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How Universities Can Support Undocumented Students as Federal Policies Continue to Threaten Them

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

No Pell Grants. In 2019, Oglethorpe partnered with TheDream.US , a national scholarship program that helps provide access to a college education for immigrant youth who came to the country at a young age without documentation. Add inclusive language to admission materials and other student-facing resources where applicable.

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Should I Disclose Learning Differences on the College Application

Great College Advice

But for some students, it is essential that they disclose their learning difference in the admissions process. The student did not take all of the high school classes that a college requires for admission, such as a foreign language, and the college is willing to waive those requirements for LD students.

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REF 2021: reflecting on results, rules and regulations, and reform (again)

SRHE

When I access the 2014 results the four profiles – overall, outputs, impact, environment – are listed on four separate documents, within which English HEIs are listed first, then Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. I took that to be mandatory, and it led to many staff being moved to ‘teaching only’ contracts. My bad, perhaps.

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The Good, The Bad & The Ugly of Microcredentials

Parchment

And if you look at research like Adam Grant out of Wharton School of Business, and you know, it says that we’re really bad at it. An analogy I give it is when I go and got a mortgage on my home, hundreds of pages of documents all about me, none of it really for me as a user. We’re not good at hiring. I am curating them.

IT 52
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The Good, The Bad & The Ugy of Microcredentials

Parchment

And if you look at research like Adam Grant out of Wharton School of Business, and you know, it says that we’re really bad at it. An analogy I give it is when I go and got a mortgage on my home, hundreds of pages of documents all about me, none of it really for me as a user. We’re not good at hiring. I am curating them.

IT 52