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Education Department Inks New Contracts With Loan Servicers Katherine Knott Wed, 04/26/2023 - 12:00 AM from Inside Higher Ed https://ift.tt/BlFQ1m8 via IFTTT

Skills-Based Hiring and Higher Education Featured Image at Top of Article EL_AxiosSkillsBasedHiring08.jpeg Katherine Knott Thu, 04/20/2023 - 12:00 AM from Inside Higher Ed https://ift.tt/bUkyKzX via IFTTT

The nearly five-year tenure of Dan Arvizu as top leader at the New Mexico State University System ended Friday with a “mutual separation” announcement following a tumultuous six months that included the suspension of the main campus' men’s basketball team amid hazing allegations. Arvizu, 72, had been expected to depart following the end of his contract in June, with regents in December authorizing a search for a new chancellor. In a message to campus , Arvizu said Friday he believes “accelerating this transition will allow the university to put its full focus on finding its next permanent chancellor,” calling the decision to step down early “truly mutual.” A statement Friday from the New Mexico State University Board of Regents also referred to the separation as mutual.  The regents named Jay Gogue, a former president of the Las Cruces campus from 2000-03, as interim chancellor. Gogue most recently served as president of Auburn University in Alabama. The Las Cruces (New Me

Last week, Bob Jones University president Steve Pettit announced his resignation. He will leave office at the end of the academic year in May. His resignation came only a few months after the board re-elected him. He left amid a conflict over Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 . He has sent a letter to the board chair, John Lewis. In the letter, Pettit said Lewis allegedly kept information away from Pettit and obstructed a Title IX investigation. Now Pettit has announced that Lewis will leave the board. The Greenville News reported that a press release said, "Late this afternoon, I was notified that Bob Jones University Board of Trustees Chairman Dr. John Lewis has resigned effective immediately." It is unclear if Pettit will rescind his decision to leave the university.   Ad keywords:  administrators executive Editorial Tags:  Live Updates Is this diversity newsletter?:  Hide by line?:  Disable left side advertisement?: 

The Biden administration is best known for one thing: vastly overreaching its authority and then acting surprised when it gets pushback. On Feb. 15, the U.S. Department of Education issued a sweeping policy change through informal guidance that expands the definition of third-party servicers and would subject the institutions that contract with these third-party servicers to additional reporting, while the new third-party servicers would be obligated to turn over their contracts to the Department of Education, be held jointly and severally liable for any errors, and be required to undergo annual compliance audits. The Higher Education Act recognizes organizations that contract with a college or university to help administer or participate in the Title IV financial aid programs as third-party servicers, subject to federal monitoring and compliance requirements. However, the new, broadened definition seems to incorporate a vast majority of activities that occur at a college, not ju

Blog:  Learning Innovation At the most recent edX/2U University Partner Advisory Council meeting , we had the privilege of spending time with Dr. Todd Nicolet . Todd is the Vice Provost for Digital and Lifelong Learning at UNC. In our conversations, we found Todd to be both incredibly collegial and massively knowledgeable about the shifting landscape of higher education. We asked Todd if he’d be willing to chat about his role and his career, and he graciously agreed. Q1.  What does the role of Vice Provost for Digital and Lifelong Learning entail? What is going on with online learning at UNC? Digital and Lifelong Learning provides strategy, coordination, and service for online and flexible learning of all types across UNC-Chapel Hill, from short professional development experiences through full degree programs. Our units and service areas include credit programs, summer sessions, professional and community programs, online program services, a research hub, and a conference c

Hundreds of American University students and alumni have signed a petition demanding that  Narcan , a brand of  naloxone , by made available at all dormitories on campus, WUSA9 News reported. The petition follows an overdose on campus of a non-student, who did not die, but was hospitalized. "Narcan's singular purpose is to reverse an opioid overdose. With the rise in accidental opioid overdoses (e.g., fentanyl in other substances like cocaine, etc.), Narcan is an excellent tool to have readily available. There are no negative consequences to using Narcan if the user is not having an opioid overdose," said the petition. The petition noted that other colleges have made Narcan available in dormitories. "To wait to implement Narcan at AU is unethical and deadly. Students will continue to use substances during college, and it is in the interest of their health to prepare for action," the petition said. An American spokesman told WUSA9: "American Universi

Mental health in higher education faces a sort of paradox. On the one hand, most campus counseling centers are overwhelmed and can’t meet the demand for services. On the other hand, many students do not seek counseling, even if they’re in great distress. Higher education institutions need to meet the mental health needs of students who refrain from seeking help. My recognition of these issues—and experience working full-time at a campus counseling center—contribute to my enthusiasm for proactive programs that extend beyond the counseling center. As a clinical psychologist, research scientist and educator specializing in self-criticism and self-compassion, as well as an adjunct faculty member at Seattle University and at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, I recently attended the Depression on College Campuses conference for the first time. Held at the University of Michigan in March and focused this year on student mental health in a hybrid world, the conference drew res

Blog:  Higher Ed Gamma You’ve no doubt seen the headlines: Majority of Americans lack confidence in value of four-year degree Over 40 percent of college students considered dropping out in past six months From Tenured Professor to Lumpenproletariat: The State of Higher Ed Faculty in America 'It's about damn time': College workers organize amid nationwide labor unrest The college-age population is about to crash. It will change higher education forever. Eroding public confidence in higher education.  Grave threats to tenure.  Campuses as America’s next union battleground.  Universities bracing for enrollment about to fall off a demographic cliff. Community colleges failing to fulfill their mission. Accreditors facing political heat. Academic freedom under attack. Campuses struggling with a student mental health crisis.   It’s enough to make one shake. As I read the higher ed press, I try to find the trendline.  Is it that higher education is reeling, tha

The humanities might not-too-facetiously be labeled the black sheep of academia. After all, the humanities are frequently characterized as being in crisis and, since 2008, have suffered massive hemorrhaging in the numbers of new majors . Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, colleges and universities have made cuts to humanities departments, and the financial exigencies of the pandemic have only made the situation worse . Yet the humanities are crucial , even—or especially— in a world that prioritizes science, technology, engineering and math disciplines . Some tech industry failures in recent years likely could have been minimized, or potentially even avoided, had executives and engineers received better training in the sorts of soft skills that the humanities provide. To give just one notable example, Facebook’s tendency to play fast and loose with user data privacy indicates a need for more ethics education among tech executives. To put it simply, an applied humanities approach i

Blog:  Learning Innovation We recently participated in a Digital Learning Summit convened by the University of Notre Dame.  This was a conveying of 60 practitioners and leaders of digital learning initiatives gathered from 18 universities. Coming out of the Summit, we believe that there is much that can be learned for how to effectively host an in-person academic meeting. The seven things that Notre Dame got right about the Summit, and might profitably be thought of as a template for future academic gatherings, are as follows: 1 - Convene On a Campus We get that large disciplinary conferences or higher education professional meetings are too big to run on a university campus. These meetings require convention spaces and large hotels. Fine. The Digital Learning Summit convened by Notre Dame offered a different sort of model of academic gathering. One focussed on bringing together peers and colleagues leading digital learning initiatives. For more tightly focused gatherings

The U.S. Department of Education is now considering changes to its guidelines addressing how outside providers bundle the services they offer to colleges and universities and to the regulations that define and govern third-party servicers. The department helped create the online program manager industry, in part to encourage traditional universities to embrace online learning. The industry has evolved; so too have the OPMs. Whatever updates the department makes should serve to lower the cost of higher ed and increase college completion. A Quick History Through the 2000s, online learning was largely the purview of for-profit colleges serving adult learners. Their programs were largely substandard—graduation rates as low as 3 percent—which gave the medium a dubious reputation. The cost, as well as the reputational and financial risk, of building and marketing online programs kept traditional colleges from competing. In 2011, the Education Department issued a Dear Colleague letter