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Blog:  Higher Ed Gamma New technologies, we often hear, are rewiring the younger generation’s brains, and not in a good way.  Social media receives much of the blame.  Perhaps you’ve seen the scare headlines:  “ Social Media Is Changing Your Brain In 5 Terrifying Ways .”  “ Teen Mental Health Is Plummeting, and Social Media is a Major Contributing Cause  ,” “ Is Google Making Us Stupid ?”  The high price society pays for social media ”  Or how about this:   The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future. According to such widely read commentators as Jonathan Haidt and Jean Twenge, social media: Is as addictive as drugs, especially for teens seeking peer recognition and validation. Undercuts the brain’s ability to block out distractions. Creates an atmosphere of social surveillance.  Rewards psychologically damaging, narcissistic and sadistic behavior. Diminishes peop...

Enjoy this inspiring conversation with Portland State University President Stephen Percy, Bridget Burns from University Innovation Alliance and Doug Lederman from Inside Higher Ed on Monday, September 26, 2022. Weekly Wisdom is made possible with support from the  Carnegie Corporation of New York . VIEW PREVIOUS EPISODES >> Section:  University Innovation Alliance Event's date:  Monday, November 15, 2021 - 12:45pm Insider only:  from Inside Higher Ed https://ift.tt/EpntiUx

Woman now make up a majority of the U.S. workforce with at least a bachelor's degree, according to a new analysis of federal data from the Pew Research Center. The change occurred in the fourth quarter of 2019, and remains the case today. Women now make up 50.7 percent of the workforce with a bachelor's degree     Ad keywords:  administrators diversity Editorial Tags:  Live Updates Is this diversity newsletter?:  Hide by line?:  Disable left side advertisement?:  Is this Career Advice newsletter?:  Website Headline:  Woman Make Up Majority of College-Educated Workforce Trending:  Trending text:  Woman Make Up Majority of College-Educated Workforce Live Updates:  liveupdates0 from Inside Higher Ed https://ift.tt/myjRV3o

Student governments are no strangers to controversies around campus free expression. For example, earlier this year, the University of North Texas Student Government Association passed a resolution calling for “any UNT Student Organization that engages in harassment, discrimination, hate crimes, and/or violation of UNT policy through transphobic posts, statements, and actions” to “be immediately suspended to protect the mental, emotional, and physical health of transgender students at UNT.” In 2020, the Associated Students of Loyola Marymount University, in California, impeached their senator for diversity and inclusion , a Latina woman, because of past tweets supporting former president Donald Trump’s immigration policies. In 2017, the Associated Student Government at Northwestern University put forward a resolution endorsing free speech and viewpoint diversity, calling on the university to “allow speakers of all viewpoints … allow and protect peaceful protests … [and]...

Blog:  Higher Ed Gamma Somewhere between mass culture and elite culture lies a murky, often maligned intermediate, middlebrow culture.  Often derided as pretentious and bourgeois and maligned as mediocre, pedestrian, conformist, and second-rate, middlebrow culture achieved its heyday between the 1930s and the 1950s, as many newly middle-class American adults sought to achieve a semblance of cultural polish and social prestige through the Book of the Month Club or The Story of Civilization books of Will and Ariel Durant, and various popular works that summarized science and history – a subject richly covered in Joan Shelley Rubin’s classic 1992 study,  The Making of Middlebrow Culture . In its prime, middlebrow culture filled the gap between the avant-garde and kitsch, garish, overly sentimental, and tasteless, schlock, and between elite and pulp fiction, ivory tower, egg-head academic writing and trash, and art music and popular tunes and jingles. The ...

The University of California is going to create a new path for admission to the system, the Los Angeles Times reported. The path is for students who met the 3.0 grade-point average in high school but didn't complete the required 15 college preparatory courses. The university said the program will be open to about 3,700 students, half of whom are low-income, underrepresented students of color or the first in their families to attend college. To enter UC, these students must first successfully complete their missing courses and general education courses at a community college and earn good grades. Those who do would be guaranteed a spot at one of six UC campuses: Davis, Irvine, Merced, Riverside, Santa Barbara and Santa Cruz. They could still apply to the Berkeley, Los Angeles and San Diego campuses, but would not be guaranteed a spot. .   Ad keywords:  admissions Editorial Tags:  Live Updates Is this diversity newslet...

Take a moment to envision your ideal higher education leader. What attributes come to mind? I ask a similar question in a sexual ethics class I teach—but there, I ask students to identify the characteristics of their ideal partner. When they’re done, I ask if anyone described a person with a disability. After more than 20 years of teaching, I have never encountered a student who says yes. The final exam includes a question asking students to reflect on the most important things they learned in the course. Students almost always return to the ideal-partner class exercise. They write that that was the moment when they recognized their own ableism and the ableist cultural standards around beauty, attractiveness and what is deemed “normal.” My guess is that you’re not that different from my students. Was the college or university leader you imagined blind, deaf, neurodivergent, mentally ill, using a wheelchair, stuttering or walking with a cane, crutches or leg braces? Probably not...

Blog:  Learning Innovation Since 2012, the number of online undergraduate students in the US has more than tripled . As more universities think about launching online degree programs to meet student demand, I wanted to chat more with Sam Brenton , the Director of Online Education at the University of London (UoL). He’s launched more online degrees than he can count, and just in the last 18 months, added two more bachelor degrees to UoL’s catalog on Coursera. Sam also helped launch the first bachelor’s degree ever on Coursera -- the BSc Computer Science . He’s an innovator who knows how to do online education at scale. UoL’s distance education programs reach 50,000 students around the globe. Here’s what he’s learned along the way. Q1: Throughout your career, you’ve developed many online degrees, including several monumental programs, like the BSc. What have you learned makes a successful online degree program? We're really proud of the BSc Computer Science. It was som...

Higher education isn’t immune to current employment trends like the Great Resignation or Quiet Quitting. When it comes to attracting and retaining your top talent, listening, understanding and acting on employee feedback has never been more critical. Join us for a panel discussion with subject matter experts from across higher education to learn more about why employee experience matters in higher education, key employee trends impacting higher education and steps to improve employee engagement on your campus. Register Now Additional Resources ​ 20 ways to transform education experiences Your guide to experience management for education   Section:  Advertiser Webinars Image:  Registration Link:  Registration Link Event's date:  Tuesday, October 18, 2022 - 2:00pm Insider only:  from Inside Higher Ed https://ift.tt/CLrSIaz

The University of California Board of Regents discussed a plan Thursday to limit the power of campus chancellors, The Los Angeles Times reported. Under UC policy, the system president delegates to campus chancellors the right to negotiate most contracts. Under that system, the University of California, Los Angeles decided to leave the Pac-12 for the Big Ten. The regents discussed a plan that would limit the delegated authority. The authority would not apply if there is a "material adverse financial impact"--defined as 10 percent or more of operating revenue  in cases involving athletics. The ban would also apply if the proposed contract would raise a "significant question" of university policy. UCLA will gain billion of dollars under the Big Ten deal. The University of California, Berkeley will lose money in the future as a member of the Pac-12. The board referred the question to its governance committee.     Ad keywords:  administrato...

The University of North Texas settled for $165,000 with a former math instructor who sued it for First Amendment violations . The former instructor, Nathaniel Hiers, wrote on a faculty lounge chalkboard in 2019, “Please don’t leave your garbage lying around” and drew an arrow to a leftover informational brochure about microaggressions. Following this incident, Hiers says that his department chair asked him to apologize, and when Hiers wouldn’t, the chair rescinded classes he’d previously offered Hiers for the upcoming semester. A federal judge green-lit Hiers’s legal case in March. Hiers’s lawyer, Michael Ross of the Alliance Defending Freedom, said in a statement, “The First Amendment guarantees Dr. Hiers—and every other American—the right to express his viewpoint without government punishment. We’re pleased to see this case settled favorably not only for Dr. Hiers but also to help protect freedom of speech for every student and teacher at public universities across the country.” ...

Column:  Intellectual Affairs In the early 1950s, two leading American anthropologists, Alfred Kroeber and Claude Kluckhohn, undertook a survey of their discipline’s literature and produced a monograph identifying 164 definitions of culture. That, the official count, was something of a lowball estimate. In a footnote the authors indicated that if every nuance were tallied, “probably close to three hundred ‘definitions’” might be found in the book. The persistent frustration of their efforts was best summed up when they quoted A. Lawrence Lowell, a former president of Harvard University. Defining culture, “attempt[ing] to encompass its meaning in words,” he’d written , “is like trying to seize the air in the hand, when one finds it is everywhere except within one’s grasp.” I do not know of any effort to update Kroeber and Kluckhohn’s survey, but the spectrum of meanings has not narrowed since then. Expressions such as “culture war” or “cultural politics” do not appear in ...

Blog:  Learning Innovation Thank You for Your Servitude: Donald Trump's Washington and the Price of Submission by Mark Leibovich. Published in July of 2022. Atlantic staff writer (and former NYTimes reporter) Mark Leibovich knows almost none of us wants to waste any more energy or time thinking about the Trump presidency. It would be hard to think of another industry in which fewer Trump supporters work than higher education. For a quick aside, I Googled "most liberal industries," and the second result came back a 2014 Slate article titled Which Industries Are the Most Liberal and Most Conservative ? That article reprints a graphic from a 2013 paper published in the American Journal of Political Science that shows how industries lean ideologically based on patterns of political contributions. The takeaway for us is that academia (no surprise) comes out the most liberal. Why, then, should those of us in higher ed who have almost surely made up our minds abou...

Blog:  Higher Ed Gamma No longer can academic historians dismiss popular biographies or non-specialist accounts of the past as low-powered history.  Non-academics like Robin Blackburn, Taylor Branch, Robert Caro, James Fallows, Neal Gabler, Adam Hochschild, Harold Holzer, Nicholas Lemann, Anthony Lukas, and Isabel Wilkerson are as familiar with the historiography, primary sources, and secondary literature as any professional, and can write better to boot. In the past, it was all too easy to disparage the sweeping narratives of amateur historians like Walter Lord, Cornelius Ryan, William L. Shirer, John Toland, and Barbara Tuchman for their lack of analysis, simplistic arguments, and failure to engage with historical debates – in short, for sacrificing nuance, complexity, context, historiography, and explanation at the altar of storytelling, anecdote, and drama.  Worse yet, from the professional historians’ vantage point, the popularizers too often failed to tak...