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1. Live Updates: Latest News on Coronavirus and Higher Education

   Indiana U to Require Vaccine May 24, 6:16 a.m. All students, faculty members and other employees ... at all Indiana University campuses will be required to get the COVID-19 vaccinations before the fall ... hesitant,” will require all employees to be vaccinated, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. Most major ...

   IHE Staff - May 24, 2021

2. St. Norbert College's unlikely good year in admissions

   We've all heard the conventional wisdom about this year's admissions class: students ... meaning it could top its all-time record for a class of 620. Last year, as the pandemic was starting, ... education. But for St. Norbert, that's up from 13 percent last year, and an all-time record. ...

   Scott Jaschik - May 24, 2021

3. President sends personalized video to every admitted student

   birthday parties, college classes and church services all moved online, the growing popularity ...

   Emma Whitford - May 24, 2021

4. Recommending ‘For the Common Good’ to All Students of Higher Education

   urban universities, and community colleges. The theme that runs through time and across all ...

   Joshua Kim - May 24, 2021

5. Advice for women at all levels of academe who are still confronting gender bias (opinion)

   that are prevalent in other sectors. That’s true all the way up, down and around the org chart, from early-career ... are all important, but they represent only a sliver of the daily issues that college and university women ...

   Melanie Ho - May 20, 2021

6. It's time to make graduate admissions inclusive (opinion)

   such that all Americans have equal opportunity of success for themselves and their families. Inequality ... and inclusion for all graduate applicants. Require faculty admission committees to attend holistic review ...

   Josephine M. Moreno - May 24, 2021

7. Data on international students who want to come to the U.S.

   or be admitted wouldn't count. For the United States, the top six countries over all are India, China, ...

   Scott Jaschik - May 17, 2021

8. Study finds that public research universities recruit out of state at private high schools

   to validate quality and completeness, our data may not capture all off-campus recruiting events by each ... for most universities in the study even after controlling for other factors." And: "Across all ... undergraduate class from all walks of life. It may be helpful to have an understanding first of how Stony Brook ...

   Scott Jaschik - May 17, 2021

9. Bloomsburg eliminates all fraternities and sororities after months of misconduct

   Bloomsburg University permanently terminated all activity by fraternities and sororities ... and sorority life (FSL) program and severing ties with all national and local FSL organizations currently ... affiliated with the University," Hanna's email said. "All students are reminded ...

   Greta Anderson - May 17, 2021

10. A review of the week in admissions news

    lots of takers, all right-- 67,000 and counting. Undergraduate student workers at Kenyon College ...

    Scott Jaschik - May 10, 2021

11. For some Black colleges, this is a great year in admissions

    other than the campus visit. Many students of all races said in surveys that they wanted to attend ... (at all or strictly) to May deadlines for telling the college if a student who has been accepted will ... 14,600 undergraduate applications, an all-time high, and a 58.5 percent increase over the total number ...

    Scott Jaschik - May 10, 2021

12. A Second Demographic Cliff Adds to Urgency for Change

    we all know that families are looking for more cost-effective paths to the knowledge and skills ...

    Ray Schroeder - May 19, 2021

13. How to build confidence in yourself and your success (opinion)

    at first glance yet are all important facets of Ph.D. training. Leadership skills include the ability ...

    Anonymous - May 24, 2021

14. Engaging with students about racial injustice

    operations, student movements for racial justice continued at institutions of all types, including Albion ... similar to what might be found in a comprehensive racial justice action plan. Justice for All To achieve ... this goal, we recommend that institutional leaders deepen their commitment to justice for all, which requires ...

    Anonymous - May 17, 2021

15. Senate bill would impose taxes on large endowments to fund apprenticeships

    tax-free, all while indoctrinating our youth with un-American ideas,” Cotton said in a statement, adding ... at Ivy League institutions, in particular-- which are all private colleges and have some of the largest ... changes often. “If you get an extra dollar, you suddenly pay a tax on all of the dollars that were ...

    Alexis Gravely - May 24, 2021

16. The most competitive colleges in admissions can't fix what's wrong with higher education (opinion)

    it make? The solution is not branch campuses for the elite but to reward all colleges and universities ... improved. Virtually all the growth in the college-aged population over the next two decades will come from ... solutions that will ensure broader and more successful enrollment across all sectors of higher education ...

    Jerome A. Lucido - May 17, 2021

17. ProctorU abandons business based solely on AI

    "overload" with all the information they receive, he said. But "it's unreasonable and unfair ... potentially offer improved security over testing in an unproctored setting, provided the videos are all ...

    Scott Jaschik - May 24, 2021

18. Colleges line up to accept Bitcoin, cryptocurrency donations

    is capable of receiving gifts of all sizes of cryptocurrency,” said John Zeller, senior vice president ... financial officer at Puget Sound, told the consulting firm EAB. Penn took a similar approach-- almost all ...

    Emma Whitford - May 24, 2021

19. Most institutions are resuming or even restoring the retirement benefits cut during COVID-19

    of America, or TIAA, said that nearly all of its top 200 client institutions that are still suspending ... for new hires and then for all employees. Texas Christian first attributed these changes to COVID-19 ...

    Colleen Flaherty - May 24, 2021

20. Defending online internships (opinion)

    help all students have brighter futures.  It is important to understand the value of these experiences ...

    Anonymous - May 21, 2021

21. Higher Ed’s Uncertain Future

    where are we? 1. Universities are now far more aware of inequities of all sorts. Among the most notable ... an irony! For all the calls for equity, we are institutionalizing a new kind of educational divide that's ...

    Steven Mintz - May 20, 2021

22. Online education can have a negative impact on academics doing antiracist work (opinion)

    is especially risky when the one who is professing is Black. I thought about making all of my classes ... best effort and punishing myself to boot. After all these years of pushing students to challenge ...

    Mark James - May 21, 2021

23. Faculty members should take a needed break this summer (opinion)

    and schools, planning for virtual orientations or assembling mental health resources for all the students we ... our academic programs afloat. And then the academic year started, and we all just kept on running. My ... to return to our work with new energy. We can’t all book a fancy self-care retreat on an isolated island, ...

    Rebecca Vidra - May 21, 2021

24. Higher Education: Equalizer or Engine of Inequality?

    and the new research universities or prestigious technological institutes like MIT. All of this should sound ...

    Michael Patrick Rutter - May 24, 2021

25. How to make implicit bias training on campuses truly effective (opinion)

    and equity. But that will only be the case if we are willing to go deeper and confront the elephant in all our ...

    Edward Pittman - May 20, 2021

26. 3 Questions for Ed Tech and Publishing Expert David Harris

    of the solutions. However, access to all the solutions 24-7 is a problem, since it’s easy to use this as a shortcut ...

    Joshua Kim - May 23, 2021

27. Any measure of the value of higher ed must take into account the advancement of social justice (opinion)

    on race, racism and oppression. They should train all campus stakeholders to consider their language ... colleges and policy makers measure and assess their performance over all. College campuses have long been ...

    Anonymous - May 19, 2021

28. Professors, students at UNC Chapel Hill demand transparency about journalist's tenure bid

    School of Journalism and Media. “All of us are trying to understand what happened at all levels. ... she has to offer. And I know many of my colleagues, if not all of them, feel the same.” ... faculty candidates upon appointment, however, especially in professional fields such as journalism. All ...

    Colleen Flaherty - May 21, 2021

29. Colleges mark end of tumultuous year with graduations

    a different set of reflections,” he said. “It was kind of an emotional homecoming, I think, for all of us.” ... having all guests vaccinated or show proof of a negative test. “In spite of the recent and ongoing ... updates to capacity limitations and the pace of reopening in the city, NYU’s All-University Commencement ...

    Lilah Burke - May 21, 2021

30. Some say the most competitive colleges in admissions should increase in size

    list to continue to admit relatively few students. After all, those colleges get to pick whomever ... of Education last week published a report calling for change at all colleges that currently admit less than ... learning, exciting field experiences, internships, and new types of communities in all sorts of ways ...

    Scott Jaschik - May 03, 2021

31. International rankings and conflicts of interest

    and performance indicator." Specifically, he found "that, all else equal, investing in advertising ...

    Scott Jaschik - May 03, 2021

32. TeleSocialWork: A Case Study

    Many health services have gone virtual, but are they right for all? In today's Academic ...

    Doug Lederman - May 19, 2021

33. Teaching advice for Zoomed-out faculty members after the pandemic ends (opinion)

    faculty. Help our students relearn how to work together. Push all the mundane parts of the class online ... to a new normal, we all need to move past strategies for teaching during the pandemic-- and start ...

    Matthew Wright - May 19, 2021

34. Private colleges cut 53.9% of tuition sticker price for freshmen, on average

    rate for first-time undergraduates reached 53.9 percent-- an all-time high-- during the 2020-21 ... rate last year was tracking incrementally higher than the year before. For all undergraduates, ... the year prior, according to the study. During the 2019-20 academic year, the average discount rate for all ...

    Emma Whitford - May 20, 2021

35. Lafayette College hires College Advising Corps founder and CEO

    board, she said. “We’ll do a national search for a new CEO, but I think we’re all very excited about ... much to like in the strategic direction Lafayette already has in place. “I’ve been looking at all ... these different parts of the country and seeing all this talent,” she said. “My dream, whether that talent ...

    Rick Seltzer - May 20, 2021

36. UNC Chapel Hill board doesn't approve tenure for noted journalist

    and the legislature have all been getting pressure since this thing was first announced last month.” “This thing” ... generation of journalists, working with our graduate students, and sharing her perspective with us all ... leadership at all levels.” Deb Aikat, an associate professor of journalism and media who signed the letter, ...

    Colleen Flaherty - May 20, 2021

37. Colleges scramble to incorporate new CDC guidance on masking into their plans

    to require vaccinations for all students on campus this fall, according to a list maintained by The Chronicle ... for unvaccinated individuals may be subject to discipline, consistent with all applicable institutional policies ...

    Elizabeth Redden - May 20, 2021

38. Nontraditional students concentrated in underresourced institutions

    of student debt, some relief.” He said the report showed progress over all in higher education attainment ...

    Sara Weissman - May 20, 2021

39. Friday Fragments

    Confessions of a Community College Dean Matt Reed's blog   I wasn’t shocked-- at all-- to get ... response.   It’s true that money can be used well or badly.  Spending, all by itself, doesn’t guarantee ... family brought a party bus with 18 people (by my count).  They came pouring out of the bus, all of them ...

    Matt Reed - May 21, 2021

40. Lessons learned by high school and college dropouts who ultimately became faculty members (opinion)

    for the first time. A stranger looking at all my C’s, D’s and F’s might conclude I was a disinterested ... “red marks all over his essay.” But, Silva said, “just the recognition made me feel really great.” He ...

    Gretchen Soderlund - May 18, 2021

41. George Washington president Thomas LeBlanc retiring in 2022

    the university would be best served by a president who could then focus on working with all stakeholders ... the institution. But it’s down from a high of about 28,000 in 2018. The pandemic-era decline was virtually all ... also drew negative attention. “What if the majority of the students agreed to shoot all the Black ...

    Rick Seltzer - May 19, 2021

42. Colleges grapple with resuming study abroad

    the pandemic, more than half of all students who studied abroad-- 55.7 percent in 2018-19-- studied in Western ... Notre Dame is requiring all students, including students participating in study abroad, to be vaccinated ...

    Elizabeth Redden - May 19, 2021

43. Law School Striking Chief Justice John Marshall From Name

    studied process that included input from all corners of the institution and beyond, considered issues ...

    Lindsay McKenzie - May 21, 2021

44. Lawsuit Filed Over U of Michigan Sexual Misconduct Cases

    the community in the co-creation of change, across all entities on our campuses." diversity studentaffairs ...

    Greta Anderson - May 21, 2021

45. We All Know This Story, and Yet…

    The college would be punished for the outcome she celebrates. We all know students like her. They didn’t ... to take her time. That’s the opposite of the advice we’re supposed to give now. Now, it’s all about ...

    Matt Reed - May 04, 2021

46. Reclaiming the Narrative

    of extraordinary and an excellent example of how a robust higher education system benefits all Americans. Colleges ... for professional media training. After all, it’s free media exposure for the institution, an important ...

    Mileah Kromer - May 20, 2021

47. Medaille College Sues Chemical Plant Over Emissions

    in the production of semiconductors,   The Buffalo News reported. The college has suspended all activity ...

    Lindsay McKenzie - May 20, 2021

48. How can ed tech help students of color?

    student outcomes, and we really couldn’t find much at all.” A joint DETA and WCET report, published ... But she said that “every institution should be committed to creating equitable spaces of education for all ... the report recommends investigating institutional structures that might be impeding the success rates of all ...

    Lindsay McKenzie - May 18, 2021

49. Conservatives Control Public Higher Education: UNC Chapel Hill Edition

    in five appointees are vetted in any meaningfully bipartisan way. Say, “but what about the libruls,” all ... you like, but their presence is immaterial to the larger operations of the institution. All those ... experience weeks and months of turmoil. Of course, the deep irony of all this is that the political meddling ...

    John Warner - May 19, 2021

50. From California to Connecticut: Building the Will to Untangle Community College Transfer

    to unravel this troubling transfer knot once and for all. Jessie Ryan Chris Soto ...

    Anonymous - May 20, 2021

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