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Blog:  Confessions of a Community College Dean   Having spent the latter part of last week focusing on getting The Girl settled in college, I didn’t immediately jump on the news about planned student loan forgiveness.  Now that she’s safely ensconced, a few thoughts.   My overarching impression is that it will likely get struck down by the courts.  Technically, to bring a suit someone has to prove “standing,” or a right to sue based on harm they’ve suffered themselves.  In this case, it’s hard to show who would have standing to bring the issue to court.  (Simply objecting to a policy is not enough to confer standing.)  No standing, no suit.  But given how cavalierly the courts are treating laws they don’t like, I expect they’ll find a way to let someone attack it, then grant an injunction, and finally strike it down.  That’s true regardless of the merits of the case, which is a harrowing statement in itself.  The judicia...

Category:  Carpe Careers If you have experienced such fears once, you’ll probably confront them again as your career advances, writes Angela Fowler, who recommends having a set of tools that will assist you in overcoming them. Editorial Tags:  Career Advice Show on Jobs site:  Image Source:  useng/istock/getty images plus Image Size:  Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?:  Is this Career Advice newsletter?:  Disable left side advertisement?:  Trending:  Live Updates:  liveupdates0 Most Popular:  3 In-Article Advertisement High:  6 In-Article related stories:  9 In-Article Advertisement Low:  12 from Inside Higher Ed https://ift.tt/RgVG7lK via IFTTT

A search committee for the Florida Board of Governors has recommended hiring outgoing state senator Ray Rodrigues, an ally of Republican governor Ron DeSantis, as the next chancellor of the State University System of Florida. Rodrigues—who has sponsored legislation to require intellectual freedom and viewpoint diversity surveys and to reshape tenure—announced in June that he would not seek re-election to Florida’s State Senate. He applied for the CEO opening in July, touting 16 years of higher ed experience, all at Florida Gulf Coast University, where he is currently the director of interagency partnerships. Rodrigues, who was one of two finalists interviewed, is being recommended over fellow finalist Lori Cromwell, the chief business officer of Emory University’s Candler School of Theology, to replace retiring chancellor Marshall Kriser. “I am gratified that we had two highly qualified candidates to engage with today. The conversation was robust, the candidates well prepared,” B...

During a January visit to Bergen Community College in New Jersey to champion the American Rescue Plan’s $198 million competitive grant for community colleges, First Lady—and community college professor—Jill Biden commented on a common challenge for many students: “You know, it’s hard to express what it’s like to have a bright, engaged student—someone who has so much passion and potential—fade out of my class because they can’t find a babysitter. They start missing lectures … they fall behind and just can’t catch up. Or the cost of childcare just gets to be too much, and they have to choose between extra shifts at work and pursuing the degree that will help them earn more money.” Biden’s description is all too familiar to those of us who teach and work at any of the nation’s 936 public community colleges. Thanks in large part to the terrific research and advocacy of places like the Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice , we are much more aware of students’ st...

Blog:  Learning Innovation HBO's Industry is the best show on paid TV/streaming that you are likely not watching.  Industry is among the TV genres described as "confident subcultures" in a recent Atlantic analysis of season 2. In the case of Industry , the confident subculture is that of investment banking. The show's creators, former bankers, bring us into the language, norms, rhythms, and structures of finance and wealth management. While watching Industry in August, my mind is mostly on what September will look like in our academic workplaces. Unlike academic work, investment banking (at least as depicted in Industry ) has near completely returned to an in-person activity. Employees are densely stacked together, meetings are face-face, and only a single employee of the fictional Pierpoint bank continues to wear a mask. The way that the bankers work together in Industry has some familiarity with parts of pre-pandemic academic work life. (Save for t...

31% of students are aware of at least one campus office webpage with a chat bot to answer questions after hours, and 36% of students would like to see this technology implemented more. Two semesters of working the front desk at Wichita State University’s recreation center shaped Lauren O’Donnell’s appreciation for the kind of stress full-time employees on campuses can feel. O’Donnell fielded questions, and quite a few lost-item inquiries, in person and over the phone as students and others checked in to use the facilities. Once, as a group insisted on reserving an already booked dance studio that day, she found herself trying to explain policies and practices to students who just didn’t seem to understand why their request couldn’t be met. The job experience has “helped me remember that [campus staff members] are people, too, behind the desk. They have their own life. Maybe they’ve been working since 6 a.m.,” says O’Donnell, who anticipates a May 2023 graduation with a degree ...

Image:  Any research based on federally funded studies must be made freely available to the public without an embargo under a policy announced Thursday by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. The new requirement, which is due to take effect by the end of 2025, updates an existing policy that allowed a 12-month embargo for making research freely available. The head of the White House office, Alondra Nelson, said in a memorandum to federal departments and agencies that the change had been motivated by lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic. “When research is widely available to other researchers and the public, it can save lives, provide policy makers with the tools to make critical decisions, and drive more equitable outcomes across every sector of society,” Nelson wrote. “The American people fund tens of billions of dollars of cutting-edge research annually. There should be no delay or barrier between the American public and the returns on their...