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 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
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Higher Ed Dive
JUNE 26, 2024
However, inflation-adjusted salaries are still far below what they were before the coronavirus pandemic.
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.
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 Data Stories
JUNE 28, 2024
OK, I admit it. That headline is clickbait. I have no idea which colleges might close in the near future, but I want to take a look at the problem from 30,000 feet. This is prompted by the recent announcement that Eastern Nazarene College in Massachusetts will close. It comes on the heels of several other announcements like this over the past few years.
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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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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
Higher Ed Dive
JUNE 26, 2024
The private Christian institution said it has faced intensifying financial challenges and has exhausted its options to continue operating.
The Berkeley Blog
JUNE 26, 2024
Experiment captures atoms in free fall to look for gravitational anomalies caused by universe's missing energy The post With a new, incredibly precise instrument, Berkeley researchers narrow search for dark energy appeared first on Berkeley News.
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.
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.
Higher Ed Dive
JUNE 24, 2024
AI and digital innovations streamline college admin, enhancing student support and experience.
The PIE News
JUNE 25, 2024
Crazy for you and Too much of a good thing? , two complementary reports by the cross-party think tank Social Market Foundation , have stressed that there is a delicate but important need for discourse on reliance when it comes to how the sector approaches the funding of universities, and the public viewing of international students. “Work is already underway” to address diversification in recruitment notes Dr Tim Bradshaw, chief executive of the Russell Group SMF refers to itself as
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.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JUNE 27, 2024
In an effort to encourage more postsecondary students to register and vote, Education for All (EFA), a group of over 250 college presidents, mostly from community colleges, has created the Student Voting Brief , a strategy guide for institutional leadership, CEOs, and partners to help instill civic participation and successful campus voting initiatives.
Higher Ed Dive
JUNE 24, 2024
A new state law requires every public postsecondary and K-12 classroom to display in easily readable font the Ten Commandments by Jan. 1.
Inside Higher Ed
JUNE 24, 2024
College Board chief information officer Jeff Olson is joining the Education Department’s team in charge of implementing next year’s Free Application for Federal Student Aid, a department spokesperson confirmed exclusively to Inside Higher Ed Friday.
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.
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
Higher Ed Dive
JUNE 25, 2024
Facing a $9 million deficit, the private Lutheran institution is keeping just nine in-person and seven online programs.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
JUNE 26, 2024
A rescinded offer at the University of Minnesota puts faculty governance in peril. By Alexander Jabbari Illustration by The Chronicle; iStock; portrait courtesy of Raz Segal Recently, the University of Minnesota tarnished its reputation by caving to community pressure over the hiring of a director for its Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
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.
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.
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 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.
Wonkhe
JUNE 27, 2024
This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag takes us to 1960s plate glass and concrete The post Higher education postcard: University of Warwick appeared first on Wonkhe.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JUNE 24, 2024
In its latest report regarding higher education’s return on investment (ROI), Georgetown University’s Center for Education and the Workforce (CEW) has analyzed 186 law schools and found at nearly one-in-five law schools, graduates’ net take-home pay after student loan payments averages at $55,000. Four years after completing law school, students still owe roughly $120,000 in student loans.
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