
The PIE News
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
As delegates reflect on the vast array of speakers and insights at The PIE Live India last week, they will be left in no doubt that the country is at a watershed moment in its history. The scale of opportunity in India is astounding by any measure; 1.4 billion people, set to be the third largest economy in the world, with more graduates than the entire populations of most developed nations.
Wonkhe
FEBRUARY 3, 2025
As universities reduce budgets and make changes to what was originally promised, all while struggling to control what some say on their behalf, a new law is being quietly implemented to better protect students. Jim Dickinson explains.
The Guardian - Higher Education
FEBRUARY 7, 2025
Branches aim to tap into huge domestic market in face of changing visa regimes and international competition UK universities are aiming to leave their financial woes at home by seeking their fortunes in India, in a higher education version of a gold rush towards a market with more than 40 million students. The University of Southampton has been first out of the blocks, announcing it is opening in Gurgaon, a satellite city of Delhi, and is now enrolling students for what it calls the first campus
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
As chief executive officers in the California community college system, we embarked upon the topic of STEM out of an acute awareness of the lack of Dr. Lennor Johnson opportunities available to disproportionately impacted communities, and a shared commitment to forging increased pathways for those with the least access. Despite the rising demand for skilled professionals in STEM fieldsillustrated by the U.S.
The PIE News
FEBRUARY 7, 2025
Attracted by its enormous youth population and growing middle class, major international study destinations are flocking to make deals in India, as the country’s National Educational Policy (NEP) pays dividends. Sector leaders shared how their countries are investing in India during a panel discussion at The PIE Live India in Delhi last week. Vik Singh, Austrade’s trade and investment commissioner for South Asia, said India was now “the belle of the ball” for foreign inst
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