Navigating the Postdoc Office: Part 2 Sarah Bray Mon, 09/09/2024 – 03:00 AM Victoria Hallinan and Karena Nguyen share their advice, as well as that of a postdoc and several other administrators, about pursuing this career path. Byline(s) Victoria Hallinan Karena Nguyen Navigating the Postdoc Office: Part 2 Sarah Bray Mon, 09/09/2024 – 03:00 AM Victoria…
Decades of Enrollment Declines for Black Men at HBCUs Sara Weissman Mon, 09/09/2024 – 03:00 AM Black men make up roughly a quarter of students at historically Black colleges and universities, a significant drop from years past, according to a new report. Byline(s) Sara Weissman Decades of Enrollment Declines for Black Men at HBCUs Sara Weissman…
One Year After Massive Cuts, West Virginia Is Still Bleeding Faculty, Administrators Ryan Quinn Mon, 09/09/2024 – 03:00 AM The university courted controversy by slashing programs and laying off both tenured and nontenured faculty members. More spooked professors are leaving in addition to those cuts, but so are key leaders who pushed them. Byline(s) Ryan…
Free Speech Survey Signals Distrust and Disconnection jessica.blake@… Mon, 09/09/2024 – 03:00 AM A recent report from FIRE shows that while protests over the Israel-Hamas war are driving campus conversations around free speech, administrators and students aren’t always on the same page about how to respond. Byline(s) Jessica Blake Free Speech Survey Signals Distrust and Disconnection…
Internet Archive Court Loss Leaves Higher Ed in Gray Area Lauren.Coffey@… Mon, 09/09/2024 – 03:30 AM The nonprofit published thousands of ebooks for free, violating copyright law. What that means for research libraries remains to be seen. Byline(s) Lauren Coffey Internet Archive Court Loss Leaves Higher Ed in Gray Area Lauren.Coffey@… Mon, 09/09/2024 – 03:30 AM…
By Jessica K. Jackson, Jeffrey Starr, Ed.D, and D’Andre Weaver, Ph.D For more than a decade, Digital Promise has been at the forefront of conversations and efforts to close the Digital Learning Gap—caused by differences in how learners access and use technology both in and out of school to improve learning opportunities and outcomes. Recognizing…
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Key points: Standardized test have been pivotal in college admissions for nearly a century Igniting student curiosity through career exploration The exposure gap is blocking students’ ability to envision future careers For more news on admissions, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching hub If you work long enough in education, you see that most academic trends swing…
Ten years ago, in another somewhat futile attempt to reduce the backlog of resources I want to share, I began this occasional “Ed Tech Digest” post where I share three or four links I think are particularly useful and related to…ed tech, including some Web 2.0 apps. You might also be interested in checking…
A big new study has just been published in Nature that highlights the importance of non-cognitive elements like motivation and self-control to academic achievement which, according to the study, increase as children grow older. However, the same study talks a lot more about how those non-cognitive skills are connected to genetics than it does…