Stemming “male drift,” or trying to reach “gender parity” in #college enrollment, or affirmative action for men: the latest #highereducation #highered trend. Wow. #admissions https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/08/magazine/men-college-enrollment.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Somehow, economic diversity waits in line behind other priorities in #highereducation—read the article for the names of offending selective #colleges and #universities. I’m not naming names because my own public, state university isn’t doing that great of a job itself. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/09/07/magazine/duke-economic-diversity.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Ron DeSantis’ efforts to shake up the #education establishment, or #highereducation #highered, now include #college #admissions testing. The Classical Learning Test, with an emphasis on the western, Judeo-Christian canon, will replace College Board exams (SAT & ACT). One #student says the new test feels like it was written by humans. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/06/us/sat-alternative-florida-classical-learning-test.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Fumbling and afraid at HullabalooU: Behind the lines of Texas A&M #University’s diversity war #highereducation #highered

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/09/05/texas-am-university-diversity-sb17/

How John’s Hopkins #University became one of the country’s most diverse campuses. Cutting back on legacy admissions helped. #highereducation #highered
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/08/29/john-hopkins-legacy-racial-diversity/

How John’s Hopkins #University became of the country’s most diverse campuses. Cutting back on legacy admissions helped. #highereducation #highered
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/08/29/john-hopkins-legacy-racial-diversity/

Frustrated, angry — and afraid, because the things that affirm our humanity are the first to go onto the chopping block at West Virginia #University #humanities #highered #highereducation

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/08/23/west-virginia-university-budget-cuts-humanities/

The point is to divide the electorate and #highereducation is the tool: educational gerrymandering at West Virginia #University. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/20/opinion/west-virginia-university-cuts.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

The goal of a #university is not free inquiry, & other grand ideas of Ron DeSantis as he revised his background to command a conservative vanguard. #academicfreedom #FreeSpeech #FreePress #FirstAmendment #education #highereducation https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/20/us/politics/ron-desantis-takeaways.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

@herhandsmyhands Eeyupp...

At the way #HigherEducation is #paywalled in the #USA it's cheaper for those wanting to study to #migrate to #Germany, buy a condo, learn german and enroll at a University in Germany and they'd still have far less debt in their name and likely be eligible to naturalization at the time they do their Masters Thesis by virtue of 8 years being a legal resident...

At the tip of the spear in #highereducation’s existential crisis, West Virginia #University cuts foreign #languages, graduate creative #writing, doctoral studies in mathematics and other programs #highered #academics #curriculum #education

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/08/18/west-virginia-university-academic-cuts/

All #NRENs serve #universities and #research institutions, but were you aware that in some cases they also connect users of cultural institutions, hospitals, and schools too?

Read more about #Europe's National #Research and #Education #Networks in the GÉANT #Compendium Report 2022 👉 https://resources.geant.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Compendium-2022-2023-IX.pdf

#GÉANT #HigherEducation #ResearchInstitutions #ResearchOrganisations #schools #hospitals #network

All #NRENs serve #universities and #research institutions, but were you aware that in some cases they also connect users of cultural institutions, hospitals, and schools too?

Read more about #Europe's National #Research and #Education #Networks in the GÉANT #Compendium Report 2022 👉 https://resources.geant.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Compendium-2022-2023-IX.pdf

#GÉANT #HigherEducation #ResearchInstitutions #ResearchOrganisations #schools #hospitals #network

British PM Rishi Sunak has launched a crackdown on what he calls “rip-off university degrees.” It’s really a push to discourage working-class students from choosing subjects that will help develop their critical understanding of the world

#HigherEducation https://jacobin.com/2023/08/rishi-sunak-humanities-degrees-crackdown-education-inequality

The GÉANT Task Force for Educational Activities (TF-EDU) will carry out their next event in Copenhagen, Denmark on 11 September, co-located with the @nordunet Community Workshop #NCW23.

Covering: data sharing & data protection in #education, the #DC4EU and #DS4Skill projects, educational tools/services developed by #NRENs, and more!

Read more and register 👉 https://connect.geant.org/2023/08/01/data-sharing-in-education-tf-edu-meets-in-copenhagen-11-september

#Edu #EdTech #eIDAS #DigitalWallets #highereducation

I have left #HigherEducation. I have left Goldsmiths, having worked there, with a break when I was made redundant, since 2001. Leaving right in the middle of #MAB and all. New status: labour force leaver. Illustration: a page from a 2002 booklet by Jimmy Robert (published by Autograph ABP) that I saved from stash of art books. (Jimmy studied there, l990s, before my time.) Sorry mate!

In the time it took a Texas A& M #professor to drive home from a #lecture on the opioid crisis, a #student complaint wound its way through the bureaucracy to threaten her #academicfreedom & #FreeSpeech #FirstAmendment rights, and her career was put on ice. There’s a reason for this speedy dispatch of her freedoms, and so much more to this story. Read it & despair. #highereducation

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/07/25/texas-a-m-professor-opioids-dan-patrick/

I've been saying it for years: Get rid of legacy admissions, preferential treatment for relatives of donors, and so on. Maybe it'll finally happen. Good for Wesleyan for ending the practice. I hope more universities follow. #College #Admissions #School #Schools #HigherEducation #Harvard https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/25/us/politics/harvard-admissions-civil-rights-inquiry.html?unlocked_article_code=69o6lC4p27Rl28-FZg2krlKOPDRVReGMt-ksucFTgHyHaJcMwA8zDI4qwpaRQA3oaAhs6ZzRSbAQlExFOJfmvZq_bs1A1JwPNJpAkhaR17jj-w_emCfwpHIT0zLVrucPTGgzif7tieRUt5O0cpaJEMYKqE_A1Hz6F1qJlcV4CGkUGyj9-b1lKAcUk4LVWPcvoch7nSRTZWWsERPNYMEPeaReI-qOiVj2Py0ltrUa9x58tQ91imsHL9ZlTXBunlBRMnN_JgqZ2_63GXxCLghlbqj_MIr1gLred6tKCevrnTcHyIpO8klrTlWsdfZGbHXLsANVtfUZebNsDd5Rkr8gZMnniUEtemJpkvO01U3vzwyS0E9I&smid=url-share

Biden Administration to investigate #legacy #admissions at Harvard, or the practice of affirmative action for white people. Earlier studies have shown that without legacy admissions, Harvard could achieve racial balance/diversity goals. #highereducation https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/25/us/politics/harvard-admissions-civil-rights-inquiry.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Children, relatives of alumni no longer have admissions edge at Carnegie Mellon, Pitt | TribLIVE.com #highereducation #legacy #legacyadmissions

https://triblive.com/news/children-relatives-of-alumni-no-longer-have-admissions-edge-at-carnegie-mellon-pitt/