IHE Home Page - 2023-06-15 | Inside Higher Ed

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Faculty Issues Diversity & Equity

Houston Dean Accused of Racial, LGBTQ Harassment

Two preliminary investigation reports allege “microaggressions, slights, double entendre and boorish behavior.”

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Government Student Aid Policy

Republicans Unveil Sweeping Higher Education Legislation

Institutions Community Colleges

‘More Refined’ Performance-Based Funding for Community Colleges

Oregon and other states are on the verge of embracing new performance-based funding models for their community colleges. Higher ed experts say these kinds of models have changed in recent years.

Global

‘Interference and Underfunding’ Threaten Polish Research Funder

Its grant approvals are quite low, and politics appear to have an influence in what gets funded.

Student Success Academic Life

Supporting Online Student Engagement With Course Design

Institutions developing programs for online learners should consider student opinions about course material and delivery to promote student success, according to a new report from McKinsey & Company.

Student Success The College Experience

Campus Engagement Tip: Add a Student-Run Mascot

Student leaders from Bellarmine University introduced a new mascot last fall, infusing a new campus culture among students after remote learning.

Quick Takes

College Board and Florida Fight Over AP Psychology

Quick Takes

Penn State Professor on Leave After Being Caught in Compromising Position with Dog

Quick Takes

Sharing Vaccine Intellectual Property: Academic Minute

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Equity, Data and the In-Person/Online Divide

Hybrid assessment efforts are needed to help institutions identify—and act on—different outcomes for online versus residential students, Joshua Travis Brown and Joseph M. Kush argue.

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The Humanities Aren’t Hurting Everywhere

With all the doom and gloom, it’s a miracle any student majors in the humanities—but at places like Lehman College, they are, Karin Beck writes.

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Supporting the Entrepreneurial Goals of College Students With Disabilities

Higher ed institutions can work more effectively and closely with disabled students who have entrepreneurial goals, writes Diego Mariscal, who founded a nonprofit start-up accelerator for business owners with disabilities while still in school. He recommends three actions to help.

Blogs

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Blogs Confessions of a Community College Dean

Teaching American Government Now

When people disagree on the ground rules.

Opinion

Blogs Higher Ed Gamma

Overcoming Intellectual Segregation

Disciplinary ghettoization has contributed significantly to the academy’s intellectual stagnation

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Blogs Law, Policy—and IT?

The Real Challenge of AI

It’s us.

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Career Advice

Taking Umbridge With Associate Deans

Richard Utz explores how and why such academic administrators are parodied on Twitter.

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Career Advice Teaching

Creating Classroom Community Agreements

They provide the best way to cultivate critically compassionate learning communities, writes Jesica Siham Fernández.

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Career Advice Advancing in the Faculty

Increasing Women’s Representation in STEM Fields

Leaders in academe hold several keys to correct the well-documented tendency to undervalue women’s work, writes Nina Gray.

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The Key Podcast

Ep. 112: How Should We Measure Post-College Outcomes?
Zakiya Ellis, a longtime policy expert, on whether we’re asking the right questions and have the right data.
Ep. 111: Stackable and Alternative Credentials Go Mainstream
This week’s episode of The Key explores whether the emergence of shorter-term and alternative credentials pose a threat—or offer salvation—to traditional colleges and universities.

Academic Minute

Using Smartphones to Assess Older Adults’ Fall Risk
Preventing falls is crucial for older adults. In today’s Academic Minute, part of Binghamton University Week, Vipul Lugade looks at improving balance for seniors.
Assessing Problematic Digital Media Consumption
How much digital media is too much? In today’s Academic Minute, part of Binghamton University Week, Peter Gerhardstein examines a new way to measure overuse.

Editors’ Picks

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Governance Executive Leadership

Controversy Mars Connecticut College Hire

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Faculty Issues Academic Freedom

Mayo Threatens Firing Professor for Interviews—and Idioms

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Diversity Sex & Gender

A New Legal Strategy in Sexual Assault Cases

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When Faculty Face Violent Threats

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Getting to “E Pluribus Unum”

Health and Wellness

Students share their experiences with acute and chronic stress, mental health struggles and services, and campus wellness offerings.

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Student Success Health & Wellness

10 Ways to Ease Stress, According to Students

What would students do to ease stress if they were responsible for health and wellness on their campuses? Student Voice asked and students answered, with ideas ranging from mental health check-ins and wellness days to study groups and free food.

August 01, 2023

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Student Success Health & Wellness

Students’ Wellness Preferences and Food Priorities

Survey: Going to the gym is students’ preferred wellness activity over all, but many say they’d access more campus wellness resources if hours met their schedules. On campus food, students value quality and variety of flavors and less processed options.

July 27, 2023

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Student Success Health & Wellness

Supporting Student Wellness: What’s Enough and What’s Too Much?

Many students want professors and advisers to help promote their well-being, including their mental health. But how involved do students really want them to get? Quite involved, according to new survey data from Inside Higher Ed and College Pulse.

July 17, 2023

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Student Success Health & Wellness

Student Mental Health and Pressure to Do Well

Respondents to the Student Voice survey on health and wellness feel pressure to do well at different rates based on mental health, with students who describe their mental health as poor feeling the most pressure. What’s going on and how can higher ed help?

June 29, 2023

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Student Success

Campus Crisis Care Awareness Needs a Boost

A third of students aren’t clear where to turn on campus should they or a friend experience a mental health crisis. Boosting awareness of urgent mental health care resources can involve faculty as messengers, direct student outreach and mobile apps.

June 16, 2023

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Student Success Health & Wellness

Telecounseling Talk: What Students Say

Student Voice data offer insight into students’ experiences with telecounseling. What can college leaders do to help ensure students are getting quality virtual care?

June 09, 2023

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Student Success Health & Wellness

Reputation, Affordability, Location and… Mental Health?

Prospective students are looking at colleges’ mental health offerings in deciding where to attend, according to new Student Voice findings.

June 06, 2023

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Student Success Health & Wellness

Students Expect Professors to Help Ease Their Stress, Mental Health Struggles

Professors are the No. 1 campus group students say have a responsibility to aid them with stress and mental health issues, according to the newest Student Voice survey. Professors aren’t expected to be counselors or sacrifice rigor, however.

June 02, 2023