International
Crisis to opportunity: Rehumanising internationalisation | Humanising involves taking on the perspective of the ‘other’, referring to the roughly 95% of the world’s population that is not ‘US-American’. The ‘other’ translates in our field as our current and future international higher education partners.
Linking female students’ access to success | While significant improvements have been made in female student access rates in universities in Ethiopia, high attrition rates remain a challenge.
The rise of smart cities – Openings for higher education | Jean-Michel Huet, author of a 2016 report Smart Cities: The key to Africa’s third revolution and partner at BearingPoint consultants, told University World News that the smart city represents “a double opportunity” for higher education.
Heads roll but India’s higher education crisis is growing | Recently, several other top Indian universities have faced major issues due to incompetent and corrupt vice chancellors, all of whom are political appointees.
Does the TEF spell the end for quality assurance? | England’s full-cost tuition fees, the removal of the student numbers cap and the lowering of the entry barriers for new providers leave universities facing unprecedented levels of competition. The TEF is only reinforcing these pressures by providing students with accessible if crude information about quality…
Five myths about Australian university graduate outcomes | Universities are vital to Australia’s sustained prosperity. However, the complexity of our current higher education policy landscape, combined with profound economic forces, have led to a number of myths and misconceptions about what happens to students after they graduate.
U.S. National
How Free Speech Works for White Academics (behind a subscription wall…) | Call-out culture, a mode of confronting actual or perceived injustices through strident acts of public censure, usually via social media, takes on a curious patina in the supposedly more civil world of academe.
EAB, education services company with 500 employees in Henrico, has new owner | On Friday, The Advisory Board completed a spinoff and sale of its education division to the private equity firm Vista Equity Partners. The $1.55 billion acquisition was announced in August as part of a larger deal…
ASCH: The GOP tax bill is an assault on higher education | Unfortunately, there are many provisions in the House bill which will make life more difficult for students and universities across the country. These changes make a college education more expensive for students who already struggle to pay sky-high tuitions.
Withering Humanities Jobs | Job ads published with the Modern Language Association declined for a fifth straight year in 2016-17, reaching another new low, according to a preliminary report from the MLA.
Growing Less Equal | Although university leaders speak frequently about college as a driver of social mobility, opining on the need to expand access to poor and underserved populations, inequality permeates American higher education.
U.S. States
Changes to Regents’ Scholarship emphasize college readiness, affordability | The Utah State Board of Regents on Friday approved new requirements to the Regents’ Scholarship that still encourage high schoolers to take rigorous coursework but give colleges more flexibility with scholarship funds to help low-income students.
Institutional
Troubled Cheyney averts a crisis, keeps accreditation | Cheyney University, the nation’s oldest historically black college and a school nearly at the brink of collapse, got a key reprieve Friday when a regional education panel allowed the university to keep its accreditation while it struggles to right its course.
Justice Dept. Says Harvard Is Not Complying With Probe on Race in Admissions | The U.S. Justice Department has accused Harvard University of failing to cooperate with its investigation of the university’s admissions policies, according to The Wall Street Journal.
After Protest of Working Conditions, Grad Students at American U. of Beirut Lose Jobs | The American University of Beirut has revoked the graduate assistantships held by 11 students as part of disciplinary action against them for taking part in protests. The students were protesting graduate assistants’ working conditions by camping out in tents near the university’s administration building.
First posted on December 4, 2017.