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15 juillet 2013

Transgender student files rights complaint

By Oliver Sachgau.Claims U of M wrongly turfed him from program. A transgender student has launched a human rights complaint against the University of Manitoba's inner-city social work program after he said he was forced out by the administration. Damien Leggett was transitioning from female to male when he started attending the program in 2010. He said his problems started when a professor in his program didn't refer to him by the male pronoun.

"I wasn't expecting it to be perfect, but once it was brought to the professors' attention several times that this is really painful to me... But to be fair, most of the professors there were amenable to learning," Leggett said. Read more...

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15 juillet 2013

Moving beyond a binary view of MOOCs

By Bonnie Stewart. Understanding MOOCs as a battle between marketization and traditional higher education blocks us from envisioning other viable futures for higher education. In the ongoing buzz and backlash around MOOCs (massive open online courses) clogging higher education news these days, the narratives are hardening. Dialogue around change in higher education increasingly centres on the illusion of a simple divide: the business model of disruption vs. the status quo of college, idealized. One side heralds revolution and increased democratic access to education: a glorious future, largely defined in corporate terms. The other side, unswayed by business jargon, defends its historical territory by painting MOOCs as corporate behemoths of privatization and bad online pedagogy.
There’s truth on both sides. But taken up as the two poles of a binary horizon, these narratives stifle vision. They incline us to understand the big picture around MOOCs – and whatever follows MOOCs in the flavor of the month parade – as one of marketization vs. traditional institutional education, full-stop. That binary stands in the way of envisioning viable alternate futures for higher education. Read more...

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15 juillet 2013

Tuition increase necessary

By Jenni Vincent. Although it's been less than a month since state officials approved tuition increases for five West Virginia colleges, Shepherd University President Dr. Suzanne Shipley said the idea of asking for more money from students wasn't easy and wasn't something that was undertaken without a lot of collective discussion. But it was necessary due to changing budgetary and market considerations, factors that are impacting Shepherd as well as other higher education institutions, she said.
"We've got some very interesting trends crossing each other and they simply can not be ignored," Shipley said. Read more...

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15 juillet 2013

Riding The Wave

By Margaret Andrews. How is online executive education like surfing? According to UNICON, whose “Riding the Wave of Online Executive Education” workshop I’m attending this week, “The wave of online education has come crashing onto the shores of the Executive and Higher Education communities. The challenge ahead is to determine whether we will learn to ride the wave, watch the wave from the shore, or be swept under by it.” Much of the discussion in the sessions – and in the hallways – mimics what we read in the media about online education in general and about MOOCs, in particular. Read more...

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14 juillet 2013

Measuring Quality and Performance: What Counts?

By Liz Reisberg. There has been a rash of articles in the press about the ways we might measure the effectiveness of a university education, often judging the success of higher education by the employment results of graduates. There have been several articles about the failure of higher education in China to guarantee jobs to graduates. The Voluntary Institutional Metrics Project also emphasizes post-graduate employment among the items (below) to be evaluated that include. Read more...

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14 juillet 2013

Study Abroad Positively Impacts Personality, Study Says

Students who spend a semester or year abroad show positive changes in their personality, according to a new study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Researchers at Germany’s Friedrich Schiller University Jena surveyed more than 1,100 students, including 527 who studied abroad and a control group of 607 who did not, on measures associated with the “Big Five” personality traits (agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, extraversion, and openness). Read more...

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14 juillet 2013

OECD Finds Strengths, Weaknesses in U.S. Career-Related Education

The U.S. system of providing career-related postsecondary training has both strengths and weaknesses, according to a report released Wednesday by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. "Extensive decentralization gives rise to many strengths, to diverse and flexible forms of provision meeting the needs of many groups of learners, to a rich field of policy development and innovation, involving state governments and many non-government organizations. The quality of data analysis and academic research available to support policy development is clearly outstanding," the report says. Read more...

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14 juillet 2013

Cost Estimate Threatens Student Loan Compromise

A tentative deal reached late Wednesday night to tie interest rates on federal student loans to the market seemed ready to collapse late Thursday, after the Congressional Budget Office estimated the compromise's costs at $22 billion over 10 years, The New York Times reported. The proposal worked out in Wednesday's compromise would tie interest rates on subsidized undergraduate Stafford loans to the yield on 10-year Treasury bills plus 1.8 percentage points (with rates for graduate and PLUS loans would be slightly higher), and the rates for all loans would be capped. Read more...

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14 juillet 2013

CFO Survey Reveals Doubts About Financial Sustainability

By Doug Lederman. Hardly a day goes by without some author or commentator predicting that the end is nigh for higher education, or significant portions of it. Such predictions understandably grate on many administrators and professors. But what do those with the closest eyes on their own institutions' bottom lines -- chief college and university business officers -- think? Turns out they're not particularly upbeat, either -- about their own colleges' futures or the higher education landscape more generally. In a new survey by Inside Higher Ed and Gallup, barely a quarter of campus chief financial officers (27 percent) express strong confidence in the viability of their institution's financial model over five years, and that number drops in half (to 13 percent) when they are asked to look out over a 10-year horizon. Read more...

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14 juillet 2013

The Gender Lens

ByColleen Flaherty. There’s no shortage of explanations for the so-called crisis in the humanities, and more have come to light since the publication of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences' recent “Heart of the Matter” report on the topic. But one higher education blogger’s unconventional explanation – that the humanities drain is more about women’s equality than a devaluation of the humanities – is gaining particular interest from longtime advocates of the humanities, as well as some criticism. Read more...

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