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Blog:  GradHacker Deidra Faye Jackson earned her Ph.D. in Higher Education from the University of Mississippi in Oxford, where she teaches in the departments of Writing and Rhetoric and Higher Education. You can find her on Twitter at @DeidraJackson11 . It took me a few days, but I now see the connection between director Jordan Peele’s movie, Us , and graduate students and early career researchers in academia. So, without revealing anything to anyone still planning to see this engaging horror flick, here’s the film’s implicit message: Regularly evaluate yourself! Don’t be oblivious to any truths that your own self-assessments might reveal. For our own sakes, we need to regularly embrace self-evaluations and not avoid the deep introspection that comes with them. As witnessed in Us and other psychologically unnerving features, the monsters tend to emerge when we fail to confront the inner voice that tells us something is amiss. In academia, we constantly engage in eva...

Blog:  Technology and Learning I’d like to start this post with a thank you. Last week, Matthew Rascoff and his team at Duke Learning Innovation hosted the HAIL Academic Innovation Collaborative Production Workshop . HAIL stands for Harvesting Academic Innovation for Learners. Matthew and his team could not have been more gracious, generous or energetic hosts.  The Duke campus has to rank among the top places in the world to think, convene, and write.  Thank you to Matthew and the Duke Learning Innovation team. This is the fourth HAIL Storm (of five) gatherings that I’ve attended.  The first was on the campus of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in January 2017.  The second (which I missed) was at Stanford.  Subsequent convenings have occurred at CSU Channel Islands, Dartmouth, and now Duke. Each time I spend my limited professional development time and money at a grassroots campus convening, as opposed to a conference organized by a p...

Blog:  Confessions of a Community College Dean The college search process is finally over. And this is not an April Fools’ post. It was an emotional weekend. After months of applying to places, hearing things piecemeal, getting and weighing financial aid offers, unsuccessfully appealing one of them, getting word from the last college to report, and crunching some numbers pretty hard… The Boy is going to UVA. Five months from now, he’ll be ensconced in Charlottesville. He’s excited and relieved. The excitement is about moving to the next big life stage, getting to spread his wings, getting out of the house, and just throwing himself wholeheartedly into college. The relief is about two things: knowing where he’ll be in a few months, and knowing that he’ll be out of New Jersey. I knew he wanted to get out of New Jersey, but I didn’t realize just how badly he wanted out until the prospect of attending Rutgers started to look real.  Rutgers made a good offer, including...

Many struggling scholarly writers delete too much too soon. Why not save your ugly prose for a bit, and give it a chance to bloom? from The Chronicle of Higher Education https://ift.tt/2YEVFFT

Recent web collaborations allow member institutions to upgrade learning platforms, bargain with vendors, trade course offerings, and collect and analyze vast data that could change how they teach. from The Chronicle of Higher Education https://ift.tt/2uBsCp5

Blog:  The World View The scourge of corruption around the world remains a source of serious political and social concern everywhere. In Africa, where corruption is rampant, it is estimated to cost as much as 25 % of the continent’s annual GDP.  Corruption knows no boundaries, albeit type and range may differ from one context to another. The education sector has always been vulnerable to the practices and ethics that occur outside academe, but increasingly the sector has indulged its own rampant corruption .  Despite the dearth of research on various manifestations of academic corruption in Ethiopia, a handful of research projects conducted at a few public universities and mounting anecdotal evidence show that academic corruption is on the rise and becoming a source of concern in a sector whose public credibility depends on integrity and ethical practice.  Manifestations  While the rampant nature of academic corruption among students has been wr...

Blog:  Higher Ed Gamma Faculty occupy a very uneasy place in the discourse of innovation in higher education.  Much of the literature on academic innovation focuses on administrators and the crucial role of "the critical few" in leading educational transformation. In these works, faculty are often treated as a cost center that contributes significantly to higher education’s unaffordability  -- even though, typically, instruction only accounts for about 20 to 30 percent of campus costs.  This discourse emphasizes how administrators might cut instructional costs: for example, by substituting adjuncts for tenure-track faculty or through course redesign strategies that make use of personalized adaptive software or undergraduate learning assistants and peer instruction or that reduce the number of face-to-face class meetings or that eliminate hand-grading. At other times, faculty are regarded as obstructionists, whose self-interested emphasis on their own ...

The proposals include a review of whether ACT or SAT scores are necessary and a ban on preferences for the children of donors and alumni. from The Chronicle of Higher Education https://ift.tt/2FBpMFD

Some Catholic colleges say that because of their unique religious missions, they should be allowed to decide for themselves whether to let their adjuncts unionize. from The Chronicle of Higher Education https://ift.tt/2uAX3eU

A onetime dean of international studies says the institution paid her less because she is a woman and retaliated against her for speaking her mind. from The Chronicle of Higher Education https://ift.tt/2I1c5m4

In response to Herb Childress’s essay in The Chronicle Review, “This Is How You Kill a Profession,” many readers reflected on their own tortuous relations with academe. from The Chronicle of Higher Education https://ift.tt/2HZ6ywp

If we really want a diverse society, a focus on the Ivy League is woefully misplaced. from The Chronicle of Higher Education https://ift.tt/2OzoizR

Harvard University Thursday night announced statistics on its latest class of admitted undergraduates. One figure jumps out at a time that Harvard is being sued for alleged discrimination (which the university denies) against Asian American applicants. The share of the admits who are Asian American is up to 25.4 percent. That's up from 22.7 percent a year ago.   Is this diversity newsletter?:  Hide by line?:  Disable left side advertisement?:  Is this Career Advice newsletter?:  Trending:  from Inside Higher Ed https://ift.tt/2HZjzGn

Many academics have partners who are academics, and "two-body issues" complicate many a job search. A new book looks at the impact of these situations on the couples and on society. While many of the couples examined in Commuter Spouses: New Families in a Changing World (Cornell University Press) are academics, the book explores the issues that arise for others as well. Danielle Lindemann, assistant professor of sociology at Lehigh University , wrote the book based not only on her research but on her personal experience. She responded via email to questions about the book. Q: Your author ID says of you, your husband and your "feisty preschooler" that "Currently they all live together." As you note in the acknowledgments, this is a subject you know from personal experience. What has your experience as a "commuter spouse" been like? A: I lived apart from my husband (part of the time) from 2011 to 2013 while I was doing a postdoc at Vanderbi...

Just four months before she was due to graduate, Tiffany Filler was expelled from the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University . Leaders at Tufts say Filler hacked into university systems and changed her grades. Filler says she has proof she didn’t do it. Tufts is standing by its decision. But an article recently published by TechCrunch identified possible holes in the university's investigation. A petition demanding fair treatment for Filler has since been signed by hundreds of Tufts students and alumni. Both the TechCrunch article and the petition posit that Tufts failed to follow its own procedures by not telling Filler the nature of the allegations made against her at least seven days before she was called into a hearing with the university's Ethics and Grievance Committee. Filler said she only knew that the investigation had “something to do with her computer” and had no idea about the specific allegations. A report from Tufts' IT departmen...

Florida gambled big in 2013 when the state adopted a law eliminating placement exams and remedial college courses and gave recent high school graduates the option to take college-level introductory math and English courses. New research released this month by the Center for Postsecondary Success at Florida State University found that the gamble paid off. More first-time college students, including black and Hispanic students, passed the college-level math and English courses, also known as "gateway" courses, after the law went into effect in 2014. While other states have made big moves to reform college-based remedial education, Florida remains the only state that allows students to opt in to a gateway course. The state's remedial education law also mandated that two-year colleges replace remedial courses with credit-bearing developmental education courses. The researchers studied six years of freshman data, from 2011 to 2016, at Florida's 28 two-year colleges...

Bard College : New Orleans mayor LaToya Cantrell. Bergen Community College : Zakiya Smith Ellis, New Jersey secretary of higher education. Dickinson College : Pierce Brosnan, the actor. Finlandia University : Bishop Katherine A. Finegan, bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Ithaca College : Mildred García, president of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities. Johns Hopkins University : Jeffrey Goldberg, editor in chief of The Atlantic . Lawrence University : Lee Shallat Chemel, the director. Mary Baldwin University : Dorie Clark, the marketing strategist. Morgan State University : U.S. Representative Elijah E. Cummings. Mount Saint Mary's University , in California: Abby Maxman, president and CEO of Oxfam America. Pitzer College : Laverne Cox, the actress. South Carolina State University : Cory Booker, the U.S. senator and presidential candidate. Trinity College , in Connecticut: Samuel H. Kennedy, CEO and president of the Boston...

In a raucous performance-inspired protest, students at Beloit College on Wednesday shut down a planned speech by Erik Prince, an associate of President Trump and the controversial founder of the security company Blackwater. Administrators canceled Prince’s chat following student protests in which they banged on drums and built a barricade of chairs on the stage where Prince was due to give his talk. The incident was the latest in a string of free expression occurrences on college campuses where students have intentionally drowned out speakers whose views they find distasteful. Most controversial speakers who seek to address campuses are able to do so, though episodes like this one have led to calls for colleges and universities to do more to prevent speech-interrupting protests. Trump has spoken out about the issue repeatedly (ignoring challenges to free speech in which conservatives have shut down ideas they don't like). Trump recently signed an executive order that would d...