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WEBAttend Digital Universities US 2024 | May 6-8, 2024 | St. Louis, MO. Inside Higher Ed and Times Higher Education are excited to convene the third installment of Digital Universities US. The event brings together leading voices on the digital transformation of higher education to discuss the opportunities and challenges associated with a digital ...
Why trigger warnings are needed now much more than ever …
WEBAug 24, 2021 · But we need to revisit the idea of trigger warnings now because, in fact, times have changed. Although reporting levels remain low, one in four undergraduate female students and one in 15 undergraduate male students have been raped through physical force, incapacitation or violence, according to some estimates.
Do college students perform worse in online courses? One study's …
WEBAug 6, 2021 · Study finds that students in online courses fail to complete them and get lower grades than peers learning in person. Several experts question the paper’s design and findings, especially related to the pandemic. The quest to figure out just how much the COVID-19 pandemic affected college-level learning is understandable, not least so that ...
Seven steps higher ed must take to keep pace with the changes in …
WEBJun 14, 2021 · Arthur Levine describes a seven-step process that reveals how far we need to go to ensure that academe keeps pace with the changes taking place in our society. By Arthur Levine. American higher education is undergoing a transformation as the nation hurtles from a national, analog industrial economy to a global, digital knowledge economy.
Higher Education’s Biggest Challenge: Rethinking Ingrained …
WEBApr 27, 2021 · The biggest challenge facing higher education is our willingness to rethink entrenched practices and legacy assumptions. When I arrived at Oberlin College in the fall of 1970, the new president made a modest proposal: to eliminate almost all requirements and make students responsible for designing their educational journey.
11 Lessons From the History of Higher Ed
WEBMay 6, 2017 · Whether this is the best way to promote student emotional, social, and intellectual development is certainly debatable. Lesson 4. Higher education, in the past, played an important role in social mobility and economic growth. Whether colleges and universities are still playing that role remains an ongoing source of controversy.
New study explores why people drop out or don't enroll - Inside …
WEBSep 28, 2022 · A new study explores why students drop out of college or choose not to enroll. A new study suggests that students choose to stop out of college and others choose not to enroll in the first place because of a range of “psychographics,” or psychological factors, including doubts about the financial returns of a college education and an ...
Papers urge institutions to think about adjuncts, including in terms …
WEBJun 22, 2021 · New papers from TIAA Institute urge institutions to plan for adjuncts, including their retirement concerns, with equity in mind. Two new sets of papers from the TIAA Institute emphasize the “volatility” of adjuncts’ employment, benefits and financial security, and how institutions need to think deliberately and creatively about how to ...
Top campus safety and security investments students want
WEBJun 28, 2022 · In the university’s first student-driven campus safety survey, which the student government partnered with campus safety on in early 2022, 81 percent of respondents living in university-owned residence halls reported feeling safe in their area of residence. Mirroring the Student Voice findings reported here, students at Temple say …
Research links rise in college completion to grade inflation
WEBNov 9, 2021 · Researchers looking at the link between grade inflation and college completion rates found that grade inflation explains much of the increase in college graduation rates since 1990. “As with many policy levers, grade inflation has costs and benefits,” the authors write in a new article published today in Education Next, a journal …
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