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Blog:  Learning Innovation One of the best outcomes of writing books is when folks ask us to come and talk about what we’ve written. Since publishing Learning Innovation and the Future of Higher Education and The Low-Density University: 15 Scenarios for Higher Education , we’ve fortunate enough to have been asked to participate in lots of discussions. By far, our preferred format for these events is a conversation. Often billed as a fireside chat (although we’ve yet to have a real or virtual fire), these conversations almost always feature someone from the school, organization, or company facilitating the discussion. We work to build in plenty of time for engagement with the folks participating in the event, either in-person (back when that was still a thing) or more recently virtually. The last conversation that we participated in was an opening keynote conversation at the RNL 2021 Graduate and Online Innovation Summit . The host and facilitator of the event was our frie

Tensions continue to rise on Myanmar campuses, where the military has used violence to push back against students and academics protesting against a coup earlier this month. “The past two weeks have been distressing, especially given recent signs of positive growth within the country's higher education community,” Daniel Munier, senior advocacy officer at Scholars at Risk, told Times Higher Education . SAR, based at New York University, is a global network that tracks academic freedom. There are growing concerns that a decade of higher education growth and development in the developing Southeast Asian country will be lost if stability and openness are not restored soon. Munier cited “immediately alarming” threats to Myanmar’s higher education community, such as “the arrests of students and scholars, the entry of troops onto campuses, and the frequent use of force against peaceful demonstrators, including one student who died after being shot in the head with a live round.” M

Students of color have “substantially less trust” in their colleges compared to their white peers, according to a new report by the Indiana University Center for Postsecondary Research. Kevin Fosnacht, associate research scientist at the center and co-author of the report, said the college trust gap between Black and white students, at 0.47 standard deviations, was particularly large. The disparity in perspectives was described in the report as being “of sizes rarely seen in education research.” There was an even larger gap (0.58 standard deviations) between Black and white students’ “out-group trust,” which in this case refers to their trust in individuals who are of different races than themselves, the report said. To measure the trust gap, the researchers used white students' responses as a baseline, then determined how far above or below the average trust levels of students of color were from this baseline. Based on prior higher ed research , standard deviations of less t

Pearson yesterday published editorial guidelines addressing race, ethnicity, equity and inclusion, becoming one of the first major textbook publishers to make such guidelines publicly available. The document is intended to help authors, reviewers and editors at London-based Pearson promote diversity and avoid propagating harmful stereotypes. The guidelines identify several key challenges to address. These include the underrepresentation of minority ethnic groups in text, images and references; descriptions of people of color that exaggerate negative associations and stereotypes; missing stories of the achievements of people of color; and the idea that social and economic disadvantages are the result of personal circumstances and decisions rather than systemic injustices and inequalities. Pearson employee groups in both the U.S. and Great Britain developed the guidance. It was reviewed by Jason Arday, a professor of sociology at Durham University in England who authored the Black

Hundreds of thousands of additional California students, particularly older students, could become eligible for financial aid through a proposed overhaul to the state's grant program. Two Democratic California assembly members -- Jose Medina of Riverside County and Kevin McCarty of Sacramento -- recently introduced a bill intended to simplify the Cal Grant program and expand eligibility to nearly 200,000 additional students. “We really have been rationing access to this Cal Grant program for the past few years, and we created a very unique system here to slice and dice people out, and we should be focusing on bringing people in,” McCarty said Thursday during a roundtable discussion on the proposal. “This is really good, not just for students and helping them graduate with less debt, but really for helping our economy.” The bill, AB 1456 , would lower or remove GPA requirements for Cal Grant awards and expand the awards to cover older students who are more than a year out of

Are student travel videos giving the wrong impression? In today's Academic Minute, part of University of Redlands Week, Kelly Hankin discusses a new trend in the study abroad industry. Hankin is a professor of film studies at Redlands. A transcript of this podcast can be found here . Section:  Academic Minute File:  02-26-21 Redlands - The Personal is Professional - The Study Abroad Video Contest.mp3 Event's date:  Thursday, February 25, 2021 - 4:15pm Insider only:  from Inside Higher Ed https://ift.tt/2ZQElQn

Steven Michels offers some suggestions for how best to respond when you find yourself as an employee on the wrong side of the sale. Editorial Tags:  Business issues Career Advice Mergers Show on Jobs site:  Image Source:  IR_Stone/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/3uyqpbM

Three campus free speech advocacy organizations issued two joint letters Wednesday in defense of athletes at Tennessee colleges who decide to kneel during the national anthem before sports games. The letters, addressed to Brian Noland, president of East Tennessee State University, and Randy Boyd, president of the University of Tennessee system, are a response to Republican lawmakers in the Tennessee Senate, who this week urged the leaders of the state’s public institutions to prohibit athletes from kneeling during the anthem. The lawmakers took issue with men’s basketball players at ETSU kneeling during the anthem before a game on Feb. 15 to protest racial injustice. “When they don the jersey of a Tennessee university, they step out of their personal roles and into the role of an ambassador for our state,” the 27 lawmakers wrote in a Feb. 22 letter. “We expect all those who walk onto the field of play representing our universities to also walk onto the field of play to show re

Students with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder are more likely to drop out of college, receive lower grades and have other challenges that could lead to negative academic outcomes, according to an article published this month in the Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology . The article analyzed the academic performance of about 200 students with ADHD and 200 without the disorder over the course of four years, finding that students with ADHD self-reported poorer mental health and study skills, and on average had “significantly lower” GPAs than their peers, according to an article abstract provided by the journal. George DuPaul, a co-author of the article, professor of school psychology and associate dean for research at Lehigh University’s College of Education, said that students with ADHD “are at higher than average risk for dropping out of college and require academic support prior to and throughout their college years,” according to a university press releas

As expected, Students for Fair Admissions has asked the Supreme Court to reverse a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit finding that Harvard University's use of affirmative action is legal. Harvard (and other groups) will now file briefs with the Supreme Court as well. Only then will the Supreme Court indicate whether it will take the case. Students for Fair Admissions also announced that it was suing Yale University over its affirmative action policies. The Justice Department dropped a suit this month, and Students for Fair Admissions had vowed to pick it up. Yale will defend its position. Ad keywords:  admissions diversity Is this diversity newsletter?:  Hide by line?:  Disable left side advertisement?:  Is this Career Advice newsletter?:  Trending:  Live Updates:  liveupdates0 from Inside Higher Ed https://ift.tt/2ZRT9Ox

First Lady Jill Biden said in her first one-on-one interview since the inauguration that she is continuing to fight to make it free to go to two-year institutions. “I’ve been doing that since we were in the Obama-Biden administration,” said Biden, who is continuing to teach English at Northern Virginia Community College, during a half-hour interview Thursday on The Kelly Clarkson Show . President Biden has also proposed eliminating tuition for all students at community colleges and for students at public four-year institutions whose families have incomes of less than $125,000. During a wide-ranging interview in the East Room of the White House, Jill Biden also gave a glimpse of her life as first lady. After spending some time talking to the president by a fire in the evenings, President Biden will go back to work while she continues grading papers, Jill Biden said on the NBC talk show. “I feel like I’m just like every American woman who’s working and trying to take care of my fa

TIAA, a provider of retirement solutions for many academics, on Thursday announced the hiring of Thasunda Brown Duckett as president and CEO. Brown, who will succeed Roger Ferguson Jr. as TIAA's top official, is CEO of Chase Consumer Banking, part of JPMorgan Chase. In addition to overseeing a banking network with $600 billion in deposits and 40,000 employees, Duckett has played a key role in multiple charitable initiatives at JPMorgan Chase, including its Advancing Black Pathways program aimed at closing academic and economic achievement gaps. Is this diversity newsletter?:  Hide by line?:  Disable left side advertisement?:  Is this Career Advice newsletter?:  Trending:  Live Updates:  liveupdates0 from Inside Higher Ed https://ift.tt/3bKxEog

Today on the Academic Minute , part of University of Redlands Week: Kelly Hankin, professor of film studies, discusses a new trend in the study abroad industry. Learn more about the Academic Minute here . Is this diversity newsletter?:  Hide by line?:  Disable left side advertisement?:  Is this Career Advice newsletter?:  Trending:  Live Updates:  liveupdates0 from Inside Higher Ed https://ift.tt/2ZPYG8n

The Education Department on Thursday announced a number of additional appointments of aides who will play prominent roles in shaping the nation’s higher education policies. Jordan Matsudaira, an associate professor of economics and education policy at Columbia University, was named deputy under secretary. Matsudaira served as chief economist of the Council of Economic Advisers in the Obama administration. Clarence “CJ” Powell, most recently the higher education program analyst at the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and the Leadership Conference Education Fund, was named a special assistant in the Office of Postsecondary Education. Powell staffed the higher education civil rights coalition, made up of more than 50 national civil rights and policy organizations. Loredana Valtierra, education policy counsel for the House Committee on Education and Labor, will be a special assistant in the department’s planning, evaluation and policy development office. Jen Mishory,

Undocumented students have been left out of getting emergency grants in Congress’s previous coronavirus relief bills. Whether they will be able to get help in the next round of aid appears to be headed to the Biden administration to decide. The House’s $1.9 trillion relief bill continued to move toward passage by the full body today. But stripped for procedural reasons was a provision approved by the House’s education committee, which would have left it up to colleges and universities to decide which of their students are eligible for the grants to help with costs like food and housing. The provision would have been a departure from the previous relief bills, which left it up to the Education Department to decide who is eligible. Betsy DeVos, education secretary during the Trump administration, had said that undocumented and international students are not eligible. As written, the latest package, should it pass Congress, would leave it up to the Education Department, now under th

The number of COVID-19 fatalities in the United States reached the 500,000 mark sometime over the past week -- the equivalent of killing off the population of two or three small cities in a little over a year. That is more than twice the upper estimate projected by the White House coronavirus task force in late March of last year. Yet the figure, while horrific, is somehow less shocking than it should be when taken by itself. Context matters, and in this case the context is global. A country with 4.25 percent of the world’s population and 29.4 percent of its wealth has had a little over one-fifth of the global death toll ( more than 2.49 million so far, according to the journal New Scientist ). By comparison, India has close to four times the U.S. population and holds one-eighth of its wealth, but it has had under one-third the number of deaths from COVID. From now on, discussions of American exceptionalism should start with this phenomenal distinction. It is the product of a sp

Blog:  Confessions of a Community College Dean Thursday’s Inside Higher Ed article about higher education policy proposals that may see the light of day in the Biden administration is well worth the read. That said, I coughed when I saw this: “Colleges and universities should be held accountable not only when graduates do not pay back their loans, but also …” Did you catch that? It’s a common mistake, but one that puts community colleges in an artificially bad light. Not all graduates have loans. In fact, most of ours don’t. At my own college, the median student loan debt for a graduate is zero. You’d think that would be a good thing, but it actually works against us. It works against us because by and large, the students who have loans are among the most economically desperate. They’re not a representative sample. A student from a family making, say, $75,000 per year can probably afford to pay our $5,000 annual tuition without loans. That same student attending a colle