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Field of study not key to new academic program success

Inside Higher Ed

Image: The success rate for new academic programs at colleges and universities depends more on the type of institution launching them than whether a program is in the sciences or humanities, according to a new report identifying what sorts of programs fare better when it comes to growth. ” The study listed a failure rate of 39.4

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How To Design and Implement an Effective Student Ambassador Program in Higher Education

HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

This initiative not only empowers students by giving them a voice and leadership opportunities but also serves as a bridge between the student body and university administration, enhancing communication and mutual understanding. They serve as a liaison between the student body and university administration.

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Have you seen these 10 Terrible Tenure Decision Making Patterns?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In our personal communications with senior university administrators, they have noted that more “procedural violations” emerge in promotions cases of minoritized vs. majority-group candidates. Universities often have policies of “re-doing” the tenure meeting in the event of a procedural violation. Dr. Donna Y.

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Which Side Are You On?

Inside Higher Ed

And I don’t think we should discount a broader loss of trust in university administration, indeed in any formal institutions and in the responsiveness of administrators to graduate students’ quality-of-life concerns. programs, especially in the humanities, are likely to shrink, irrespective of unionization.

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Stanford questioned over response to 'Mein Kampf' photo

Inside Higher Ed

“From the students I’ve spoken to who are upset, the pain point is not the book, it is the possibility of a peer who treats their collective history as a joke,” Kirschner said. A Protected Identity Harm Incident report was filed and university administrators are engaged with the issue.”

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New film explores the enduring power of hazing culture

Inside Higher Ed

12 ), filmmaker Byron Hurt explores the abusive—even deadly—rituals of hazing culture and how they reflect the powerful human desire to belong. Q: As a college student at Northeastern University, you were a member of the Black fraternity the Ques. Hurt spoke with Inside Higher Ed via Zoom. A: Absolutely.

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EdTech Malaise: “He Not Busy Born is Busy Dying”

eLiterate

Nothing in Pearson’s history prepared it to think about how effective its products are at helping students learn. The technology doesn’t need to (and shouldn’t) produce a perfect, finished draft with zero human supervision. Moodle was the project of a graduate student at Curtin University in Australia.

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