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Blog:  Learning Innovation I've long been a fan of how Matt Reed writes about his family. Matt artfully walks the line between bringing our higher ed work home while maintaining family privacy. When I let Matt know how much I admire his way of writing about his kids and partner through a higher ed lens, he encouraged me to give it a shot. So here goes. Over the past two weeks, my wife and I have attended commencement ceremonies for our daughters. We had two graduations within a week because our older daughter had her Covid two-year delayed commencement. Watching the ceremony of these ceremonies and seeing my kids in regalia and all the commencement trappings brought to my mind all the things that I've gotten wrong as a higher ed parent. Here are a few of the higher ed mistakes I've made with my kids: Mistake #1 - Thinking I Could Tone Down the Insanity of the College Admissions Process: We are lucky that the college town where we live is blessed with a fantas...

Blog:  Higher Ed Policy First, thank you for the very warm reception of this new blog. As soon as I published the first post, I came down with COVID and, now, two weeks later, I am digging my way through emails, tweets, and LinkedIn messages. Thank you and I’m catching up! On May 16, I sat in on May’s Public Policy Pop-Up at the American Council on Education, The Policy and Politics of Student Loan Forgiveness , with Terry Hartle and Jon Fansworth. I try to attend these monthly sessions when possible and often recommend them to my students.   I began my career in higher ed in a financial aid office and I was put in charge of loans- specifically loan collection. That was over 30 years ago. I started out managing the institution’s Perkins loan program and then took on the Stafford, PLUS, and private loans for families. In this role, I was the main liaison with collection agencies and it was brutal. I also ran exit interviews with students and, eventually, created...

The University of Arkansas system last week ended its eVersity, an online university, The Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported. The university was started in 2014 and was hailed as a way for the university to educate adult students. It has only 120 students. Instead, the university will promote online learning through the University of Arkansas Grantham, which was created in August when the university bought for $1 Grantham University, a for-profit university based in Lenexa, Kan., with approximately 5,500 students. The students at eVersity will be able to finish their degrees or programs at Grantham. Ad keywords:  techadministrators techfaculty 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/qtRBHwp

Today on the Academic Minute : R. Graham Reynolds, associate professor of biology at the University of North Carolina at Asheville, examines an underexplored aspect of the animal kingdom. Learn more about the Academic Minute here . And if you missed Monday’s episode, in which Portland State University’s Birol A. Yeşilada discusses how to protect the smart grid, listen 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/0JW9CAi

Britain will give graduates of the world's leading universities visas good for two years of work (three if they hold a doctorate from one of the universities), Times Higher Education reported. To be eligible, their university must be in the top 50 for the world in the rankings of two of the three leading ranks: Times Higher Education , QS and the Shanghai Academic Rankings. The visas could be a major reason for international or domestic students to enroll at the universities. But the article noted criticism of the plan. Phil Baty, Times Higher Education ’s chief knowledge officer, said it was a “big problem” that none of the selected universities were from Africa, Latin America or South Asia. ( Inside Higher Ed is now owned by Times Higher Education .) Twenty of the 37 universities eligible are in the United States. They are : the California Institute of Technology; Columbia, Cornell, Duke, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, New York, Northwestern, Princeton, Stanford and Yale Universit...

“Completely flattened by fatigue, cognitive dysfunction, and lightheadedness” are some of the terms used to describe the experiences of young, healthy, often athletic students who contracted COVID-19. As much as the pandemic has impacted higher education over the past two years and we want to believe that the worst is over, we fear this might not be the case. In fact, we may be facing a second health crisis, or what some are calling a pandemic after the pandemic , one that will impact the way we work, teach and learn: long COVID. Understanding Long COVID in the Context of Higher Education While our essay focuses on students and long COVID, it is important to remember that anyone can be impacted by long COVID, including faculty and staff members and administrators. The virus that causes COVID-19 is thought to alter key neural structures and therefore cognitive functioning , such as attention , memory and motivation. Recent studies have also shown that many individuals who had t...

The smart grid is an important part of our infrastructure. In today's Academic Minute, Portland State University's Birol A. Yeşilada discusses how to protect it from attack. Yeşilada is director of the Mark O. Hatfield School of Government and professor of political science and international studies at Portland State. A transcript of this podcast can be found here . Section:  Academic Minute File:  05-30-22 Portland State University - Securing the Smart Grid.mp3 Event's date:  Monday, May 30, 2022 - 1:45pm Insider only:  from Inside Higher Ed https://ift.tt/DLmHYMo

Blog:  Higher Ed Gamma I’ve often wondered why my cohort of doctoral students at Yale, unlike their successors, displayed no interest in unionizing.  Most of my classmates considered themselves women and men of the left, yet unionization was not broached once that I can remember. In stark contrast, twenty years later, the pressures for graduate student unionization at private universities were intense. For reasons that deserve close scrutiny, the Overton Window – the range of policies that were considered plausible – had widened. Ideas once deemed farfetched, like student debt cancelation, now seem conceivable. What had changed?  The answer, in a word, lies in a  deepening pessimism about the future . Generational pessimism can be seen in many ways – in delayed marriage and childbearing, the retreat from organized religion, the growing prevalence among twenty-somethings of substance abuse, and, perhaps above all, the well-documented decline in mental heal...

White House officials are planning on canceling $10,000 in student debt per borrower, a central campaign promise by President Biden that would relieve debt for millions of Americans, The Washington Post reported. Biden’s proposal, however, is still not finalized. The announcement of the president’s plan to address the $1.7 trillion currently owed to the federal government in student debt had been speculated by many to come as soon as this Saturday, when Biden will be making a commencement speech at the University of Delaware. According to the Post , the timing of the announcement has been delayed after the mass shooting in Texas on Tuesday. Multiple sources familiar with the topic told Inside Higher Ed that they have not received communication from the Biden administration of any proposal to relieve student debt. Ad keywords:  administrators studentaid Editorial Tags:  Breaking News Is this diversity newsletter?:  Hide by line?:  ...

Blog:  Confessions of a Community College Dean A Pricing Experiment   What if vocational programs cost students less than traditional academic programs?   For the most part,vocational programs cost institutions much more to run.  They have expensive equipment that needs to be maintained, they usually have smaller classes, and it’s often harder to find adjunct faculty.  Some colleges address those higher costs through internal cross-subsidies, allowing the academic areas to make up some of the financial shortfall of the vocational ones.  Others charge extra fees for vocational programs – whether as course fees or program fees – to help offset the extra cost.  Most split the difference, charging more but still not enough to offset the full cost.   Apparently, Western Colorado Community College is flipping the script.  It’s actually charging 40 percent less for vocational programs.     I’m intrigued.  Paul F...

Category:  Conditionally Accepted The work of diversity committees and offices has recently been amplified, yet much of it remains performative, Aparajita De argues—and South Asians should help change that. Job Tags:  FACULTY JOBS Ad keywords:  diversity faculty Section:  Diversity Editorial Tags:  Career Advice Show on Jobs site:  Image Size:  Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?:  Is this Career Advice newsletter?:  Disable left side advertisement?:  Trending:  Live Updates:  liveupdates0 Most Popular:  3 In-Article Advertisement High:  6 In-Article related stories:  9 In-Article Advertisement Low:  12 from Inside Higher Ed https://ift.tt/cXB5SD8

An adjunct professor at Goodwin University, in Connecticut, has been charged with sexually assaulting a student, CT Insider reported. Police arrested Suara Adediran and charged him with fourth-degree sexual assault and second-degree breach of peace. The police said they received a complaint from “an adult student of Goodwin University” alleging the sexual assault. He was released on a $10,000 bond. Ad keywords:  faculty 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/lR1TZ2c

Today on the Academic Minute , part of University at Albany Week: Daphney-Stavroula Zois, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, explains how artificial intelligence can help farmers abroad. 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/Wgk0JVi

Fairmont State University president Mirta Martin announced earlier this month that she would not seek a contract renewal when her appointment ended. But last week Fairmont State’s Board of Governors decided to fire Martin, voting to end her contract early, effective in July. That means, according to local news organization WVnews.com , Fairmont State is on the hook for 13 months of salary, a payout estimated at about $300,000. Though Martin’s contract was set to end in December, contract stipulations regarding termination added an additional six months” worth of salary to the payout. Though Martin will technically remain an employee of Fairmont State until July, she has been stripped of her presidential powers, and an acting president has already been appointed. Board members said they were acting in the “best interest” of the university in removing Martin. A staff representative and a student representative on Fairmont’s Board of Governors both voted against terminating Martin’s...

The California Assembly unanimously passed new legislation on Wednesday to advance reforms to remedial education in the California Community Colleges system. The legislation, Assembly Bill 1705 , builds off a law passed in 2017, which prevented community colleges from requiring remedial English or math courses without first considering students’ high school GPA and coursework and determining they are “highly unlikely to succeed” in classes that earn transferable college credits. Colleges have lagged in implementing the prior law, Assembly Bill 705 , so the new bill stresses that colleges must enroll students in the math and English classes where they have the highest chances of completing transfer requirements. It also prohibits colleges from requiring students to repeat math and English classes passed in high school, among other measures to enroll more students in credit-bearing coursework. “Remedial classes cost students time and money and don’t move them closer to their goals...

Column:  Intellectual Affairs Looking over the university press titles coming in the fall, I find two distinctive clusters of books standing out as topical. In tune with recent news, they also bring up unfinished business from years past. At present, only about half of the presses have made their catalogs available. The rest should arrive over the next month or so, allowing for a broader view of trends or themes. But for now, here’s the roundup as of Memorial Day weekend. (Quoted text below is taken from university press materials.) Recent developments no doubt account for the speedy reissue, in less expensive editions, of two volumes Yale University Press published in hardcover just a few months ago. M. E. Sarotte’s Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post–Cold War Stalemate (appearing in hardcover last November, out in paperback in August) “pulls back the curtain on the crucial decade between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of Vladimir Put...