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Blog:  Learning Innovation Power Play: Tesla, Elon Musk, and the Bet of the Century by Tim Higgins Published in August of 2021. How might we think about Tesla in higher ed terms? Try this on for size: electric cars = online/blended learning autonomous driving = low-cost online scaled degrees Over the next X years, transportation will progress through two revolutions. (I say “X” because we don’t know how long these changes will take.) First, we will transition from internal combustion engines (ICE) to battery-powered electrical propulsion. From gas to electricity. Next, cars and trucks and busses will become self-driving. Or more self-driving. Or something. The first transition - gas to electricity - is inevitable. We just don’t know how long it will take. The second transition - human-driven to AI/sensor-driven - may or may not be perpetually five years off.  To come back to our transportation/education equivalencies, we can be confident that most (not all) postsec

Column:  Letters to the Editor To the Editors: I have been a lecturer for 12 years. My first couple of years, I tightly hung to the concept of “rigor,” as discussed in this recent essay on Inside Higher Ed. What I found that meant was taking attendance, turning on plagiarism detection software, turning students into student affairs for breaking the rules, and exhaustion. So, I stopped. If a student tells me they are sick, I believe them. If a student tells me their computer died, I believe them. If a student tells me they had a family emergency, I believe them. I would like faculty that have the opinion of rigor over compassion to explain why they believe both cannot exist simultaneously? Rigor is poorly operationalized in this context, a trap I would expect researchers to know to avoid. Rigor is a standard we set. If an exam that cuts off at 50 minutes, prevents browser function, and requires a student to be surveilled, that exam will not necessarily be rigorous. But

Ouachita Baptist University is launching a new master of education degree in curriculum and instruction. Trinity Christian College , in Illinois, is starting an online bachelor of social work. Washtenaw Community College is starting an associate degree in health administration.   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 Most Popular:  3 Ad slot:  8 In-Article related stories:  12 from Inside Higher Ed https://ift.tt/3BpJGib

Image:  Many campuses in the Gulf region were shuttered as Tropical Storm Ida moved northward Monday, creating dangerous conditions for parts of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. The storm made landfall in Louisiana Sunday as a powerful Category 4 hurricane before being downgraded to a tropical storm. Colleges in the storm’s path reported they were still assessing the damage Monday. Some institutions were dealing with power outages. Jerad David, a spokesman for Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, La., which closed in advance of the storm, said the campus is without electricity, “but all initial indications are that our campus suffered only moderate damage, mostly roof damage.” “Our service area, however, was not as fortunate,” David continued. “Many in our region have suffered catastrophic damage to homes. All of our region is without electricity, and much of the area is currently without water. Roads are impassable due to downed trees and power lines.” David said N

Image:  Women far outnumber men in American higher education. Recent data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center showed that more than 10 million women enrolled at a college or university last spring, compared with 6.8 million men. Yet the number of institutions first created to educate women is dwindling. Today, there are fewer than 50 women’s colleges in the United States, down from 230 in 1960, according to the Women’s College Coalition. Some of those 230 colleges have since opened their doors to men. Others have closed, in part due to enrollment challenges fueled by expanded educational access for women and decreasing demand for single-gender institutions. The remaining women’s colleges must offer a compelling response to the question: Why attend a college for women when the same programs are available at coed institutions? For some women’s colleges, the answer is to find a niche. Salem College in Winston-Salem, N.C., recently announced it will overha

Image:  Colleges and universities lost about 191,500 transfer students between July 2020 and June 2021, a drop almost three times larger than the prior year, according to a new report by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. The report also found racial inequities in upward transfer enrollment -- students going from two-year institutions to four-year institutions -- and major differences in upward transfer rates at highly selective and less selective institutions. “A lot of institutions are trying to focus on making it easier for students to transfer,” said Doug Shapiro, executive director of the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. “And I hope that this report will help them to really target their efforts on the pathways and the students who are being most affected and look for ways to help those students in particular.” The new report, released today, is the fifth update in a series of reports about student transfer. It’s also the first comprehens

Image:  The number of scholars targeted for their speech has risen dramatically since 2015, and undergraduates increasingly are to blame, according to a database of these incidents released today by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. Undergraduates aren’t the only ones seeking to censor graduate students, instructors, professors and other researchers, FIRE’s database and an accompanying report make clear. But undergraduates’ prevalence within FIRE’s new database concerns the pro-speech group nonetheless. Komi German, a research fellow at FIRE, said Monday that it’s unclear whether there are more students than ever seeking to “punish” scholars for their speech, or if there are an “emboldened” but relative few. Either way, German said, “it’s a huge red flag for those concerned about students’ tolerance of dissenting views.” Other would-be censors include politicians and the general public. But threats to scholars’ free speech increasingly originate from withi

Racism is bad for your health. In today's Academic Minute, the University of Southern California's April Thames details why. Thames is an associate professor of psychology and psychiatry at USC's Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. A transcript of this podcast can be found here . Section:  Academic Minute File:  08-31-21 USC Dornsife - Toxic Racism.mp3 Event's date:  Monday, August 30, 2021 - 5:30pm Insider only:  from Inside Higher Ed https://ift.tt/3kKkz34

Blog:  Call to Action: Marketing and Communications in Higher Education We’ve celebrated Gen Z as the largest and most ethnically diverse generation in American history. We’ve crafted narratives and employed communication modes to engage them as digital natives, social justice warriors and pragmatic decision makers. But then, COVID-19. Pandemics do not distinguish between generational boundaries. Gen Z’s COVID experience includes much of the same massive disruption and fears that their older siblings, parents and grandparents have had to bear. Just as parents juggled working from home, students, too, had to do their jobs (studying) with fewer resources and more distractions. Students with paying part-time jobs to support tuition and living expenses found themselves out of work, leaving some with new or worsened housing and food insecurities. Originally considered at lower risk for the disease, Gen Z students have watched peers test positive, get sick, be hospitalized and so

Blog:  Confessions of a Community College Dean   The new Washington Monthly rankings of (four-year) colleges and universities came out this week,and it’s vastly better than those other rankings we all know.  Check it out if you haven’t already.  Rather than rewarding colleges for exclusivity, reputation, and accumulated assets, it rewards them for graduating low-income students, generating research, and producing civically-involved students.     In other words, it sets out to reward desired behaviors, rather than to codify existing biases. It strikes me as an excellent start.   It got me thinking about other criteria I’d add, if asked.  I’d start with transfer-friendliness.   That may sound abstract, but it’s measurable in straightforward ways.  What percentage of transfer credits is accepted and actually applied towards degrees?  (In other words, don’t count “free electives.”)  Does the college have transfer scholarships?  Does it have dedicated transfer counseling? 

Amanda Grieme Bradley describes how the unexpected way she chose to use her sabbatical is influencing her as she returns to campus for a fall semester full of unknowns. Job Tags:  FACULTY JOBS Ad keywords:  faculty Editorial Tags:  Career Advice Sabbaticals Show on Jobs site:  Image Source:  Sgursozlu/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 Most Popular:  3 from Inside Higher Ed https://ift.tt/38rUGiC

ABC11 News reported on COVID-19 numbers at North Carolina universities, which are rising with the return of students. North Carolina State University has had 348 COVID-19 cases in August. Half of those cases were detected in the last 10 days. More than 500 students are in isolation and quarantine. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill had 351 COVID-19 cases in August, with around 100 detected Wednesday and Thursday. At UNC Wilmington, nearly 500 students and staff tested positive in the last 10 days. At North Carolina Central University, 81 students and employees tested positive. 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/3yr1M1f

Stanford University president Marc Tessier-Lavigne said in an email to students that the university is actively working to ensure the safety of the community following a series of racist social media posts made by a student over the weekend. In one of the posts uploaded to his Instagram Story, Chaze Vinci, a junior at Stanford, told his followers to "Spot the Difference," posting a picture of two Black students alongside a racist caricature, a picture of a gorilla and a song by Kanye West titled "New Slaves." He also posted an edited image depicting one of the Black students being beheaded, as well as a pie chart highlighting the racial demographics of Stanford, with the population of Black and African American student circled and the statement, "It's time the majority started running things, don't you think?" He posted many of the same images on his Twitter account and also tweeted a picture of a Stanford professor's face marked out in re

Today on the Academic Minute : April Thames, associate professor of psychology and psychiatry at the University of Southern California Dornsife, explains why racism can be bad for your health. 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/3gHXjkX