Advice on higher education fundraising and HR matters during crises
INSIDE HIGHER ED — Virtually all of higher education is coping with severe disruptions amid the coronavirus pandemic. Several questions about the crisis that readers submitted in response to requests from Inside Higher Ed revolved around teleworking and employment status, or on college fundraising efforts during the crisis.
Read More about Advice on higher education fundraising and HR matters during crisesChanges in enrollment demographics require faculty to adapt to student needs
INSIDE HIGHER ED — As demographics shift, the experiences of more and more students resemble those of faculty members less and less. How can faculty adapt to ensure these students succeed in a suddenly changing world, and how can institutions help?
Read More about Changes in enrollment demographics require faculty to adapt to student needsCoalition of college associations call for suspension of Department of Education financial standing measures
INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION — Higher education groups push the Education Department to suspend measure of colleges’ financial standing, and the department releases new proposed rules on distance education.
Read More about Coalition of college associations call for suspension of Department of Education financial standing measuresHow the stimulus bill in Congress affects higher education
THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION — Congress is poised to give colleges and students whose semesters were upended by the coronavirus pandemic more than $14 billion in emergency relief, according to the text of a spending deal struck on Tuesday night by the White House and the U.S. Senate.
Read More about How the stimulus bill in Congress affects higher educationFederal student loan payments suspended through September
BUZZFEED — Americans will get a six-month reprieve from federal student loan payments as the coronavirus pandemic leads to job losses and economic turmoil nationwide.
Read More about Federal student loan payments suspended through SeptemberHow to help students struggling with online learning
THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION — As instructors across the country move to remote teaching, many are worried about students who are already at a disadvantage. How can professors support them during this challenging time?
Read More about How to help students struggling with online learningSome student loan borrowers left out of Congressional stimulus proposal
INSIDE HIGHER ED — Although help for student borrowers in Congress’s massive economic stimulus package has been widely publicized, including a six-month reprieve from making loan payments, more than a million people with loans may be surprised to learn they will not get any relief under the new measure.
Read More about Some student loan borrowers left out of Congressional stimulus proposalEducation tech experts discuss the transition to online learning at universities
INSIDE HIGHER ED — Last week in this space, I asked a group of thoughtful observers a set of questions about what colleges’ sudden, widespread shift to remote learning might mean for the future of online education. The column seemed to strike a chord with a lot of readers — many positively.
Read More about Education tech experts discuss the transition to online learning at universitiesA look at privacy issues with transition to online courses and services
INSIDE HIGHER ED — Ensuring the software colleges are now using doesn’t violate the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, or FERPA, is one key issue, according to Amelia Vance, director of youth and education privacy at the Future of Privacy Forum. Another issue is the potential for increased surveillance of students as colleges switch from…
Read More about A look at privacy issues with transition to online courses and servicesFaculty discuss complications with transition to online courses
INSIDE HIGHER ED — Remote work is proving difficult for many professors, given the circumstances and despite some early predictions to the contrary. What institutions are doing and can start doing to ease the pressure.
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