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Blog:  Learning Innovation Power Play: Tesla, Elon Musk, and the Bet of the Century by Tim Higgins Published in August of 2021. How might we think about Tesla in higher ed terms? Try this on for size: electric cars = online/blended learning autonomous driving = low-cost online scaled degrees Over the next X years, transportation will progress through two revolutions. (I say “X” because we don’t know how long these changes will take.) First, we will transition from internal combustion engines (ICE) to battery-powered electrical propulsion. From gas to electricity. Next, cars and trucks and busses will become self-driving. Or more self-driving. Or something. The first transition - gas to electricity - is inevitable. We just don’t know how long it will take. The second transition - human-driven to AI/sensor-driven - may or may not be perpetually five years off.  To come back to our transportation/education equivalencies, we can be confident that most (not all) postsec

Ouachita Baptist University is launching a new master of education degree in curriculum and instruction. Trinity Christian College , in Illinois, is starting an online bachelor of social work. Washtenaw Community College is starting an associate degree in health administration.   Teaching and Learning Editorial Tags:  New academic programs Is this diversity newsletter?:  Newsletter Order:  0 Disable left side advertisement?:  Is this Career Advice newsletter?:  Magazine treatment:  Trending:  Display Promo Box:  Live Updates:  liveupdates0 Most Popular:  3 Ad slot:  8 In-Article related stories:  12 from Inside Higher Ed https://ift.tt/3BpJGib via IFTTT

Image:  Many campuses in the Gulf region were shuttered as Tropical Storm Ida moved northward Monday, creating dangerous conditions for parts of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. The storm made landfall in Louisiana Sunday as a powerful Category 4 hurricane before being downgraded to a tropical storm. Colleges in the storm’s path reported they were still assessing the damage Monday. Some institutions were dealing with power outages. Jerad David, a spokesman for Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, La., which closed in advance of the storm, said the campus is without electricity, “but all initial indications are that our campus suffered only moderate damage, mostly roof damage.” “Our service area, however, was not as fortunate,” David continued. “Many in our region have suffered catastrophic damage to homes. All of our region is without electricity, and much of the area is currently without water. Roads are impassable due to downed trees and power lines.” David said N

Image:  Women far outnumber men in American higher education. Recent data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center showed that more than 10 million women enrolled at a college or university last spring, compared with 6.8 million men. Yet the number of institutions first created to educate women is dwindling. Today, there are fewer than 50 women’s colleges in the United States, down from 230 in 1960, according to the Women’s College Coalition. Some of those 230 colleges have since opened their doors to men. Others have closed, in part due to enrollment challenges fueled by expanded educational access for women and decreasing demand for single-gender institutions. The remaining women’s colleges must offer a compelling response to the question: Why attend a college for women when the same programs are available at coed institutions? For some women’s colleges, the answer is to find a niche. Salem College in Winston-Salem, N.C., recently announced it will overha

Image:  Colleges and universities lost about 191,500 transfer students between July 2020 and June 2021, a drop almost three times larger than the prior year, according to a new report by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. The report also found racial inequities in upward transfer enrollment -- students going from two-year institutions to four-year institutions -- and major differences in upward transfer rates at highly selective and less selective institutions. “A lot of institutions are trying to focus on making it easier for students to transfer,” said Doug Shapiro, executive director of the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. “And I hope that this report will help them to really target their efforts on the pathways and the students who are being most affected and look for ways to help those students in particular.” The new report, released today, is the fifth update in a series of reports about student transfer. It’s also the first comprehens

Image:  The number of scholars targeted for their speech has risen dramatically since 2015, and undergraduates increasingly are to blame, according to a database of these incidents released today by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. Undergraduates aren’t the only ones seeking to censor graduate students, instructors, professors and other researchers, FIRE’s database and an accompanying report make clear. But undergraduates’ prevalence within FIRE’s new database concerns the pro-speech group nonetheless. Komi German, a research fellow at FIRE, said Monday that it’s unclear whether there are more students than ever seeking to “punish” scholars for their speech, or if there are an “emboldened” but relative few. Either way, German said, “it’s a huge red flag for those concerned about students’ tolerance of dissenting views.” Other would-be censors include politicians and the general public. But threats to scholars’ free speech increasingly originate from withi

Blog:  Call to Action: Marketing and Communications in Higher Education We’ve celebrated Gen Z as the largest and most ethnically diverse generation in American history. We’ve crafted narratives and employed communication modes to engage them as digital natives, social justice warriors and pragmatic decision makers. But then, COVID-19. Pandemics do not distinguish between generational boundaries. Gen Z’s COVID experience includes much of the same massive disruption and fears that their older siblings, parents and grandparents have had to bear. Just as parents juggled working from home, students, too, had to do their jobs (studying) with fewer resources and more distractions. Students with paying part-time jobs to support tuition and living expenses found themselves out of work, leaving some with new or worsened housing and food insecurities. Originally considered at lower risk for the disease, Gen Z students have watched peers test positive, get sick, be hospitalized and so

“Free college” proposals are at the forefront of state and federal policy making, garnering frequent online and newspaper headlines. Central to these conversations is an almost universal agreement that some postsecondary education is necessary for our nation’s citizens to have a good chance of gaining a family-sustaining job and entering the middle class. A recent Student Voice survey of 2,035 students reveals significant support for free college proposals during a time when COVID-19 has impacted nearly every aspect of American life. The broad support among students for these proposals is both exciting and promising. Yet it’s not clear that this approach is the best higher education investment we can make as part of the Biden administration plan to Build Back Better . The survey, conducted by Inside Higher Ed and College Pulse and presented by Kaplan, found that students are most supportive of free college proposals that cover fees and tuition at community colleges, as opposed t

Blog:  Higher Ed Gamma The critic and classicist  Daniel Mendelsohn  offers a simple yet compelling rationale for studying the humanities.  You can study accounting, he writes, but when your father dies, your accounting degree won't help you process that experience. Prior to the Renaissance, when the humanities came to be associated with the study of particular fields – notably, art, history, law, literature, philosophy, and theology – and particular methods – analytic, critical, and speculative rather than empirical --  the humanities was thought of as a process. For Cicero,  humanitas  provided the kind of education that was necessary to produce a cultivated human being, one who possessed certain virtues, including empathy, compassion, and a capacity for friendship, and an enlightened, mature, skeptical, and critical mindset. The time has come, I am convinced, to reassert this older view of the purpose of the humanities, and to embrace the notion that the goals of a h