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r/highereducation RESTRICTED
A subreddit for News and Policy--and discussion about higher education in an increasingly difficult time. Ideal for people working in and around higher ed— or those interested in joining! Please Note: Students- this is the NEWS & POLICY sub. You're looking for r/gradschool
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r/highereducation is a RESTRICTED community on Reddit with over 67,402 members. It currently has a negative sentiment with an engagement rate of 3.0%. With a community friendliness score of 30, this subreddit presents a high conversion potential for authentic brand participation. Strict rules against self-promotion are in place, so marketing should focus strictly on value-driven community engagement.
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Subreddit Rules
- Exercise Respectful Civility and Reddiquette: Users should exercise respectful civility in their disagreement and proper [reddiquette](https://www.reddit.com/wiki/reddiquette) in all their participation.
- Keep Posts on Topic: This community is focused on post-secondary education. While higher education is certainly influenced by work in the elementary and secondary levels (and in corporate training programs), all content should be relevant to higher education as such. Posts about individual students, staff, or faculty members may not be considered relevant if they lack a wider impact on the higher education community and/or are unlikely to promote productive discussion (e.g. "ragebait", pass through articles, etc.).
- No Self-Promotion: While we admire your commitment to thinking and writing about higher education, your experiences, within, etc., we cannot allow a space for you to get clicks on your blog, substack, or other platforms. Unless you have an article published somewhere that has gone through editorial oversight, self-promotional posts will be removed.
- Do Not Facilitate Harassment: Any user or domain that knowingly facilitates the harassment of others, even if that user or domain does not directly advocate for such harassment, may be banned at the discretion of the moderators. Users who feel they have been banned in error may contact the moderators to appeal the ban decision.
- Avoid Third-Party Link Shorteners: Links using third-party link shorteners will be removed. Third-party link shorteners circumvent both the spam filter and the "seen it" function, as well as creating an undue risk of misdirection. First-party link shorteners (e.g. youtu.be) are discouraged, but may be posted when use of the full URL is inappropriate. Content at the end of a third-party link shortener may be posted directly, so long as it complies with other relevant content policies.
- Do Not Directly Promote Plagiarism Services: Any user found to be directly promoting academic essay-writing or other plagiarism services, whether on /r/HigherEducation or elsewhere on reddit, will be banned from /r/HigherEducation. This policy is intended to address users advertising specific services, not users who advocate for independent positions on the boundaries of academic honesty or academic ethics. Users who feel they have been banned in error may contact the moderators to appeal the ban decision.
- No Individual Admissions or Advising Questions: Unless they relate to a career in post-secondary education or a highly relevant ancillary field (e.g. academic publishing, educational technology), individual admissions or academic advising questions should be directed first to a representative of the relevant college or university and then (if appropriate) to the relevant parts of /r/AskAcademia , /r/FindAPath , /r/GradAdmissions , or /r/ApplyingToCollege. "How do I deal with this difficult PI?" is fair game. "Should I change majors?" is not.
- Contribute to the Field, Not Just the Comment Count: Posts and comments should contribute to the field, not just exhort an independent agenda when it briefly intersects with post-secondary education. Reddit is full of communities dedicated to differing worldviews, some of which are already well-represented in professional/academic conversations. "Hit and run" posting to advance an agenda (particularly with regard to Title IX, critical theory, and diversity & inclusion) without ongoing investment in the community may be removed.
- Surveys: We realize many of you are hoping to reach our subreddit audience for use in your surveys. However, we want to keep surveys relevant to our users. As such, anyone submitting a survey must receive prior approval. All surveys not receiving prior approval will be removed with no opportunity to resubmit.
- We hope to be back to anyone requesting permission within 24 hours.
- Users must have minimum 100 karma to join, and an active account more than 30 days old: Due to an increase in bots and proliferation of AI, the sub is now restricting criteria to join to accounts that are active, good faith members of the Reddit community.
- Please feel free to report a post or comments that you feel may be made by malicious bots for removal.
- 11. Full text must appear in the comments
- Paywall allowed.: Full text must appear in the comments
- Paywall allowed.
- Bots. : This should be self explanatory.
What is r/highereducation?
r/highereducation is a restricted Reddit community created in June 2009 with over 67,402 members. A subreddit for News and Policy--and discussion about higher education in an increasingly difficult time. Ideal for people working in and around higher ed— or those interested in joining! Please Note: Students- this is the NEWS & POLICY sub. You're looking for r/gradschool
The community has a negative sentiment and an engagement rate of 3.0%. With a friendliness score of 30, it is considered very welcoming to new members.
Self-promotion is not allowed, so marketing efforts should focus on providing genuine value to the community.
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