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Many employers and critics of higher education think many colleges and universities focus too little on ensuring that their graduates thrive after they leave, and favor holding institutions accountable for how their students fare in the job market. That’s unpalatable to a lot of academics, who view a college education as about more than how much you earn.  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.  Hosted by Insid...

Column:  Letters to the Editor The Schuler Foundation, in its recent initiative to give away hundreds of millions of dollars to small liberal arts colleges to increase “equity,” is acting true to form for white-led foundations who really don’t get it. First, this effort is based in the notion that for poor people and people of color to succeed, they should leave their communities and places of diversity in favor of white communities. For many folks, the opposite is true. I know a Pell eligible Black freshman at an Ivy League college who regrets not applying to Howard. She is getting a full ride, but thinks that an HBCU would be more fulfilling. I cannot imagine her at a place like Union. I know a biracial kid from our city who went to Union and was miserable. Second, many of these colleges have higher endowments than most and a majority of students who pay full freight. Kenyon and Tufts were among the 10 worst in the nation in Raj Chetty’s 2019 study of colleges with mo...

The general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board issued a memo Wednesday asserting that “certain” college and university athletes are employees and should have the right to unionize, among other protections. “Players at academic institutions perform services for institutions in return for compensation and subject to their control,” Jennifer Abruzzo wrote. Federal laws and NLRB policies, she continued, “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.” The declaration by Abruzzo signals that the NLRB, under the Biden administration, will pick up where the Obama administration left off on the contentious issue of whether college athletes are employees who can unionize. The NLRB in early 2017 issued a memo stating that football players at private universities that compete at the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s highest lev...

Aaron Baute , vice president of business, logistics and supply chain at Ivy Tech Community College, in Indiana, has been named chancellor of its Lafayette campus. Alberto Jose Cardelle , provost and vice president for academic affairs at Fitchburg State University, in Massachusetts, has been appointed president of the State University of New York at Oneonta. Martha Garcia , superintendent/president of Imperial Valley College, in California, has been chosen as superintendent/president of College of the Desert, also in California. Patricia Ireland , dean of undergraduate studies at Saint Joseph’s College of Maine, has been selected as provost at Elmira College, in Pennsylvania. Sheila Edwards Lange , president of Seattle Central College, in Washington, has been named chancellor of the University of Washington at Tacoma. Rick Massengale , vice president for academic and student affairs at North Arkansas College, has been promoted to president there. Jeffrey Nasse , interim provo...

Image:  Wallace State Community College in Alabama plans to create a community learning center in Arley, a town of approximately 330 people in Winston County, about 45 minutes from the campus. College administrators spent years reaching out to residents of the county, which Vicki Karolewics, president of the college, described as “extremely rural” with “significant poverty,” but the pandemic intensified that goal as students struggled with remote learning. Even with laptops and Wi-Fi hotspots provided by the college, she said some students were left trying to complete their assignments on their phones because of poor internet access. Karolewics said the pandemic exacerbated “a long-standing challenge” that demanded “a local solution.” The focus of the center “will be to place a resident of Winston County who seeks our services … to place them on a career path … at the moment they come in the door.” Wallace State is among the many community colleges across the...

Image:  The Schuler Education Foundation recently doled out tens of millions of dollars to a handful of liberal arts colleges to expand access for underserved students at their institutions. The money comes as a challenge grant, which will require the institutions to raise matching funds over a period of years to double the investment. The 20-year-old foundation has long focused on supporting liberal arts students, said Jason Patenaude, executive director and chief operating officer at Schuler. Now, it’s supporting the colleges that educate them. “We realized a few years ago that we could also move up the value chain a little bit and support these schools directly,” Patenaude said. “Because if we want to make sure that students get the opportunity to experience this great education, you need to make sure that those colleges are financially stable, and that they have the seats available for low-income or undocumented students so that these students can attend.” Five inst...

Image:  Kutztown University denied a recent heart transplant patient his remote teaching accommodation request, arguing that the “fundamental alteration of the delivery of a course” is not a “reasonable accommodation” under the Americans With Disabilities Act. The university says it received three other professors’ ADA accommodation requests to teach online this semester. It granted none. Stephen Oross, the associate professor of psychology with the new heart, says Kutztown adopted an effective “blanket denial” policy regarding accommodation requests, in possible violation of the law. He’s considering legal redress against the Pennsylvania university. In the meantime, he’s refinancing his home and tapping into retirement funds to afford his medical and other bills. He’s also hoping that his benefits won’t be affected due to his being forced to take leave this semester. “I do not have any confidence whatsoever in the administration at this point,” Oross said. “I don’t t...

Image:  An Arizona Superior Court judge struck down as unconstitutional a prohibition on COVID-19 vaccine mandates at public colleges that state legislators had folded into a higher education budget reconciliation act. The voided section of the law prohibited public universities or community colleges from requiring that students get vaccinated against COVID-19, or placing “any conditions on attendance or participation in classes or academic activities, including mandatory testing or face covering usage” for people who opted against getting vaccinated or disclosing their vaccination status. The section also banned colleges from requiring COVID-19 testing except in cases of a “significant COVID-19 outbreak” in a student housing setting, and even then only with approval from the state’s Department of Health Services. Judge Katherine Cooper found that the inclusion of prohibitions on COVID-19 mitigation measures in a budget reconciliation act violated a state constitutional...

A new treatment option could be on the way for your hospital stay. In today's Academic Minute, NYU Abu Dhabi's Khalil Ramadi explains. Ramadi is an assistant professor of bioengineering and director of the Laboratory for Advanced Neuroengineering and Translational Medicine at New York University's Abu Dhabi campus. A transcript of this podcast can be found here . Section:  Academic Minute File:  09-29-21 NYU Abu Dhabi - Zapping the Gut.mp3 Event's date:  Tuesday, September 28, 2021 - 5:30pm Insider only:  from Inside Higher Ed https://ift.tt/3idgy6r

Blog:  Confessions of a Community College Dean   I knew something was different when I had to leave work early to get home in time for a Zoom meeting.   That happened last week a few times.  I had 5:30 Zoom calls several nights in a row, and I live about a half-hour from campus.  So I left a little early in order to be able to be online in time to keep working into the evening.   Until 2020, that paragraph wouldn’t have made any sense.  Yet, here we are.   I had to smile at this Washington Post piece about going to the office, only to spend the day on Zoom.  The part about wearing pants isn’t quite right -- I do that anyway -- but I’ll admit often being shoeless when Zooming from home.  No need for dress shoes in the house.   Oddly -- and this comes up in the Post piece, too -- the wifi is more reliable at home than in my office.  I’ve had to run office Zoom calls on my phone’s hotspot a few times just to sto...

Teaching Today Remote teaching has revealed the importance for students of learning new skills and taking creative risks without being watched, argues Maggie Melo. Job Tags:  FACULTY JOBS Ad keywords:  faculty teachinglearning Section:  Teaching and Learning Transforming Teaching & Learning Editorial Tags:  Teaching Show on Jobs site:  Image Source:  Kolomiiets/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/3a1QCqh

Congressional Democrats and the Biden administration are looking into adding a means test to the free community college provision of the Build Back Better Act, according to reporting by Reuters . The means test would place income restrictions on who can attend two years of community college tuition-free, restricting access to the America’s College Promise program. But it would lower the cost of the program over all, shrinking the size of the $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation package. The consideration comes as members of the Democratic Party continue to disagree about the size of the legislation, with some moderate Democrats saying the current price tag is too high. 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/39Tmhd3

Among the 25 MacArthur “genius” fellows announced yesterday , a significant share have ties to academe. They are: Writer and radio producer Daniel Alarcón , assistant professor at the Columbia Journalism School, who chronicles the social and cultural ties that connect Spanish-speaking communities across America. Physician-economist Marcella Alsan , professor of public policy at Harvard Kennedy School, who investigates the role that legacies of discrimination and the resulting mistrust play in perpetuating racial disparities in health. Poet and translator Don Mee Choi , instructor at Renton Technical College in Seattle, who bears witness to the effects of military violence and U.S. imperialism on the civilians of the Korean Peninsula. Biological physicist Ibrahim Cissé, the Class of 1922 Associate Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who develops microscopy tools to investigate genetic regulation and misfunction. Art historian and curator Nicole Fleetwood , ...

A Nebraska judge has refused to block Creighton University’s requirement that all students get vaccinated against COVID-19, the Associated Press reported. Creighton was sued by some students who said the vaccine mandate would violate their religious views opposing abortion. But Creighton, a Roman Catholic institution, does not permit religious exemptions. Judge Marlon Polk said he wouldn’t issue a temporary order blocking the vaccine mandate, and he doesn’t believe the students will prevail. His rationale is based on the fact that the students had signed a form promising to get vaccinated as soon as a vaccine was approved by regulators. Ad keywords:  coronavirus 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/3CVm7i1

A 20-year-old student at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington died of COVID-19-related complications after resisting vaccination, The Charlotte Observer reported . Tyler Gilreath contracted the virus days after moving to UNC Wilmington to attend classes, his mother said. He was not vaccinated and had resisted getting the shot, according to his mother, telling her that he was young, heathy and did not have any pre-existing conditions. Gilreath had promised to get the vaccine after arriving at college, but according to his mother, he did not get the chance. Reached via email, a UNCW spokeswoman did not comment. The university recommends but does not require that students, staff and faculty be vaccinated against COVID-19. Is this diversity newsletter?:  Hide by line?:  Disable left side advertisement?:  Is this Career Advice newsletter?:  Trending:  Live Updates:  liveupdates0 from Inside Higher Ed htt...

Today on the Academic Minute : Khalil Ramadi, assistant professor of bioengineering at New York University's Abu Dhabi campus, discusses a possible new option for hospital treatment. 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/3mbGGzM

Federal student loan servicer Navient announced Tuesday that it is requesting to transfer its loan servicing contract with the Department of Education to Maximus, the current servicer for defaulted student loans. "Since we declined the Department’s Next Gen servicing contract in 2020, we have explored options to ensure an easy path for borrowers and to provide ongoing work for our dedicated team members," said Jack Remondi, president and CEO of Navient. "We were pleased to find a terrific partner in Maximus. Both companies have been in collaborative and productive discussions with the Department’s office of Federal Student Aid about this transition for several months." The transfer must be approved by the Office of Federal Student Aid. Richard Cordray, chief operating officer of FSA, said in a statement that the office is reviewing documents and information from both servicers to ensure their proposal meets legal requirements and protects borrowers and taxpay...