By Michael Stratford. A top Education Department official on Thursday faced tough questions from several Senate Democrats over how the department oversees the companies it hires to manage the payments of student loan borrowers.By Colleen Flaherty. Do professors at George Washington University have a bullying problem? The new chair of its Board of Trustees might think so, and he's expressed concern that non-tenure-track faculty members are on the receiving end of that bullying. To address the issue, the chair has said he's taking steps to extend academic freedom and greater access to shared governance to those without tenure. While some faculty applaud the new focus on non-tenure-track faculty concerns, others have questioned the validity of the chair's findings and the board’s involvement in faculty-faculty relations. Read more...
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The second Future Directions conference takes place next week at Aberystwyth University, on 2 and 3 April.
The conference is one of the most important events in the HEA Wales calendar; bringing together sector agencies, students and institutions in Wales to help shape future collaborative work to ensure the best possible learning experience for all Wales’ students. The conference will feature a series of paper, poster, nano-teach, discussion and workshop sessions as well as student panels and keynote speeches. There will also be an HEA Wales showcase event, at which the new Future Directions theme – Global Graduates: Enabling Flexible Learning will be launched by Professor Clive Mulholland, Chair of Higher Education Wales Pro-Vice-Chancellor Learning & Teaching Advisory Group, and a conference dinner’. More...
A zombified keynote for the HEA’s third annual Arts and Humanities conference is announced today, along with the chance for students to be part of a large-scale audio-visual presentation at the Imperial War Museum North.
Jesse Stommel, Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities at University of Wisconsin-Madison will give the day two keynote speech at the conference which takes place in Manchester, 2-4 June. Jesse’s work focuses on lifelong learning and the public digital humanities, and he is Founder, Director, and CEO of Hybrid Pedagogy: a digital journal of learning, teaching, and technology. He co-created the "epic zombiefied experiment in Twitter literacy, gamification, collaboration, and emergent learning" Twitter vs Zombies, and his Heroes and Monsters keynote will be ‘Zombie Pedagogies: Embodied Learning in the Digital Age’. More...
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