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The Vietnam War can be a Rorschach test. In today's Academic Minute, Purchase College's Elise Lemire explains how some veterans changed the societal perception before the end of the war. Lemire is a , professor of literature at the State University of New York at Purchase and author of  Battle Green Vietnam: The 1971 March on Concord, Lexington, and Boston . A transcript of this podcast can be found here . Section:  Academic Minute File:  05-31-21 Purchase - The Vietnam Veterans’ Antiwar Movement.mp3 Event's date:  Monday, May 31, 2021 - 4:30pm Insider only:  from Inside Higher Ed https://ift.tt/3yT9OS0

Blog:  Learning Innovation Higher Education's Road to Relevance: Navigating Complexity by Susan A. Ambrose and Laura A. Wankel Published in January of 2020. In Higher Education's Road to Relevance , Ambrose and Wankel set themselves the task of creating a roadmap to assist colleges and universities in navigating an increasingly complex and challenging postsecondary environment. Looking back to January of 2020, when the book was published, it seemed to all of us in higher education that we had enough on our collective plates. The realities of demographic change, public disinvestment, rising costs, political polarization, economic inequality, climate change, and new competitors seemed like quite enough for those of us in academia to try to manage - thank you very much. And then the pandemic hit. For the reader of Higher Education's Road to Relevance , the good news is that none of the structural challenges that Ambrose and Wankel identify have gone away. If an

This webcast will explore how synchronous and HyFlex learning will play an integral role in the future of online education and how institutions can construct a highly connected experience for students, faculty, and staff. Section:  Advertiser Webinars Ad zone:  Booklet Image:  Registration Link:  Registration Link Event's date:  Thursday, June 10, 2021 - 2:00pm Insider only:  from Inside Higher Ed https://ift.tt/3hYurGz

Image:  Online exam proctoring company ProctorU announced earlier this week that it will no longer send artificial intelligence-generated reports of potential student misconduct to institutions without ProctorU staff members first reviewing the footage -- a development raising more questions than it answers about higher education’s use of the technology. ProctorU, like many companies offering remote proctoring services, employs AI technology to monitor student movement during tests and flag activity that might indicate a student is cheating. Typical behavior that may be flagged by the AI includes students getting up from their seats, not looking consistently at their screens or talking out loud. Previously, as part of its cheapest proctoring package, ProctorU sent AI-generated incident reports to instructors without staff members reviewing them first. The company offered this package on the condition that any AI-generated reports would be reviewed by instructors. But that w

Image:  Indian universities are facing mounting criticism of their response to the country’s deadly coronavirus surge, with concern focusing on the fate of insecurely employed teaching staff. At the flagship University of Delhi, at least 35 lecturers have died from COVID-19 in the past month, according to the Delhi University Teachers’ Union. Alok Ranjan Pandey, the union’s vice president, said academics employed on an ad hoc basis were most at risk and called for medical coverage to be extended to them. The union wants a hospital treating COVID-19 patients to be opened on Delhi’s campus, and for the university to provide jobs for the families of the deceased, The Print reported. Apoorvanand, a Hindi professor at Delhi, wrote in Scroll that “Indian universities are pretending everything is normal, as the world around them is collapsing.” “The university authorities did not think about creating a COVID support center on campus,” he told Times Higher Education . “It does h

Image:  Congress has authorized $6.4 trillion in economic relief over the past 14 months, billions of which was earmarked for or available to spend on colleges, universities and other state higher education programs, according to a new report by the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, many states experienced a decline in state tax revenue between the 2020 and 2021 fiscal years. Without enough money to fund their previously approved budgets, several states passed midyear cuts to higher education spending. States cannot run a deficit year to year -- all states except Vermont are required by their constitutions to balance their budgets, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. The federal government, however, can go into the red, and so during times of economic decline Congress has passed massive spending packages to prevent layoffs and disruptions in public services, according to SHEEO. So far, the t

Real-life disasters can influence habits at the box office. In today's Academic Minute, part of SUNY Oswego Week, Joshua H. Adams explains why. Adams is a professor of film/digital film production at the State University of New York at Oswego. A transcript of this podcast can be found here . Section:  Academic Minute File:  05-28-21 SUNY Oswego - Disaster Themed Media.mp3 Event's date:  Thursday, May 27, 2021 - 4:45pm Insider only:  from Inside Higher Ed https://ift.tt/3c0oy7Y

Blog:  Confessions of a Community College Dean   From the “the world has changed” files, these two consecutive sentences in an essay by Andrew Marzoni on MIchel Foucault’s acolyte Simeon Wade are sort of amazing.   “Wade earned a doctorate in the intellectual history of Western civilization in 1968, writing a thesis on “The Idea of Luxury in Eighteenth-Century England,” and after teaching in Boston for a couple of years, hitched a ride with his fraternity brother Jet Thomas, who had officiated the wedding of Gram Parsons, to California, where Thomas owned a cabin on Mount Baldy.   On an apparent whim, Wade secured a tenure-track position as assistant professor in history at Claremont Graduate School, a respected if somewhat obscure research institution thirty miles east of Los Angeles, in a retirement Mecca for members of the Congregational Church.”   As one does, apparently.   --   Earlier this week, I offered a critique of a piece that Neal McCluskey posted.  H

Category:  Conditionally Accepted Kimberly A. Truong describes how her institution has taken a key step toward acknowledging the invisible labor of faculty of color -- and why others should do so as well. Job Tags:  Academic administration Ad keywords:  administrators diversity Section:  Diversity Editorial Tags:  Career Advice Show on Jobs site:  Image Source:  Jose Luis Pelaez Inc/digital vision/getty images plus Image Size:  Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?:  Is this Career Advice newsletter?:  Disable left side advertisement?:  Trending:  Live Updates:  liveupdates0 Most Popular:  3 Ad slot:  8 from Inside Higher Ed https://ift.tt/3bZQlFk

The University of California, Berkeley, is cashing in on the buzz around NFTs. Nonfungible tokens -- called NFTs for short -- are units of data stored on the blockchain that are unique and not interchangeable. As NPR recently explained , a $10 bill, which is fungible, could be exchanged for two $5 bills. An NFT is one of a kind, more like a barcode. The public research university, according to a press release, is auctioning the NFTs for the patent disclosures of two Nobel Prize-winning inventions: CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing, for which UC Berkeley’s Jennifer Doudna shared the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry; and cancer immunotherapy, for which James Allison shared the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The university will continue to own the related patents. “Someone might ask, ‘Why would I want a digital version of some internal university form?’ Because it represents something magnificent,” Rich Lyons, chief innovation and entrepreneurship officer at Berkeley, said in a st

Elizabeth City State University in North Carolina will clear debt for students with outstanding balances on their accounts from the past academic year due to pandemic hardships, WAVY News reported . The public university will pay down an estimated total of $286,500 in student debt accrued during the fall 2020 and spring 2021 semesters. Students with a financial hold on their accounts due to outstanding debt will now be able to register for summer and fall classes. “The administration is aware that the COVID-19 crisis caused financial hardships for many students and their families,” Farrah J. Ward, provost of the university, said. “As the pandemic and its impact continue to affect our students, we are committed to finding ways to support the Viking Community through this crisis.” The university will pay the debt using funds from the Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund II, which is part of the American Rescue Plan passed by Congress in March. Ad keywords:  institutionalfi

Democrats in Congress are looking to change the college sports landscape with new legislation that would classify college athletes as employees of their institutions and give them the power to bargain collectively. Senators Chris Murphy, a Democrat from Connecticut, and Bernie Sanders, the Independent from Vermont, introduced the College Athlete Right to Organize Act in the Senate, and Representative Jamaal Bowman, a Democrat from New York, is taking the lead on companion legislation in the House. "This is a matter of basic fairness, but it's also a civil rights issue," Murphy tweeted . "The athletes in the most high-profile sports are overwhelmingly Black men and women, while those with the power are largely white. We can't fix all of the problems with the NCAA from Washington. What we can do is give the college athletes who are being taken advantage of the power to fix things through their own collective action." The legislation would amend the Nati

Today on the Academic Minute , part of SUNY Oswego Week: Joshua H. Adams, professor of film/digital film production, explains how real-life disasters can influence habits at the box office. A transcript of this podcast can be found 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/3vyp98K

Todd Rokita, the attorney general of Indiana, has ruled that Indiana University may not require students, faculty members and other employees at the university's campuses to demonstrate that they have been vaccinated against COVID-19. The requirement of proof violates a new state law against any unit of state government requiring an "immunization passport," Rokita said. However, the new law does not ban Indiana University from requiring vaccination, he said. The new law "only prohibits public universities from requiring proof of the COVID-19 vaccine; it does not prohibit them from requiring the vaccination itself," Rokita said. Ad keywords:  coronavirus 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/3vw12qX

Students of color, caretakers and students from low-income backgrounds are more likely to face barriers accessing fast and reliable internet and functioning devices than their peers, new survey data show. " Online Isn’t Optional: Student Polling on Access to Internet and Devices " was published this week by the Institute for Higher Education Policy, a nonprofit research, policy and advocacy organization that aims to promote success for all students. The report draws on survey responses from over 1,000 college students and includes several recommendations for improving broadband and technology access in higher education. Polling data shared in the survey were contributed by the left-leaning think tanks New America and Third Way. Approximately 60 percent of Black and Latinx students face significant challenges in paying for fast and stable internet, compared with 50 percent of white students, according to the report. The report also includes data indicating student parents

Purdue University said Thursday that students vaccinated against COVID-19 will be eligible to win a year’s worth of in-state undergraduate tuition. Purdue said it would randomly select 10 students to receive $9,992, the annual undergraduate tuition cost, from the pool of students who have been fully vaccinated. Students must submit proof of vaccination to the university by July 15, and the winners will be announced July 29. Earlier this week, Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York similarly announced that New Yorkers age 12 to 17 who get at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine are eligible for a chance to win one of 50 four-year, full scholarships to any New York State public college or university. 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/3wKn9KN

A group of faculty members at Wesley College is suing the institution over its planned merger with Delaware State University, Delaware Online reported. Among other allegations, the faculty members say that Delaware State’s acquisition of Wesley breaches their contracts and leaves them no way to seek damages for lost income. The 14 professors who filed the lawsuit are seeking class-action status to represent all 35 tenured professors at Wesley, according to Delaware Online. Wesley is scheduled to cease operations as as standalone institution on July 1 and become the Wesley College of Health and Behavioral Sciences at Delaware State. The college has not commented publicly on the lawsuit.   Ad keywords:  administrators faculty institutionalfinance 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://

A significant change is taking place in the makeup of modern society -- an “agequake” in which the segment of the population that includes people 65 and older is growing at a faster rate than any other age group. This astonishing rate of change has imposed a number of strains on social resources. But it has also created some exciting new opportunities for traditional institutions, especially colleges and universities, to introduce bold new programs and projects that respond to the needs and interests of older Americans. The chance for American higher education to grow in new directions comes at a time when an increasing number of higher education institutions are facing unprecedented challenges in maintaining their historic missions and programs. Insufficient endowments; unsustainable financial structures and habits; demographic reversals (a long-term “baby bust”); competition from new, less expensive providers; and a persistent and growing demand for relatively narrow, career-foc

Column:  Intellectual Affairs Even before the Memorial Day weekend exodus now underway, bottlenecks have been forming at security screening checkpoints in airports around the country. The pressure of pent-up demand for travel in the United States is starting to push against the limits of the Transportation Security Administration’s labor force -- with the agency now reportedly behind on its planned hiring of 6,000 new officers before Labor Day. And as Shawna Malvini Redden notes in 101 Pat-Downs: An Undercover Look at Airport Security and the TSA (Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press ), new transportation security officers tend to be particularly cautious about the screening process: “In fact, TSOs face regular assessments of their contraband-catching abilities, which can lead to some on-the-job paranoia.” They are subject to “tests designed to trip them up at every facet of their jobs, from taking tickets and checking IDs to viewing the X-ray image