Higher Ed Dive

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Employers should be prepared for potential disruption caused by the rule, attorneys for law firm Fragomen wrote this week.

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DECEMBER 20, 2024

The Early Bird Gets Admitted Liam Knox Fri, 12/20/2024 - 03:00 AM Colleges have been criticized for admitting more students through early decision, which benefits wealthier applicants. Without affirmative action, it could be a boon for diversity as welldepending how colleges use it.

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Higher Ed Dive

DECEMBER 20, 2024

We’re rounding up recent stories, from an Illinois institution trimming offerings to higher education associations asking to extend a key regulatory deadline.

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DECEMBER 20, 2024

The Hypocrisy of Community-Engaged Research Elizabeth Redden Fri, 12/20/2024 - 03:00 AM Evelyn Vzquez writes that white saviorism often drives community-engaged research in the neoliberal universityand offers suggestions for how to change this.

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DECEMBER 20, 2024

The EXPLORE Act loosens restrictions on how the National Parks Service issues permits for filming on public lands.

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The PIE News

DECEMBER 20, 2024

According to a DAAD snapshot survey, which included responses from 200 German universities, the country will be home to some 405,000 students in the 2024/25 winter semester, compared to around 380,000 in 2023/34. The number of international first-semester students has also risen to 88,000 this winter semester, compared to around 82,000 last year, the data showed.

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ACRLog

DECEMBER 20, 2024

If you were to walk into any university library during the last week of finals, some things are slowing down, while others remain. The thick air of stress, anxiety, and dread is slowly dissipating as more and more students depart for the winter break. Outside the reading rooms and study spaces, however, things are barely slowing down for academic library staff as systems and workflows continue to be maintained or, in some instances, ramp up.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Brown University, one of the nations wealthiest institutions, is facing a $46million structural deficit, prompting efforts to limit growth in hiring and doctoral programs.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

DECEMBER 20, 2024

How K-12 reforms and recent disruptions created Gen Z's baffling habits. By Beckie Supiano Accountability and test-based reforms, pandemic-era disruptions, and larger social and economic pressures have fostered ineffective habits.

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University Business

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Two U.S. universities ranked in the top 10 in the latest global campus sustainability rankings. The UI GreenMetric World University Rankings measured sustainability efforts and institutional improvements at nearly 1,500 institutions in 95 countries. Each school was graded on attention to climate change, clean energy, water conservation, waste recycling, green transportation and sustainability education and research.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Biden Scraps Debt Relief Plans, Other Regs Katherine Knott Fri, 12/20/2024 - 01:39 PM The Education Department also withdrew its controversial rule regarding the participation of transgender student athletes in sports that align with their gender identity.

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Insight Into Diversity

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Roosevelt University has announced the Roosevelt Pledge, a new initiative aimed at increasing access to higher education for Illinois students from low-income households. Beginning in Spring 2025, students with an annual family income of $50,000 or less will be eligible to attend Roosevelt tuition-free. The program provides a financial aid package that fully covers tuition through scholarships and grants, including federal, state, and private funding.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The chair of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hills Board of Trustees appeared to pressure employees to admit specific students, according to a report from The Assembly based on more than 100 pages of text messages it received through an open records request.

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ACRLog

DECEMBER 20, 2024

As my first semester as an Academic Librarian draws to a close this holiday season, I was assured that December is a time to finally take a deep breath as meetings slow down. Maybe it could be a time to catch up on the scholarship youve been putting off, or read through the listserv emails that have been patiently waiting in their dedicated, untouched folder.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Michael Clune, Jessica Riskin, Fara Dabhoiwala, and others on their favorites of the year. Michael Clune, Jessica Riskin, Fara Dabhoiwala, and others on their favorites of the year.

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DECEMBER 20, 2024

Colleges Send Out Heartwarming Holiday Messages Johanna Alonso Fri, 12/20/2024 - 03:00 AM From ice skating with a mascot to going on a Christmas heist with a community college math teacher, holiday videos bring levity at the end of another year.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Survey finds post-1992 universities leading the way on sustainability and ethics More universities are banning fossil fuel companies from recruitment fairs in a sign of the sectors shrinking social licence among young people. The annual survey of sustainability and ethics in higher education found there has been a 30% rise in the number of institutions stopping fossil fuel companies taking part in graduate fairs this year.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Any overlap? Mostly, Im interested in what books you read in 2024. Let me know if there is any overlap between the books I reviewed and what you read.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Identity and access management (IAM) in higher education is a complex undertaking. There are different users with different roles that sometimes overlap, and identities can cross departments, colleges and campuses. Redundancies, outdated information and incorrect privileges run rampant when proper governance methods are not in place. Its important for higher ed IT leaders to understand who is using their services and the level of access each user needs.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 20, 2024

In the New Year mclemee@gmail.com Fri, 12/20/2024 - 03:00 AM Scott McLemee looks ahead to select spring 2025 university press releases.

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University Business

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Illinois colleges are more expensive than the national average. A first-in-the-nation bill could radically change how Illinois funds its universities and make it more affordable. What could that mean for families and young adults trying to pay for college? Learn more at WBEZ Chicago. The post Illinois lawmakers propose new funding model for state universities appeared first on University Business.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The Connecticut State College and University system is asking some community college employees to return money mistakenly paid to them two years ago because of a calculation error, NBC Connecticut reported.

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The PIE News

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The first thing to understand is that when we talk to people face to face at our airport immigration booths, everything is logged. Theres a specific number, linked to our name, details and shift, that can be traced back to us through the stamp that we put in your passport. This means we take the responsibility very seriously as it is our name on the entry record.

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Higher Education Inquirer

DECEMBER 20, 2024

With TikTok videos promoting honey packets, the supplements marketed as sexual enhancements have become popular on college campuses. But as Charles Trepany reports in USA Today , the Food and Drug Administration has warned that ingredients in the supplements could be potentially dangerous. (November 2024) VOA's Student Union is an online community for college and university students in the U.S., including international students.

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University Business

DECEMBER 20, 2024

A growing number of U.S. colleges and universities are advising international students to return to campus before President-elect Donald Trump is inaugurated, over concerns that he might impose travel bans like he did during his first administration. More than a dozen schools have issued advisories, even though Trumps plans remain uncertain. At some schools, the spring semester begins before Trump will take office, so students may have to be back in class anyway.

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Higher Education Inquirer

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Were joined by Nora Fayad, one of the CUNY 8. Nora and seven others were charged for their Palestine solidarity protest at City College, a campus in the City University of New York (CUNY) system. On April 30 they were arrested and charged with felony burglary and accused of attempting to enter a campus building without permission. Nora Fayad and others are concerned community members who joined the protests yet are condemned as being "outside agitators.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 20, 2024

House leaders say that campus antisemitism has extended beyond student encampments to university health-care systems and call on the National Institutes of Health to ensure that institutions receiving grants comply with federal law and provide a safe environment for all, particularly individuals of Jewish ancestry.

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Higher Education Inquirer

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The US Department of Defense (DOD) continues to stall the Higher Education Inquirer's efforts to investigate bad actor schools that prey upon servicemembers, veterans, and their families. Our effort began in December 2017 when we first asked DOD officials about oversight of its DOD Tuition Assistance Program (DOD TA). Our latest request was FOIA 22-1203-F and the projected response date has been moved to March 2025.

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The PIE News

DECEMBER 20, 2024

With the incoming Trump presidency beginning on January 20, international education stakeholders in the US are bracing for what his second term could mean for the sector. Beyond the political uncertainty, institutions are navigating changes associated with the rising price sensitivity of students, impending enrolment cliffs and the continued advancement of artificial intelligence.

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Academe Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2024

BY DANIEL A. SEGAL An opera based on Michael Chabons novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, with music by Mason Bates and libretto by Gene Scheer, had its world premiere at Indiana Universitys Jacobs School of Music on November 15.

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