Wed.Aug 14, 2024

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Make Connections a Priority This School Year

Active Minds

It is officially the start of the new school year in our home. For me, the last few days have been packed with back-school-shopping for my new middle schooler, orchestra supplies, theater fundraisers, and monitoring my own mental health as a single parent during this time. For you, though, I imagine the back-to-school transition is exciting and kind of terrifying.

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AAUP Condemns New, Heavy-Handed Campus Protest Policies

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The American Association of University Professors, or AAUP, has responded to a proliferation of administrative actions it deems as hastily enacted policies restricting rights to assemble and protest on college and university campuses. The association, which recently revised its own policy concerning academic boycotts, released a statement that argues new on-campus policies responding to last spring’s antiwar demonstrations go beyond reasonable time, place, and manner restrictions.

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2024 Virtual Federal Student Aid Training Conference (12/3 to 12/6/24) – Program Information

College Aid Services

The program and session information is now available for the 2024 Virtual Federal Student Aid Training Conference which will be held December 3 to December 6, 2024. There are over 30 sessions currently listed for the conference. FSA will release the daily agenda for the virtual conference when it opens registration in October. Sessions include:… More » 2024 Virtual Federal Student Aid Training Conference (12/3 to 12/6/24) – Program Information The post 2024 Virtual Federal Student Aid Trai

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Seven Institutions Win Grants to Improve College Completion Rates

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The U.S. Department of Education has awarded more than $40 million in grant funding to help improve completion rates for underserved students. James Kvaal “Across the country, colleges and universities are rejecting the old idea that weeding out students was a sign of quality, and instead they are taking responsibility for all of their students’ success,” said U.S.

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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Symplicity partners with the University of Aberdeen to drive student employability with CareerHub

Symplicity

Symplicity® Corporation, the global leader in student employability, wellness and success is thrilled to welcome the University of Aberdeen to its CareerHub network. Home to 14,000 students from 120 nationalities, the University of Aberdeen places employability at the heart of its strategic priorities, inspiring and supporting career success through professionally accredited careers education, information, advice and guidance services and a diverse range of work experience and graduate opportuni

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Columbia University President Steps Down

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Columbia University President Dr. Minouche Shafik resigned her post effective Aug. 14. Dr. Minouche Shafik The university has been embroiled in controversy since antiwar demonstrations reached a fever pitch in the spring of 2024. Many on faculty at the university expressed no-confidence in the administration partly for its aggressive response to on-campus demonstrations.

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Saint Augustine’s Delays Student Move-in, Classes

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Classes at Saint Augustine’s University, the historically Black university in North Carolina, will be delayed by two weeks. Dr. Marcus H Burgess Fall classes have been delayed until Sept. 3, which means new and returning student move-ins will be delayed until Aug. 27-28, according to a university notice. Officials noted that continued repairs to buildings damaged by Tropical Storm Debbie was partly the reason for the delay.

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Now Available: Title IV Program Participation Agreements

College Aid Services

Federal Student Aid is publishing the latest information related to Program Participation Agreements (PPA), which are required documents that must be signed institutional leadership if they want to retain their status as a Title IV program. As of August 14th, the following will be available on through the FSA Data Center: The participation statuses of… More » Now Available: Title IV Program Participation Agreements The post Now Available: Title IV Program Participation Agreements first ap

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Arizona’s New Provost Steps Down

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Joseph Glover is leaving his leadership post at the University of Arizona in Tucson and headed back to the University of Florida in Gainesville after just a month on the job. Dr. Joseph Glover Glover, who holds a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of California, San Diego, was appointed following a months-long national search. His hire was expected to help bring stability to the university.

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New Title IX Rule Defines Deepfakes as Sexual Harassment

Student Privacy Compass

On April 19, 2024, the U.S. Department of Education released updated Title IX Regulations that clarified schools’ ability to raise incidents of harassment using non-consensual, sexually explicit deepfakes through Title IX action. Title IX is a federal law that bars sex discrimination in education programs and applies to all public and private elementary and secondary schools, school districts, colleges, and universities that receive federal funding (hereinafter “schools”) and includes governance

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GAO Releases Data on Return to Student Loan Repayments

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Nearly a third of borrowers whose federal student loans entered repayment in October 2023, following the COVID-19 pandemic extended pause, are past due on the payments, according to a newly released report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO). The above pie chart shows the number of federal student loan borrowers in repayment by status, as of Jan. 31, 2024.