#highered

NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01396-2

#HigherEd #academia #AcademicChatter

HAPPY MAY DAY to all my fellow workers.

Fight the Republican war on labor. Also, fight the fucking Democratic war on labor too

#mayday #union #labor #highered

#HigherED #AI #change #edtech

Provocative opener:

"Could artificial intelligence drive higher education institutions to dispense with grading and refocus attention on empathy and learning, thereby reshaping colleges and universities...?"

@kate quoted: "The thing is, in universities we have all the engineers, computer scientists, artists, linguists, ethicists, economists and historians you could hope for in a time of complex change. We can lead, except we don't."

https://er.educause.edu/articles/2025/2/an-ai-driven-optimism-for-transforming-higher-education-its-not-what-you-think

Why GJSD?
Global reach (DOAJ, ERIH Plus, OpenAIRE, Google Scholar)
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Interdisciplinary & international
Free-to-read & free-to-publish

Share with your networks and colleagues—let’s co-create knowledge for quality education and decent work!

#AcademicChatter #PeerReview #CallForSubmissions #HigherEd #GJSD

Every single semester it goes by faster. And I finish a little more tired. Lots of things have changed. But It never gets any less rewarding.

#highered #teaching

Courage and leadership, like that shown by Emerald Publishing, are sorely needed now. #Publishers, please look at Emerald's inspiring efforts to #DefendResearch and do the same! #ScholComm #Academia #HigherEd https://emeraldgrouppublishing.com/defendresearch

https://youtube.com/shorts/iY5gWHpsLzQ

I think they buried the lead.
Education scarcity is a myth.

#HigherEd #Endowment #Colleges #Elitism

New Report From Ithaka S+R: Making #AI Generative for Higher #Education: Adoption and Challenges Among Instructors and Researchers
https://www.infodocket.com/2025/05/01/new-report-from-ithaka-sr-making-ai-generative-for-higher-education-adoption-and-challenges-among-instructors-and-researchers/ #GenAI #highered #libraries @ithaka_sr

https://qz.com/us-travel-tourism-revenue-airlines-tariffs-trade-ice-1851778550 “There has already been an 11% year-over-year decline in enrollment of foreign students between this March and last, according to the Institute of Educational Enrollment. The organization expects the drop to result in a loss of up to $4 billion in spending.” #travel #HigherEd #ICE #detention #recession #USPolitics

#SaveYouAClick: If you are NOT wealthy, either skip going to college OR go get your #HigherEd overseas (what I'd have done had I known then what I know now).

> Pluralistic: Republicans want to force students to pay off scam college loans (30 Apr 2025) https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/30/trump-u/

#GOP #PartyOfStupid #academia #BadEconomy #JuiceLoans #exploitation #corruption #ThisIsAmerica #Gringoville #scams

New in our electronic #collection:

The #University and the Algorithmic Gaze

https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/151824

How #digital #data and algorithms are transforming higher #education at institutional and individual levels, affecting #communication, #learning, and #knowledge creation through an #interdisciplinary lens.

#BigData #algorithm #HigherEd #semiotics #communication #analytics #audit #performativity #surveillance

#SF #BayArea edu institutions like #UCBerkeley take hits from #DOGE cutbacks as #Drumpf claims U.S. colleges are “dominated by #Marxist maniacs,” and #MelonHusk derides federal funding as enabling schools to “practice de facto #communism

https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/04/28/doge-cuts-hit-san-jose-state-uc-berkeley-uc-san-francisco-researcher-says-i-dont-know-that-they-understood-what-i-was-doing/?share=esooaooostculeereeeg #GiftLink #Shared Story #HigherEd

Purposeful, meaningful, challenging, engaging are four adjectives I see and hear applied to curriculum we should be designing. I don’t hear them applied by #students often enough. #highschool #HigherEducation #highered

Attention #HigherEd #EdTech community working in #OpenSource. Tthe OSPO Alliance, and they've invited our campus members to join them for an online webinar on the EU Commission's work with open source.

@OSPOAlliance @gijs @EUCommission

Tuition fees for students outside #Quebec: Pascal Déry pondering appeal to court ruling

« Higher Education Minister Pascale Déry has not ruled out appealing the Quebec Superior Court’s decision that overturned the tuition fee increase for students from other Canadian provinces. »

#highered #montreal

https://montreal.citynews.ca/2025/04/29/tuition-fees-outside-quebec-pascal-dery/

Wrote a little opinion piece on USC's financial austerity (preceding, but worsened by federal cuts). We argue that high-paid administrators should take pay cuts, not balance the budget on the backs of faculty and staff at the lower end of the pay scale!
https://morningtrojan.com/p/usc-financial-crisis-austerity?_bhlid=ff7b79f74567af71b4aa90131f48eb098a862f15

#USCAAUP #HigherEd #academia #USC

In their ongoing attack on #HigherEd House GOP Propose $330B in Cuts to Higher Ed Programs - #Academia #AcademicChatter #Universities #Research #DOE #Science https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/student-aid-policy/2025/04/29/house-gop-propose-330b-cuts-higher-ed-programs

In the #BadEconomy. As usual, survey, so caveats may apply.

> Survey: Financial Struggles Impede Students’ Academic Progress https://www.insidehighered.com/news/student-success/college-experience/2025/04/29/college-students-lack-housing-food-reliable

#academia #HigherEd

FOSSY CFP Extended to May 5th.

If you work with or support #OpenSource--or other open initiatives (#OER, #OpenScience, etc.) in #HigherEducation, @conservancy's annual #FOSSY Conference is an ideal place to share your work, find colleagues, and grow your network.

Please consider submitting a proposal to present your interests, ideas, and insights. Apereo is organizing a #FOSS for #Education for #HigherEd oriented projects, developers, faculty, and researchers.

See: https://2025.fossy.us/

Metacognition requires awareness of one’s processes and control of those to be applied and regulated to improve thinking in other settings or for other problems. This is a far more rich construct than is used by many teachers. #education #teaching #highered #highschool