Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2024

Additionally, Curry has secured millions of dollars for student success initiatives. All the while, Curry has kept his focus on expanding equity for his students, with his sights specifically on food and housing insecurity, an issue that impacts many of his students. The transition to college was not easy.

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University Business

MAY 1, 2024

The 20 “new Ivies” educate students with an average 1482 SAT and 33 ACT score and generate graduates who are a better cultural and professional fit at the highest echelons of corporate society, wrote billionaire philanthropist John Arnold in a recent X (formerly Twitter post). 42% 1430 31 Georgia Institute of Technology Ga.

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Great College Advice

JANUARY 16, 2024

While April 1 st has come and gone and the majority of high school seniors know where they will attend college next year, some students are still in a holding pattern. But only the college knows if they will need wait listed students to fill spots in their class. Admitted applicants represent dollar signs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The direct impact of the SCOTUS ruling — how many fewer individuals of color have been admitted to medical programs this fall — is still unknown. Those students’ enrollments went way down, across the system. We had become complacent for a long time in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), doing the same-old, same-old.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

An additional 1,600-1,700 students at Emory University received grants and scholarships instead of loans in their financial aid packages this fall, the Atlanta-based institution announced recently, more than doubling the number of undergraduates expected to finish school with limited or no debt. This allows us to enroll those students.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

A hallmark of students’ learning experience is their ability to approach and engage their professor outside of the classroom to pick their brain in a less formal setting. Unfortunately, student-professor dialogue isn’t always that rosy. “Grades, credits, and degrees—these become the objects to be pursued.

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The Guardian Higher Education

MARCH 11, 2024

This bleak, eye-opening film finds mass strikes, gobsmacking whistleblower lecturers and med students forced to survive on food rations of £10 a week. He spends time in Brighton and goes on a protest with University of Sussex students, who are marching against campus closures and staff redundancies. You can see his discomfort.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Internationalization means far more than study abroad programs and foreign exchange students. ACE defines it as a university’s integration of policies, programs, initiatives , and people to become globally oriented and internationally connected. Meanwhile, as campuses emptied, international students had to remain.

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University Business

JUNE 16, 2023

Gupta now joins an elite class of just a few thousand other students accepted to Stanford this year. Colleges are now receiving record numbers of applications, and they have to be more selective in order to admit the best students. The school had a historically low acceptance rate of just 3.6% of incoming freshmen.

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University Business

MAY 11, 2023

As international affairs continue to become more precarious, U.S. higher education is beginning to see some concerning roadblocks with the country that makes up 31% of its international students —China. drop in Chinese students and a 12.8% decrease in undergraduate students specifically. Chinese students prefer the U.K.

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University Business

MARCH 6, 2024

Couple that with higher staff turnover and college recruitment challenges, colleges and universities must be ready to adapt to continue reeling in talented and diverse cohorts of students. In addition, they help colleges gain insight into students previously invisible from test-taking, such as their situational judgment and soft skills.

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Great College Advice

AUGUST 17, 2023

A few years ago, Stanford University published sample first lines of college essays of admitted students for the Class of 2012. Here are some examples from essays that some of my students have developed and how they found their first line. Crafting this first line: This student wrote about one of his greatest passions, sailing.

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The Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Key Statement : Intentionally developing a welcoming classroom environment increases student engagement and cultivates meaningful classroom relationships. Maintaining student engagement is difficult; this is not a controversial opinion or surprise to most faculty. By: Donna Downs , Taylor University. Introduction. Lejano et al.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 22, 2023

But the two have partnered on one of Grinnell’s most unique courses—a class called The Journey Within that centers student self-exploration. Soon, they were spending whole days together and brainstorming for what would become the Journeys courses. “We “What would motivate me to talk to some white boy over in the gymnasium?”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Created in 2005 by Excelencia in Education, Examples of Excelencia is a national initiative that recognizes institutions and nonprofit organizations that identify, aggregate, and promote evidence-based practices that improve Latinx student access in higher education. million research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Forty-one years had passed since Howard graduated from the school, but his formative years as a student there radically transformed his life and set him on the path to becoming the world class scholar that he is today. Those shifting demographics are broadly reflected in today’s student population. You got down.”

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EAB

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

To meet enrollment goals in this new market, law schools must focus more than ever on building awareness of the unique benefits they offer to students—on an individualized basis as much as possible. Learn more about your future graduate and professional students Holly University* is a medium-sized private university in the Mid-Atlantic.

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University Business

MARCH 20, 2023

Love was one of the first trans students to be admitted to the college, which, for nearly 150 years, only accepted cisgender women — and one of several trans women to break through the barriers of a traditionally women’s college. Over the years, Wellesley and other institutions have become more inclusive.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

In October 2022, the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES) released a new report where, again, Black students lagged behind white students on the National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP) also known as the Nation’s Report Card. Black students know more than what those damn tests claim to measure.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2023

The class based on Early Action admits is already 30 percent Asian American, could that number go even higher to indicate a loosening of a cap on Asian American admissions that may be borderline discriminatory? Far from an instant admit as a young man bound for greatness, Jose is given the designation of being another “AA CJer.”

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College Forward

JANUARY 25, 2024

“My family is made up of eight people and my parents have been gone about half of my life due to overworking themselves to help us become financially stable,” said Aaliyah. “I I am a high-achieving student and I do not want to defer from my path to college.” I feel like to this day I still face financial struggles.

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University Business

JUNE 22, 2023

A new study published by Technology, Mind and Behavior has discovered that limiting students’ social media use to just 30 minutes a day helped significantly reduce anxiety, depression, loneliness and fear of missing out. “I think on the one hand, the results are kind of counterintuitive, right? .

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Innovative programming continues to grow, and the student body is more diverse than ever. Student groups at Morgan State include organizations for African students, Caribbean students, Latinx students, and international students. Enrollment is strong. There is record external and state funding.

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University Business

JUNE 26, 2023

A new report exploring the makeup of today’s online students has found that a considerable chunk is first-generation, previous stop-outs or a combination of both. Moreover, 44% of those stop-out students are first-generation. Moreover, 44% of those stop-out students are first-generation.

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Great College Advice

OCTOBER 17, 2023

As educational planners, we help our students have a Plan B (and C and D) in place, just in case Plan A does not materialize. You might become memorable for all the wrong reasons and thereby tank your chances of admission. And simply restate that you would likely attend–or certainly would attend–if admitted.

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The Scholarly Teacher

MARCH 1, 2023

Keywords: Evolving Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Student Learning, Assessment What Is ChatGPT? Photo by Jonathan Kemper Admitting Concerns, not Defeat Concerns regarding learning and knowledge at the hands of technology have always existed. It is a good thing that his student Plato wrote that down.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 7, 2023

Historical perspective Dr. Felecia Commodore “It’s notable considering that women still do not make up a majority of college presidencies while women make up a large percentage of student bodies,” said Dr. Felecia Commodore, associate professor in the department of educational foundations and leadership at Old Dominion University.

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University Business

MAY 31, 2023

higher education is primed to bounce back its international student enrollment numbers after taking a 15% dip in 2020-21. As students worldwide begin flooding back, institutions face one unlikely adversary killing their enrollment potential: paper. With the pandemic waning, U.S. Similarly, Citrus College’s (Calif.)

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 6, 2023

Image: Colorado could soon pass a law that would effectively allow public colleges and universities to admit more out-of-state students—if they also recruit more high-achieving state residents. Colorado law currently allows no more than 45 percent of each public institution’s incoming freshmen to come from out of state.

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University Business

MAY 2, 2023

Physical diplomas, certificates and student records are becoming increasingly inefficient as core administration processes digitalize and students interact more frequently online. As these credentials grow in popularity, they will become an expected value add for learners of all backgrounds.

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EAB

JULY 17, 2023

3 ways the pandemic changed college search behavior from our new survey of 20K+ high school students When was the last time you saw a teenager willingly answer a phone call? Fortunately, we now have some hard data to turn to, thanks to the latest edition of EAB’s Student Communication Preferences Survey.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 26, 2023

I must admit that finding words for my final column is daunting. Trustees Must be Held Accountable for Student Success. s Dream from Becoming a Nightmare. Here are six of my columns that elicited particularly strong responses, for which I am grateful. Five Reasons Why I Vote and You Should Too.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 25, 2023

Image: Factors ranging from financial stress to participation in extracurriculars can influence whether a student receiving services at their university’s counseling center will voluntarily withdraw from the institution, according to new research from Pennsylvania State University’s Center for Collegiate Mental Health.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 5, 2023

Mylovanov has accumulated more than 39,000 followers and become an in-demand commentator for Western news outlets, explaining the war’s toll in hard numbers and, even more importantly, he believes, providing a firsthand account of everyday life on the ground. “But students are here, and classes are at full speed (8.30am).

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Some context: completion scholarships are typically small grants of money that colleges or universities will give to students who are nearly finished. The idea is to make sure that students don’t get derailed by finances at the last minute. It’s about how best to support students completing their degrees.

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Great College Advice

JULY 25, 2023

Schools like to admit people who are good at school. Certainly, it’s nice to be a great left fielder or to strive to become the Mother Theresa of Cincinnati, or to play the Minute Waltz in 47 seconds. Many students, however, would prefer to believe that the grades on their transcripts don’t matter much. Hands down.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Chase’s experience and “transformational ideas … will elevate the student experience across the UH system,” added Khator, who is also president of UH. As she prepared to begin her new work at the tier-one public research university, Chase shared her perspective on making investments in student success.

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