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Blog:  Learning Innovation The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations by Daniel Yergin Published in September of 2020. Where you stand on Daniel Yergin’s The New Map will likely depend on where you sit on climate change. Suppose you believe that global warming is an existential crisis, one that warrants coordinated actions to lower carbon emissions even at the price of slowing economic growth. In that case, you will read The New Map as tepid and under-argued. Conversely, if you view climate change as a manageable (rather than existential) crisis, then you will appreciate Yergin’s even-handed approach to the shifting global energy economy. Since The Prize , Daniel Yergin’s books have been the ones in which I measure all other energy nonfiction. The New Map may not be as original as The Prize. Still, it is useful in that the book synthesizes the complex story of our 21st-century global energy transition within a fast-moving 512-page narrative. The overal...

"Leading in an Era of Digital Transformation" is Inside Higher Ed' s new print-on-demand collection of articles, exploring how colleges and their leaders are navigating in a remarkable time. A free copy of the booklet can be downloaded here . Inside Higher Ed 's editors will lead a webcast on the themes of the compendium on Thursday, December 17, 2020, at 2 P.M. ET. We invite you to register here for the event. This booklet was made possible in part by the advertising support of AWS. Image:  Ad keyword:  AWSBooklet_20201201 Section:  Technology from Inside Higher Ed https://ift.tt/2HUovi5

Blog:  Just Visiting There’s a lot of things I worry about when it comes to education, but rapidly rising to the top of the list is the use of surveillance technologies as a substitute for what should be human labor. I can chart the acceleration of this problem through my own work. When I wrote the proposal for  Why They Can’t Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities , surveillance as a barrier to student learning wasn’t on my radar in a big enough way to include it in the outline. By the time I was drafting the book, it became a whole chapter where I covered existent apps like ClassDojo which allows teachers to keep a real-time, public scorecard of student academic and behavioral performance. A recent reader of the book introduced me to something called Kloud-12, which is billed as lesson-capture technology, but strikes me as more of a full-service panopticon. Technology like eye-tracking to judge levels of attention, somewhat speculative when ...

Blog:  Higher Ed Gamma It’s time to replace teaching centers with centers for educational innovation, evaluation, and research. Virtually every university now has a teaching center or a faculty development center to improve the quality of teaching.  The names differ – there are centers for teaching excellence, for teaching innovation or transformation, and for the advancement of teaching – but their missions are similar: To help faculty and graduate students with course design, pedagogy, classroom management, online teaching, inclusive teaching, classroom technology, academic integrity, and constructive feedback. Their approach tends to be pretty uniform, consisting largely of teaching consultations, workshops, and classroom observations. Circumstances have changed, and it’s now time to radically alter teaching centers’ mission, approach, and areas of responsibility. Most teaching centers are products of a particular historical moment, when three developments – th...

Could Rand Paul, who once advocated eliminating the Education Department, really become the Senate’s top voice on higher education? It’s not the most likely outcome in the jockeying expected before the end of the year or at the beginning of next year over who will replace retiring senator Lamar Alexander as the top Republican on the Senate’s education committee. But it’s also a distinct possibility depending on how a scandal involving another senator plays out, and higher education lobbyists and policy experts are privately concerned. Eliminating the Education Department, as Paul, a Republican senator from Kentucky, advocated in his 2016 presidential campaign, likely won’t happen, particularly during the Biden administration. But if Paul, who has a Libertarian belief that the federal government should play a minimal role in people’s lives, were to be the top Republican on the education committee, “it would raise concerns about what else he could do to undermine the value and wor...

Duane Bedell , tribal manager for Bay Mills Indian Community, in Michigan, has been selected as president of Bay Mills Community College, also in Michigan. William T. (Tom) Bogart , president of Maryville College, in Tennessee, has been appointed president of Columbia College, in South Carolina. Sean C. Hancock , vice chancellor for student and institutional success at Grossmont-Cuyamaca Community College District, in California, has been chosen as president of Cerro Coso Community College, also in California. Kathleen Hagerty , interim provost at Northwestern University, in Illinois, has been promoted to the job on a permanent basis. James Hauschildt , interim president of Clarkson College, in Nebraska, has been named to the position on a permanent basis. Archie L. Holmes Jr. , vice provost for academic affairs at the University of Virginia, has been selected as executive vice chancellor of academic affairs at the University of Texas system. Rich Lloyd , president of Bryan C...

Madeline Pumariega grew up in Hialeah, a large city in Miami-Dade County, and attended Miami Dade College . Years later, she's returning to her home to lead the two-year college with one of the largest and most diverse undergraduate populations in the country, enrolling about 111,000 students this fall. Pumariega, 53, will be the first female president in the college's history. She follows Rolando Montoya, the current interim president of the college, and Eduardo Padrón, who led Miami Dade for more than two decades. Pumariega is currently the executive vice president and provost of Tallahassee Community College. She's expected to start at Miami Dade on Jan. 4. She's worked in higher education for decades, starting her career as a professor at Miami Dade and eventually becoming the first Hispanic woman appointed chancellor of the Florida College System. Inside Higher Ed talked with Pumariega over Zoom before Thanksgiving to discuss her experience and her goals fo...

Purdue University is awarding all faculty and nonexecutive staff members $750 each as a bonus for their work during the last semester, The Journal and Courier reported. More than 15,000 employees will receive the checks. Part-timers will receive a prorated check. Purdue president Mitch Daniels also said that, “barring major setbacks,” the university will add a 3 percent merit raise pool for the fiscal year that starts July 1. He took a similar pool off the table this year amid the coronavirus. “I cannot fully express our appreciation for the patience, forbearance, extra effort and sometimes true sacrifices that have gone into this accomplishment,” Daniels wrote to employees, praising them for finishing the semester. “I admit I was far from certain that even a collection of can-do problem-solvers like ours could pull off that achievement. Well, we’re here, and only because of the collective effort we could only imagine in August.” Tufts University announced last wee...

Many colleges adopted pass-fail grading policies in the spring term to give students breathing room amid COVID-19 disruptions. Students are again lobbying for such policies for the term that’s swiftly coming to a close. Some institutions gave their students this grace months ago . Some have heeded more recent calls for it. Yet on the whole, students seeking pass-fail policies this term are encountering much more opposition from their institutions, including from faculty members. Opponents of extended pass-fail policies don’t try to argue that this turned out to be a typical fall term. But they say that pass-fail grading policies can do more harm than good in terms of student success. Some also say that policies that involve letting students change their grades far into the semester are unethical. Proponents of fall pass-fail still encourage students to do as well as they can but want to give them options. No Pass-Fail The College of Charleston recently said it would not extend...

Is politics in the way of saving the lives of people who overdose? In today's Academic Minute, part of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Week, Nancy D. Campbell discusses why naloxone for all is a tough sell. Campbell is a professor in the department of science and technology studies at RPI. A transcript of this podcast can be found here . Section:  Academic Minute File:  11-30-20 RPI - Naloxone.mp3 Event's date:  Sunday, November 29, 2020 - 11:30am School:  Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Insider only:  from Inside Higher Ed https://ift.tt/3lpT6Sd

Category:  Carpe Careers Derek Attig describes the significant yet often untapped value of mutual support among graduate students. Editorial Tags:  Career Advice Graduate students Show on Jobs site:  Image Source:  krizz dapaul/digitalvision vectors via getty images Image Size:  Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?:  Is this Career Advice newsletter?:  Disable left side advertisement?:  Trending:  Live Updates:  liveupdates0 from Inside Higher Ed https://ift.tt/2Jp2A38

Sarah Fuller of Vanderbilt University kicked off in the second half of a football game against the University of Missouri on Saturday, becoming the first woman to play in a Power Five football game, The Tennessean reported. Fuller, a senior goalkeeper for Vanderbilt's women's soccer team, was asked to join the football team after COVID-19 contact tracing depleted the roster of specialists. Ad keywords:  administrators studentaffairs Is this diversity newsletter?:  Hide by line?:  Disable left side advertisement?:  Is this Career Advice newsletter?:  Trending:  College:  Vanderbilt University Live Updates:  liveupdates0 from Inside Higher Ed https://ift.tt/2ViEbyI

Fireside Magazine is apologizing to a Black female professor for having her essay in the magazine recorded by a white male speaking with an accent some view as typical of a minstrel show, The Washington Post reported. Regina N. Bradley is an assistant professor of English and African diaspora studies at Kennesaw State University. Her essay "is about how acclaimed hip-hop duo Outkast blended Black Southern life of the past and present in their music to paint possibilities of their lives in the future," the Post said. “Why is this man doing terrible Jamaican patois?” Bradley wrote in an email to the Post . “And then he started my actual essay, and I felt anger and betrayal. Is this how illegible southern black women are to white folks, especially white men.” Pablo Defendini, the publisher, apologized, saying the recording “basically amounted to auditory blackface, in the worst tradition of racist minstrelsy.” Ad keywords:  diversity Is this diversity newsle...