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Image:  When Reggie DesRoches assumes the presidency of Rice University on July 1, he will become the fifth Black leader of a top research institution. He will also be the third Black president in the 65-member Association of American Universities who attended the UC Berkeley College of Engineering, along with Gary May, now the chancellor of the University of California, Davis, and Darryll Pines, president of the University of Maryland, College Park. The three men pursued different disciplines at Berkeley and overlapped for only a short time in the mid-1980s. But they credit the institution with supplying the training and support network that launched their remarkably similar trajectories. “For all of us, [Berkeley Engineering] provided a foundation of excellence and knowledge that we’ve been able to take forward in our careers,” Pines said. Each man rose to the top of his field: May in electrical and computer engineering, Pines in mechanical engineering, and DesRoches in

What are the benefits of using Wikipedia in the classroom? In today’s Academic Minute, part of Wiki Education Week, Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s Matthew Vetter asked around to find the answer. Vetter is an associate professor of English and affiliate faculty in the composition and applied linguistics Ph.D. program at IUP. A transcript of this podcast can be found here .   Section:  Academic Minute File:  06-30-22 IUP - Understanding Instructor Motivations for Adopting Wikipedia-Based Assignments.mp3 Event's date:  Wednesday, June 29, 2022 - 12:30pm Insider only:  from Inside Higher Ed https://ift.tt/PIUafxY via IFTTT

Blog:  Beyond Transfer What really makes a good transfer partnership that benefits students? We have numerous reports and documents outlining what should be done, but mere words are not enough. As Shakespeare wrote in Henry VIII , “Talking isn’t doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.” Strong collaboration exhibited through specific actions is what counts when working to make a difference in the student experience. The information available on transfer highlights the need for strong partnerships and collaboration between two- and four-year institutions. This includes joint marketing, advising, pathway development and student supports that enable students to transition seamlessly from one institution to the next. There are calls for reduced time to completion, acceptance of more credits, financial aid and scholarships to support students as they transfer, and faculty engagement to provide students with on-campus contacts. In the “ Transfer R

Today on the Academic Minute , part of Wiki Education Week: Matthew Vetter, associate professor of English at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, discusses the benefits of using Wikipedia in the classroom. Learn more about the Academic Minute here . Is this diversity newsletter?:  Hide by line?:  Disable left side advertisement?:  Is this Career Advice newsletter?:  Trending:  Live Updates:  liveupdates0 from Inside Higher Ed https://ift.tt/UubKvHl via IFTTT

About 2,000 students from 98 universities responded to a survey about their views of academic integrity and cheating recently conducted by Inside Higher Ed and College Pulse with support from Kaplan. The findings, which can be filtered by race, provide fodder for a racial analysis of academic integrity. For example, Black and Asian/Asian American students reported being accused of plagiarism more than any other group (12 percent for both groups, versus 6 percent of all students). Further, Black students were the most likely to report being accused of cheating in college (9 percent of Black students reported being accused of cheating in a college course, compared to 6 percent of all students). Such findings should push us to take race seriously when we talk about academic integrity. Am I just trying to make this about race? No. Academic integrity is already about race. From the assumptions behind who looks like they are cheating to the punishments given for cheating to the techno

Native American students in Arizona will no longer have to pay tuition and fees at the University of Arizona’s Tucson campus starting this fall, according to a news release from the university Monday. Full-time students living in Arizona who belong to any of the 22 federally recognized tribes in the state will be eligible to receive grants after they complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid. The Arizona Native Scholars Grant will cover the remaining costs of in-state tuition and any mandatory fees. More than 400 students enrolled at the University of Arizona last year would qualify for the program. “I am so proud that that this university has found a way to help hundreds of students more easily access and complete a college education, and I look forward to finding ways to take these efforts even further,” University of Arizona president Robert C. Robbins said in the release. The grant program is funded through a reallocation of financial aid dollars and will be admi

Temple University laid off eight employees of the Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice on Tuesday. Several sources with direct knowledge of situation who did not want to named, citing job insecurity, said that Hope’s interim leaders and Temple administrators attempted to reconcile the center’s finances and discovered a deficit earlier this year when founder Sara Goldrick-Rab was placed on paid leave amid an investigation into center operations. Current and former Hope employees previously told Inside Higher Ed that the center suffered from climate issues and possible financial mismanagement under Goldrick-Rab. Goldrick-Rab, who remains a professor of higher education policy and sociology at Temple, declined comment on the situation Tuesday, citing the terms of her leave, but she suggested that Temple, not Hope, suffered from financial mismanagement. Goldrick-Rab also said the laid-off employees had been hired under the financial leadership of someone else at the center,

While the content of Friday’s Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade is not a surprise, it is devastating. Those of us in the California higher education community support reproductive rights, and at this critical juncture we must pause and reflect upon what this means for women and their right to educational access nationwide. As mothers and as educators, we understand what is at stake. These data are clear. More than half of people who access abortion are in their 20s , which means many are likely to be pursuing higher education. In fact, studies show that one in seven people who had an abortion did so in order to continue their education ; the Guttmacher Institute, a research and policy institute focused on reproductive rights, puts this figure closer to 40 percent . The ruling therefore takes direct aim at our nation’s college students. Even more distressing is the realization that the impacts are felt most profoundly by our students of color and by individuals from lo

Blog:  Higher Ed Gamma Although the discipline of history lacks laws like those found in science -- that predict a range of natural phenomena – history does indeed, I’d submit, have laws that are universally applicable. Here are eight: Law 1:  It happened earlier. Events tend to have precursors, precedents, and parallels.  Almost always, the roots of a development began earlier in time.  For example, many of the social phenomena linked to the pandemic actually predate COVID-19’s first cases. Law 2:  All heroes have feet of clay. Look closely enough, and even our most admired saints and heroes are flawed, containing complex mixture After all, they’re human and as Kant put it, humanity is made out of crooked timber that can’t be made straight. Law 3:  Victories invariably result in new problems. History doesn’t allow for closure.  Ending one conflict only lays bare or instigates new challenges.  The textbook example is the end of the Cold War, which unleashed a new set o

Blog:  Confessions of a Community College Dean   A new report from the Education Commission of the States offers food for thought in comparing ground rules for dual enrollment programs in different states.  It’s worth checking out.   The question that immediately drew my attention was about whether a given state allows out-of-state providers to participate in dual enrollment programs in its public high schools.  According to the report, more states don’t allow that than do, but many states don’t have rules on it one way or the other.  (If you prefer, they allow it by not disallowing it.)     My own state doesn’t have much in the way of statewide rules on dual enrollment at this point.  It also has a deep tradition of home rule, with small school districts competing with each other for students.  Combine an incentive to distinguish one school from another with a relative absence of rules, and you get a panoply of bespoke arrangements across the state.     They aren’t ju