Inside Higher Ed
APRIL 11, 2024
Degrees Earned Fall Again, Certificates Rise Sara Weissman Thu, 04/11/2024 - 03:00 AM Fewer people are earning degrees for the second year in a row, but certificates are having a moment, according to a new report.
Wonkhe
APRIL 10, 2024
The government is proposing to abolish a central funding allowance that allows disabled students to access specialist nonmedical support. Jim Dickinson explains the justification The post Now DfE proposes to scrap a huge part of Disabled Students Allowance appeared first on Wonkhe.
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Higher Ed Dive
APRIL 12, 2024
With nearly all of the state’s universities facing deficits, and some with potential liquidity issues, the system’s president called on lawmakers for more funding.
The Guardian - Higher Education
APRIL 11, 2024
Arts education is essential – yet on both sides of the Atlantic, the humanities and critical thinking are under attack. With massive redundancies announced at this London institution, is it the canary in the coalmine? It is a couple of days before Easter, and the students who have been holding a sit-in in the Professor Stuart Hall building in Goldsmiths, University of London are packing up.
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Inside Higher Ed
APRIL 10, 2024
Goddard College Announces Closure Josh Moody Wed, 04/10/2024 - 03:00 AM The small, progressive Vermont college will close at the end of the spring semester. It’s another blow to a state that has lost a number of higher ed institutions in recent years.
Wonkhe
APRIL 9, 2024
Hannah Cobb, and members of the national learning and teaching focused network, reflect on what universities can do to enhance the careers of education-focused staff The post Celebrating diversity and supporting progression in education-focused HE careers appeared first on Wonkhe.
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The Chronicle of Higher Education
APRIL 8, 2024
At public comprehensive universities like SUNY-Potsdam, the humanities are being hollowed out. By David C.K. Curry Illustration by The Chronicle; iStock At public comprehensive universities like SUNY-Potsdam, the humanities are being hollowed out.
Inside Higher Ed
APRIL 12, 2024
Traction for the Three-Year Bachelor’s Degree Doug Lederman Fri, 04/12/2024 - 03:00 AM A group of college leaders strategize about how to design a new undergraduate experience—and get an unexpected boost from an accreditor.
Wonkhe
APRIL 8, 2024
Tony Moss demonstrates how attention to student outcome gaps across the whole student lifecycle sheds new light on the awarding gap The post It’s time to tackle all the gaps that surface in our student lifecycle data, not just the awarding gap appeared first on Wonkhe.
Higher Ed Dive
APRIL 10, 2024
With insolvency looming, the institution moved to shutter permanently and struck a teach-out partnership with Prescott College in Arizona.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
APRIL 10, 2024
By Francie Diep An email from the University of California at San Diego's vice chancellor for research alerted the campus to the situation on Tuesday. The scientist says he got no warning before that day.
Inside Higher Ed
APRIL 11, 2024
‘Game-Changing Crisis’: Lawmakers, Experts Vent FAFSA Frustrations Katherine Knott Thu, 04/11/2024 - 03:00 AM While one House committee probed the FAFSA mess Wednesday, another grilled Education Secretary Miguel Cardona about the disastrous rollout of the student-aid form.
Wonkhe
APRIL 7, 2024
The last few months has brought a glut of providers seeking approval for a new name. Michael Salmon and David Kernohan ask what on earth is going on The post What’s in a name? appeared first on Wonkhe.
Higher Ed Dive
APRIL 10, 2024
One financial aid expert said trust is eroding in data from the U.S. Department of Education as issues continue to plague the new form’s debut.
HEPI
APRIL 9, 2024
This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Vincenzo Raimo, an independent international higher education consultant and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Reading, where he previously served as Pro Vice-Chancellor for Global Engagement. The questionnaire mentioned in this blog is embedded as a pdf below and can be downloaded from the website. The landscape of international student recruitment in the UK has experienced a seismic shift from a period of unexpected prosperity post-Covid, to a challen
Inside Higher Ed
APRIL 10, 2024
FAFSA Fallout on Capitol Hill Katherine Knott Wed, 04/10/2024 - 10:20 AM A House committee held its first hearing Wednesday on the disastrous launch of the new FAFSA.
Wonkhe
APRIL 9, 2024
Constant chopping and changing is in no-one’s interest. Anne Marie Graham sets out what a sustainable international student policy could look like The post Here’s how the government should welcome the next generation of global talent appeared first on Wonkhe.
Higher Ed Dive
APRIL 10, 2024
The Ivy League school’s saga isn’t over yet, but the potential wage-and-hour implications of the vote are vast.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
APRIL 9, 2024
Is the public intellectual's candid memoir an act of self-reckoning or self-sabotage? By Evan Goldstein Yoon S. Byun for The Chronicle Is the public intellectual's candid memoir an act of self-reckoning or self-sabotage?
Inside Higher Ed
APRIL 9, 2024
A Lost ‘Fight to Prevent State Overreach’ at Tennessee State Sara Weissman Tue, 04/09/2024 - 03:00 AM The historically Black university’s Board of Trustees has been replaced by the governor's picks.
Wonkhe
APRIL 11, 2024
This week on the podcast the Home Office has commissioned the Migration Advisory Committee to review the Graduate route visa - what could be on the cards come its conclusions in May? The post Podcast: Funding, disabled students, nursing appeared first on Wonkhe.
Higher Ed Dive
APRIL 8, 2024
An appellate panel wrote that the regulations upend decades of regulatory practice. But one student advocate called the ruling “exactly backwards.
Dr. Josie Ahlquist
APRIL 10, 2024
Let’s face it: April in higher education is pure chaos. Deadlines dance in our heads, inboxes are overflowing, back-to-back events are scheduled, student and community crises loom, and summer just can’t come quick enough.But what if, instead of just surviving through the academic year — we lean into this work with humanity intact?
Inside Higher Ed
APRIL 12, 2024
Faculty members and students plan to hold events across numerous campuses Wednesday, April 17, to kick-start a movement against what they consider concerted attacks on quality higher education for all. They’re opposing academic freedom restrictions, defending protest rights, supporting diversity, equity and inclusion, calling for free public education, and advocating for more secure faculty jobs, among other things.
Wonkhe
APRIL 10, 2024
As the Quality Assurance Agency publishes a set of 13 refreshed subject benchmark statements, Andy Smith and Laura Sperry consider the value these documents bring to the UK sector The post The continuing value of subject benchmark statements appeared first on Wonkhe.
Higher Ed Dive
APRIL 12, 2024
We’re rounding up our top recent stories, from growing worries about 2U’s finances to falling FAFSA submissions from high school seniors.
HEPI
APRIL 7, 2024
This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Leo Hanna, Executive Vice President at TechnologyOne UK. UK universities enjoy world-leading status, but the sector is not without its challenges. With a general election looming, and as UK higher education institutions look for solutions to overcome their challenges, the recently published Australian University Accord (Final Report) serves as a compelling example of what can be achieved when the government, the higher and tertiary education sector and indus
Inside Higher Ed
APRIL 8, 2024
Nontenure track employees who teach or conduct research at Harvard University voted last week to unionize, creating a new bargaining unit representing thousands of workers. It’s Harvard’s first union representing these “contingent” faculty members, according to the new labor organization’s members. “Prestige is not enough,” Shahinaz Geneid, a visiting teaching fellow at Harvard and graduate student at Northeastern University.
Wonkhe
APRIL 7, 2024
James Coe takes a look at the latest HE-BCI data and asks how spin-outs fit in with other research priorities The post The latest HE-BCI data shows the limitations of the spin-out review appeared first on Wonkhe.
Higher Ed Dive
APRIL 11, 2024
With the reversal, the top-ranked college becomes the latest Ivy League school to shed test-optional policies for applicants.
HEPI
APRIL 8, 2024
Paul Clark was until recently the Vice-President (Strategy) at University College London, and before that the Chief Executive of the Higher Education Statistics Agency. He is currently working as a consultant and strategy adviser. That the operating environment for UK universities is more uncertain than ever is now an accepted truth. The reasons for this are also well-known: domestically, universities face the ongoing erosion of their funding base, a challenging policy environment, and political
Inside Higher Ed
APRIL 8, 2024
After FAFSA Issues, Education Department Faces ‘Crisis of Credibility’ Katherine Knott Mon, 04/08/2024 - 03:00 AM Colleges and universities say they need more honesty and transparency from the department to rebuild their trust in the federal financial aid system.
Wonkhe
APRIL 9, 2024
Everything you need to know from the latest OfS board paper drop, from David Kernohan The post 17 nuggets from the 8 February 2024 Office for Students board papers appeared first on Wonkhe.
Higher Ed Dive
APRIL 11, 2024
Although the two sites together enrolled around 5,500 students at their peak, they hosted just one class between them this semester.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
APRIL 10, 2024
We asked professors, students, and high-school counselors. By Beckie Supiano Joan Wong for The Chronicle We asked professors, students, and high-school counselors.
Inside Higher Ed
APRIL 12, 2024
Georgia University’s Decision to Close Prison Program Prompts ‘Heartbreak’ Sara Weissman Fri, 04/12/2024 - 03:00 AM Professors and students want Georgia State University to keep its college-in-prison program open. The institution’s leaders say new federal standards make it too costly to do so.
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