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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Early in her time as an administrator at Virginia Tech, she implemented the Black Engineering Support Team (BEST), having Black upperclassmen be peer mentors to freshmen. I stepped out of a tenure-track role and into an administrative position, where I could create programs to help students be successful.” After completing his Ph.D.

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Making Sense of Changes to the U.S. News Rankings Methodology

Robert Kelchen

I don’t know if colleges are advantaged or disadvantaged by reporting Common Data Set data, but I would bet that institutional research offices around the country are running their analyses right now to see which method gives them a strategic advantage. As a result, the response rate has declined from 68% in 1989 to 48% in 2009 and 30.8%