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Blog:  Confessions of a Community College Dean Brian Rosenberg, the former president of Macalester College, has a piece in The Chronicle of Higher Education urging the Biden administration not to steer students towards public colleges generally and community colleges specifically. As he puts it, “Policy that shifts students from institutions with higher completion rates to institutions with lower completion rates is clearly self-defeating.” He singles out community colleges for particular attack, citing the IPEDS national graduation rate for community colleges of 27 percent, which he calls “a national disgrace.” He goes on to attribute superior abilities to private higher education: “… even when controlling for selectivity and level of academic preparedness, private four-year institutions graduate students at a higher rate than do public institutions: 67 percent compared with 61 percent. There are many reasons for this, but the difference has been persistent over time

Blog:  Just Visiting Recently the members of the New Yorker Union undertook a 24-hour work stoppage in response to what they believe is a failure of management at the magazine (and parent company Conde Nast) to bargain in good faith. The New Yorker union represents the laborers who are charged with literally producing the magazine, copy editors, fact checkers, editorial assistants and the like. Without them  The New Yorker  magazine and website would not exist. One of the sticking points is the  request for a “wage floor” of $45,000 per year , a sum that does not go particularly far in a city where the average rent across all bureaus for a one-bedroom apartment is  over $3000 per year . [1] It is not a sustainable situation and yet legions of people would do whatever it takes to get the opportunity. I can’t be the only one who is reminded of academia. Much of the online commentary about the stoppage noted that because of the low wages, jobs like being an editorial assistan

Blog:  Learning Innovation A History of American Higher Education by John R. Thelin Published in April of 2019 (third edition). Why is most thinking about higher education's future mostly mediocre? Lots of reasons. Uncritical acceptance of applying (mostly discredited) business theories to academia. ( Hello disruptive innovation ). An inability to see beyond one's privileges. Anchoring on the belief that nothing ever changes in higher education. An unshakable faith that the market is either the answer to all of higher education's challenges or the root of all its problems. However, the most profound cause of middling thinking about the future (or futures) of higher education is too little knowledge about higher education's past. Knowing the contours and causes of prior changes in academia is likely necessary, if not sufficient, for saying smart things about what will come next. This brings us to Thelin's A History of American Higher Education . The th

Why do faculty women still face bias and an unwelcome reception in so much of higher education? What can institutions do about it? These are the questions that frame Building Gender Equity in the Academy: Institutional Strategies for Change (Johns Hopkins University Press). The authors are Sandra Laursen, director and senior research associate of ethnography and evaluation research at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and Ann E. Austin, associate dean for research in the College of Education at Michigan State University. They responded via email to questions about their book and the challenges facing women in the academy. Q: What are the main problems that remain for women in academic hiring? A: In hiring, implicit bias is a major concern because it shapes how faculty applicants’ files are read, interpreted and judged. Bias enters when people base their judgments on unacknowledged stereotypes in evaluating individuals. Because it shapes their earlier opportunities, bias al

Central New Mexico Community College is launching associate of arts programs in Chicana/o studies and American studies. State University of New York at Fredonia is starting a graduate-level certificate in cybersecurity. University of Houston is starting a doctor of nursing practice program. Teaching and Learning Editorial Tags:  New academic programs Is this diversity newsletter?:  Newsletter Order:  0 Disable left side advertisement?:  Is this Career Advice newsletter?:  Magazine treatment:  Trending:  Display Promo Box:  Live Updates:  liveupdates0 from Inside Higher Ed https://ift.tt/3j8NSLv

When the Biden administration appointed Suzanne Goldberg, a Columbia University law professor and top university administrator, to oversee civil rights at the U.S. Department of Education last week, some civil rights advocates believed it signaled a new era of federal protections for LGBTQ students and a revival of policies requiring colleges to respond to and prevent sexual assaults on campus. Survivors of campus assault, who saw regulatory protections created by the Obama administration stripped away by the Trump administration, were optimistic that under Pres. Biden they could again expect their colleges to be held accountable  for promptly investigating their assault complaints and punishing those responsible for sexual misconduct. The expectations have gotten complicated. Goldberg's appointment as acting assistant secretary for the Office for Civil Rights, the agency that oversees implementation of Title IX, the law prohibiting sex discrimination at federally funded inst

The Concordia University system must brace for yet another closure. Concordia College New York, a small, Lutheran liberal arts college in Bronxville, N.Y., will close this summer, it announced Thursday. Iona College, a private Roman Catholic institution in nearby New Rochelle, N.Y., will purchase the Concordia campus. The two colleges are also developing a teach-out plan for Concordia students to complete their degrees at Iona. The decision to close Concordia was pre-emptive, said John Nunes, its president. “The two paths that financially challenged institutions go down is either the precipitous close -- ‘oops, we ran out of money, and now we have to close’ -- or, the long, lingering, threadbare existence,” Nunes said. “In January, our board decided that they didn’t want to go down either of those two paths.” Concordia’s closure announcement leaves only six institutions in the Concordia University system. It began to shrink eight years ago, when Concordia University Ann Arbor w

Collin College on Thursday revoked the three-year contract extension granted to a longtime professor of education, citing her lack of support for the college’s mission. Her transgressions? In a private meeting, the provost named two, the professor said: criticizing the college’s COVID-reopening plan and allowing Collin’s name to appear on the Texas Faculty Association website. Suzanne Stateler Jones, the professor, serves as the statewide TFA’s secretary and treasurer. She’s also the secretary for Collin’s new TFA chapter, which functions somewhat like a union but is not recognized, per Texas state law prohibiting collective bargaining among public employees. But Jones says she was never responsible for the statewide website, and that the entire page in question was removed after her dean told her to scrub Collin from the site this fall. Jones said the new provost, Mary Barnes-Tilley, also accused her of ignoring a previous request from her dean to remove Collin’s name from the T

Parents have been substituting as teachers during the pandemic. In today's Academic Minute, part of  Rhodes College Week, Aixa Marchand documents the challenges of this for essential workers and others. Marchand is an assistant professor of psychology and educational studies at Rhodes. A transcript of this podcast can be found here . Section:  Academic Minute File:  01-29-21 Rhodes - Parents and Virtual Learning During COVID-19.mp3 Event's date:  Thursday, January 28, 2021 - 5:15pm School:  Rhodes College Insider only:  from Inside Higher Ed https://ift.tt/36mQ9xi

Mort Maimon recalls how, as a longtime presidential spouse, his conversations with his wife often resembled ping-pong matches. Job Tags:  ADMINISTRATIVE JOBS EXECUTIVE POSITIONS Ad keywords:  administrators Editorial Tags:  Career Advice Show on Jobs site:  Image Source:  fresh splash/istock/getty images plus 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/3j8Lqoh

Dozens of higher education groups, including associations representing the nation’s colleges and universities, urged the Education Department on Thursday to clarify that undocumented and international students are eligible for emergency student grants created in the COVID relief package Congress approved in December. The Education Department came under fire last year when it denied the two groups of students access to emergency student grants in the CARES Act, saying they were ineligible for the help because they cannot get federal student aid under the Higher Education Act. The department under the Trump administration also denied aid to students brought illegally as children to the U.S. because of a provision in the Clinton administration's 1996 welfare reform bill that excludes non-U.S. citizens from receiving federal benefits. Before leaving office, Trump’s Education Department clarified two weeks ago that it is allowing those ineligible for student aid for reasons like h

The Democratic chairman of the House education committee joined the call Thursday opposing the appointment to the committee of a controversial freshman Republican congresswoman who has called the 2012 Sandy Hook elementary school massacre a hoax. “House Republicans made this appointment and Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy must explain how someone with this background represents the Republican Party on education issues,” Representative Bobby Scott, from Virginia, said in a statement. “He is sending a clear message to students, parents, and educators about the views of the Republican Party.” Marjorie Taylor Greene, the freshman Republican congresswoman from Georgia, has been the object of criticism in recent days after CNN and Media Matters uncovered Facebook posts in which she claimed the 2012 mass shooting that took the lives of 26 people, including 20 children, was a hoax. She also said that the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fl

A recent survey from the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics found that community college is playing a greater role in the educational trajectories of people with bachelor's degrees. Of employed graduates who received their first bachelor's degree before 2008, 48 percent previously attended a community college. Nineteen percent of those total bachelor’s degree holders had already earned an associate degree. But those numbers have increased. For employed people who received their first bachelor's degree between 2008 and 2017, 52 percent had previously attended community college. One-quarter had previously earned an associate degree. A good portion of that increase appears to be on the part of women. After 2008, the share of employed women bachelor’s degree holders who previously attended community college went up five percentage points. Community college attendance among their male peers did not change significantly. Women were more likely than men to

Today on the Academic Minute, part of Rhodes College Week: Aixa Marchand, assistant professor of psychology and educational studies, documents the challenges essential workers have faced as they try to play the role of their kids' teachers, too. Learn more about the Academic Minute here . Is this diversity newsletter?:  Hide by line?:  Disable left side advertisement?:  Is this Career Advice newsletter?:  Trending:  College:  Rhodes College Live Updates:  liveupdates0 from Inside Higher Ed https://ift.tt/3t6ZhQo

The University Press of Kansas wrote to its authors this week to say that its trustees “have initiated an independent review to propose direction for the press’s future amid significant financial challenges.” Richard Clement, former dean of the College of University Libraries and Learning Sciences at the University of New Mexico, was hired as an external consultant to complete that review by March 1. “The trustees will then decide how or if the press will continue to operate,” the note said. The university did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Last week, it said it couldn’t rule out using a new Kansas Board of Regents policy making it easier to fire tenured faculty members. State universities are currently facing a 5.5 percent budget cut. Joyce Harrison, the press’s editor in chief, said she and her staff weren’t making public statements at this time. Peter Berkery, director of the Association of University Presses, said he understood that the press’s trustees had