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Troubled times call for strong leaders – so with tough challenges ahead, higher education needs to be looking forward
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Harvard University announced Tuesday it will no longer weigh in on public matters that don’t impact the Ivy League school’s core function, a shift that follows a historic period of turmoil at the storied university.
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The futility of Jack’s beating taught me a vital lesson – that violence is the last resort of the incompetent. That lesson has influenced my own parenting, seeking to find non-punitive ways to guide and discipline my two now-teenage children.
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Billionaire Rob Hale surprised graduates from University of Massachusetts Dartmouth by gifting two envelopes containing $1,000 - one to keep and another to gift to the graduating class during his commencement speech.
Peter Mellow's curator insight,
May 21, 7:28 PM
We need more Billionaire's like this, who aren't so concerned about keeping all of their money!
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Purposefully putting human needs and expectations at the center of higher education digital transformation will improve university success. Learn more.
Peter Mellow's insight:
Do consultants really understand higher education? Do we trust them with our business or are we using them just to give the appearance that we have external validation and consultation?
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Bureaucratic bloat has siphoned power away from instructors and researchers.
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Faculty are involving themselves in student demonstrations, and sometimes getting injured or arrested. Are they helping?
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The science of learning has become embroiled in an ideological argument that has little to do with the reality of what it can and cannot do for teaching, argues Jared Cooney Horvath
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Federal government vows crackdown as institutions increased their vice-chancellor’s salaries amid job losses in the sector
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Since February, researchers have been surveying South Australian teachers about sexist views among their students.
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The pace of long-predicted college closings has sped up dramatically this spring, threatening to throw more and more students off the path to a degree.
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A new taskforce to police how universities are run will be pitched to state education ministers, as figures reveal the extent of corporatisation of university councils.
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About half the students who got in touch skip lectures, with many ‘disappointed’ with the experience and others forced to prioritise paid work
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The vice chancellor says a new truth-telling book will challenge people’s rosy picture of the university’s past engagements with Indigenous people.
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To successfully prepare for and step into leadership roles as you move along your career path, you should consider several specific areas to improve y
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Those who threaten academic freedom, from outside or inside campus, are threatening higher education itself—to America’s peril.
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Dr Cathy Stone, Conjoint Associate Professor, University of Newcastle
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Social media, multiple screens, mental health. How teachers in 2024 can navigate the new world of education and bring their best for the next generation of students.
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The institution was the first foreign university to be granted a licence to explore opening in the authoritarian kingdom.
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America’s Colleges Are Reaping What They Sowed
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Classrooms must be places of learning not conflict, where each child’s individual needs are understood and supported
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As police raided student protest encampments at American universities with rubber bullets and tear gas, in Melbourne academics brought jam and scones.
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"It is ironic that the institutions that award qualifications for teaching to not see the value in ensuring their own teachers are suitably qualified to teach. Unless universities are compelled to act, we will see the same issues raised in the next version of the Accord. More importantly, we will have not provided the high quality of teaching and learning that our students need and deserve."
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Holding classes over Zoom just pretends to solve a problem.
Peter Mellow's insight:
I found this quote frightening! No evidence offered.
"A class isn’t just the fact of meeting at a given time, or a teacher imparting information during that meeting, or students’ to receiving and processing such information. A university classroom offers a destination for students on campus, providing an excuse to traverse the quads, backpack on one’s shoulders, realizing a certain image of college life. Once there, the classroom does real work, too. It bounds the space and attention of learning, it creates camaraderie, and it presents opportunities for discourse, flirtation, boredom, and all the other trappings of collegiate fulfillment. Take away the classroom, and what’s left? Often, a limp rehearsal of the act of learning, carried out by awkward or unwilling actors."
Peter Mellow's curator insight,
April 25, 8:23 PM
Interesting cynical quote from this article: A class isn’t just the fact of meeting at a given time, or a teacher imparting information during that meeting, or students’ to receiving and processing such information. A university classroom offers a destination for students on campus, providing an excuse to traverse the quads, backpack on one’s shoulders, realizing a certain image of college life. Once there, the classroom does real work, too. It bounds the space and attention of learning, it creates camaraderie, and it presents opportunities for discourse, flirtation, boredom, and all the other trappings of collegiate fulfillment. Take away the classroom, and what’s left? Often, a limp rehearsal of the act of learning, carried out by awkward or unwilling actors. If the pandemic gave rise to hygiene theater, it also brought us this: pedagogy theater.
Peter Mellow's curator insight,
April 28, 9:41 PM
I found this quote frightening! No evidence offered. "A class isn’t just the fact of meeting at a given time, or a teacher imparting information during that meeting, or students’ to receiving and processing such information. A university classroom offers a destination for students on campus, providing an excuse to traverse the quads, backpack on one’s shoulders, realizing a certain image of college life. Once there, the classroom does real work, too. It bounds the space and attention of learning, it creates camaraderie, and it presents opportunities for discourse, flirtation, boredom, and all the other trappings of collegiate fulfillment. Take away the classroom, and what’s left? Often, a limp rehearsal of the act of learning, carried out by awkward or unwilling actors."
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Colleges across the United States have been rocked by mass protests at institutions which began at Colombia University on April 17 and quickly spread to other institutions.
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