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Image:  Six months after President Biden announced his plan to forgive up to $20,000 in federal student loans for eligible Americans, the administration will defend that plan in the Supreme Court on Tuesday. The legal fight could doom the debt-relief plan and also curtail the authority of the executive branch, depending on the final opinion. At issue will be whether the administration has the authority to forgive the loans and whether the plaintiffs who challenged the plan have standing to sue.  Michael Brickman, who worked at the Education Department during the Trump administration and is now an adjunct fellow at American Enterprises Institute, a right-leaning think tank, expects the Supreme Court to strike down the program, but he said he’ll be looking to see if the justices weigh in more broadly on the rules proposed by the Education Department and other federal agencies that he and others think go beyond the department's statutory authority.  “There's no q...

A group of Stanford University faculty members are petitioning have petitioned  for a campus investigation of free speech and academic freedom in light of an anonymous reporting system they say can stifle expression, the Wall Street Journal reported . Stanford’s Protected Identity Harm Reporting system aims to provide students “a meaningful response and potential resolution” to bias incidents, according to the university’s 2021 rollout announcement of the system.  Reports that rise to the level of hate crime or harassment get referred to police or campus conduct authorities, but the university response to other incidents is neither an investigative nor judicial process, according to Stanford officials, with voluntary mediation one possible outcome.  The professors cited a recent report made to campus officials of an image shared on social media that showed a student reading Mein Kampf, the autobiography of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. The image obtained independently...

This webcast, featuring  Inside Higher Ed  Editors Doug Lederman and Scott Jaschik, will examine some of the strategies colleges and universities are embracing to strengthen their short-, mid- and long-term sustainability. Join us to explore the various forms of partnerships and cross-institutional collaborations, from longstanding approaches such as consortiums and buying collaboratives to emergent strategic alliances such as public-private partnerships and supporting organizations. Register now Section:  Events | Inside Higher Ed Image:  Registration Link:  Registration Link Event's date:  Wednesday, March 15, 2023 - 2:00pm Insider only:  from Inside Higher Ed https://ift.tt/tGhNFqC

What trends should current and future IT leaders be aware of? What is the impact of the continued adoption of hybrid and remote work on higher education? How will new and upcoming technologies help address staffing challenges and meet the changing expectations of students? To answer these questions, we convened a panel of experts in the field of IT leadership and innovation. Join our webinar to learn from our expert panel as we take a closer look at 5 key emerging trends in higher education. You’ll come away with practical insights, valuable perspectives and strategies to consider. Register now Section:  Advertiser Webinars Image:  Registration Link:  Registration Link Event's date:  Tuesday, March 21, 2023 - 2:00pm Insider only:  from Inside Higher Ed https://ift.tt/EwAjuCO

Sophia Rosing was indicted by a Kentucky grand jury this week for third-degree assault of a police officer, two counts of fourth-degree assault, second-degree disorderly conduct and alcohol intoxication. The Lexington Herald-Leader reported. The charges stem from an incident last year, video of which was widely shared on social media, that showed the former University of Kentucky student, who is white student, entering a dormitory and taunting, using racial slurs and making derogatory comments toward Kylah Spring, a Black student. After police arrived, Rosing continued using slurs, resisted arrest and bit a police officer, according to the arrest report. In November, Rosing was permanently banned from campus and is not eligible to re-enroll. She was also fired from jobs as a student influencer. She will be arraigned next month.   Ad keywords:  diversity Editorial Tags:  Live Updates Is this diversity newsletter?:  Hide by line?:  ...

Column:  Intellectual Affairs Three years ago Peter Burke published The Polymath ( Yale University Press ), an illustrated history of what are usually called Renaissance men or women. Burke, an emeritus professor of cultural history at the University of Cambridge, defines polymaths as having “interests that were ‘encyclopedic’ in the original sense of running around the whole intellectual ‘course’ or ‘curriculum.’” The label certainly applies to Leonardo da Vinci—although he also shows the contrast between interdisciplinary scholarship and Renaissance virtuosity. The latter also requires some combination of artistic creativity, practical skill and inventiveness, as observable in Leonardo’s command of anatomy, painting, drawing, mathematics, architecture, engineering, music and military science (to keep the list short). Burke lists 500 polymaths from the past six centuries (with a scattering of true Renaissance-model geniuses, such as Benjamin Franklin and Emanuel Sweden...

Blog:  Learning Innovation Each week, I receive e-mail messages from communications professionals asking if I'd be interested in including their clients in my " 3 Questions " series. 99 out of 100 times, I'd say the answer is "no." In order to potentially generate some new Q&A's and perhaps cut down on unproductive e-mails, I thought I'd share the criteria I use in deciding who to interview. #1 - Relationships: Almost always, the conversations in the "3 Questions" series are with colleagues with whom I have some professional relationship. These are discussions with people in my network. They are extensions of conversations that started during in-person meetings, conferences, or through e-mail or Twitter. The postsecondary ecosystem is large, but the sub-groups within higher education are small. In the world of online education and learning innovation, we all tend to know each other. The "3 Questions" series is a c...

The Indiana House of Representatives voted 53-34 on Wednesday to block all state funds from Indiana University's Kinsey Institute, the Associated Press reported. Rep. Lorissa Sweet, a Republican, proposed the measure as an amendment to the budget bill. “By limiting the funding to Kinsey Institute through Indiana University’s tax dollars, we can be assured that we are not funding ongoing research committed by crimes.” Sweet said. She specifically accused Alfred Kinsey of committing the crime of child exploitation. Kinsey died in 1956. Rep. Matt Pierce, a Democrat whose Bloomington district includes the university campus, said that Sweet’s claims were “based on old unproven allegations of conspiracies that did not exist,” calling them “warmed-over internet memes that keep coming back.” Pierce said the university maintained a department that ensured all research involving humans met federal laws and that the Kinsey Institute aimed to better understand human sexuality, includin...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the end of the military draft and the birth of America’s all-volunteer force, and the golden anniversary comes at a time when the future of the volunteer military has never been more uncertain. In fiscal year 2022, the U.S. Army missed its recruitment target by a record 25 percent, or 15,000 soldiers . Even applications to the elite service academies—long insulated from social and economic pressures—declined in 2022, with those declines ranging from 10 percent to almost 30 percent . Many believe that 20-plus years of war, a global pandemic, political division and low unemployment have set the conditions for the worst fears of the architects of the all-volunteer force to be realized. First among those fears is that social and economic factors would combine to impose an opportunity cost on young Americans considering military service, otherwise overwhelming motivations grounded in patriotism and citizenship. Now, more than ever, t...

Blog:  Just Visiting One of my personal mantras about writing is that writing  is  thinking.  Writing involves both the expression and the exploration of an idea, where the writing itself changes the shape of the original idea, winding up in a different, previously unknown spot. Being aware of when this happens is one of the things I ask students to be on the lookout for as they write. This is an indicator that they are working from a deep and interesting place. If you are making discoveries during the process, those are likely to be the best bits. But writing is not only thinking; It is also feeling. The act of writing is an emotional experience, and sometimes it is important, maybe even necessary to experience the emotions that attach to a particular piece of writing. I know lots of higher ed people are aware of how the office for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion at Vanderbilt’s Peabody College of Education outsourced some of its messaging to students ...

The Temple University Graduate Students’ Association voted to reject a deal proposed by the administration to end the strike that began at the end of January. The margin wasn't close: 92 percent voted to continue the strike (and 83 percent of eligible voters participated). The university has ended striking graduate student workers’ health coverage and, in what the American Federation of Teachers calls an “unprecedented” move, is demanding they pay tuition, too. Temple says over 80 percent of the local union members aren’t striking. The union says 40 percent are striking.     Ad keywords:  administrators faculty Editorial Tags:  Live Updates Is this diversity newsletter?:  Hide by line?:  Disable left side advertisement?:  Is this Career Advice newsletter?:  Website Headline:  Temple Grad Students Reject Deal to End Strike Trending:  Trending text:  Temple Grad Stu...

Blog:  Call to Action: Marketing and Communications in Higher Education With a 24-hour news cycle, shrinking newsrooms and lots of competition in higher education, breaking through the noise to gain national media attention is more challenging than ever. Despite these challenges, we at Southern New Hampshire University have had great success by focusing our media outreach on our students and their stories. Over the past six years, our students have been featured in People magazine , Inside Edition , the NBC Nightly News , Live with Kelly and more. None of these stories happened by accident, and they all took careful planning, research, execution and follow-up. Here are the top five strategies we use to harness the power of student stories, and how you can use earned media to elevate your communications, marketing and brand strategy. Build a story pipeline: Communicators are often not on the front line with students, so building connections internally to source the be...

Blog:  Learning Innovation Mary Jane Petrowski , Associate Director at the Association of College and Research Libraries ( ACRL ), reached out in regard to my piece on academic library staffing trends .  In that piece, I shared some IPEDS data that seems to demonstrate a steep drop in academic library staffing since 2012. As Mary is ideally positioned to unpack and contextualize academic library staffing trends, she agreed to help us figure out what is going on. Q1. From what I understand, the IPEDS data that I highlighted are inadequate for telling the story of academic library staffing trends. Why is this so? And what are the trends in academic library staffing over the past decade or so? It’s important to note that the availability of FTE academic library staffing counts has varied over time as the responsibility for data collection has rotated among several federal agencies. From 1988 to 1998, the National Center for Education Statistics conducted the Academic ...