[ad_1] In a 15-year period starting in 2001, more than 120 four-year colleges made a small but significant switch: They dropped “college” from their name, and added “university.” And in many cases, that change has paid off, according to a paper published online Tuesday by the journal Economics of Education Review. Riley K. Acton, an…
[ad_1] The Virginia Community College System hired Russell Kavalhuna as its next chancellor on Thursday. In doing so, it defied Governor Glenn Youngkin’s insistence that he be involved in the selection, including a request that a member of his administration sit on the hiring committee. The day before Kavalhuna was named, Youngkin called for the…
[ad_1] The Great Upheaval: Higher Education’s Past, Present, and Uncertain Future by Arthur Levine and Scott J. Van Pelt Published in September of 2021, Johns Hopkins University Press. Beware of allowing online learning evangelists into your traditional, residential, and research-intensive institution. Online learning people, it turns out, are hatching a secret plot. This secret evil…
[ad_1] Many student-facing administrators are considering leaving higher education, thanks to a fraught political climate, limited resources, and a rapidly expanding set of responsibilities that are causing exhaustion and burnout. Colleges urgently need to take steps to keep them around. That’s a key conclusion of a new report from Naspa: Student Affairs Administrators in Higher…
[ad_1] Not a week goes by without controversy erupting over academic freedom, free speech on campus, cancel culture, and political correctness. Recent examples include well-publicized hullabaloos at two leading law schools: At the soon to be renamed University of California Hastings Law School, student protesters drowned out a guest speaker “with shouting, table banging, profanity, and…
[ad_1] In an effort to improve student mental health, Cornell University’s College of Engineering will reduce the maximum number of credits students can take each semester, the college announced Thursday. The move comes in response to a universitywide mental health review, completed in 2020, which recommends a number of measures to reduce student stress and…
[ad_1] Today on the Academic Minute, Christoph Strobel, professor of history at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, examines a symbol of the past that reflects negative historical traits in his neck of the woods. Learn more about the Academic Minute here. [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] Students and staff members at Tennessee’s public colleges and universities may soon be able to sue if they feel that they have been punished for not accepting “divisive concepts” during discussions of topics like race and gender. A Republican-backed bill moving through the state legislature outlines 16 divisive concepts, including someone being considered “inherently…
[ad_1] For the first time in two decades, the number of colleges designated as Hispanic-serving institutions declined in 2020-21, according to a report issued on Thursday by Excelencia in Education and the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities. It’s the latest indication of the pandemic’s toll on a demographic many see as key to higher…
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