All of Dickinson State’s nursing school resign

All seven full-time nursing school members at Dickinson State College in North Dakota resigned Wednesday in response to excessive workloads and accreditation considerations, in keeping with KFYR-TV, Bismarck’s NBC affiliate.  The resignations are a part of a wider school backlash to new credit score hour manufacturing necessities and an elevated minimal variety of college students…

Tulane, U of San Diego non–tenure-track college unionize

Non–tenure-track college members at two extra non-public universities have voted to unionize. At Tulane College, full-time educating college members voted 146 to 29 to unionize, the college stated. The brand new union, Tulane Employees United, is affiliated with the Service Staff Worldwide Union (SEIU). The votes have been counted Tuesday. After the election, a college…

Hiring {Couples} Could Diversify College Ranks, Tenure Pipeline

Jill Fisher and Torin Monahan have been collectively since they met in graduate faculty at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute within the early 2000s. 20 years later, they’re each tenured professors on the College of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the place Fisher makes a speciality of social medication and Monahan makes a speciality of communications. UNC…

Minoritized school ought to get extra equitable counteroffers (opinion)

College variety points in increased training have all the time been about not solely recruitment but additionally retention. Faculties and universities stay centered on and structured for the white males, whose numbers are approaching 40 % of all school members at increased training establishments in the USA. White girls are the opposite greatest beneficiary of the…

AI, on-line programs divide college students, school, directors

College students proceed to want in-person and hybrid studying over absolutely distant instruction, however professors want in-person instruction by a considerably better margin. Photograph illustration by Justin Morrison/Inside Increased Ed | Getty Photographs Greater than 4 years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, college students’ views on digital studying proceed to vary considerably from…