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Blog:  Learning Innovation Staying Online: How to Navigate Digital Higher Education by Robert Ubell Published in September of 2021, Routledge. I grew up in an academic family. My Dad was a professor. Many of the adults in my life were academics. Some of these academics also taught at my Dad’s university. But most were my Dad’s colleagues from other schools. They would come to visit him on campus or at our home, or we would see them at conferences. (Dad would frequently combine family and professional travel). My childhood and teenage years gave me an appreciation of the value of an academic community. An understanding that colleagues and friends can be the same people. And that academia encourages these friendships to be developed with colleagues both nearby and faraway. Over the past 15 years or so, Bob Ubell has been one of the “faraway” colleagues that I’ve most valued. As I found my voice as a writer on higher education, Bob has always been a source of encouragement

Image:  Rhodes College’s philosophy department hosted a conversation with controversial bioethicist Peter Singer Wednesday, as planned, despite opposition to the event from faculty members from several other programs. Singer has consistently argued  that parents should have the right to choose euthanasia for their severely disabled infants.  Prior to the virtual event, billed as a talk on pandemic ethics, the department of anthropology and sociology and the Africana studies program sent an open letter to the campus expressing “deepest dismay” that Singer would be welcomed, along with concern that the event could worsen the campus racial climate. The letter cited Singer’s “longstanding advancement of philosophical arguments that presume the inferiority of many disabled lives.” The “creation of a hierarchy of lives as a justification for the allocation or denial of limited resources (whether ‘pleasure,’ medical care, insurance, etc.) is a logic that has a long and violent hist

Image:  Representatives in the House are looking at new ways to hold colleges and universities accountable for Title IX misconduct under legislation introduced Tuesday that would establish stricter conduct standards for sexual harassment and assault. Institutions should be held liable for "cultures" of sexual misconduct on their campuses, according to Representative Debbie Dingell, a Democrat from Michigan, who introduced the Title IX Take Responsibility Act alongside Representative Jahana Hayes, a Democrat from Connecticut. The legislation comes as two universities in Dingell’s district, the University of Michigan and Eastern Michigan University , face ongoing allegations about their handling of sexual assaults and incidents of harassment on their campuses. “What was really clear to me as I have been spending a lot of time talking to people is that there were patterns on these campuses,” Dingell told Inside Higher Ed . “There were cultures that people knew about

Image:  The Claremont Institute, including senior fellow and 2020 election conspiracy theorist John Eastman, withdrew from the American Political Science Association’s hybrid meeting happening this week in Seattle and online. That’s after APSA suddenly converted all of Claremont’s in-person panels to virtual panels. Prior to Claremont’s withdrawal, APSA faced pressure to sever ties with the institute and kick out Eastman, a legal adviser to former president Trump’s “stop the steal” campaign and a speaker at the rally that preceded the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol attack. Eastman had been slated to speak on two APSA panels organized by Claremont, a think tank that is not formally affiliated with any of the Claremont Colleges. Dan Gibson, APSA’s spokesperson, said Wednesday that his group “did not cancel the Claremont panels.” Rather, APSA “moved all Claremont's panels to a virtual format due to safety concerns with the meeting. Claremont then told us they wanted to cancel the pan

Image:  The National Labor Relations Board’s top attorney issued a memo Wednesday asserting that athletes at private colleges qualify as employees under federal labor law, entitling them to the same protections as other private sector employees, including the right to unionize. In the memo , NLRB general counsel Jennifer Abruzzo wrote that federal laws and NLRB policies “fully support the conclusion that certain Players at Academic Institutions are statutory employees, who have the right to act collectively to improve their terms and conditions of employment.” Essentially, it declares that athletes at private colleges are covered by the National Labor Relations Act, a foundational statute that guarantees the right of private sector employees to organize into trade unions, engage in collective bargaining and take collective action such as strikes. While it may ultimately benefit athletes, the memo doesn’t fundamentally change the relationship between players and their insti

Change is coming to many historical institutions as we grapple with our nation’s past. In today's Academic Minute, the University of Virginia's Frank Dukes explores one such transformation. Dukes is a distinguished institute fellow and lecturer at UVA. A transcript of this podcast can be found here . Section:  Academic Minute File:  09-30-21 Virginia - Transformation at James Madison’s Montpelier.mp3 Event's date:  Wednesday, September 29, 2021 - 3:45pm Insider only:  from Inside Higher Ed https://ift.tt/3okHGo7

Blog:  Call to Action: Marketing and Communications in Higher Education Most major colleges have a style guide in place with school-approved logos, Pantone-specific school colors and the usual editorial guides. But too often, one important guide is left out -- the correct language to use around diversity. There are many initiatives on campuses across the nation to improve diversity, equity and inclusion in their communities. Appropriate language in written and spoken communications needs to be a part of that. This terminology and usage are continually shifting and evolving, and agreed-upon guidelines for terminology have become critical. In short, the wrong word hurts -- and the right word shows you get it. As the parent of a nonverbal child with disabilities, I have always been prickly about language. People outside this world seldom understand how important correct terminology is. In fact, my family and I have been on the “language police squad” for the better part of 20 y

Blog:  Tackling Transfer In 2016, four organizations -- the Michigan Community College Association, the Michigan Association of State Universities, the Michigan Independent Colleges and Universities, and the Michigan Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers -- partnered together to form the Michigan Transfer Steering Committee with a focus on increasing associate and bachelor’s degree completion among Michigan transfer students. Their objective was to make the overall transfer experience more efficient, easy to understand and simple to navigate while optimizing credit transfer in a state with little higher education policy and no state agency to coordinate institutions. Their transformative work resulted in the creation of the MiTransfer Pathways , Michigan’s statewide transfer pathways. Through the MiTransfer Pathways, students can complete required and recommended coursework in the first and second year at any participating community college and be ready

What I had at this critical moment of parting was my computer screen -- and my anticipated invisibility, as I would soon shuffle off into oblivion, writes Leah Blatt Glasser. Job Tags:  FACULTY JOBS Ad keywords:  faculty Editorial Tags:  Career Advice Show on Jobs site:  Image Source:  arina Kumysheva/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 Ad slot:  6 In-Article related stories:  9 from Inside Higher Ed https://ift.tt/3AYVng6

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill declined comment on an Intercept article that reported that Israeli consular officials met last month with a dean about a graduate student who is teaching a course on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Citing two anonymous Chapel Hill professors with knowledge of the meetings, the article says that the Israeli officials accused the Ph.D. student of anti-Semitism based on her Twitter posts in support of the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against Israel, and of being unfit to teach the course in question. Anat Sultan-Dadon, consul general of Israel to the Southeast U.S., reportedly confirmed that she’d met with university officials but declined to share specifics of the meeting. U.S. Representative Kathy Manning, a Democrat from North Carolina, allegedly met with the dean of arts and sciences regarding the graduate instructor, as well, but Manning’s office did not confirm or deny this. The graduate instructor, Kylie Broder

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Stanford University will purchase the Notre Dame de Namur University campus in Belmont, Calif., Notre Dame de Namur announced Wednesday. The private Roman Catholic university is in the process of converting into a primarily graduate institution, a path the university pursued after several years of declining enrollment and tuition revenue. “This agreement between NDNU and Stanford gives NDNU the flexibility to grow again in new and exciting ways,” Beth Martin, president of Notre Dame de Namur, said in a statement. “We will be able to continue the programs for which we are so well known, and to add new programs directly targeted to changing student needs, including a mix of in-person, hybrid, and fully online programs.” Stanford will develop a plan for the 50-acre campus with input from Notre Dame de Namur, the Stanford community, the city of Belmont and local residents, according to a press release. Is this diversity newsletter?:  Hide by line?:  Disable left side

HelioCampus, a ​​higher education analytics company, will acquire AEFIS, an assessment management platform for higher education, HelioCampus announced today. HelioCampus plans to grow the AEFIS team and expand its offerings, according to a press release. Darren Catalano, CEO of HelioCampus, will take on the CEO role for AEFIS, and the assessment company’s co-founders will be “assuming new leadership roles,” the release said. “Our mission has been to use technology, benchmarking, and decision support to help colleges and universities improve their efficiency and effectiveness,” Catalano said in a statement. “Institutional success and long-term sustainability require aligning investments with both financial and student learning outcomes and creating a culture that is data-informed. The addition of AEFIS expands our ability to help institutions measure and evaluate how well they are fulfilling their mission and achieving their goals.” Is this diversity newsletter?:  Hide b

This week's episode of The Key, Inside Higher Ed 's news and analysis podcast, searches for a middle ground in the binary debate over how (and how much) colleges and universities should emphasize their students' career success. The guests in this week's episode, Wake Forest University’s Andy Chan and Christine Cruzvergara of Handshake, endorse the view that colleges and universities should be collecting and sharing data about how well they are preparing students for success in the workplace, given that that’s the primary reason many students go to college. But the set of common metrics they propose colleges use to measure their own performance is broad, and it includes such data as how much institutions expose students to experiential learning in college to graduates’ satisfaction with their jobs once they leave. Listen to this week's episode here . And click here to find out more about The Key. Is this diversity newsletter?:  Hide by line?: 

New Jersey City University’s Faculty Senate voted no confidence in the university president, Sue Henderson, on Monday, citing her poor financial stewardship of the institution and lack of respect for shared governance, NJ.com reported . The Faculty Senate approved a resolution stating that Henderson's decisions saddled the university with $67 million in debt and noting that it had a $101 million surplus when she arrived in 2012, the news outlet reported. Despite the faculty group's vote, only the university's Board of Trustees can fire Henderson, according to NJ.com, and she appears to still have the board's support. Joseph Scott, the board chairman, said in a statement the board remains “confident and supportive” of Henderson and her administration, NJ.com reported. “The resolution itself was riddled with inaccuracies despite countless attempts to clarify these issues,” Scott said in a statement. “The Board and I remain confident and supportive of the President

Students, faculty and staff at the University of St. Thomas rallied against racism Tuesday, a day after posters and stickers with hate speech and symbols of a “known white supremacist group” were placed throughout the campus in St. Paul. About 200 people took part in the student-led gathering organized by various multicultural student organizations on campus, according to an article posted on the university's website . The university's public safety department is working with police on the investigation of the incident, according to an email sent campuswide by St. Thomas's Diversity Action Response Team. The posters and stickers were found attached to doors and posts at various campus locations on the morning of Sept. 27, according to the university. The group behind the vandalism identified itself as the “Patriotfront,” a designated hate group, on the posters and stickers, the Star Tribune reported . “St. Thomas will not tolerate acts of racism and intolerance, or