[ad_1] Before I get to the blog post I planned for today, I want to briefly acknowledge the impending retirement of Inside Higher Ed co-founder Scott Jaschik, who announced that he’ll be leaving the site at the end of this month to volunteer and travel. Without Scott and Doug’s “big idea” (in Scott’s words), I …
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[ad_1] Elizabeth Tsurkov, a graduate student at Princeton University, is being held captive by a Shiite militia after she was abducted in Baghdad, The Washington Post reported. She has been missing since March, but the office of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced the circumstance of her disappearance Wednesday. Netanyahu said she is still alive. …
[ad_1] I’ve long held that there are two schools of thought on strategic plans. One school says they should be as comprehensive as possible so that everybody can see themselves in it and every eventuality is covered. The other says that a strategic plan should be brief and stay at a high level to allow …
[ad_1] Brandeis University President Ronald Liebowitz has apologized to the university’s Orthodox Jewish student group for a university ad that called Brandeis “anything but Orthodox,” The Times of Israel reported. The two-page spread, which appeared in The New York Times Magazine last week, angered Orthodox Jews, who called it offensive. Last week, the university defended …
[ad_1] An occasional correspondent writes, I work for an R1 private 4-year institution at our Computer Science department as an academic administrator. I have a master’s degree in higher education & student affairs, if that’s helpful context. I’m writing to see if you or the readers have discussed how academic units make or should make …
[ad_1] Hampshire College has eliminated the jobs of the entire 10-member IT department and is replacing it with services from Ellucian, MassLive reported. “Our decision to partner with Ellucian was driven by the increasing complexity of the IT environment, especially security, and is in no way a reflection of the commitment of our current team,” …
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[ad_1] The Week in Admissions News Scott Jaschik Wed, 07/05/2023 – 12:00 AM [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] Generative AI has been around for a few years, but it hit the higher ed scene in a big way in 2022 with GPT 3.5. All of a sudden, it seemed, artificial intelligence was becoming more than science fiction. Useful tools became available to the average person, and the imperative to understand and join …
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[ad_1] University of Southern California The Berkshire Conference of Women Historians is an acclaimed meeting for female historians. It was founded in 1973, and its meetings attract a who’s who of women in the field of history. This year, a racially inflammatory comment by a senior faculty member in women’s history during an opening plenary …
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[ad_1] Three groups in Boston—the Chica Project, the African Community Economic Development of New England and the Greater Boston Latino Network—have asked the Education Department to investigate Harvard University’s practice of operating a legacy admissions program, in which the children of alumni are favored. According to Lawyers for Civil Rights, nearly 70 percent of Harvard’s donor-related …
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