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Getting Texas A&M Back on Track

Kathy Banks brought sweeping changes to Texas A&M University. Now, following her abrupt exit in July, a new report calls for a slate of course corrections.

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Faculty Issues

Pressure on Controversial Online Econ Forum Continues

Admissions Traditional-Age

No Calculus? No Problem at Caltech

With many high school students lacking access to key STEM classes, Caltech and other technology-focused institutions are exploring admissions alternatives.

Faculty Issues Diversity & Equity

Barriers to Tenure and Promotion Persist for Psychology Faculty of Color

A report by the American Psychological Association outlines the barriers many faculty members of color face and calls for increased transparency in the tenure and promotion process.

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.

Student Success Academic Life

Registering for Classes—3 Semesters at a Time

Alamo Colleges is allowing students to register for up to three semesters’ worth of classes at once, to reduce uncertainty and better accommodate students’ complex schedules.

Quick Takes

There’s No Dissertation Like a Done Dissertation: Academic Minute

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Opinion

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Opinion

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WVU Abandons Award-Winning Global Education

In cutting foreign language programs, West Virginia closes doors for its students and undermines the purpose of the university, Neil B. Weissman writes.

Opinion

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Higher Ed, We Have a Problem

It’s time we start grappling with left-wing bias on campus and the problems that’s created for higher education, Billie Wright Dziech writes.

Opinion

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Teaching the Good Life

“Good life” courses can help prepare students to live more purposeful, meaningful lives, write Kristina Callina, Alicia Lynch and Michael Murray.

Blogs

Opinion

Blogs Just Visiting

If ChatGPT Can Do It, It’s Not Worth Doing

Let’s be sensible about what this technology means.

Opinion

Blogs Higher Ed Gamma

Reimagining Gen Ed

What the gen ed curriculum in the humanities and social sciences would look like if it reflected contemporary thinking.

Opinion

Blogs Beyond Transfer

The Evolution of Partnership Agreements

How to make sense of the explosion of alternative credential providers.

Career Advice

Opinion

Career Advice

Reforming Research Productivity

The traditional ways of measuring it for tenure and promotion may seem too rooted to challenge, but faculty can start to bring about meaningful positive change, says Clark M. Peters.

Opinion

Career Advice Teaching

Improving Students’ Research Skills

Justin Robertson describes an experimental class project that introduced students to a new way of conducting interviews and applying what they learned.

Opinion

Career Advice

Increase Your Odds of Landing the Job Interview

Follow these five tips that may seem basic but that you’d be surprised how many job seekers ignore, advises James Rhoades.

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The Key Podcast

Ep. 113: Helping Higher Education Own Its AI Future
How Arizona State University is working with Open AI to shape the development of generative AI.
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.

Academic Minute

Supporting Rural Startup Ecosystems
Entrepreneurs don’t just live in bustling cities and sip chai lattes. In today’s Academic Minute, part of University of St. Thomas Week, Danielle Ailts Campeau considers rural areas for innovation.
The Marketing Power of Virtual Reality
Don’t like what’s going on in the real world? Maybe try a virtual one instead. In today’s Academic Minute, part of University of St. Thomas Week, Seth Ketron explores how this looks through a marketing lens.

Editors’ Picks

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Governance Executive Leadership

The Administrative Overhaul of New College of Florida

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Governance Executive Leadership

Why Are So Many College Presidents Resigning?

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Students Athletics

The Current State of NIL

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Government

States Underfunded Historically Black Land Grants by $13 Billion Over 3 Decades

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Admissions Traditional-Age

A New Legal Blitz on Affirmative Action

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?

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