Welcome to your August 2012 Insider Update -- the newsletter for
readers of Inside Higher Ed. Once a month we send a quick rundown on
what's happening at Inside Higher Ed: events, accomplishments and a bit
of fun.
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
Josh Kim's Technology and Learning blog post titled "6 Ways the iPhone Changed Higher Ed" lit
up the social networks and inspired lots of comments -- even a poem! Daniel J.
Myers' essay positing that professors need to care a little more about their sartorial style garnered some plaudits and many
brickbats, but made for a lively discussion. And Scott Jaschik's coverage of a
proposal by two male philosophers of a boycott of conferences that don’t have female
keynoters inspired more comments than any other story we published last month.
BOOK WITH BUZZ
A university administrator's new book looks at students who were
motivated by creativity, not grades, to think deeply and impact others. Click here to read Elise Young's story about the
book (as well as all Inside
Higher Ed's books coverage).
INSIDE HIGHER ED NEWS
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collaborated on this project with Kenneth C. Green, founding director of the
Campus Computing Project.
The Inside
Higher Ed survey of business officers was made possible in part by
the generous financial support of ARAMARK, Ellucian, Inceptia and TIAA-CREF.
OUT AND ABOUT -- On
August 9-10, ACE and the National Association of College and University
Business Officers (NACUBO) will bring together teams of CAOs and CFOs for an
annual two-day workshop to address how to build effective partnerships here in
Washington, DC. Scott Jaschik and Doug Lederman will be presenting a session of
the results of our 2012 Survey of College and University Business Officers and
the 2012 Survey of Chief Academic Officers.
Scott Jaschik and Serena Golden travel to Denver for the annual
conference of the American Sociological Association, taking place August 17-20.
Paul Fain heads to Tampa to cover the Republican National
Convention August 27-30.
Serena hits the road again on August 30, heading to New Orleans
for the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association.
STAFF NEWS -- Inside Higher Ed bids
farewell to reporting intern Elise Young, who's heading back to the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to finish her degree. In her short two months
with us, Elise has covered everything from alumni giving to flexible
engineering degrees to wildfires in Colorado.
Welcome to Kacey Cox, who joined Inside Higher Ed last month as an advertising
associate. Kacey will be working with community colleges, private sector
institutions and our clients in the Western states and outside the U..S. Since
graduating in 2008 from Elon University with a B.A. in English, she has pursued
a variety of professional and academic interests.
RECENT VISITORS --
Things get a little quiet in DC in July. Nevertheless, we hosted several great
visitors last month, including folks from Macalester College, Palm Beach
Atlantic University, the Campaign for College Opportunity, HigherOne, and
Concordia College (MN). We're always happy to host higher education leaders in our
DC offices. Contact Scott at scott.jaschik@insidehighered.com
or Doug at doug.lederman@insidehighered.com
to plan a visit.
INTERACTIVE
FREE WEBINAR
Join us Wednesday, August 29 at 2 p.m. Eastern for a free
webinar reviewing the results of Inside
Higher Ed's 2012 Survey of College and University Business
Officers. Editor Doug Lederman will discuss the survey with R. Gavin Leach,
Vice President for Finance and Administration and Treasurer and Northern
Michigan University.
The Inside
Higher Ed survey of business officers was made possible in part by
the generous financial support of ARAMARK, Ellucian, Inceptia and TIAA-CREF.
Your registration information will be shared with these companies.
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REACHING FIRST GENERATION COLLEGE STUDENTS
An Inside
Higher Ed Webinar
Educators and politicians nationwide are urging colleges and
universities to recruit and graduate a larger share of the population. To do
so, many colleges will have to reach more first generation students – those
whose parents did not attend college.
On Tuesday, August 21 at 1 p.m. EDT, Inside Higher Ed presents a webinar featuring
the authors of "First Generation College Students: Understanding and
Improving the Experience From Recruitment to Commencement" (Jossey-Bass).
Lee Ward (director of career and academic planning at James Madison University
and founder of the university’s Student Learning Institute), Michael J.
Siegel (associate professor and director of the administration of higher
education program at Suffolk University) and Zebulun Davenport (vice chancellor
for student affairs at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis)
will discuss a range of the issues colleges need to know about first generation
students.
The webinar will cover:
- Who are first
generation students?
- What are the challenges
in recruiting and admitting these students?
- What is the
relationship between first generation status and issues of race, ethnicity
and class?
- What services do
first generation students need to succeed once enrolled?
- How can colleges
create a holistic approach to serving these students?
- How can colleges
tell if their efforts succeed?
The presenters will make a 30-minute presentation and then take
questions for 30 minutes. This is an online event – you will not need to dial
in to a conference call to participate.
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Insider Higher Ed: Insider Update - August 2012
College
and university business officers are still surprisingly upbeat about their
institutions’ financial health but they are taking steps to alter their
business models, reflecting a more privatized and market-oriented approach than
before. Read more in Kevin Kiley's article on the 
