Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Today, she is the president and CEO of the Learning Policy Institute and the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education Emeritus at Stanford University, where she founded the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education. Carter Professor of Child Development and Education at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 13, 2023

Race-conscious admissions were now only allowed for the achievement of the educational benefits of diversity. Dr. Anthony Carnevale, director of the CEW “We decided to disconnect affirmative action from America’s vulgar and violent racial history,” said Dr. Anthony P. Carnevale, director of the CEW. “It

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The PIE News

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

For a higher education policy wonk, this summer was a momentous occasion. After all, one of the first things you learn while developing a career in UK higher education policy is that if you want to know what is likely to occur next for British universities then you only need look to what is happening over in Australia first!

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Shaun Harper, “While the discontinuation of race-conscious admissions policies and practices will negatively affect students of color across a range of racial and ethnic groups at predominantly white institutions (PWIs), Black applicants will be most devastated.” The Black Church has a rich history of community mobilization.

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The PIE News

AUGUST 7, 2024

An apparent leak the night before the hearing suggested that the cap would limit institutions to enrolling a maximum of 40% of their students from overseas, with caps lasting two years and figures based on 2019 levels. The government is now drowning in its own baseless rhetoric,” said ITECA chief executive Troy Williams.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

He is a proven scholar who also has been elevated to leadership roles at major public universities in three states, including at Kentucky's flagship institution. It is also unprecedented to have an educational policy expert leading as a provost at a major research institution that boasts a student population of about 24,000. “We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The legislative ramblings in Florida and other states seeking to remove Black history from the curriculum and revise Black history should give us pause about what historical information students will enter university with. We must strive to work within our institutional settings to ensure that the legal syllabus terminology (i.e.,

Higher Education 126

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 26, 2023

Intentionality from institutions in terms of which high schools and communities they choose to invest recruitment efforts in was a key component that was highlighted. Park, an associate professor of student affairs at the University of Maryland College of Education and author of the third brief.

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HEPI

JANUARY 2, 2023

In the 1960s there was a flowering of new ideas about universities and individual institutions were not scared to make major innovations. We need the same effort now. Maybe not a new Robbins report but something close. And if the government won’t do it, universities should.’

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Creatrix Campus

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

This post is all about HEC - let’s explore its doings, step-by-step process, the committee involved in accreditation, and how institutions like yours should prepare to attain a good grade. What is the Higher Education Council (HEC) in Bahrain? What is the Higher Education Council (HEC) in Bahrain?

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

As a policy area, it has evolved to incorporate a wide range of both policy sectors and policy actors on the federal level: GAC; Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC); Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC); and Research and Innovation. Creating consensus among all those diverse actors is difficult.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

Aaron Thompson, president of the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE), participated in the Attaining College Excellence and Equity Summit put together by the U.S. Department of Education and the Institute for Higher Education Policy.

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SRHE

OCTOBER 17, 2024

In retrospect, the Institute of Education, when it was a more-or-less autonomous college of the University of London, was an almost-nearly-perfect university institution. As the student concerned went on, with a little help from us, to become a PVC in a major university, I think you might say that we called it right.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 22, 2023

This new piece was kindly authored for HEPI by Huw Morris, who is an Honorary Professor of Tertiary Education at the Institute of Education, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, and who is currently on secondment from the Welsh Government. 2023) The China Question Revisited: De-Risking Higher Education and Research.

Humanities 98

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The Guardian - Higher Education

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The government is making welcome moves to overhaul a sector in financial turmoil, but institutions face tough choices Philip Augar chaired the May government’s review of post-18 education and funding One of Britain’s most globally successful industries is under financial pressure.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 7, 2022

“The limitations that we’re going to have on us as faculty to make important decisions, and to really shape the institution as it develops into the future, will profoundly influence the student experience.” It’s hard to say, but I’m sure it will change over time, and it will change the nature of the institution.”

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HEPI

OCTOBER 26, 2023

I am delighted that the organisation I work for, the Higher Education Policy Institute, is publishing today’s report with Unipol. It is in a long line of HEPI papers on the issue of where students live. The Robbins Report is as interesting on student accommodation as it is on almost everything else.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The aim was for the NCAA and its member institutions to root out and punish college student athletes who engaged in cheating. The university is a city-state and an educational institution. The Supreme Court’s effective legalization of sports gambling does not signal the end of the moral discussion. For example, the Nov.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The book brings together 55 different authors – including academics, a vice-chancellor and numerous education policy experts (such as Sam Freedman, Lord Lucas, Jonathan Simons , Ann Mroz and Tom Richmond). 511-531 The post Just what is the state of private education in 2023? By Nick Hillman appeared first on HEPI.

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HEPI

AUGUST 31, 2023

As Wales establishes a Commission for Tertiary Education and Research and Keir Starmer signals that Labour policy will look again at skills policy with the creation of ‘Skills England’, as a sector we must ask how best FE and HE can work more closely together. So, why should institutions consider this? How to do it?

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HEPI

JULY 9, 2024

For university executives, academics and policymakers, there will be plenty of advice on how to represent institutions and the sector’s own interests, and indeed the hard talk and facing of financial realities is already underway. We make our own history but not in the times of our own choosing.

Higher Education 142

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HEPI

JANUARY 30, 2023

It was a fascinating session because it was the first time that a number of your senior managers had been in a room together, and yet Lancaster University – like higher education institutions more generally – had continued to thrive during the worst of the pandemic. Back to the future I hope you will let me begin with some history.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

At a time when the Latino population in the United States is growing and students are still facing daunting obstacles, Excelencia in Education is recognizing nine institutions for their clear and decisive commitment to Latino student success with the Seal of Excelencia.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Growing up here, we knew about UCLA, but it seemed so far away,” he says of the institution, roughly 15 miles away from his old neighborhood, that has served as his academic home since 2001. “It No matter what area of education you’re in, you should at least be asking some questions that have to do with race. The two go hand in hand.”

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 15, 2022

” A “group of faculty,” added Burbules, Edward William and Jane Marr Gutgsell Professor of Education Policy, Organization and Leadership, “is not the same thing as a department. UIUC isn’t the only institution to explore how and when departments should make political statements.

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SRHE

AUGUST 22, 2024

by Paul Temple The easy way to tell authoritarian (or worse) states from ones that are, broadly speaking, liberal democracies is that in the latter you will find a range of public institutions that are significantly independent of the central state: this is what creates a plural society. Why does this matter?

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University Business

JUNE 21, 2024

“What I’m hearing from faculty is that they are faced with students who are less prepared than they have ever been in their history of teaching,” said J.K. Institutions that provide faculty with the needed support to implement change are more likely to make progress , according to a 2022 report from Strong Start to Finish.

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SRHE

OCTOBER 3, 2023

It criticises its ‘prescriptive regulatory requirements and time-consuming processes’ and its ‘inappropriate micromanagement’, with ‘little regard to the need to protect institutional autonomy’. Institutions are found to be reluctant to engage with it ‘for fear of a punitive regulatory response’. Bloomsbury Institute Ltd.

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SRHE

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Some institutions that may need to shrink or partner, but is a price worth paying as part of a properly funded, coherent tertiary education system.’ Government enforcement sits uncomfortably with the autonomy of higher education providers insisted on by the 2017 Higher Education and Research Act.

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Creatrix Campus

JUNE 12, 2023

Curriculum development is the process of creating and designing an educational curriculum that includes the material, learning objectives, instructional practices, and assessment methods for a certain course, program, or educational institution. Every type of curriculum has unique benefits and considerations.

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SRHE

OCTOBER 20, 2022

After the first issue of SRHE News in February 2010, No 2 (The World to Come), came out just before the May 2010 election with HE facing major financial cuts, but we were still upbeat: … in difficult times let us think not only of what the community can do for our institution, and what our institution can do for our students.

Higher Education 52

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SRHE

JULY 20, 2022

Panels are still learning how to treat work beyond their boundaries and institutions are reluctant to submit work because of its treatment in getting lower grades for the disciplines that constitute its elements. Only two scored zero at 4* for impact, and not other components, one being a pre-92 institution. Procedural propriety.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JUNE 13, 2023

Before 2011, Brown was a senior research associate at the Center for Evaluation and Education Policy at Indiana University. There, she led studies and evaluations focused on education and post-high school programs within the United States and across Europe. Learn more at changinghighered.com. Courtney Brown 06:36 That right.

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SRHE

OCTOBER 10, 2024

While banks and financial institutions received massive bailout packages, ordinary citizens faced mounting debts with little relief. Similar anti-austerity movements erupted worldwide, with student protests in countries like the UK, Chile, Colombia, Quebec, and South Africa challenging tuition hikes and market-driven education policies.

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HEPI

JANUARY 24, 2024

Never mind that the 50% target he refers to relates to tertiary education, I am certain he is not alone in believing that too many people go to university. It is an argument I have heard many times throughout the two decades that I have worked in higher education policy and politics. Our job must be to examine the evidence.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 11, 2022

McCann: You certainly see it in the history around the policy, if not, in the Higher Education Act itself. You can read back at why the Pell Grant was created, why the student loan program was created, and see that the policy makers’ intent was for those dollars help students go to college. The data is important.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 16, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Policy It’s hard to believe that we are already halfway through January! I’ve been working on finalizing my spring course—Current Issues in Higher Education: Policy and Practice—and I’m really excited about focusing on the following big issues: Concurrent enrollment/dual enrollment/early college.

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