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Geese and turkeys used to have a lot more to do. In today's Academic Minute, Virginia Tech's Phillip Sponenberg profiles the essential duties these birds used to perform. Sponenberg is a professor of genetics and pathology at Virginia Tech's Virginia Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine. A transcript of this podcast can be found here . Section:  Academic Minute File:  11-24-22 VA-MD-Vet-Med - Geese-Turkeys.mp3 Event's date:  Sunday, November 27, 2022 - 11:45am Insider only:  from Inside Higher Ed https://ift.tt/9MPy6c3

The law school of the University of California, Los Angeles announced Tuesday that it is dropping out of the U.S. News & World Report rankings. Interim Dean Russell Korobkin wrote tp the law school: "Third-party rankings can provide a useful service in this regard if their methodology is transparent, if they value features of the schools’ programs that are reasonable proxies for educational quality, and if they provide incentives for schools to compete in ways that improve educational quality and ultimately benefit the legal profession. Although no rankings can provide a perfect measure of quality, the  U.S. News  rankings are particularly problematic." He explained that "the rankings disincentivize schools from supporting public service careers for their graduates, building a diverse student population, and awarding need-based financial aid.  UCLA Law does all of these things, but honoring our core values comes at a cost in rankings points." Korobkin ad...

Completing my college degree was the path to a better way of life, and I was determined to graduate to experience the socioeconomic benefits a college degree would afford my family. I had high aspirations of becoming a pharmacist, but after I learned I was expecting during my second year of college—and after I realized that my university’s childcare center at that time only provided service for toddlers starting at the age of 2—I made the tough decision to change majors and transfer to a different university with affordable on-campus childcare and additional resources to support my academic success. Giving up was not an option. I was a Pell Grant recipient and the first person in my family to attend college, and I knew college graduation was key to providing for my new family. Ultimately, I graduated from Florida State University with a bachelor’s degree in food and nutrition science and a new passion for a career in higher education to ensure more students have equitable access to...

Blog:  Just Visiting It is Thanksgiving week, a week that for many of us consists of rituals repeated after year, particularly around the meals.  In addition to the turkey, stuffing, and mashed potatoes, one of those rituals in my house growing up was the canned cranberry, you know the stuff that would slide from the can with a deep slurping sound, the can’s grooves imprinted on the side as it trembled on the plate, seemingly afraid of its own appearance into the world. It would not have been Thanksgiving without the canned cranberry. One would think we must have loved the stuff, except we only ever ate it on Thanksgiving and Christmas, which is odd, considering it was maybe 59 cents a can, but never mind. If it’s Thanksgiving, we gotta have that cranberry sauce.  As a grownup, now in charge of my own Thanksgiving meal, several years ago, my wife had planned to make a cranberry sauce using a combination of fresh cranberries and cherries, and I said fine, do wh...

Blog:  Higher Ed Gamma Regretfully, I no longer remember the source of advice about how to become a top scholar. Among the instructions:  Avoid the use of punctuation.  Insert paragraph breaks randomly.  Create your own jargon.  Dissect a truly obscure text. Make use of difficult-to=follow extended metaphors irrelevant to the topic. And, of course, regularly sprinkle in French and German phrases and make frequent references to Foucault, Heidegger, and Derrida. We live in earnest, sober times, and it’s not surprising that few examples of humor appear in  Inside Higher Ed  or  Times Higher Education  or  The Chronicle .  It’s become all too easy to offend, affront, insult, or hurt someone’s feelings. Far more surprising is the decline of cinematic comedy.  Humor – slapstick, verbal, satirical, or simply raunchy – was a Hollywood mainstay from the silent era onward.  Indeed, Hollywood has had many golden ages of co...

The Justice Department on Monday announced a proposed consent decree with the University of California, Berkeley on online access to course materials. The agreement, which still requires a judge's approval, involves Berkeley agreeing to make changes to many course materials. "UC Berkeley makes conferences, lectures, sporting events, graduation ceremonies and other university events available to the public on its websites and on other online platforms, including its YouTube and Apple Podcasts channels," said a Justice Department statement. "It also makes courses available on its UC BerkeleyX platform. Much of this online content is not accessible to people with disabilities because it lacks captions and transcripts for individuals who are deaf and alternative text describing visual images for individuals who are blind. It is also formatted in a way that does not allow individuals with disabilities to access the content using screen readers or other assistive tec...

At first glance, the findings about virtual internships in the recent Student Voice survey seem to underscore the conventional wisdom that an in-person experience is always better. When 1,287 students were asked whether they were able to network with professionals who could help them in a future job search, there was a full nine-percentage-point gap between those who did in-person or hybrid internships and their virtual internship counterparts, according to the survey, conducted by Inside Higher Ed and College Pulse with support from Kaplan. But the reality is more complex. For one thing, neither group had spectacularly high networking success: 38 percent for in person versus 29 percent for virtual. For another, four in 10 students reported having no internship or experiential learning experience of any kind while in college. Taken together, these data snapshots point to the need for a much broader rethinking of student internships. Rather than focus on differences bet...

Blog:  Higher Ed Gamma David Copperfield (1850), the most autobiographical of Charles Dickens’s novels, begins with one of literature’s most famous lines: “Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.” Among the questions that Dickens explores in his novel of maturation are these: Will the novel’s protagonist overcome the traumas he experienced as a child, or will these traumas warp his development and personality? Will he conquer his tendency toward passivity and indecisiveness and acquire self-confidence and a capacity for self-assertion and self-direction? And most important of all, in an indifferent, even hostile, environment, where those with wealth, power and social position inevitably abuse and exploit the weak and where pity, compassion, empathy prove to be the exception, not the rule, will the book’s eponymous central character determine his own fate, or will his life course ...

Attend this special Insider webcast to get an in-depth roundup of the pressing issues likely to define higher education in 2023. Hear Inside Higher Ed Editors Scott Jaschik and Doug Lederman’s take on the matters that higher ed leaders must once again prioritize and those they may have never imagined planning for but must do so now. This webcast will cover topics such as the potential impact of the Supreme Court’s decisions on higher ed admissions, the ways that inflation and a global recession will shape institutional operations, the results of the mid-term elections and what comes next and much more. Insider members, log in  and click below to register. Want to attend this exclusive webcast? Learn more about our Insider Membership Program. Click here to join today. Become an Insider to Save Your Spot    Insiders: Register Today Section:  Events | Inside Higher Ed Ad zone:  Booklet Image:  Registration Link:  Registr...

The University of North Carolina at Charlotte has adjusted its policy on weapons to permit people to carry a kirpan, a knife that observant Sikhs are required to have on their bodies at all times. It is held by a strap. In September, a Sikh student at the university was briefly handcuffed while police officers removed from his person a kirpan, The incident outraged many Sikh organizations . "Effective immediately, we have adjusted our policy to reflect that kirpans will be permitted on campus provided that the blade length is less than three inches and the kirpan is worn close to the body in a sheath at all times," said a letter to the campus from Sharon L. Gaber, the chancellor, and Brandon L. Wolfe, associate vice chancellor for diversity and inclusion. The new policy is the result of discussions the university had with Sikh groups. "We have engaged in dialogue with representatives from the local and global Sikh communities about how we could modify university p...

A few months ago, a social media platform announced the 18-year anniversary of my community college employment. Social media is not always truthful, but this time it was. In 2004, when my son was a toddler, we moved from Texas to Maryland. I began teaching English composition part-time at Montgomery College. Years later, I am amazed by the community college and department I serve. I could brag about the thousands of lives that have been changed by the community college mission. I could talk for hours about access initiatives such as self-placement models and open educational resources or brilliant faculty who guide and support critical thinking. Instead, I’m going to talk about my son, Ben, a learner with disabilities and a second-year student at the community college where I work. Ben’s personal journey is his to share, but I’ve been given permission to share glimpses of what I have witnessed, both as mom and educator. I have marveled these past almost two years as Ben has been ...

Blog:  Learning Innovation The hardest job in all educational technology is that of the university partner manager. These are the ed-tech company professionals who maintain the primary, day-to-day, on-the-ground relationship with schools. Partner managers are usually different from the people in companies who negotiate contracts (engagements) with a university. Their job is to be the interface between the services that the company offers and the operations of the partner university. What makes this role of university partner manager so challenging and vitally important to the companies they work for and the schools they work with? I’ll give you three reasons. 1: Partner Managers Must Bridge Corporate and University Cultures There are numerous candidates for the most important trends driving changes across the higher ed ecosystem. You could point to demographic challenges, public funding shortfalls, the rise of online education and the growth of nondegree programs. For ...

Four former and current students have sued Seattle University over a degree that the state said it couldn't award, KING 5 News reported. The students expected to receive a master's degree in nursing. One student said she even received a diploma and applied for jobs in California, where she found out that Washington State had not approved the degree. The degree and related expenses cost the students about $70,000 each. A statement from Seattle University said: "We regret the way information was communicated ... about a proposed master’s degree option. Upon being notified by the state commission this was an infraction, we quickly remedied our communications and notified the affected students. The commission subsequently considered the matter resolved without the need for any further action."   Ad keywords:  administrators Editorial Tags:  Live Updates Is this diversity newsletter?:  Hide by line?:  Disable left side advertiseme...