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Ignore the noise – university is overwhelmingly worth it for most

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Responding to the latest UCAS application data, Universities UK President Sally Mapstone reviews the case for continued growth in HE participation Responding to the latest UCAS application data, Universities UK President Sally Mapstone reviews the case for continued growth in HE participation

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Howard University Makes History as First HBCU to Achieve Top Research Status

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In a groundbreaking achievement that marks a significant milestone for historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), Howard University has become the first HBCU to receive the prestigious Research One (R1) Carnegie Classification, placing it among the nation's most elite research institutions. The announcement from the American Council of Education (ACE) on Thursday, recognizes Howard's designation as an institution of very high research spending and doctorate production, a status that f

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Ohio Senate passes bill to ban DEI and faculty strikes at public colleges

Higher Ed Dive

The legislation would also establish post-tenure reviews and require all instructors to share their contact information and syllabi publicly.

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A legislative solution to student suicide prevention: advocating for opt-out consent in response to student welfare concerns

HEPI

Authored by Dr Emma Roberts, Head of Law at the University of Salford. The loss of a student to suicide is a profound and heartbreaking tragedy, leaving families and loved ones devastated, while exposing critical gaps in the support systems within higher education. Each death is not only a personal tragedy but also a systemic failure, underscoring the urgent need for higher education institutions to strengthen their safeguarding frameworks.

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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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OfS is starting to better understand the student interest

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England's higher education regulator has published highlights of research into what students think, want and expect.

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The Educator’s Guide to Self-Care in Uncertain Times

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In a fast-paced society influenced by various factors, including commercialism, political discourse, technology, social media, and economics, the term self- Dr. Mordecai Ian Brownlee care fails to be a mainstream pillar in culture, practice, and conversations. Instead, a nation desperately in need of skills on how to participate in civil discourse and navigate complex decision-making has found cancel culture, knee-jerk reactions, and manipulative fear-laced tactics to be the best ways to address

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Cambridge risks losing ‘unbelievable talent’ amid PhD funding cut

The Guardian - Higher Education

Warning by vice-chancellor Deborah Prentice comes as Silicon Valley planned between Oxford and Cambridge The University of Cambridge risks losing unbelievable talent owing to a drop-off in funding for PhDs, the vice-chancellor has cautioned. Prof Deborah Prentice, who took over as vice-chancellor in 2023, described PhD students as the lifeblood of the universitys research and innovation work, and expressed concern that funding from research councils had dropped off significantly.

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‘What’s Going to Happen to Science?’

Inside Higher Ed

The U.S. university-federal partnership is a miracle for global scientific progress. It must be protected, Mary Sue Coleman writes. There was a moment during World War II when President Roosevelt summoned Vannevar Bush to the Oval Office. Bush was director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development and a close Roosevelt ally. It was 1944 and becoming increasingly clear that the Allies would achieve victory in Europe.

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Legacy Admissions Hit Historic Low as More States Ban Practice at U.S. Colleges

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Legacy preferences in college admissions have plummeted to their lowest recorded level, with just 24% of four-year colleges still considering family alumni status in admissions decisions, according to a comprehensive new report from Education Reform Now. The dramatic decline signals a potential end to a controversial practice that critics have long condemned as perpetuating inequality in higher education.

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Which colleges gained R1 status under the revamped Carnegie Classifications?

Higher Ed Dive

Howard University, a historically Black college, gained the coveted designation, as did about three dozen other institutions.

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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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The barriers that must be removed for degree apprenticeships to meet NHS workforce targets

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Denise Baker presents new research on making healthcare apprenticeships work, and warns that changes to level 7 eligibility could stifle NHS workforce development

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HBCUs Use Federal Funding to Connect Students and Communities

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

Historically Black colleges and universities across the U.S. are making creative use of millions of dollars in federal funding to narrow the digital divide and support the upward mobility of both their students and members of the community. Created by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), the Connecting Minority Communities Pilot Program has distributed more than $262 million to 93 colleges and universities.

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Australia strengthens its standing in India through TNE collaboration

The PIE News

We are not just working on building international branch campuses in India, even though thats really important to us, but also the status that Australia has with the Indian government through innovative TNE models, said Kennedy, while addressing the audience at the reception and networking dinner at The PIE Live India 2025. We are working on everything from dual degrees, education hubs, joint academies, and are doing really great things in building academic networks that will persist and support

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Student group sues Education Department over DOGE access to sensitive data

Higher Ed Dive

The University of California Student Association alleges that the “scale of intrusion into individuals’ privacy is enormous and unprecedented.

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Running a Workshop: Guidelines for Engagement and Impact

Faculty Focus

Most of us have the experience of registering for a workshop only to discover that it is a lecture or (worse) an advertisement for the presenter. A genuine workshop aims to empower the participants such that they leave with new ideas and skills. What follows are some suggested principles we have prepared for workshop facilitators that move beyond a talkfest to genuine learning.

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Community Colleges Test New Model Linking Student Success to Community Impact

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Fifteen community colleges across the United States are testing an innovative approach that could revolutionize how these institutions serve their communities and Dr. Karen A. Stout measure success. The Community Vibrancy Framework, developed by Achieving the Dream (ATD), moves beyond traditional metrics of student completion to create a more comprehensive model of institutional and community transformation.

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Deepfaking emerges as “small but growing” trend in student interviews

The PIE News

Enroly , a leading platform that streamlines the onboarding and arrival process for universities, students, and agents, has reported growing instances of ‘deepfaking’ being used in credibility interviews. The company has assured its partners that it remains ahead of the deepfake threat manipulated content designed to replicate a persons appearance or voice and is continually adapting to counter any risk.

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The latest roundup of DEI cuts across the country

Higher Ed Dive

From liberal arts colleges to massive public flagships, institutions of all kinds are moving to comply with changing federal expectations.

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Howard University Achieves Top Research Classification

Insight Into Diversity

Howard University has achieved the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education Research One (R1) classification, the highest designation for research activity among U.S. colleges and universities. The designation, which recognizes “very high research spending and doctorate production,” makes Howard the first and only historically Black college or university (HBCU) to attain R1 status. “Howard University’s achievement of R1 status demonstrates our research

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Making Space for Student ‘Sorrow’ Over AI

Inside Higher Ed

An art assignment using generative AI sparked fierce controversy, vandalism and the specter of Hitler at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, last falland then offered a lesson in navigating student anxiety about the technology. Last November, a hallway on the first floor of the fine arts building at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, transformed into a contentious forum for an ongoing debate: Should generative artificial intelligence have a place in making art?

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Teachers Rally Against Musk's Education Control

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In a mounting crisis at the U.S. Department of Education, teachers, students and union leaders are planning to rally Wednesday against recent actions by Elon Musk's Elon Musk Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) that they say threaten both educational research and student privacy. The protest comes just days after DOGE abruptly terminated 89 contracts worth $881 million at the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), effectively shuttering much of the department's research arm.

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From MOOCs to Mastery: How Patrick Surrett Found his Perfect Fit in the Gies iMBA

Coursera blog

For Patrick Surrett, pursuing an MBA wasnt just about adding a credential to his resumeit was about lifelong learning, growth, and finding a community. His journey to the University of Illinois Gies College of Business iMBA was anything but traditional. Having initially enrolled in a different online MBA program, Patrick discovered the Gies iMBA through MOOCs on Coursera and made the leap, finding a program that better aligned with his professional aspirations and learning preferences.

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HACU Urges Congress to Pass the DREAM Act

Insight Into Diversity

The Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) is urging Congress and the administration to pass the DREAM Act, emphasizing the significant contributions Dreamers make to the nations economy and society. HACU President and CEO Antonio R. Flores highlighted the urgency of granting legal status and a pathway to citizenship for undocumented individuals who arrived in the U.S. as minors.

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Behold: The Administrative Postdoc

Inside Higher Ed

Administrative postdoc positions offer advantages for Ph.D.s looking to transition into a range of career paths, Alex Yen and Anne-Charlotte Mecklenburg write. When most scholars hear the word postdoc, they may picture a researcher working with a faculty mentor in a lab. But increasingly, a new type of postdocan administrative postdocis appearing in academic institutions.

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Earning Our AI Literacy License

Faculty Focus

When my son started the fourth grade, his teacher provided a thick bound packet of cursive writing worksheets. She said that completing the packet was optional, but only if completed would her students earn their pen license and move from years of pencil use to the holy grail , ink. Using AI should also be earned; earned after becoming AI literate. Banning AI use in college classrooms is a pointless and exhausting endeavor.

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Empowering Black Scholars in STEM: The Urgency of Mentorship and Inclusion

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

What better way to kick off a Friday morning than by witnessing many Black intellectuals enrich the knowledge community and maximize their positive impact as Nelson Pham part of a gathering hosted by the HBCU STEM US. As numerous fellows entered the African American Hall of Fame at Morehouse College, the Dean of the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Division, Dr.

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[White Paper] – Improving Your Leadership Skills to Meet Emerging Challenges in Higher Ed

University Business

Strong leadership is needed now more than ever as higher education faces numerous challenges in 2025, from funding and technology to the changing perceptions of DEI and the continual difficulties of articulating the value proposition of a post-secondary degree. In this informational Q&A, Senior Lecturer on Education James P. Honan at the Harvard Graduate School of Education identifies the core skills that leaders need to help guide their institutions through these difficult times, while prov

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Cancellation of Education Department research contracts sparks concerns

Higher Ed Dive

The department didn’t provide a list of canceled contracts but said NAEP, the College Scorecard and the College Navigator were not impacted.

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Supporting the careers of researchers means innovation, not isolation

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Richard Emes, the new chair of the UK Researcher Development Concordat Strategy Group, sets out priorities and context for continued support of researchers

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California Sets Ambitious 70% College Attainment Goal Amid Persistent Equity Gaps

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The College Futures Foundation has released a comprehensive report highlighting California's push to achieve 70% postsecondary attainment by 2035, while revealing significant racial and socioeconomic disparities in college completion rates across the state. Currently, just 56% of California adults aged 25-64 hold a postsecondary degree or credential, according to the February 2025 report.

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The Guardian view on campus cuts: academics pay a high price for Westminster’s mistakes | Editorial

The Guardian - Higher Education

The government should not stand aloof as a crisis unfolds in our universities. A new settlement is needed In one of David Lodges famous campus novels, a young English literature lecturer pictures her university as the ideal human community, where people were free to pursue excellence and selffulfilment, each according to their own rhythm and inclination.

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The power of genuine relationships: Building support systems beyond the classroom

University Business

Building authentic student connections in higher education isnt just a valuable nice-to-haveits essential for ensuring their success. For college students, particularly those from first-generation or underserved backgrounds, connections with professors, advisors, and peers often determine whether they struggle or thrive. Ive seen this play out firsthand as an educator and someone who benefited from meaningful support throughout my academic journey.

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Strengthening partnerships between trade unions and universities

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Its HeartUnions week David Conway explains why trade unions should be at the heart of higher education Its HeartUnions week David Conway explains why trade unions should be at the heart of higher education

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Statement of the North Carolina Conference of the AAUP on UNC System Curricular Interference

Academe Blog

BY THE NORTH CAROLINA CONFERENCE OF THE AAUP On February 5, the University of North Carolina System issued a memorandum to UNC chancellors announcing that all general education requirements and major-specific requirements mandating completion of course credits related to diversity, equity, and inclusion, or any other topic identified in Section VII of the [UNC System]…

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Glimmer of hope for UK recruitment as applications rise

The PIE News

New Home Office data released on February 13 showed that a total of 28,700 sponsored study visa applications were made in January 2025 12.5% more than in January 2024, when 25,500 applications were made. Meanwhile, dependant visa applications decreased by 32.4%, with 2,300 submitted in January 2025 down from 3,400 in January 2024. This follows the rule changes that came into effect in January 2024 which prevent students from bringing dependants, apart from those studying postgraduate research