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Blog:  Learning Innovation The Nowhere Office: Reinventing Work and the Workplace of the Future by Julia Hobsbawm Published in April of 2022. The post-pandemic university has gone hybrid. The new default for residential teaching and learning is at least blended, and maybe hyflex. Online education has permanently moved from the margins to the center. Less talked about but hugely consequential for academic culture is the reality that staff now behave more like faculty. Where professors have always worked in a hybrid manner, non-faculty academic professionals now routinely combine on-campus and at-home work. As higher education shifts to the new normal of endemic Covid, we must rethink the campus. The Nowhere Office is an excellent book to catalyze a conversation about the hybrid campus. In the book, author and consultant Julia Hobsbawm (daughter of the immensely influential late historian Eric Hobsbawm) contextualizes post-pandemic professional working life within th...

Two parents and a former coach will avoid jail time in the Varsity Blues admissions scandal because they cooperated with prosecutors, the Los Angeles Times reported. A California couple who admitted to paying $600,000 to get their daughters into the University of Southern California and the University of California, Los Angeles, were sentenced to one year of probation and ordered to complete 250 service hours. Bruce Isackson must pay a $7,500 fine, and Davina Isackson must pay a $1,000 fine. Prosecutors didn’t ask for prison time, saying their “acceptance of responsibility for their conduct was unstinting, their remorse sincere.” Laura Janke, a former assistant soccer coach at the University of Southern California, was sentenced to time served and 50 hours of community service. Prosecutors credited her “extensive and valuable” cooperation in the investigation despite her “egregious” conduct. She created fake athletic profiles for some of the parents in the scandal. Ad keywo...

The Orlando Museum of Art has a new director, in part because the old director sent an insulting email to an academic, The New York Times reported. Aaron De Groft was removed from the post amid an FBI investigation of 25 works that had been attributed to Jean-Michel Basquiat and had been on display at the museum but whose authenticity has been called into question. The Federal Bureau of Investigation seized the artworks. De Groft did not respond to requests for comment. The museum hired an expert, identified by the Times as Jordana Moore Saggese, an associate professor of art at the University of Maryland at College Park. Saggese was paid $60,000 for her written report. She contacted the museum and asked that her name not be associated with the exhibition. At that point, De Groft sent her an email disparaging her. “You want us to put out there you got $60 grand to write this?” De Groft wrote. “OK then. Shut up. You took the money. Stop being holier than thou … Do your acad...

Saint Augustine’s University, a historically Black institution in Raleigh, N.C., is expanding its outreach to community college students in Fresno, Calif., through a new transfer pathway, university leaders announced Wednesday. Participating community college graduates who earned an associate degree in a field offered at Saint Augustine will be guaranteed admission to the HBCU and are eligible for a Community College Transfer Grant of $8,945 per year. The grant will be automatically renewed for one academic year if the student maintains a GPA of 2.8 or above. The new transfer option is an effort by the HBCU Urban Access Hub, an initiative to partner with community colleges across the country located in areas that don’t have HBCUs and create pipelines to Saint Augustine. “Expanding to Fresno, California, makes sense,” Christine Johnson McPhail, president of Saint Augustine’s University, said in a press release. “I consider Fresno my second home. I graduated from Fresno City Colleg...

About 2,000 students from 98 universities responded to a survey about their views of academic integrity and cheating recently conducted by Inside Higher Ed and College Pulse with support from Kaplan. The findings, which can be filtered by race, provide fodder for a racial analysis of academic integrity. For example, Black and Asian/Asian American students reported being accused of plagiarism more than any other group (12 percent for both groups, versus 6 percent of all students). Further, Black students were the most likely to report being accused of cheating in college (9 percent of Black students reported being accused of cheating in a college course, compared to 6 percent of all students). Such findings should push us to take race seriously when we talk about academic integrity. Am I just trying to make this about race? No. Academic integrity is already about race. From the assumptions behind who looks like they are cheating to the punishments given for che...

Hear  Inside Higher Ed  Editors Scott Jaschik and Doug Lederman share their analysis and thoughts about current community college student success efforts, including the projected enrollment at community colleges for Fall 2022; direct and indirect implications for higher ed as a whole if enrollment decreases continue for the long-term; common hurdles that have kept completion rates low and remedial needs high for a large portion of community college students and innovative strategies that community colleges are now exploring. Register Now Section:  Events | Inside Higher Ed Ad zone:  Booklet Image:  Registration Link:  Registration Link Event's date:  Wednesday, June 29, 2022 - 2:00pm Insider only:  from Inside Higher Ed https://ift.tt/BK1TOzH

Native American students in Arizona will no longer have to pay tuition and fees at the University of Arizona’s Tucson campus starting this fall, according to a news release from the university Monday. Full-time students living in Arizona who belong to any of the 22 federally recognized tribes in the state will be eligible to receive grants after they complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid. The Arizona Native Scholars Grant will cover the remaining costs of in-state tuition and any mandatory fees. More than 400 students enrolled at the University of Arizona last year would qualify for the program. “I am so proud that that this university has found a way to help hundreds of students more easily access and complete a college education, and I look forward to finding ways to take these efforts even further,” University of Arizona president Robert C. Robbins said in the release. The grant program is funded through a reallocation of financial aid dollars and will be admi...

Thousands of people have signed a petition asking George Washington University to end the employment of U.S. Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas as an adjunct instructor of law based on his position in last week’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision that overturned the court’s 1973 Roe vs. Wade ruling legalizing abortion nationwide. Thomas not only sided with the majority in Dobbs but also issued an individual concurrence saying that he and his colleagues “should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold , Lawrence , and Obergefell . Because any substantive due process decision is ‘demonstrably erroneous,’ we have a duty to ‘correct the error’ established in those precedents.” This has sparked widespread concern about the court’s deference to legal precedent and, more specifically, the future of access to contraception and of equal rights for LGBTQ Americans. “With the recent Supreme Court decision that has stripped ...

Temple University laid off eight employees of the Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice on Tuesday. Several sources with direct knowledge of situation who did not want to named, citing job insecurity, said that Hope’s interim leaders and Temple administrators attempted to reconcile the center’s finances and discovered a deficit earlier this year when founder Sara Goldrick-Rab was placed on paid leave amid an investigation into center operations. Current and former Hope employees previously told Inside Higher Ed that the center suffered from climate issues and possible financial mismanagement under Goldrick-Rab. Goldrick-Rab, who remains a professor of higher education policy and sociology at Temple, declined comment on the situation Tuesday, citing the terms of her leave, but she suggested that Temple, not Hope, suffered from financial mismanagement. Goldrick-Rab also said the laid-off employees had been hired under the financial leadership of someone else at the center,...

While the content of Friday’s Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade is not a surprise, it is devastating. Those of us in the California higher education community support reproductive rights, and at this critical juncture we must pause and reflect upon what this means for women and their right to educational access nationwide. As mothers and as educators, we understand what is at stake. These data are clear. More than half of people who access abortion are in their 20s , which means many are likely to be pursuing higher education. In fact, studies show that one in seven people who had an abortion did so in order to continue their education ; the Guttmacher Institute, a research and policy institute focused on reproductive rights, puts this figure closer to 40 percent . The ruling therefore takes direct aim at our nation’s college students. Even more distressing is the realization that the impacts are felt most profoundly by our students of color and by individuals fro...

Blog:  Higher Ed Gamma Although the discipline of history lacks laws like those found in science -- that predict a range of natural phenomena – history does indeed, I’d submit, have laws that are universally applicable. Here are eight: Law 1:  It happened earlier. Events tend to have precursors, precedents, and parallels.  Almost always, the roots of a development began earlier in time.  For example, many of the social phenomena linked to the pandemic actually predate COVID-19’s first cases. Law 2:  All heroes have feet of clay. Look closely enough, and even our most admired saints and heroes are flawed, containing complex mixture After all, they’re human and as Kant put it, humanity is made out of crooked timber that can’t be made straight. Law 3:  Victories invariably result in new problems. History doesn’t allow for closure.  Ending one conflict only lays bare or instigates new challenges.  The textbook example is the end ...

Victoria Mendoza from the University of Southern California (USC) and Dave McDonald from Boston University (BU) will discuss how they communicate and support students across campus and across the country, along with the analytics that enable USC and BU to optimize the messaging, content, resources and services delivered to the community. Other topics that they will cover include, tips for managing crisis communications with AI and social media, ways to listen that will detect student and campus issues at the earliest stages and strategies to engage students, prospective students, advocates and influencers to increase brand awareness, applications, enrollment and retention. Register Now Section:  Advertiser Webinars Ad zone:  Booklet Image:  Registration Link:  Registration Link Event's date:  Wednesday, June 29, 2022 - 2:00pm Insider only:  from Inside Higher Ed https://ift.tt/eTl...

Today on the Academic Minute , part of Wiki Education Week: Zachary J. McDowell, assistant professor in the department of communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago, examines how different groups are represented on Wikipedia. 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/yxnBfZw

Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Talented Youth runs summer programs for high school students at universities throughout the country. The Washington Post reported that about 870 of the nearly 2,900 students will not be able to participate this year. In addition, Hopkins notified the students this weekend, as some were traveling to the sites of the program. An email to parents said, “The nationwide labor shortage affecting many industries has created conditions that make it impossible to deliver an experience that rises to the level of quality we expect for our families and programs.” Virginia Roach, executive director of the center, said in a statement that families were offered full refunds of tuition and travel costs. “I fully recognize that these options do not make up for the disruption this has created for parents who planned their summers around our programming, and the extreme disappointment for students who dedicated themselves to preparing for this opportunity,” she ...

Majoring in business has a high payoff relative to other types of programs, according to a new report from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce. The report, released today, found that most business programs lead to median earnings that are about 10 times the amount of students’ loan debt payments two years after graduation. However, these programs have lower financial returns than engineering, health and computer and information sciences programs. Students who earned an associate degree in business have median annual earnings of $30,000 two years after graduation after debt payments. Graduates with a bachelor’s degree in business earn a median $43,200 after debt payments, and master’s degree holders earn $51,600. “Strong financial returns are good news for the more than 700,000 graduates each year who pursue the most popular field of study for bachelor’s and master’s degree holders,” lead report author and Georgetown CEW director Anthony P. Carnevale s...

Student loan repayments have been paused since March 2020 and aren’t scheduled to resume until September, meaning that students have been spared from making payments for 30 months as a pandemic relief measure. And President Biden is widely expected to extend the pause to avoid restarting payments just months before an election, just as former president Trump did prior to the 2020 elections. We won’t know just how much former students benefited from the pause until many years down the road, because only in retrospect can we determine if they repaid their loans in full. If they eventually repay in full, the pause will amount to an interest-free loan for 30 months (the pause also waived interest). But many students will not repay in full. Even before the pause, 72 percent of Graduate PLUS loans were expected to be forgiven, because borrowers enrolled in an income-driven repayment plan or Public Service Loan Forgiveness can have any remaining balance forgiven after making payments...