CONAHEC News and Information

Study Abroad Numbers Continue Steady Increase
Monday, Nov. 18, 2019

A total of 341,751 students studied abroad for credit in 2017-18, representing a 2.7 percent increase from the previous academic year, according to the annual "Open Doors" report, published by the Institute of International Education with funding from the U.S. Department of State.

The number of students studying abroad has grown steadily over the last 25 years. IIE estimates that about 10.9 percent of all undergraduates (including community college students), and 16 percent of all students enrolled in baccalaureate programs, study abroad at some point during their degree program.

A Move Toward Greater Diversity in Deanships
Monday, Nov. 18, 2019

When Valerie Kinloch was named dean of the School of Education at the University of Pittsburgh, in July 2017, she did not know she was the first black female dean at the university. A former vice provost at Pitt who wanted to interview her brought it to her attention. "At first I was floored" by the news, she says, "and then that quickly became something that motivated me."

Higher EducationÔÇÖs Enemy Within
Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2019

American higher education seems to be in a permanent state of crisis. Almost monthly, a federal court has occasion to reprimand some college or university for improperly chilling speech, even as some students continue to complain that campuses are too friendly to the wrong kind of speakers. Many institutions have cut back on faculty hiring, even as the cost of tuition grows. Two basic, and mutually reinforcing, phenomena are behind the chaos on campus.

Internationalization of Higher Education in the New Political Climate
Monday, Oct. 28, 2019

In 2018, the International Association of Universities (IAU) conducted its Global Survey on Internationalization of higher education, the fifth in a series that began in 2003. It is also the first one that reflects the changing political climate in many parts of the world. In the following essay, we note several of the patterns that appeared with specific attention to North America.

Great Arts at Eastern this week talks with Diego Gonzalez and Alla Parsons of the CONAHEC exchange
Monday, Oct. 28, 2019

This week on Great Arts at Eastern, Jeff Gentry talks with Diego Gonzalez and Alla Parsons of the CONAHEC exchange (Consortium for North American Higher Education Collaboration).

Diego talks about while he was teaching at Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja in Loja, Ecuador talks about how he was introduced to Alla Parsons through the CONAHEC program.

DeVos held in contempt for violating judge's order on student loans
Monday, Oct. 28, 2019

A federal judge on Thursday held Education Secretary Betsy DeVos in contempt of court and imposed a $100,000 fine for violating an order to stop collecting on the student loans owed by students of a defunct for-profit college. 

The exceedingly rare judicial rebuke of a Cabinet secretary came after the Trump administration was forced to admit to the court earlier this year that it erroneously collected on the loans of some 16,000 borrowers who attended Corinthian Colleges despite being ordered to stop doing so.

Trump Education Official to Resign and Call to Cancel Student Debt
Thursday, Oct. 24, 2019

A senior Education Department official who oversees the U.S. student loan program will announce his resignation on Thursday and call for the cancellation of the nation’s student debt, according to the Wall Street Journal.

A. Wayne Johnson was appointed chief operating officer of the Office of Federal Student Aid in 2017 by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. Johnson remained in his position for seven months, during which time he oversaw $1.5 trillion in student loans, before becoming chief strategy and transformation officer for the agency.

ENMU Professors Participate in CONAHEC Faculty Exchange Program
Monday, May. 13, 2019

Eastern New Mexico University faculty members Dr. Mark Viner, assistant professor of educational technology, and Jessica Gerlach, assistant professor of art in graphic design, recently participated in the Consortium for North American Higher Education (CONAHEC) Faculty Exchange Program.

The primary mission of CONAHEC is to foster academic collaboration among institutions, organizations and agencies of higher education in Canada, Mexico and the United States. CONAHEC also promotes linkages between North America and higher education entities around the world.

One million species threatened with extinction because of humans
Tuesday, May. 07, 2019

One million of the planet's eight million species are threatened with extinction by humans, scientists warned Monday in what is described as the most comprehensive assessment of global nature loss ever. 

Need a college degree to get a job? These companies say skills matter more
Tuesday, May. 07, 2019

BOSTON — Ryan Tillman-French sat at his seventh-floor desk early on a Thursday morning, the skyscrapers of downtown Boston crowding the windows behind him.

On a laptop in the nearly empty office, he worked on code for a webpage he was developing for his employer, the learning materials company Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. In half an hour, he needed to join a conference call about changes to the company’s website.

He had been at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for four months. Coding he liked. Meetings, not so much.

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