Wonkhe
JUNE 24, 2024
A new guide from Yorkshire Universities explores how sustainability is embedded into university curricula and highlights current good practice. Monika Antal presents the findings The post How to engage students with sustainability through service learning appeared first on Wonkhe.
Higher Ed Dive
JUNE 26, 2024
However, inflation-adjusted salaries are still far below what they were before the coronavirus pandemic.
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Higher Ed Data Stories
JUNE 25, 2024
This is a reboot of a visualization I did in 2018, which I found fascinating, but which didn't get much traffic at the time, and thus, I've not refreshed it. But I still find it compelling an instructive. Each year, the Association of American Medical Colleges publishes a lot of data about admission to medical colleges in the US. But frankly, it's a mess, and takes a lot of effort to clean up and visualize: Each link is a separate spreadsheet, and each spreadsheet has spacer rows and merged cell
The Academic Designer
JUNE 26, 2024
Introducing Dr. Monica Cox, professor and change maker for equity in the workplace Jennifer: I’m so excited to feature Dr. Monica Cox, a professor, author, and change maker. Monica, thanks so much for coming today to talk about your new book Never Defeated: Nine Lessons from the Workplace Front Lines.
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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
Wonkhe
JUNE 25, 2024
Consent education can be tricky to deliver. Harriet Smailes explains how universities and students' unions can get the messaging, content, and delivery right. The post How consent education can be more than a tick-box exercise appeared first on Wonkhe.
Higher Ed Dive
JUNE 28, 2024
Issues with the form’s rollout have made identifying merger partners for many small colleges an even greater urgency, one consolidation expert argues.
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JUNE 25, 2024
Dr. Walter M. Kimbrough has been appointed interim president of Talladega College, a historically Black college in Alabama. Dr. Walter M. Kimbrough Dr. Edward L. Hill Jr., the college’s vice provost for Lifelong Learning and Professional Development and Dean of Graduate Studies, served as the immediate interim president following the June 4 resignation of Dr.
Wonkhe
JUNE 28, 2024
GuildHE’s new CEO considers what’s in the balance for her membership as we await the General Election and shares a list of cost-neutral steps she’d like to see a new government implement. The post A cost-neutral wish list for the incoming government appeared first on Wonkhe.
Higher Ed Dive
JUNE 27, 2024
New data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center showed these metrics improved at almost all types of colleges.
Inside Higher Ed
JUNE 24, 2024
The latest Title VI resolution agreement sheds light on how colleges are being asked to handle complaints about online speech. First Amendment advocates are concerned about the implications. When a student at Lafayette College held up a poster that included the phrase “from the river to the sea” at a protest last October, officials who’d been monitoring the demonstration reacted quickly.
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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.
FIRE
JUNE 26, 2024
Gregory Bombard was arrested for nothing more than using profanity and giving an officer the finger.
Wonkhe
JUNE 27, 2024
A transparent comparable way of understanding sector financial woes exists. David Kernohan presents what little of it we are allowed to see The post TRAC data, 2022-23 appeared first on Wonkhe.
Higher Ed Dive
JUNE 24, 2024
A university investigation comes after photos emerged of four administrators reportedly texting about a panel on Jewish student life.
Inside Higher Ed
JUNE 25, 2024
University of Southern California postdoctoral scholars have “resoundingly” voted to unionize, the new union announced Monday. The vote, held Thursday and Friday, was 200 to 15 to form USC Researchers and Fellows United, the organization announced in a news release. The union, affiliated with the UAW, said it will represent 450 total employees.
The Berkeley Blog
JUNE 28, 2024
"This case will be a Rorschach test for elected officials," one expert said. "Will they redouble their efforts to provide shelter and housing, or fall back on laws that punish people for being homeless?" The post Supreme Court has ‘greenlighted the criminalization of homelessness,’ Berkeley experts say appeared first on Berkeley News.
Wonkhe
JUNE 23, 2024
Katy Shaw sets out the possibilities for deep, mature and expansive partnerships between universities and their regions The post Successful devolution isn’t possible without universities appeared first on Wonkhe.
Higher Ed Dive
JUNE 27, 2024
Staff faced long hours and pressure due to frequent delays and technical glitches, leaving them frustrated and exhausted.
Inside Higher Ed
JUNE 25, 2024
While both students and faculty have concerns with generative artificial intelligence, two new reports show a divergence in AI adoption. Students continue to run laps around faculty when it comes to using generative artificial intelligence, two unrelated surveys find.
The PIE News
JUNE 26, 2024
The partnership will build on Imperial’s work with universities and policymakers in the region, developing research and educational programs in areas such as public health, entrepreneurship, sustainability and vaccine manufacturing. “The scale of our research and projects with partners in Ghana has grown rapidly in the last few years and together we are making a positive impact,” said Professor Hugh Brady, president of Imperial.
Wonkhe
JUNE 27, 2024
Queens University Belfast holds a Gold Athena Swan award for working towards gender equality. Susan Clarke and Karen McCloskey set out what difference it makes The post The active inclusion and enabling culture that Athena Swan promotes are still much-needed in HE appeared first on Wonkhe.
Higher Ed Dive
JUNE 27, 2024
The private Pennsylvania institution was recently labeled a closure risk by its accreditor. Since then, it has announced a potential strategic partnership.
Inside Higher Ed
JUNE 28, 2024
Scholars Blast NYU Abu Dhabi ‘Crackdown’ on Palestinian Support Marjorie Valbrun Fri, 06/28/2024 - 03:00 AM University officials say students and staff are not “immune” from local laws, but academics say the institution should do more to protect learners.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
JUNE 27, 2024
The 49 staffers thought their jobs were safe. Then they were summoned to a Zoom call. By Katherine Mangan The 49 staffers thought their jobs were safe. Then they were summoned to a Zoom call.
Wonkhe
JUNE 27, 2024
This week on the podcast the party leaders have spoken out on student living cost support - did they have anything to say, and if not why not? The post Podcast: Maintenance, postgrad complaints, international appeared first on Wonkhe.
Higher Ed Dive
JUNE 28, 2024
The university released the findings of an independent review conducted after a prior investigation found widespread hazing in the football program.
Inside Higher Ed
JUNE 28, 2024
FAFSA Fiasco Forces Cuts at Small Colleges Liam Knox Fri, 06/28/2024 - 03:00 AM Many small private colleges are surviving quarter to quarter, narrowly avoiding sweeping budget cuts. The bungled FAFSA rollout pushed some over the edge.
Educause
JUNE 26, 2024
If digital transformation is enabled by data and analytics and if data and analytics requires data governance, you can’t have digital transformation without data governance.
Wonkhe
JUNE 25, 2024
New Labour adopted its infamous 50 per cent participation target and "top up fees" entered the lexicon. Adam Matthews rounds up the HE politics of the 00s The post Higher education in general election manifestos – the 2000s appeared first on Wonkhe.
Higher Ed Dive
JUNE 24, 2024
AI and digital innovations streamline college admin, enhancing student support and experience.
Inside Higher Ed
JUNE 24, 2024
After this year’s disastrous launch of the financial aid form, federal officials say next year’s version will be out on time and with fewer problems. College financial aid professionals are skeptical. The bungled rollout of this year’s new Free Application for Federal Student Aid started with a two-month delay, pushing the usual Oct. 1 launch date to the end of December—a shift that raised eyebrows across higher ed and portended the disastrous financial aid cycle that followed.
The PIE News
JUNE 26, 2024
New courses are mostly based around meeting unmet demand. But given the speed in which innovation now occurs, new courses risk being reactive to the events and trends of yesterday, rather than in anticipation of future demand of tomorrow. It’s the difference between being supply led and demand led. Thanks to today’s market dynamics and advances in technology, education can rarely keep pace with innovation.
Wonkhe
JUNE 25, 2024
Student maintenance has been ignored all election - until now. Jim Dickinson reviews the parties' answers on the issue to Britain's most trusted man. The post The Money Saving Expert gets answers on maintenance appeared first on Wonkhe.
Higher Ed Dive
JUNE 24, 2024
The test-optional movement could pave the way for stronger admissions and student success policies, one administrator argues.
Inside Higher Ed
JUNE 25, 2024
Some feared the bungled rollout of the new federal aid form would halt momentum for state completion requirements. It appears to be doing just the opposite. This year’s rollout of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid was, by almost all accounts, a fiasco. What was supposed to be a simpler form made the process more complicated for many.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JUNE 27, 2024
The rate of college freshmen returning for a second year is at a decade high. A new report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center noted that more than 76% of students who started college in the fall of 2022 returned for their second year. Done annually, the 2024 Persistence and Retention report shows the persistence rate (returning to college at any institution) rose 0.8 percentage points to 76.5% and the national retention rate (returning to the same institution) rose one full
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