The Academic Designer
OCTOBER 5, 2022
Allanté Whitmore started her podcast Blk + In Grad School on an air mattress with her cell phone. Looking forward to a new season of motivation and inspiration for grad students.
Wonkhe
OCTOBER 6, 2022
Jim Dickinson considers the best way to approach the risks to equality of opportunity that students really care about. The post Why not take a risk-based approach to discrimination or harassment on campus? appeared first on Wonkhe.
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Deans for Impact
OCTOBER 3, 2022
Notice something different? Our updated visual brand identity conveys a new look and feel that more accurately reflects our growing network and current priorities. . In 2015, Deans for Impact launched with an unwavering commitment to ensure that every child in this country is taught by well-prepared teachers. At the time, our work focused primarily on convening solutions-oriented education deans.
UIA (University Innovation Alliance)
OCTOBER 6, 2022
Disruption, Evolution, and Leadership. A Conversation With Paul LeBlanc, President, Southern New Hampshire University. bridget. Thu, 10/06/2022 - 06:00. Image. Higher Ed Leadership. Inside Higher Ed. Weekly Wisdom. Dr. Paul LeBlanc has been President at Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) since 2003, and he joined us on the Weekly Wisdom Podcast to talk about how he first introduced online education through disruptive innovation, what happens to schools that can't or won't evolve, the neces
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Inside Higher Ed
OCTOBER 5, 2022
Certain classroom practices that faculty unconsciously engage in can make students question their intelligence, competence and sense of belonging, writes Angelica S. Gutierrez. Job Tags: FACULTY JOBS Ad keywords: faculty Section: Teaching and Learning Editorial Tags: Career Advice Teaching Show on Jobs site: Image Source: useng/istock/getty images plus Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?
Faculty Focus
OCTOBER 4, 2022
Faculty are increasingly called on to conduct “mixed-mode” classes, sometimes called hybrid or HyFlex classes. These sessions are conducted with some students in-person and others using Zoom or other conferencing tools to view and participate at a distance. Mixed-mode classes present new challenges for faculty who are used to teaching an in-person or online class, where all the students are using one mode of access.
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Campus Technology
OCTOBER 5, 2022
Particularly with stresses induced by the pandemic, new and better tech-flavored ways of providing mental health support and care are being fielded in higher ed institutions.
Inside Higher Ed
OCTOBER 3, 2022
The recent firing of 33 employees, including tenured professors, at Emporia State University in Kansas was deplorable. On the faculty Listserv at my university, it led to a wringing of hands from tenured professors, who lamented it as heralding the dismantling of tenure and the further deterioration of higher education. According to Inside Higher Ed ’s reporting , those at Emporia State regard it in the same light.
Today's Learner
OCTOBER 7, 2022
Reading Time: 3 minutes Sherri Singer is a Professor and Department Head for Social & Behavioral Sciences at Alamance Community College in North Carolina. I’ve never heard an instructor say, “I just love grading.” Every time I sit down to grade my students’ assignments, I think this time will be the best. I’ll provide personalized feedback, they’ll read it and improve.
PeopleAdmin
OCTOBER 6, 2022
PeopleAdmin Named Winner in the 12th Annual 2022 Business Excellence Awards. Austin, TX – October 6, 2022 – PeopleAdmin , the leading provider of solutions for higher education, announced today that The Globee® Awards, organizers of world’s premier business awards programs and business ranking lists, has named both the Faculty Information System and the HigherEd Platform winners in the 12th Annual 2022 Business Excellence Awards.
Academe Blog
OCTOBER 5, 2022
BY JANE S. GABIN Many have read the Chronicle of Higher Education’s latest survey of public university presidents’ salaries and are appropriately horrified: sixteen presidents make over $1 million a year. This underlines the overall problem with US higher education: too many people are making too much money.
Inside Higher Ed
OCTOBER 3, 2022
Image: Colleges and universities in southwestern and central Florida are assessing damage and evaluating reopening plans in the wake of Hurricane Ian. Some colleges that prepared for severe conditions, including the University of Tampa and the University of South Florida, emerged from the storm with minimal damage and were able to reopen residence halls by Friday morning.
College Viability
OCTOBER 6, 2022
Much of what College Viability produces focuses on the financial health of poorly performing colleges - mostly private. As a first-generation college graduate (from many years ago), I have benefitted greatly from multip.
Campus Technology
OCTOBER 4, 2022
Howard University and the nonprofit National Education Equity Lab have announced they are expanding a program that allows high school students in historically underserved communities to take college Algebra in their high school classrooms and earn college credit at no cost.
Terminalfour
OCTOBER 3, 2022
It’s higher education conference season, and many of us are feeling a little rusty since the pandemic. Here are some tips on making the most of attending conferences based on our own experience attending and sponsoring several dozens of higher ed events.
Inside Higher Ed
OCTOBER 5, 2022
Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean. Chelsea O’Brien had a great tweet on Tuesday that got me thinking. She asked “If you are faculty and you have a concern about how an office is functioning, I would like to request you ask to speak to the director of that area privately.” I don’t know the story that prompted that tweet, but it stands on its own as a general rule.
Liaison International
OCTOBER 6, 2022
Vast majority of Gen Z students suffer from exam-related anxiety. Exam-related stress and anxiety among Gen Z students are now so common that they have inspired a neologism: examiety. According to a report summarizing the survey responses of 1,000 recently polled students, 86% said they had suffered from “exam anxiety” at least once in the past; 76% said they have experienced it within the last six months.
HEM (Higher Education Marketing)
OCTOBER 5, 2022
Reading Time: 11 minutes A compelling video can do wonders to improve your school’s engagement and brand awareness. After all, it can serve as a visually captivating way to showcase your school and its community. But when it comes to producing these types of promotional videos for schools, you may be picturing a difficult process that requires a lot of time and resources—not to mention complex equipment and tools. .
Academe Blog
OCTOBER 3, 2022
BY ALEX SMALL Breathe easy, everyone. We physicists have a strategy to help all students pass tough introductory classes. Hear me out. An administrator recently said that more students would pass freshman physics if faculty gave more frequent and early feedback.
Inside Higher Ed
OCTOBER 7, 2022
Image: Much about Oberlin College is unique, including long-standing policies guaranteeing the faculty a say in matters that extend well beyond academics. Many faculty members say it’s this level of input that keeps them at Oberlin. Most importantly, they say, it’s a big part of what keeps Oberlin … Oberlin. So these faculty members are perplexed—and angry—that the college is trying to change its bylaws to restrict faculty control to academics only.
Higher Education Today
OCTOBER 3, 2022
Title: Exploring the Exodus From Higher Education Source: Edge Research, HCM Strategies, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation A collaborative study between Edge Research, HCM Strategies and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation aims to shed light on why an increasing number of people are choosing not to attend college. As enrollment has been.
Faculty Focus
OCTOBER 6, 2022
This article first appeared in the Teaching Professor on October 1, 2017. © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. In face-to-face courses, learning is compartmentalized into blocks that meet a prescribed number of times per week across the term or semester. It’s a format that’s simultaneously efficient and inhibiting. It effectively facilitates sequenced and accretive design but regularly loses opportunities to maximize deep learning between class units.
EdTech Magazine - Higher Education
OCTOBER 7, 2022
Data is a language, and getting the world of higher education to speak the same one is at the heart of what the Common Education Data Standards initiative is trying to achieve. It’s an ambitious goal, one that has been in the works for more than a decade inside the National Center for Education Statistics, a division of the U.S. Department of Education.
Inside Higher Ed
OCTOBER 7, 2022
Paul J. Croft shares some underlying laws that govern the tenure process and how to make that process work best for you. Job Tags: FACULTY JOBS Ad keywords: faculty Topic: Seeking Tenure Editorial Tags: Career Advice Show on Jobs site: Image Source: marchmeena29/istock/getty images plus Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?
The Guardian - Higher Education
OCTOBER 6, 2022
Ministers join censure after male student cheered on by mob for calling women in Madrid residence ‘whores’ and ‘nymphomaniacs’ Senior Spanish government figures, including the prime minister, have condemned the behaviour of a group of male university students who were filmed cheering and howling after one of them hurled threatening, obscene and sexist insults at female students in a neighbouring block.
Faculty Focus
OCTOBER 2, 2022
Now that many of us have returned to in-person teaching, how can we maximize the setting and incorporate an adapted student-to-student learning structure to support in-class sharing activities? Instead of using an in-class model in which one person shares with the whole class (one at a time), or using a pair-share method, consider a reset and try the use of trios. .
eLiterate
OCTOBER 4, 2022
My recent post on the challenges of using artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) in EdTech received various responses. Both some positive and some negative responses gave me the sense that focusing on the one rather extreme example of an open-ended chatbot suggested to some readers that I was arguing that all AI/ML is equally fraught, whether they agreed or disagreed with that proposition.
Inside Higher Ed
OCTOBER 7, 2022
Image: For nearly a month, the fate of Michigan State president Dr. Samuel Stanley Jr. has remained uncertain amid an effort by some members of the Board of Trustees to force him out. Dueling narratives have emerged , with the board claiming that Dr. Stanley has made missteps on Title IX procedures, while the president contends the mistakes belong to the trustees who failed to adequately certify Title IX compliance reports as required by state law.
The Change Leader, Inc.
OCTOBER 4, 2022
In this episode of Changing Higher Ed podcast, Dr. Drumm McNaughton, a leading expert on change management in higher education, and Dr. Ami Moyale, president of Afeka, a top engineering college in Israel, discuss the case study of Moya’s profound transformation of his institution’s culture to produce well-rounded engineers who are better prepared to meet the challenges of an ever-changing high tech workforce.
Higher Education Today
OCTOBER 7, 2022
Title: A Call to Action for HBCU Investment Authors: Andre Perry and Anthony Barr Source: Brookings Institution Attention has focused in recent years on public underinvestment in historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). A new report from the Brookings Institution now sheds light on how HBCUs can build wealth from private capital through banks, philanthropies, Read more » The post Increasing Investment in HBCUs appeared first on Higher Education Today.
EdTech Magazine - Higher Education
OCTOBER 7, 2022
Higher education IT departments are managing more hardware than ever, with mobile devices, laptops and desktops now essential tools for faculty, staff and students. This is the hardware that powers modern learning, and in order to ensure all student have equal opportunities to take advantage of it, schools increasingly are providing it as well. Shenandoah University gives every incoming student a MacBook, an iPad device and an Apple Pencil.
Inside Higher Ed
OCTOBER 7, 2022
Column: Intellectual Affairs Without making any claim to exhaustiveness, here is a brief survey of new and forthcoming books on information technology and digital media published by academic presses this fall. They range from deep historical dives to guides for the perplexed—with some critical perspectives along the way. An old example of the gap between ordinary language and what computers were able to comprehend is the sentence “Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.
Today's Learner
OCTOBER 7, 2022
Reading Time: 3 minutes Anna-Kaye Powell is an Accounting student at San Diego State University. Underpaid. Overworked. Teachers have simply become among the most undervalued professionals in our society. But why? Instructors and faculty seem to be consistently working beyond the 40-hour work week, taking the time to prepare their material, staying involved on campus, and setting their students up for success.
Higher Education Today
OCTOBER 7, 2022
Title: The Effects of Community-based and Civic Engagement in Higher Education Author: Jessica R. Chittum, Kathryn A. E. Enke, Ashley P. Finley Source: AAC&U High-impact practices (HIPs) are staples in higher education teaching that can have a positive influence on learning indicators for undergraduate students. In a new report, AAC&U synthesized the literature on the.
Helix Education
OCTOBER 7, 2022
If you’ve heard me talk about annual giving before you’ve probably heard me describe it as “casting the big net.” I like the idea that we send our large scale, omnichannel direct marketing messages to the masses and hope we can bring in as many fish (donors) as possible. It’s an apt metaphor, but I now wonder if the “big net” method, just like in real fishing, is sustainable or the wisest way to use our resources—particularly when it comes to acquiring first-time donors.
Inside Higher Ed
OCTOBER 5, 2022
As the fall semester gets underway, so does another season of cancellation of controversial ideas and speakers and self- censorship. These new campus realities, so goes the narrative, have a chilling effect on learning and research. Solutions for eradicating them range from empowering students to adopting free speech policies. Yet this narrative too often mistakes symptoms as causes.
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