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Blog:  Learning Innovation I've long been a fan of how Matt Reed writes about his family. Matt artfully walks the line between bringing our higher ed work home while maintaining family privacy. When I let Matt know how much I admire his way of writing about his kids and partner through a higher ed lens, he encouraged me to give it a shot. So here goes. Over the past two weeks, my wife and I have attended commencement ceremonies for our daughters. We had two graduations within a week because our older daughter had her Covid two-year delayed commencement. Watching the ceremony of these ceremonies and seeing my kids in regalia and all the commencement trappings brought to my mind all the things that I've gotten wrong as a higher ed parent. Here are a few of the higher ed mistakes I've made with my kids: Mistake #1 - Thinking I Could Tone Down the Insanity of the College Admissions Process: We are lucky that the college town where we live is blessed with a fantas

Blog:  Higher Ed Policy First, thank you for the very warm reception of this new blog. As soon as I published the first post, I came down with COVID and, now, two weeks later, I am digging my way through emails, tweets, and LinkedIn messages. Thank you and I’m catching up! On May 16, I sat in on May’s Public Policy Pop-Up at the American Council on Education, The Policy and Politics of Student Loan Forgiveness , with Terry Hartle and Jon Fansworth. I try to attend these monthly sessions when possible and often recommend them to my students.   I began my career in higher ed in a financial aid office and I was put in charge of loans- specifically loan collection. That was over 30 years ago. I started out managing the institution’s Perkins loan program and then took on the Stafford, PLUS, and private loans for families. In this role, I was the main liaison with collection agencies and it was brutal. I also ran exit interviews with students and, eventually, created budgeting wor

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Image:  A recent report by the Vera Institute of Justice found that women were overrepresented among students enrolled in college prison programs in the 2020–21 academic year but underrepresented among degree or other credential earners. The findings were unsurprising to scholars focused on incarcerated women and the heads of college programs in women’s prisons. For women “in the prison context or in the correctional context … there are really huge hurdles, just like out there in the world,” said Brenda V. Smith, a law professor at American University and director of the law school’s Community Economic and Equity Development Law Clinic. The report, released this month, broadly explores the “reach” of the Second Chance Pell Experimental Sites Initiative, a pilot program launched by the U.S. Department of Education in 2016 to provide financial aid to incarcerated students enrolled in academic programs at select colleges and universities. Second Chance Pell started with 67 co

Image:  White House officials are planning to cancel $10,000 in student debt per borrower, a central campaign promise by President Biden that would relieve debt for millions of Americans, according to The Washington Post . Biden’s proposal, however, is still not finalized. The announcement of the president’s plan to address the $1.7 trillion currently owed to the federal government in student debt had been speculated by many to come as soon last Saturday, when Biden made a commencement speech at the University of Delaware. According to the Post , the timing of the announcement was delayed after the mass shooting in Texas on May 24. The plan would limit debt relief to Americans earning $150,000 and $300,000 for couples filing jointly, based on income from the previous year, White House officials told the Post . It is currently unclear whether the administration will require borrowers to resume payments on federal student loans when the pandemic-era moratorium is scheduled to

Image:  Columbia University is weighing a controversial set of proposals that would effectively reduce the authority of the dean of the undergraduate Columbia College and make more powerful and visible the university’s executive vice president and dean of arts and sciences. This entails rebranding the vice president as the dean of arts and sciences, one who has more involvement in the college’s curriculum, alumni affairs and budget. The proposals’ supporters, including outgoing president Lee Bollinger, say that such a plan would increase collaboration and resolve “ambiguities” in the relationship between the college and arts and sciences faculty, who serve multiple schools across the university. But the proposals’ critics, including the outgoing college dean, many faculty members, the college alumni association, the college’s advisory Board of Visitors and its undergraduate student government, say such a plan is less about working together than it is about centralizing power

Britain will give graduates of the world's leading universities visas good for two years of work (three if they hold a doctorate from one of the universities), Times Higher Education reported. To be eligible, their university must be in the top 50 for the world in the rankings of two of the three leading ranks: Times Higher Education , QS and the Shanghai Academic Rankings. The visas could be a major reason for international or domestic students to enroll at the universities. But the article noted criticism of the plan. Phil Baty, Times Higher Education ’s chief knowledge officer, said it was a “big problem” that none of the selected universities were from Africa, Latin America or South Asia. ( Inside Higher Ed is now owned by Times Higher Education .) Twenty of the 37 universities eligible are in the United States. They are : the California Institute of Technology; Columbia, Cornell, Duke, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, New York, Northwestern, Princeton, Stanford and Yale Universit

“Completely flattened by fatigue, cognitive dysfunction, and lightheadedness” are some of the terms used to describe the experiences of young, healthy, often athletic students who contracted COVID-19. As much as the pandemic has impacted higher education over the past two years and we want to believe that the worst is over, we fear this might not be the case. In fact, we may be facing a second health crisis, or what some are calling a pandemic after the pandemic , one that will impact the way we work, teach and learn: long COVID. Understanding Long COVID in the Context of Higher Education While our essay focuses on students and long COVID, it is important to remember that anyone can be impacted by long COVID, including faculty and staff members and administrators. The virus that causes COVID-19 is thought to alter key neural structures and therefore cognitive functioning , such as attention , memory and motivation. Recent studies have also shown that many individuals who had t

Blog:  Higher Ed Gamma I’ve often wondered why my cohort of doctoral students at Yale, unlike their successors, displayed no interest in unionizing.  Most of my classmates considered themselves women and men of the left, yet unionization was not broached once that I can remember. In stark contrast, twenty years later, the pressures for graduate student unionization at private universities were intense. For reasons that deserve close scrutiny, the Overton Window – the range of policies that were considered plausible – had widened. Ideas once deemed farfetched, like student debt cancelation, now seem conceivable. What had changed?  The answer, in a word, lies in a  deepening pessimism about the future . Generational pessimism can be seen in many ways – in delayed marriage and childbearing, the retreat from organized religion, the growing prevalence among twenty-somethings of substance abuse, and, perhaps above all, the well-documented decline in mental health, apparent in sur