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Blog:  Higher Ed Gamma There’s  an ongoing debate  over whether online education is cheaper than its face-to-face counterpart. There’s no doubt that it can be. It’s as easy as 1-2-3.  All you have to do is: 1. Uncap course enrollment. 2. Automate grading. 3. Substitute lower-paid graders, teaching assistants, coaches, course mentors, and adjuncts for tenure-stream faculty. You can reduce costs even further by eliminating physical classrooms, faculty offices, libraries, labs, studios, auditoriums, clubs and other student organizations, and athletics. That’s not all.  If cost cutting is your sole goal, you can: Create standardized master classes to be “taught” by whoever is cheapest.  Adopt a self-paced, self-directed educational model to further reduces the need for instructors and support staff, and  Aggressively offer credit for prior learning, to increase throughput.  Substitute lower-cost certificates and certifica...

Skylar Mack, a premed student at Mercer University, has been sentenced to four months in jail in the Cayman Islands for breaking COVID-19 rules, the Associated Press reported. She has been in prison since Tuesday. She arrived in the Cayman Islands in November and was supposed to be in quarantine for two weeks, but her boyfriend, who is from the Cayman Islands, picked her up to attend a water sports events. He was also sentenced to jail time. Mack's lawyer said that they pleaded guilty but deserved a lesser sentence. The Cayman Compass quoted Judge Roger Chapple as saying Mack's actions reflected "selfishness and arrogance," adding that she had spent seven hours out in public without a face mask or social distancing.   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:/...

Pennsylvania acting secretary of education Noe Ortega has urged colleges to delay the start of their spring semesters to February, as some colleges are already doing. “We are seeing an alarming increase in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations, and these trends are expected to worsen in January at the time when students normally return to campus,” she said. “Colleges and universities play a critical role in mitigating​ the spread of COVID-19 and creating safe learning environments for students. By delaying students' return to campus, our institutions of higher learning can help slow the spread of the virus, help businesses to remain open, and protect regional health care systems.” A press release from the state's Department of Education said that "the number of cases among 19 to 24-year-olds in northcentral Pennsylvania spiked from 7 percent in April, when students were not on campus, to 69 percent in September, and in the northeast from 6 percent in April to 40 ...

Many colleges send holiday wishes every year. In 2020, an extremely difficult year for all colleges, several institutions reflected on what they had to do without in their greetings. At the College of New Jersey, Roscoe (the mascot) had to face a semester alone. A similar theme was used at Florida Gulf Coast University, featuring Azul, the university's mascot.   The University of North Carolina at Asheville has more students on campus (and also students studying online), and it worked them into its video. At Manhattan College, the spirit of Christmas was the focus of its holiday video. Hanukkah was also celebrated -- with notes of Zoom meetings -- by the Maccabeats (of Yeshiva University). We wish all of our readers happy holidays -- and some downtime -- over the next few weeks. And here's hoping for a better 2021! Editorial Tags:  Humor/whimsy Is this diversity newsletter?:  Newsletter Order:  0 Disable left side advertisement?:...

Anxious Europeans, fearful that they are falling behind the U.S. and China in the race to deploy disruptive new technologies, have a new buzzword: DARPA. Germany, France, Britain, Italy and the European Union itself have all toyed with or actually created organizations claiming to mimic the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the near-legendary innovation machine credited with helping to invent everything from the internet to self-driving cars. Now, with some of these organizations actually up and running, the question remains: Can Europe truly create its own DARPA from scratch? One of the most prominent attempts is the Joint European Disruptive Initiative (JEDI), whose first project -- screening more than 50 billion molecules to find one that could inhibit coronavirus -- started in March this year. Unless Europeans are at the forefront of technological innovation, “other people or other political systems will impose their values on us,” argued André Loesekrug-Pi...

Here are the 10 articles, columns and blog posts that attracted the most readers in 2019. (Columns and blog posts include the authors' names.) All but one of the pieces (No. 3) relate to the COVID-19 pandemic. 10. Many institutions are going pass/fail or making new grading schemes. How will prospective grad students, med students and community college transfers be affected? April 13, 2020 9. If (for some reason) you’re considering an abrupt move to online teaching, Stephanie Moore and Charles B. Hodges have practical advice for instructors. March 11, 2020 8. Because of COVID-19, most professors and students suddenly find themselves forced to use technology as they teach and learn. A panel of experts explores whether that will help or hurt attitudes about online education. March 18, 2020 7. If campuses are still off-limits to students come September, this spring's version of remote learning won't suffice. Some colleges are preparing (quietly) to deliver bett...

Timothy White, the chancellor of the California State University system, broke with most of his peers in May by announcing that the sprawling 23-campus system would be planning to hold most courses online in the fall. At the time, many other college and university leaders were broadcasting bullish messages about in-person instruction amid the pandemic. Fears ran high that students wouldn’t enroll for the fall if they knew classes would be primarily online and that the quality of virtual instruction would lag that in classrooms. Lost revenue from closed dormitories and other auxiliary services threatened to shatter carefully crafted institutional budgets across the country. When making his decision, White considered the different elements of the Cal State system, which counts the nearly 500,000 people it educates annually as making up one of the most diverse student bodies in the country. What were students’ and employees’ perspectives? How could the 23-campus system hold true to i...

A national survey of likely voters shows that the COVID-19 pandemic led to a slight dip in the perceived value of higher education. Third Way, a center-left think tank, and Global Strategy Group, a public affairs and research firm, surveyed 1,000 voters to get a sense of how the pandemic has affected public opinion of postsecondary education. The survey oversampled Black and Latinx likely voters, as well as institutional leaders. The confidence interval is plus or minus 3.1 percent. Most survey respondents rated the return on investment of a degree after high school as "excellent" or "good" both before and after the start of the pandemic. But there was a slight dip. The confidence of all likely voters dropped by nine percentage points after COVID-19 struck (from 76 to 67 percent). Likely Black voters changed the most, by 10 percentage points (from 79 to 69 percent). "I don't want to overstate this point because, on balance, a lot of people said it st...

Freshman year can be tough for students, but what about the second year? In today's Academic Minute, part of University of West Georgia Week, Dena Kniess explores this question through underrepresented populations on campus. Kniess is an assistant professor in the department of communication sciences at West Georgia. A transcript of this podcast can be found here . Section:  Academic Minute File:  12-18-20 West Georgia - Second-Year Experiences for Underrepresented Students on Campus.mp3 Event's date:  Thursday, December 17, 2020 - 4:45pm School:  University of West Georgia Insider only:  from Inside Higher Ed https://ift.tt/3nJ0Q45

The pandemic has added to the burden of institutional service that women disproportionately bear, with considerable consequences for career advancement, argue Marwa Shalaby and Nermin Allam. Editorial Tags:  Career Advice Graduate students Show on Jobs site:  Image Source:  sorbetto/digitalvision vectors via getty images Image Size:  Thumbnail-horizontal Multiple Authors:  Marwa Shalaby Nermin Allam Is this diversity newsletter?:  Is this Career Advice newsletter?:  Disable left side advertisement?:  Trending:  Live Updates:  liveupdates0 from Inside Higher Ed https://ift.tt/3rfT5EX

Category:  Conditionally Accepted We must make our institutions actively antiracist, writes Deborah Saint-Phard, in order to bring about actual change and healing for each of us and our nation. Editorial Tags:  Career Advice Racism 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 from Inside Higher Ed https://ift.tt/2KBhK5M