Academe Blog

JULY 10, 2024

BY CAROLYN BETENSKY At the AAUP Conference and Biennial Meeting last month, one of the most widely discussed sessions featured the presentation of a recent white paper written by Isaac Kamola, director of the AAUP’s new Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

The potential for community college students and adults with some college credit to obtain a future degree is limited by a higher education system that has not fully embraced the many pathways today’s learners take to complete a degree, according to a new white paper from the Center for Higher Education Policy and Practice’s (CHEPP).

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HEPI

APRIL 4, 2023

On 22 June 2023, John Cater will complete three decades as the Director and Vice-Chancellor of Edge Hill University, rendering him the longest-serving head of a higher education institution in the UK. HEPI is marking the occasion by publishing his thoughts on higher education in 2030. Thirty years ago, I was a geographer.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

The treasurer, Jim Chalmers, will release the white paper on Monday, promising nine new policy initiatives including a national skills passport and the bid to boost Tafe with six new centres of excellence around Australia.

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HEPI

AUGUST 1, 2023

This blog was kindly authored for the HEPI 20th Anniversary Collection by Roger Brown, Emeritus Professor of Higher Education Policy and former Vice-Chancellor of Southampton Solent University. By the start of the twenty-first century though, that had changed and there was a role for a specialist higher education think tank.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 11, 2022

The Higher Education & Research Act 2017 (HERA) was conceived in a different policy age. It was an enactment of the ideas put forward in 2016 by Jo Johnson, then Universities Minister, in the White Paper, Success as a Knowledge Economy. Several more highly innovative providers are known to be in planning stage. .

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Helix Education

JANUARY 10, 2024

Our newest white paper addressing the declining donor pipeline, challenges that fundraisers face, and real solutions, has just been published. In higher education, 70% of institutions experienced a decline in alumni donor counts over the past ten years, with an average loss of 30%. That’s a big list, I know.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The proposals of the Robbins Report on Higher Education considered the role of providers of tertiary education. It concluded that to ‘confer degree-giving powers on all the existing’ Further Education Colleges ‘would be inappropriate because of the number involved, the variation in their sizes and the diversity of standards’.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

No higher education institution can remain static in today’s rapidly changing workforce environment. “As emerging technologies abruptly change the way we live and work, higher ed finds itself in a conundrum,” she says. ” The college isn’t just looking at STEM in new ways, Kilic adds.

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Kortext University Leaders' Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

In this blog, we’ll explore the importance of digital capability in higher education by delving into key findings from our collaborative white paper with Wonkhe. Together, we can shape a future where digital capability empowers success in higher education and beyond.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The detrimental ripple effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on higher education won’t be going away any time soon, and student mental health is becoming an increasingly urgent issue, according to a recent EAB report. Lower K-12 test scores extend back to elementary school and foretell heightened demand on academic support staff.

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Kortext University Leaders' Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Kortext colleagues attended events around the world, from Bangkok to Berlin and Rwanda to Rome, culminating in the ‘Oscars of higher education’, the THE Awards in Liverpool. Our vision is to enable and enrich the higher education of tomorrow and help all students fulfil their potential through digital teaching and learning solutions.”

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EAB

MARCH 13, 2023

This white paper offers six strategies for solving workforce challenges and retaining student-facing staff amid the higher education staffing crisis. Thanks for your interest! To access this content, please log in or register for a free guest account.

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Helix Education

MAY 15, 2024

To that end, I’ve been working a white paper (to be published in June) that will lay out more than a dozen strategies that institutions can use to build alternative revenue (student) streams. Demographics and the Demand for Higher Education. Empowering higher education. 2030-33: 55,523 +1.3%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 13, 2024

examines common misperceptions of community college baccalaureate degrees based on national research, comprising 11 white paper data points on race and ethnicity as well as employment and earnings potential among others.

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The PIE News

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Although popular subjects among Chinese students generally include business, management and engineering, this preference could create “a mismatch” between the skills graduates gain and the immediate demands of high-growth industries in China, the organisation warned in a new white paper on the country’s international education market.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The Higher Education and Research Act of 2017 (HERA) asserts that both the Secretary of State and the Office for Students ‘must have regard to the need to protect the institutional autonomy of English higher education providers’. There is now an enormous range of ‘higher education providers’.

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Cisco blogs - Education

AUGUST 30, 2022

The higher education sector has a major role to play in the journey to Net Zero – both in terms of reducing its own environmental footprint and by helping to develop new climate technologies through applied research and co-innovation with industry.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Read EAB's white paper to learn about three pandemic ripple effects you should expect and four recommendations for how student success leaders should prepare. Thanks for your interest! To access this content, please log in or register for a free guest account. The post Navigating the Recovery appeared first on EAB.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

We also intend to do more analysis of data in the near future so that we may publish our own reports and give valuable insights to the industry, and eventually publish a white paper.

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The PIE News

JUNE 5, 2023

Likewise, consultant and Education Rethink co-founder and managing director Anna Esaki-Smith highlighted both sides of the coin in her recent white paper, co-authored by Duolingo English Test’s senior strategic engagement executive Lindsay Addington.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Download the white paper. In our most recent white paper , we’ve laid out nine steps to enroll more underrepresented students in a high-level framework that covers each stage of the enrollment funnel. Get the white paper. Improve your diversity strategy. Crucial context for your diversity strategy.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2023

31 October · Episode 179 Beyond Ideas: Implementing Innovative Structures in Higher Education 38 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton Implementing innovative structures in higher education is not an option; it's a necessity. President Mantella's approach is a how-to guide.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The arrival of the ‘alternative provider’ In 1997 the Dearing Report saw diversity in British higher education institutions as an advantage ‘especially in providing for student choice; in programme and pedagogic innovation’ and ‘in the ability of the sector as a whole to meet the wide range of expectations now relevant to higher education’.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

In a white paper published by Claire Liu and colleagues, sponsored by the LEGO Foundation, the authors identify five key characteristics of playful learning which facilitate cognitive development: joy, meaning; active engagement; iteration; and social interaction. Though anecdotal, these results are hopeful to me. 15 (May 2021): 57-73.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

In a white paper published by Claire Liu and colleagues, sponsored by the LEGO Foundation, the authors identify five key characteristics of playful learning which facilitate cognitive development: joy, meaning; active engagement; iteration; and social interaction. Though anecdotal, these results are hopeful to me. 15 (May 2021): 57-73.

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EAB

DECEMBER 7, 2022

An institution that builds relationships across institution types, connecting community colleges, four-year schools, and the broader higher education community. Read EAB's white paper for our recommendations on how to respond to three pandemic ripple effects on student success. Read the white paper.

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HEPI

JANUARY 10, 2023

This blog was kindly contributed by Rob Stroud, Director of Quality Assessment, England at the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education. Independent providers are incredibly diverse, and very rarely look like the stereotypical multi-faculty institution that the words ‘higher education’ typically bring to mind.

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HEPI

JUNE 28, 2023

For many years, English universities were notionally the responsibility of the Department for Education but were effectively regulated via funding incentives via the Higher Education Funding Council for England. The universities brief has never sat easily within government.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 30, 2023

Our focus is research and development: serving as a kind of center of excellence whose white papers, learning experience pilots and ethnographic research can help guide others both at edX and in the broader online learning community.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Irish language colleges have reiterated their concerns about the proposed learner protection fund that will be introduced with the International Education Mark, following the release of new draft policy documents. .

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SRHE

DECEMBER 5, 2023

It is palpably evident that centralisation under an Office for Students (established as primarily a Regulator but replacing the UGC and its successor body, the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE)) is running out of road. Policy had become centralised although institutional autonomy was pledged to be preserved.

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EAB

OCTOBER 14, 2022

And today’s GEM plan must meet and adapt to the changing landscape of higher education, such as demographic shifts, technology, delivery modalities, student perceptions of education, rising costs, and increased student debt. Explore this white paper for EAB’s latest research on planning for graduate enrollment growth.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

Interested in the Rising Higher Education Leaders Fellowship? I am so grateful for the wonderful resources provided by EAB to support this effort, inclusive of the EAB white paper, “Breaking the Advising Stalemate—Building a Consistent Advising Experience to Address Students’ Needs”, 2022.

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WCET Frontiers

JANUARY 5, 2023

In 2023, WCET will look at Artificial Intelligence (AI) and provide support and resources to help you break through the rhetoric and understand both the promises and perils of AI in higher education. What Does All of This Mean for Higher Education? Photo by Headway on Unsplash. What You Can Do Right Now.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Higher-education leaders are seeking better representation and support for diverse student populations. Higher education is shifting toward ‘nontraditional’ learners. Every student enters the higher-education environment with a unique background and an array of factors influencing their written communication ability.

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WCET Frontiers

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Today I’m thrilled to help kick off our Frontiers and WCET Steering Committee working group series on equity and quality in higher education digital learning. The coronavirus pandemic acted as a megaphone for the inequity of our current education systems.

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