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The president of Stony Brook University will become Michigan State's first permanent leader since January 2018.  from The Chronicle of Higher Education http://bit.ly/2W55RoE

Blog:  Higher Ed Gamma If higher education is to thrive, digital will be a big part of the answer. We see this already. Data analytics are beginning to drive decision making. Digital delivery, whether hybrid or fully online, is allowing institutions to serve existing students better while also reaching new markets — without building new classrooms and labs. Digital courseware, interactives, virtual labs, and simulations are allowing a growing number of faculty members to personalize instruction and make it more interactive. Mobile computing is making support services more accessible, allowing instructors to integrate remote learning experiences into their courses, and giving students opportunities to create digital projects: podcasts, course websites, digital stories, and apps. Expenditures on higher education’s digital transformation are more likely to pay off than spending on facilities, equipment, and hardware. The barriers to this transformation are great. Expertis...

The university had ended the application option because it was more commonly used by wealthier, more advantaged students. from The Chronicle of Higher Education http://bit.ly/2KdLQKh

Blog:  Student Affairs and Technology “Getting to know the true people of Higher Education and their stories. Satirically.” – Humans of Higher Ed This is definitely not the blog post I thought I would be writing this week. However, when I checked Twitter on Wednesday morning I noticed that the #SAchat hashtag was trending. Curious, I clicked in to what was a multi-threaded debate (storm?) about satirical memes, perceived shaming, bullying, self-care, nuance and an 80-hour work week. Things started off with a tweet from Humans of Higher Ed (a mostly anonymous satirical social media account):   When you realize that when you get to work tomorrow no students will be there pic.twitter.com/4dWc1qI2nF — HumansofHigherEd (@HumanOfHigherEd) May 27, 2019   Initially, at least from what I was able to dig up after what felt like miles of scrolling through a cascade of Twitter activity, the 'celebratory' tweet was criticized by two prominent leaders in education ...

Barrett Watten, a Wayne State University poetry scholar, was known for his erratic temper. His alleged misbehavior raises questions about what universities are willing to tolerate. from The Chronicle of Higher Education http://bit.ly/2QzgsqQ

Blog:  Library Babel Fish As the year finishes and the library becomes quiet, I find myself thinking about how I became a librarian. It wasn’t a well-planned career move. When I was in college I fell in love with a major that let me read big fat novels for credit. As I neared graduation, I bristled when my mother suggested, “why don’t you go to library school?” As a child of the Great Depression she had a practical bent, and she knew my chosen major wouldn’t be able to support me in a long-term relationship. “Something to fall back on,” she added, which only made it worse. I loved being in libraries, I even worked in one, but it was the life of the mind that swept me off my feet. The kind of work I imagined librarians did – safe, boring, routine – nope, not for me. I had dreams. I followed my love to graduate school where things changed. My beloved turned cruel and abusive. I was an ignoramus among the French critics who were big that year, and public displays of affecti...

The big winner among sectors was four-year private nonprofits. But this growth could be attributed to the conversion in tax status of a single institution. from The Chronicle of Higher Education http://bit.ly/2I9tXtG

The faculty member had accused the university of forcing economics students to pay $100 each for access to course materials, in hopes of winning a grant from a company. from The Chronicle of Higher Education http://bit.ly/2Ml3wGN

The University of California at Santa Cruz overhauled its first-year courses to improve students’ critical reading and metacognition.   from The Chronicle of Higher Education http://bit.ly/2VZURc7

A growing number of U.S. institutions are not renewing their bundled journal subscriptions with big publishers, citing rising costs that have made these deals unsustainable. Louisiana State University recently said that it could no longer afford its $2 million annual comprehensive journal subscription deal with publisher Elsevier. By unbundling its "big deal" and subscribing to only the most essential journals, the institution's administrators hope to save the library $1 million a year. LSU is far from the first institution to complain that publishers’ subscription costs are too high. The University of California system, Temple University, West Virginia University, the University of Oklahoma and Florida State University all announced this year that they are dropping big deal contracts with various publishers, including Elsevier, Wiley and Springer Nature. But one skeptic is challenging the conventional wisdom about high subscription rates and raising doubts about b...

Calls by Italy’s far-right governing party for a book about it to be removed from a university reading list have been met with limited resistance, Italian academics have warned, opening the door for further attacks on academic freedom in the future. Last month, a regional branch of the League, part of Italy’s governing coalition and currently the country’s most popular party, demanded the removal of La Lega di Salvini from the reading list of a course taught by a political science professor at the University of Bologna. The branch objected to the book’s description of the party as “extreme right” and to its criticisms of Matteo Salvini, the party’s leader and Italy’s deputy prime minister. Academics have a duty of loyalty to the state, and universities should not be places of political “propaganda,” party representatives argued in the Emilia-Romagna regional assembly. Gianluca Passarelli, a political scientist at Sapienza University of Rome and co-author of the book, told Times...

Colleges reluctant to end the use of Native American and other mascots deemed offensive often cite fears that getting rid of the icons could hurt fund-raising. But a new study shows that failing to phase out prejudicial mascots can have a negative impact on donations and students' feelings of belonging. The study by researchers at Yale University focuses on an unnamed Midwestern university -- clearly referring to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign -- which officially ended the use of a stereotypical Native American mascot known as “the Chief” but had not replaced the mascot. The study showed that images of the mascot persisted in 50 percent of spaces on campus and more than 10 percent of clothing worn by students. “The imagery is present on campus, and because of that you have the option and opportunity to purchase the imagery,” said Michael Kraus, a co-author of the study and assistant professor of organizational behavior at Yale. “When you don’t replace th...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A report released Wednesday at the NAFSA: Association of International Educators annual conference looks at national policies supporting the internationalization of higher education in the Americas. The report -- “ The Shape of Global Higher Education: The Americas ” -- focuses on national policies in the U.S. and Canada as well as four Latin American countries: Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico. It was released by NAFSA in conjunction with the British Council and builds on a similar report the council released this month focused primarily on national higher education policies in Europe. The researchers score countries on 37 indicators variously related to their internationalization strategies, their policies on student and academic mobility and research, their policies on transnational higher education, their policies relating to quality assurance and credential evaluation, and funding support for student and faculty mobility. Out of 20 countries compared i...

Do you like pushing buttons? In today's Academic Minute, Indiana University 's Rachel Plotnick examines why we became a nation of button pushers. Plotnick is an assistant professor of cinema and media studies at Indiana. A transcript of this podcast can be found here . Section:  Academic Minute File:  05-30-18 Indiana - Pushing Buttons.mp3 Event's date:  Wednesday, May 29, 2019 - 5:45pm School:  Indiana University-Bloomington from Inside Higher Ed http://bit.ly/2W1nXrM

Teaching Today Junior Prof describes how she ascribed to the common practice of simply reading her research paper to attendees -- until she was forced to change her tactics for the better. Job Tags:  FACULTY JOBS Ad keywords:  faculty Editorial Tags:  Career Advice Show on Jobs site:  Image Source:  Istockphoto.com/rudall30 Image Size:  Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?:  Is this Career Advice newsletter?:  Disable left side advertisement?:  Trending:  from Inside Higher Ed http://bit.ly/30URkQj

An investigation into claims Arizona State University entered into an unethical deal with publisher Cengage has concluded there is “no evidence” the university did anything wrong. The report , published this week, was prompted by allegations from Brian Goegan, a former economics professor at ASU, which went viral last month. Goegan claimed the university had received a large financial grant from Cengage in exchange for choosing courseware from the publisher. He also said he was required to fail 30 percent of his students in order to set a new baseline to make it seem that the new courseware was improving outcomes. The university flatly denied Goegan’s claims. The student government called for an external review, and ASU subsequently asked former Arizona Supreme Court chief justice Ruth McGregor to look into the issue. McGregor did not find any evidence of a grant from Cengage but said ASU and Cengage have a revenue-sharing arrangement. She did not consider this arrangem...

A University of Oklahoma student has brought a class action suit following the revelation that the university misreported alumni donor information to U.S. News & World Report for its academic rankings. The student is seeking compensation after she said she decided to attend the university due to its U.S. News ranking. The suit lists as potential plaintiffs any Oklahoma student who enrolled at the university between 1999 and the present. The plaintiff is alleging breach of conduct and unjust enrichment on the university's part. Such lawsuits typically face an uphill climb. Ad keywords:  admissions Is this diversity newsletter?:  Hide by line?:  Disable left side advertisement?:  Is this Career Advice newsletter?:  Trending:  College:  University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus from Inside Higher Ed http://bit.ly/2Wwkbeg

College enrollment in the U.S. has decreased for the eighth consecutive year, according to new data released Thursday by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. The report covers 97 percent of enrollments at degree-granting postsecondary institutions that are eligible to receive federal financial aid. The overall decline this spring compared to last year was 1.7 percent, or roughly 300,000 students, the center found. Last year's decrease was slightly larger, at 1.8 percent. Community colleges continued their enrollment slide with a decline of 3.4 percent. Four-year public institutions saw a drop of 0.9 percent, the center found. Four-year private institutions bucked the trend with an increase of 3.2 percent. However, the center said most of this increase was due to the conversion of large for-profit institutions to nonprofit status. Grand Canyon University, for example, successfully made the transition last year. States with the larges...

Today on the Academic Minute , Rachel Plotnick, assistant professor of cinema and media studies at Indiana University , examines why we became a nation of button pushers. Learn more about the Academic Minute here . Is this diversity newsletter?:  Hide by line?:  Disable left side advertisement?:  Is this Career Advice newsletter?:  Trending:  College:  Indiana University-Bloomington from Inside Higher Ed http://bit.ly/2WvssPK