Approaching the summer of 2024, many had hoped this would be a joyful transition of finally emerging from the long shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic that disrupted all our lives for years. College and high school seniors looked forward to celebrating their accomplishments with family and friends at graduation ceremonies. Instead, for many young people,…
While the new VACs will initially focus on providing biometric collections, it will expand its services to transmit and track passports and other documents. Applicants will still be able to access all the services at Canada’s existing VAC in Mexico City. “With these new centres, Mexico will have four VACs located in the country’s three…
Listen to the article 6 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Emily Rawers is the director of undergraduate recruitment and admissions at the University of Cincinnati’s College of Engineering & Applied Science. More than 80% of four-year colleges and universities are test-optional in the U.S., many of which…
Listen to the article 2 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: A Louisiana law signed this week to require public K-12 and postsecondary classrooms to display the Ten Commandments was quickly met by vows from civil liberty organizations to sue the state. The American Civil Liberties…
Fielding a college or university’s administrative processes can feel as confusing as navigating campus as a first-day freshman. Amidst tuition inflation and a historic student loan crisis, leaders in education must embrace innovation to demonstrate value and place the student experience as a top priority. This doesn’t need to be a sweeping system overhaul. It can be…
Introduction to Bloom’s Taxonomy The statement, “A fish definitely cannot be assessed for its ability to climb a tree,” is a starting point for our discussion on the absurdity of using one-size-fits-all methods in education. Learning practices and evaluation techniques are revolutionized by Bloom’s Taxonomy, which emerges as a beacon of educational change in today’s…
Today, universities are striving hard to fulfill the high standards set by the millennial generation. Rather than dull and mundane campus life, students demand a vibrant campus community that retains them till the end. Among the other facilities, students want well-organized, safe, and interesting housing options, often termed student residence management, housing management, or dormitory…
Why do TED Talks captivate us so consistently? TED Talks captivate us because their speakers apply fundamental principles of communication that, I believe, 99% of speakers fail to follow. Because teaching is first and foremost about communication, these principles apply just as well to teaching, especially to online teaching with videos. Photos Imagery, in either…
A June 19 Fox News poll contained surprisingly good news for Joe Biden. It found that the President now has a two-point lead over Donald Trump and that “Biden’s current 50% support is his best this election cycle; he hasn’t been ahead of Trump since October 2023 and that was by just 1 point (49%-48%).”…
The nature and extent of content in faculty-wide teaching and resources for participant-based undergraduate dissertations. Dissertations and their supervision may rightly be very individual. In higher education, whenever standardization as a marker for quality conflicts with fitness for purpose, the latter should ideally prevail. The value of striking a balance between freedom and structure in…