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Blog:  Beyond Transfer In 2021 and 2022, AACRAO staff (American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers) joined the growing national conversation on re-envisioning transfer, sharing research and recommendations in addition to highlighting the infrastructure deficiencies and need for a more global perspective in the “Beyond Transfer” blog. AACRAO's participation in these discussions spans decades and includes providing guidance on transfer student practice and policy for domestic and international students. As a leader in the academic and enrollment services space, our research highlights transfer policy gaps and spotlights successful practices that drive both institutional and learner success. In 2023, we want to highlight the role and work our members do to move the needle on improving transfer and credit mobility to spur student success. As institutions struggle to adapt in the wake of the Covid pandemic and advocate for the value of higher educa...

More medical and law schools have announced that they are leaving the U.S. News & World Report rankings of those institutions. The medical schools of Cornell University and the University of Chicago are the latest to join the movement. Harvard University kicked the movement this month, and it was quickly joined by the medical schools of Columbia and Stanford Universities and the University of Pennsylvania and the Icahn medical school of Mount Sinai. On Thursday, Francis Lee, interim dean of Weill Cornell Medicine announced that it would join. He said, "Critically, the rankings measure more about the students who enter the school than about the physicians who graduate, or about the actual substance and quality of the medical education we provide along the way. The volatility of the rankings, and the lack of transparency about the formulas and algorithms upon which they are based, also speak to the inadequacy of this annual survey." At the University of Chicago, t...

You’ve probably been reading about the looming demise of U.S. higher education. I don’t buy it. Yes, college and university enrollment has fallen, decreasing by almost 7.5 percent since 2019, before the pandemic began. Just six in 10 Americans say college is worth the time and money . And one-third of adult members of Generation Z say they tend not to trust higher education. And yet, this fall the University of Utah admitted a record class of first-year students for the third year in row. We’re on track to grow our student body from just under 35,000 to 40,000 over the next five years, and we have plans to build 5,000 additional student housing units in the same time frame, transforming what traditionally had been a commuter campus into a campus village. I have the benefit of leading a flagship research university in a growing Western state, with low unemployment , a booming economy , a young population and a persistently high birth rate . We’re still enrolling third-, f...

Blog:  Higher Ed Gamma What if we ranked universities not by inputs but by outputs? Not by admissions selectivity or even by their contribution to social mobility, but, rather, their impact on the growth of knowledge and technological and scientific advancement?  A recent piece in  Forbes  echoes an  argument that I made several months ago :  That the preeminence of many of the most highly regarded American universities is fading.   As the  Forbes  contributor, Matt Symonds, points out: Ivy League admissions may never have been more selective, but their place in the global rankings tells a very different story.  There is only one US Ivy in the Top 5 (Harvard) and only three others in the Top 10 (Columbia, Princeton, and Yale).  Brown, despite having this country’s oldest applied mathematics program and the Ivy League’s oldest engineering program, isn’t in the Top 30, and Dartmouth isn’t among the Top 50 US and Canad...

Blog:  Learning Innovation Professor Andrew Comrie reached out after reading my piece, How Do Academic Libraries Spend Their Money? In his book, Like Nobody's Business: An Insider's Guide to How US University Finances Really Work (Open Book Publishers, 2021), Andrew digs into academic library budgeting. I asked if Andrew would be willing to synthesize some of his findings in this space, and he graciously agreed. Q1:  Overall, how do academic libraries allocate their budgets? What are some of the trends related to academic library spending that a student of higher education should understand? Based on IPEDS data, university library budgets are apportioned quite consistently, with roughly 60 percent going to personnel and operations and the other approximately 40% going to acquiring resource materials. About three-quarters of the materials budget goes to ongoing subscriptions, the bulk of which are scholarly journals, while the other quarter is spent on one-time ...

Teachers went on strike for two days, starting Wednesday, at the University of California Lab School, which the Los Angeles Times described as "an elite pre-K-through-sixth-grade school nestled in a quiet corner of the UCLA campus," which "has offered a nurturing environment for students whose parents won a coveted spot for their child." The school is run by UCLA's School of Education and Information Studies. Students are selected for admission, and tuition is up to $25,000 with about a third of students on financial aid. The strike is over working conditions. “We have a leadership that does not seem to be concerned about the mission and vision of the school ... and very little understanding of the culture of the lab school, who we are and what we represent,” said Rebecca Heneise, a dual-language demonstration teacher at the lab school. The faculty are members of the University Council-American Federation of Teachers, say that UCLA management has violate...

Hamline University’s full-time faculty members voted 71 to 12 on Monday to call for the resignation of President Fayneese Miller, The Pioneer Press reported. Miller’s administration called it “undeniably inconsiderate, disrespectful and Islamophobic” and “an act of intolerance” for an adjunct professor, Erika López Prater, to have shown an image of Muhammad in class in the fall . López Prater subsequently did not get rehired for the spring semester. Academic freedom advocates have criticized Miller and have noted that López Prater warned her students about what she was going to do. “We are distressed that members of the administration have mishandled this issue and great harm has been done to the reputation of Minnesota’s oldest university,” said a statement the faculty adopted. “As we no longer have faith in President Miller’s ability to lead the university forward, we call upon her to immediately tender her resignation to the Hamline University Board of Trustees.” A Hamline sp...

The Skills First Coalition, a group of American businesses and education and training providers, wants the 118th Congress to pass legislation that would expand Pell Grants to short-term programs, improve the transfer of credits between higher education institutions and support new approaches to credentialing and skills verification, among other priorities. The coalition includes IBM, HP, Boeing and Western Governors University. “Close collaboration between businesses, educators, and lawmakers to advance the aforementioned polices will further enhance efforts to meet the needs of workers and employers while future-proofing the U.S. economy,” the coalition wrote in a letter Wednesday to the House and Senate education committees. “The stakes have never been higher to meet the demands of this moment for current and future generations.” North Carolina representative Virginia Foxx, who chairs the House Committee on Education and the Workforce,  introduced  a bill Wednesday alo...

Nature reports that over 300 scientists are urging the University of California, Los Angeles, to rescind the discipline of a Robert H. MacArthur Award–winning ecologist. The publication says UCLA suspended Priyanga Amarasekare without pay for a year and cut her salary by a fifth for a further two years. Her lab website says, “Professor Amarasekare is on leave for the 2022-2023 academic year.” Furthermore, Nature reported, UCLA “forbade her from accessing her laboratory, maintaining her insect colonies, managing her grants or contacting students” and “barred Amarasekare from discussing the matter publicly.” “A native of Sri Lanka and one of two women of color who have tenure in the ecology and evolution department, she has previously accused the university of discrimination for repeatedly denying her promotions that were granted to colleagues,” Nature wrote. “Former students and faculty members who are familiar with the situation think that Amarasekare’s suspension was retalia...

End Rape on Campus, an initiative of the nonprofit Civic Nation, released a new digital tool Wednesday that allows users to compare the sexual assault statistics and policies of different college and universities. Called the Campus Accountability Map and Tool , the resource includes data on 750 institutions across the United States. For each college or university on the map, the tool uses data from the U.S. Department of Education to show how many rapes, fondlings, instances of domestic violence, instances of dating violence and stalking incidents had occurred on campus between 2018 and 2020. It also notes whether the institutions’ sexual assault policies, investigation procedures, prevention efforts, survivor supports and accessibility meet EROC’s standards. The new tool “puts campus accountability on the map to empower students with the resources students need—statistics, prevention efforts and survivor support resources—all in one location,” said Kenyora Parham, executive direc...

I bristle every time I see the word “Latinx.” The term has become ubiquitous, both in and out of academia: in social media, marketing materials, course titles, academic program names, job ads, etc. If we are serious about using language that promotes progressive reform, it is time to drop the term Latinx in favor of “Latine,” an ethnic identifier that fosters genuine inclusion. I did not always hate Latinx. I first saw the term following the 2016 Pulse night club shooting in Orlando, Fla. The word was an alternative to the gendered “Latino/a” and was intended to create more inclusive language. In the aftermath of that hideous shooting, the increased presence of “Latinx” in news stories, academic discourse and social media seemed a laudable act of solidarity. I know firsthand the influential power of language. The son of working-class Colombian immigrants, I grew up absorbing linguistic punches: poor Spic, coke dealer, f-ing immigrant . Words of discrimination, exclusion, ridicule....

Blog:  Higher Ed Gamma Is history a struggle between the forces of good and evil, pitting the children of light against the children of darkness, as the 3 rd  century Manicheans believed, or is the historical process more complex, convoluted, and circuitous, involving ambiguity, ambivalence, mixed motives, and irony, as Reinhold Niebuhr insisted 17 centuries later?   Two recent scholarly accounts, one by Jill Lepore on the January 6 Report, and the other a collection of essays on myths and legends that distort public understanding of US history, illustrate this interpretive divide in its starkest form.   The subtitle of Professor Lepore’s  New Yorker  essay, “ What the January 6th Report Is Missing ,” sums up her argument in 26 words:  “The investigative committee singles out Trump for his role in the Capitol attack. As prosecution, the report is thorough. But as historical explanation it’s a mess.” The report, she argues, “...

Hamline University's full-time faculty members voted 71-12 on Monday to call for the resignation of President Fayneese Miller, The Pioneer Press reported. Miller's administration called it “undeniably inconsiderate, disrespectful and Islamophobic” and “an act of intolerance" for an adjunct professor, Erika López Prater, to have shown an image of Muhammad in class in the fall. Lopez Prater also did not get rehired for the spring semester. Academic freedom advocates have criticized Miller, and have noted that López Prater warned her students about what she was going to do. "We are distressed that members of the administration have mishandled this issue and great harm has been done to the reputation of Minnesota’s oldest university,” said a statement the faculty adopted. "As we no longer have faith in President Miller’s ability to lead the university forward, we call upon her to immediately tender her resignation to the Hamline University Board of Trustees.” ...