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These 3 categories of enrolled students have increasingly considered stopping out

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The post These 3 categories of enrolled students have increasingly considered stopping out appeared first on University Business. Specifically, the percentage of Black and Hispanic adults reporting family and friend caretaking as a “very important” reason was almost double the rate of white adults, at 29% and 31% compared to 17%.

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Top Innovators Recognized at Annual Community College Futures Assembly

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won a 2023 Bellwether Award for its submission, Hudson Scholars, in the award category of Instructional Programs and Services. Ten top-scored community college programs compete in one of three award categories — instructional programs and services, workforce development, and planning, governance, and finance. .

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A New Paper Defends the Use of Race in Medicine. Not Everyone is Convinced.

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Venkataramani, an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania, don’t disagree that race is a made-up category and that race doesn’t cause any disease. Opponents of the use of race argue that the categories just don’t work. Into what category should Asians and Hispanics go? But they argue that it doesn’t matter.

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Supreme Court Strikes Down Race-Conscious Admissions

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The majority also criticized the racial categories used as “overbroad” (no difference, for example, between South Asians and East Asians), arbitrary or undefined (“Hispanic”) or underinclusive (the lack of a category for Middle Easterners.)

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Report: Class of 2022 Average Starting Salaries Higher than Those of Previous Class

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Between the two classes, the five highest-paid categories of majors remained the same. “This notable increase for the Class of 2022 comes on the heels of the overall average salary for Class of 2021 graduates inching up just 1.2% as the job market was still experiencing the effects of the pandemic,” said NACE President Shawn VanDerziel.

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HBCU Advancement Teams: Don't Underestimate the Power of the Individual Donor

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Through the lens of the individual donor, we must take note of a few other points that may be instructive for advancement professionals who seek to better understand and make connections with this category of contributors. Dr. Roderick L. Smothers, Sr. These giving trends are closely aligned to the economic conditions previously referenced.

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Florida Atlantic, UC Merced Earn Award for Institutional Transformation

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Dr. Stacy Wolnick The winners are represented in two categories, one for institutions with student populations of up to 12,000 (UC Merced) and another for institutions with student populations over 12,000 (Florida Atlantic). “We