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Women’s colleges are going co-ed to survive. Does it threaten their missions?

Higher Ed Dive

The number of women's colleges has dwindled, raising questions about the best way to adapt to a changing enrollment and social climate.

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Life after the designated quality body

Wonkhe

What does it mean that the Quality Assurance Agency will no longer be the designated quality body? Chief Executive Vicki Stott explains. The post Life after the designated quality body appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Want to Grow Enrollments? Understand Your Lead-to-Enrollment Timeframe

MindMax

Prospective students’ decision-making journeys differ significantly depending on whether they are considering a certificate, bachelor’s, or Master’s degree program. Higher education marketing teams must account for these distinctions when planning digital initiatives. Your digital campaigns should never be cookie-cutter executions. Before deploying a full-funnel marketing strategy , you’ll first need to understand the typical lead-to-enrollment timeframe for a particular program and the factors

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3 Ways To Take New Photos For Your Website

The Academic Designer

What's the best way to take new photos for your website? Here are 3 options for you.

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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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Off-campus students lack equitable access to broadband, researchers say

Higher Ed Dive

College leaders should include internet costs when calculating a student's financial need, study suggests.

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Thirty ways in which universities have been getting the costs of study down

Wonkhe

Jim Dickinson highlights a whole range of measures that universities have been taking to reduce the cost of being a student in the UK. The post Thirty ways in which universities have been getting the costs of study down appeared first on Wonkhe.

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‘Universities must engage in lifelong learning’ – UNESCO

The PIE News

The future of universities depends on their ability to provide ‘lifelong learning’ that equips non-traditional students with in-demand skills, UNESCO warned last week. . David Atchoarena, director of the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning , called on universities to engage with continuing and adult education at the first Global Lifelong Learning Summit held in Singapore in November. .

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College presidential searches still favor White candidates, report says

Higher Ed Dive

Different search firm practices, hiring processes and job descriptions can change an exclusionary status quo, according to the College Futures Foundation.

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Supporting student resilience is about moving from surviving to thriving

Wonkhe

Amy Irwin and colleagues discuss the intervention they've been trialling to help students adapt successfully to periods of adversity. The post Supporting student resilience is about moving from surviving to thriving appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Strategies for Accommodating Students with Disabilities in Higher Education 

Faculty Focus

Over the last 30 years, federal laws like the Americans with Disabilities Act (1990) opened the door for more students with disabilities to enroll in college. While statistics show that the 2015-2016 academic year ushered in an increasing number of students with disabilities in higher education, countless students do not inform their university about their disability.

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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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My Cartoonish Cancellation

The Chronicle of Higher Education

How I became the subject of an equity investigation at the University of Michigan. By Phoebe Gloeckner. Phoebe Gloeckner. How I became the subject of an equity investigation at the University of Michigan.

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Coursera announces layoffs as revenue growth slows

Higher Ed Dive

CEO Jeff Maggioncalda said Coursera is “entering a different chapter now” amid cooling enthusiasm for ed tech companies.

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Higher Education Postcard: University of Leicester

Wonkhe

This week's card from Hugh Jones’ postbag takes us to a living memorial to those who served in the War to End All Wars. The post Higher Education Postcard: University of Leicester appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Target to Launch Internship Program for HBCU Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The Target Corporation is launching an internship program for students at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal reported. Maya Moss The Target Scholars Sophomore Internship Program will give second-year students industry experience in a number of the retailer's departments, such as retail, supply chain facilities, technology, merchandising, and product development.

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More professors now embrace Wikipedia in the classroom

Inside Higher Ed

Image: About a decade ago, Amin Azzam, professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, often told his medical students not to research health information on Wikipedia out of concern for the website’s reliability. But a student once looked at him “like he was crazy,” which made him rethink that stance. “Look, we all go there first as students,” the student told Azzam.

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Troubled for-profit ASA College to lose accreditation

Higher Ed Dive

The Middle States Commission on Higher Education will yank ASA’s accreditation by March over issues with its governance and resources.

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Why isn’t good practice on harassment and sexual misconduct a basic standard?

Wonkhe

As OfS publishes an evaluation into its statement of expectations, Rose Stephenson calls for universal standards over prevention and case handling in harassment and sexual misconduct. The post Why isn’t good practice on harassment and sexual misconduct a basic standard? appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Why there should be no surprises about the growing student housing shortage

HEPI

This blog has been kindly contributed to HEPI by Martin Blakey, the Chief Executive of Unipo l. In 2020, Martin co-authored HEPI Student Accommodation: The Facts (HEPI Analytical Paper 2) with Sarah Jones. Unipol publishes the long-running Accommodation Costs Survey with the National Union of Students. Rising shortages. We are getting used to headlines about student accommodation shortages all over again.

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The insights gained by forcing students to cheat in class (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

Teaching Today When it was not an option for the desperate or lazy to attempt in the dark, we were forced to confront together larger questions about the purpose of education, writes Joel Heng Hartse. Job Tags: FACULTY JOBS Ad keywords: faculty teachinglearning Section: Teaching and Learning Editorial Tags: Career Advice Teaching Show on Jobs site: Image Caption: Anastasiia_New/istock/getty images plus Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?

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How higher ed can engage veterans — from a university president who is a veteran

Higher Ed Dive

Identify how veterans differ from traditional students and support them accordingly, says the president of the University of Montana.

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How could income contingent loans work better?

Wonkhe

Income contingent tuition loans as a component of state support for higher education are a key legacy of the 1997 Dearing Report. Simon Marginson asks how the current system could work better for everyone. The post How could income contingent loans work better? appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Does Your Teaching-Learning Philosophy Align with Your Teaching?

Faculty Focus

This article first appeared in the Teaching Professor on December 10, 2018. © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. . There’s a new book out called Activating a Teaching-Learning Philosophy. The word “activating” caught my attention. To me that says “doing something about your teaching-learning philosophy.” Unfortunately, our current use of teaching philosophy statements doesn’t usually contain that expectation.

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UK International Education Commission set to launch

The PIE News

Stakeholders in the UK are establishing an International Education Commission in a bid to convene and propose future policy on the country’s future international education strategy. Led by former Universities minister and chair of Cross Party Universities Group, Chris Skidmore MP, the commission will seek to develop a new International Education Strategy 2.0, as a result of the changes to the geopolitical landscape since the original strategy was launched in 2019.

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Blunder renders Harvard’s $15M insurance policy useless in Supreme Court case

Higher Ed Dive

A federal judge ruled the Ivy League institution failed to properly alert an insurer about the case.

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Who are the victims in the campus culture wars?

Wonkhe

Who are the students assumed to be losing out over free speech controversies, and how should we support them? Jim Dickinson interrogates the data. The post Who are the victims in the campus culture wars? appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Why Can’t Your Real-World Project Live in the Real World?

Faculty Focus

As educators teaching in professional studies programs, our aim is to create classroom experiences where our students can work with professional partners, developing projects that have impact in the real world. We believe implementation is a salient part of the professional studies experience. We also know that this is easier said than done, and something that we learned firsthand when we invited Artists Alliance Inc.

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Study: Racial Wealth Gap Leads to Shorter Life Expectancy for Black Americans

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The racial wealth gap can be downright physically harmful for Black Americans, according to a recent study in JAMA Network Open. The study – done by researchers at Harvard Medical School, the University of Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins, Drexel University, and Duke University – found that the odds of dying for Blacks were 26% higher than for white counterparts and that much of that life expectancy gap can be attributed to wealth differences.

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ABA advances proposal to end LSAT requirements

Higher Ed Dive

A committee recommendation to ax entrance exam mandates sets up key votes next week and in February.

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How do we manage and support an expanding sector?

Wonkhe

Dearing's calls for expansion need to be seen in context with thinking on quality assurance and funding. David Kernohan joins some of the dots. The post How do we manage and support an expanding sector? appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Cabrini University makes public appeal for partnerships

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Years of dwindling enrollment and ongoing financial challenges have led to deep cuts at Cabrini University as administrators seek long-term stability. Following the latest wave of cuts, university leaders are making an appeal for partnerships. And while a merger isn’t their first choice, they say all options are on the table. Deep Cuts.

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How Pedagogy is Helping Students Feel Like They Belong

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Nicholas Cochrane never thought he would be a teacher one day. He grew up in the projects, and most of his friends and peers ended up in jail or lost their lives. He assumed his path would be similar, and he dropped out of high school at 16. Eventually, he found his way back to education 13 years later. Nicholas Cochrane, associate professor of business and economics at Mount Wachusett Community College.

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Louisiana to require colleges to report foreign gifts worth $50,000 or more

Higher Ed Dive

Legislation passed earlier this year may foreshadow similar moves by other states and governors.

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To resolve conflicts in the campus culture wars, we need to listen as well as speak

Wonkhe

If both sides in the campus culture wars feel marginalised and oppressed, how do we reach resolution? David Ruebain calls for more listening and understanding. The post To resolve conflicts in the campus culture wars, we need to listen as well as speak appeared first on Wonkhe.

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'Low-effort' interventions can combat student cheating

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Professors who adopt a slate of simple, proactive classroom measures to address cheating can significantly increase academic integrity among students, according to a new study from the University of California, Riverside, and zyBooks, a digital college courseware platform run by Wiley. The study looked at six “low-effort” interventions—each of which took less than an hour for the professor to prepare and could be easily adapted for other courses—aimed at reducing c

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Lumen-InScribe Integration Brings Digital Community to New Statistics Courseware

Campus Technology

Lumen Learning is partnering with InScribe to integrate its digital community platform into Lumen's new Statistics course and platform.

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