As regulation around #TranscriptWithholding changes, 90% of institutions in states without bans are planning to change their policies or practices to comply with the new federal rule. Read what the change could look like for colleges and universities in a report by James Ward and Wendy Kilgore, Ph.D., in collaboration with AACRAO and funded by Lumina Foundation: https://lnkd.in/gFXi5Nwp
About us
Ithaka S+R is a not-for-profit service that helps the academic and cultural communities serve the public good and navigate economic, technological, and demographic change. Our work–offering research and strategic guidance–has been instrumental in helping leaders in education know what is coming next, learn from rigorous and well-designed research studies, and adapt to new realities and opportunities. Our aim is to broaden access to higher education by reducing costs while also improving student outcomes. We work with universities and colleges as well as the institutions that support teaching and research—libraries, publishing organizations, cultural institutions, and scholarly societies. Ithaka S+R is part of ITHAKA, not-for-profit organization that works with the global higher education community to advance and preserve knowledge and to improve teaching and learning through the use of digital technologies.
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http://sr.ithaka.org
External link for Ithaka S+R
- Industry
- Higher Education
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- New York, NY
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Specialties
- Libraries, Scholarly Communication, Higher Education Administration, Strategic Guidance, and Academic Teaching and Research
Locations
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Primary
6 East 32nd Street
10th Floor
New York, NY 10016, US
Employees at Ithaka S+R
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Roger Schonfeld
VP at Ithaka, Strategist, Advisor, Board Member | Leading Scholarly Communication Innovations and Organizational Strategy
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Patrick Masson
Excutive Director at Apereo Foundation
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Michael Fried, PhD
Senior Researcher at Ithaka S+R
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Oya Y. Rieger
Senior Strategist at Ithaka S+R
Updates
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Since 2021, concerns about academic freedom and free speech on college campuses have continued to grow, but there’s limited data on how #faculty are being affected. A special section of our 2024 Instructor Survey presents a deep dive on censorship and self-censorship in college teaching, sharing perspectives from 2,605 instructors on the state of academic freedom in #highered. Read insights from Ioana Hulbert, PhD and Ess Pokornowski: https://lnkd.in/gMZ3jekN
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"A new project is exploring how #CommunityCollege and public #libraries can collaborate more on promoting and providing services and resources to better serve their communities." New in Community College Daily, read about our project uncovering opportunities for #library collaboration to expand #BasicNeeds support, funded by ECMC Foundation: https://lnkd.in/e_7qe6fE
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Today, the typical college student accumulates credits from a variety of sources and across multiple institutions before earning a credential. How can the #highered community better serve an increasingly mobile student body? In collaboration with Complete College America and with funding from Ascendium Education Group, our latest project will surface concrete steps to advance policies, technology, and practices that promote a student-centered, holistic approach to #CreditMobility. Learn more from Elise Miller McNeely, Madeline Trimble, and Pooja Patel: https://lnkd.in/gXfNmNCS
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"That’s one of the explicit goals of the program, to adopt a collective impactive approach, to break down silos, and facilitate practice-sharing.” For Diverse: Issues In Higher Education, Ithaka S+R's Ifeatu Oliobi, PhD discusses how the Kessler Scholars Collaborative positively impacts #firstgen students, drawing from a recent evaluation of the program: https://lnkd.in/g5DbR95V
Kessler Collaborative Breaks Down Silos to Help First-Generation Students
diverseeducation.com
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“There is a clear opportunity for both public and community college #libraries to further enhance their support for community basic needs.” To uncover approaches to potential library collaboration, we developed an inventory of #BasicNeeds resources and services offered on public and #CommunityCollege library websites, with support from ECMC Foundation. Read the full report from Sindy Lopez, Sage Love, and Melissa Blankstein to learn how libraries are supporting patrons’ basic needs and how collaboration could make a difference for their communities: https://lnkd.in/eZCCNY4w
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"Metrics can provide valuable information, enabling better support and awareness of #transfer students’ successes and challenges." New for Inside Higher Ed, Ithaka S+R's Madeline Trimble and CUNY's David Wutchiett discuss how colleges and universities can use institutional data to measure, and continue to improve, transfer #StudentSuccess. Read more to learn how platforms like CUNY #TRex and a new national #TransferExplorer model aim to make a difference for transfer students: https://lnkd.in/ePv8DPHc
Transfer data can help identify progress and areas of improvements
insidehighered.com
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What does undergraduate #research look like for #students in the humanities, arts, and social sciences? In a new blog post, Chelsea McCracken discusses opportunities for research, scholarship, or creative activity for students across disciplines, drawing insights from sessions at the Council on Undergraduate Research #ConnectUR 2024 Conference: https://lnkd.in/gCjjKCxP
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How are colleges and universities responding to a new national ban on #TranscriptWithholding practices? We’re collaborating with AACRAO with support from Lumina Foundation to understand the steps institutions have been taking to prepare for the policy change—from increasing communication with students during academic advising to including conversations about debt in orientation. Learn more from James Ward: https://lnkd.in/gFXi5Nwp
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Libraries do much more than provide access to books—they also offer critical information and services to meet the basic needs of their communities, from technological assistance to mental health programming and resources related to food and housing insecurity. With support from ECMC Foundation, we created an inventory of #BasicNeeds support offered across public and community college #libraries to highlight the potential for cross-library collaboration. Explore our findings: https://lnkd.in/eZCCNY4w