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- Inside Higher Ed is headed to Salt Lake City, UT on 6/9-11 for #THEdigitalUS! Sara Custer, Colleen Flaherty and @kathrynpalmer.bsky.social will be speaking and moderating at several of the event’s sessions. 🎟️ Register for $250 with code 5WEEKS (ends 5/16): bit.ly/4kjwJgo Part 2/2
- ICYMI | House Republicans on the Ways and Means Committee released the full version of a long-awaited tax bill Monday that does for higher ed exactly what they suggested it would in a draft version Friday: dramatically increase the excise... Read more ➡️ #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/3ZkNOye
- Opinion | SB 37 and the Criminalization of Capitalist Indoctrination: A Faculty Memo Brent D. Beal shares an urgent update on pending Texas legislation. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/43cKjLw
- Student Success | Listen: Learning to Bridge Differences by Talking to Strangers In the latest episode of Voices of Student Success, a professor talks about her course that takes students into unfamiliar towns via railway to engage in conversation... #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4do77Nc
- Inside Higher Ed is headed to Salt Lake City, UT on 6/9-11 for #THEdigitalUS! Sara Custer, Colleen Flaherty and @kathrynpalmer.bsky.social will be speaking and moderating at several of the event’s sessions. 🎟️ Register for $250 with code 5WEEKS (ends 5/16): bit.ly/4kjwJgo Part 1/2
- HBCU Students Call for More Safety Measures After Shooting Students at Elizabeth City State University are calling on the University of North Carolina system and university leaders to enhance campus security. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4j7QaYy
- IUBloomington Asked Faculty Taking Buyouts to Sign NDAs The agreements, which have raised academic freedom advocates’ eyebrows, said that those wanting a voluntary retirement payout can’t criticize the university or any of its employees. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4ke4Oip
- Amid DEI Crackdown, Students Hold Their Own Affinity Graduations Colleges have scrapped affinity graduation celebrations as Trump targets DEI and state bans take effect, but new traditions may be starting. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/3GTitwt
- Career Advice Reminder | Revitalizing the Later Years in Academe It’s a time when faculty can make new and different contributions than before, yet most institutions don’t approach the academic life cycle that way, writes Kenneth N. McKay. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/3YNhrZ0
- ICYMI | Ask any parent or prospective student and they’ll likely tell you that between opaque financial aid calculations, questions about degree value and the murky student loan system, paying for college is not a straightforward process... Read more ➡️ #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/3EReS1l
- Opinion | Office Hours: An Old Tool for New Challenges Rethinking office hours and how we talk about them can unlock new opportunities for improving student learning, Jeremy Hsu writes. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/3FanJev
- Student Success | 6 Strategies for Black Student Success A recent report by the Campaign for College Opportunity encourages systemic measures to close equity gaps in Black student completion. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/3ESH2sN
- Independent Applicants: A Growing but Underserved Pool The number of adult learners and other independent students applying to college has doubled in under a decade. The trouble, a new report suggests, is getting them to enroll. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4j6BHvZ
- House Republicans Finalize Plan to Increase Endowment Tax Up to 21% The plan has been in the works for weeks and now will face a committee markup Tuesday. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4dgs7oY
- Trump Sends Mixed Signals on Apprenticeships An executive order assured apprenticeship and workforce development advocates that their goals were a priority. But Trump’s recent budget proposal leaves them uncertain. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4mdrj8r
- Colleges Spend Heavily on Lobbying Amid conflict with the Trump administration, many institutions have increased federal lobbying efforts, in some cases doubling or tripling what they spent in the first quarter of 2024. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4dgg9f2
- Career Advice | So You Want to Be a Disrupter Jeffrey Herbst offers advice for how college leaders can prepare themselves for bruising battles over controversial changes in institutional direction. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/43bhKht
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- Don’t miss @kathrynpalmer.bsky.social’s sessions at #THEdigitalUS on 6/9-11 in Salt Lake City! Explore how #highered can drive innovation in teaching and learning & design student- and faculty-centered digital solutions. 🎟️ Get tix for $250 w/code 5WEEKS (ends 5/16): bit.ly/4jUAglv
- Significant Endowment Tax Increase Looms The current endowment excise tax of 1.4 percent could soon expand to numerous institutions and soar to as high as 21 percent for some, depending on value per student. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/3ENzPu4
- Opinion | The Higher Ed Nomenklatura? A narrow track and a small leadership circuit shapes, or rather misshapes, U.S. higher education, Hollis Robbins writes. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4kiKT1b
- Student Success | Colleges Invest in Range of Basic Needs Programs As more college students report struggling with financial obligations, institutions are thinking outside the box to meet their needs. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4kgSddL
- Survey: Americans Disapprove of Higher Ed Attacks The survey, which also shows a low overall approval rating for the president, indicates that Americans see the value in universities’ scientific research and consider tuition the biggest problem with... #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4j2QNTh
- Can Scientific Research Survive Without Federal Funding? Universities are offering temporary relief to researchers whose projects have been disrupted by federal funding cuts. But it won't help in the long term, and experts say industry and... #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/43d0UPl
- Congress Could Make Paying for College Even More Complicated House Republicans proposed sweeping changes to financial aid, federal loans and program cost estimates that could make paying for college more challenging and expensive. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/42SW3nv
- Career Advice | The Power of Reflection and Intentionality Reflection is a critical career-planning skill to cultivate while in graduate school and beyond, Lauren Lyon and Amruta Inamdar write. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4m6Mbhr
- Join Colleen Flaherty & @kathrynpalmer.bsky.social at #THEdigitalUS on 6/9-11 for a masterclass on how #highered CTOs are balancing innovation, security & institutional mission in an era of rapid tech disruption. 🎟️ Sign up by 5/16 with code 5WEEKS to get tix for $250: bit.ly/452vLjZ
- ICYMI | President Donald Trump’s administration is making drastic budget cuts and ideologically driven priority changes at the NSF in the name of saving taxpayers money and rooting out diversity, equity and inclusion efforts... Read more ➡️ #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/43eOYwz
- Student Success | Funding Student Success: Grant Fuels Mental Health Crisis Intervention Team Southern Illinois University will designate trained staff members to respond to student mental health crises. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4iUqEWo
- Education Dept. Cancels Fulbright-Hays Applications, at Least for Now The grant programs have supported the international research of students and scholars for more than 60 years. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/3Stc4dH
- A Year After the Encampments, More Arrests at @columbiauniversity.bsky.social and UW Though they’re nowhere near as prevalent as they were a year ago, some pro-Palestinian campus protests have resumed to recognize the one-year anniversary of the... #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/43lEYTg
- Career Advice Reminder | Overcoming Academe’s Addiction to Addition It’s an unsustainable management strategy, writes Vicki L. Baker, and administrators should instead establish systems to ensure workloads remain manageable. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/3EU4MwD
- Conservatives Clash Over Ono Hire at University of Florida Santa Ono appears poised to jump from the University of Michigan to the top job at the University of Florida. But some powerful conservative figures have concerns over DEI. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/3EYUNpI
- Opinion | Why First-Year Comp Classes Give Me Hope Imagine the kinds of critical thinkers we could graduate if we put expository writing courses at the center of the curriculum, Deborah Lindsay Williams writes. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4m1FH3n
- Opinion | Why I Chose the University of Florida Santa J. Ono explains why he’s pursuing the University of Florida presidency. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4k5iTOl
- Student Success | Report: Instructors Want More Guidance on AI Usage A recent report from Ithaka S+R finds professors are increasingly engaging with generative AI but want more support navigating its application and AI policy in the classroom. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/3YA7LAU
- Britain’s High Visa Costs Threaten to Deter U.S. Scholars Following science funding cuts by the Trump administration, a House of Lords committee is urging the government to make it cheaper for... Read the latest from @timeshighered.bsky.social ➡️ #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4kfeRmR
- The First U.S. Campus in India Is Finally Opening Five years after India opened the door for American colleges, the @illinoistech.bsky.social became the first to accept the invitation. What’s taking other institutions so long? #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/3Sw0DBW
- 4 Takeaways From the Latest Antisemitism Hearing The presidents of @calpolyslo.bsky.social, DePaul and Haverford avoided the major missteps seen in earlier hearings, while Democrats directed their criticisms... #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4m80Mcm
- Trump Is Using Title IX as a ‘Battering Ram,’ Experts Say From the quick turnaround of the investigation to the nature of the demands, the Office for Civil Rights is showing a new approach to handling Title IX cases. Colleges should take note. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4jJIzQO
- Career Advice | Scholarship Thrives on Peripheral Vision Don’t be limited by what’s straight ahead, David Labaree writes. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4m5Wxyf
- ICYMI | April brought deep cuts to universities in Florida, Michigan and elsewhere. Although changes driven by the Trump administration that have included cutting grant funding and capping research reimbursement costs have driven hiring... Read more ➡️ #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4kcGgWz
- Don’t miss @insidehighered.com’s @saracuster.bsky.social at Digital Universities US 2025 on 6/9-11 in Salt Lake City, as she moderates the opening keynote, “Bracing for Change: Trump 2.0, Tech and Higher Education.” 🎤 Learn more: bit.ly/3Z2fOqc 🎟 Register: bit.ly/4k4GCOD
- Opinion | Can ‘Fear Equity’ Revive Campus Free Speech? Now both the left and right have incentives to fight censors, Lee Jussim and Robert Maranto write. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4iOblyr
- Student Success | Celebrating Student Creations, Research and Work The @albany.edu hosted its third annual Showcase Day, recognizing the creative and innovative work of students across disciplines. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/435v9aG
- Students Without a Degree Value Higher Ed, but Barriers Remain A new report from the @luminafoundation.bsky.social and Gallup finds that nearly half of students not currently in college are likely to enroll in a postsecondary program over the next... #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4m59KY5
- Deciphering the Trump Administration’s Latest Letter to @harvard.edu In a scathing missive, McMahon called the university a “mockery” and vowed to cut off all federal grant funding. We asked some of our sources to weigh in on what it means. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4jE1vR2
- CalPoly, DePaulU and Haverford Head to Capitol Hill Three institutions will face a Republican-led committee that alleges they allowed antisemitism to go unchecked on campus. Prior hearings have been damaging for colleges. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4k8gUJl
- TRIO on the Chopping Block The Trump administration wants to eliminate the federally funded student support program. That could be devastating for low-income students and the institutions that serve them. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/43hgOJE
- Career Advice | Beyond the Research-Teaching Divide: Practical Steps for Educators Sam Illingworth suggests five low-lift strategies for integrating research into teaching. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/44rtXRy
