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National Urban League Convenes Annual Conference in Houston

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

HOUSTON—The National Urban League kicked off its annual conference last week, celebrating two decades of Marc H. Morial at the leadership helm of the 113-year-old civil rights organization. “We are engaged in a battle for the future of this nation,” said Morial, who previously served as mayor of New Orleans from 1994 to 2002. “It is clear that the progress, hard fought, since the Brown decision, is under assault on every front.

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Foreign Language Requirements For College Admissions Explained

Great College Advice

The foreign language requirements for college admission are sometimes very confusing. And they vary from university to university and from state to state. What Is the Foreign Language Requirement for College Admission? Spanish. French. German. Italian. Chinese. Russian. While for some high school students learning a foreign language can come quite naturally, for others it can be a painful struggle.

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Study Says Optional Class Attendance is the New Normal

Higher Education Whisperer

Matthew CooperCooper, and Cardenas-Vasquez (2023) suggest COVID-129 has accelerated optional classroom attendance to be the "new normal" for university students. This was a small study of capstone students from one US university, but useful for the clarity of the way the researchers explained their conclusions, and jot just because they cited a paper I help write (Cochrane, et al. 2020).

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Procrastination and Stress About College Applications

Great College Advice

Are You Experiencing College Application Stress? How can you deal with college application stress? Is college application procrastination making you anxious and worried? Where did this college application stress come from? How can students avoid college application procrastination? Here are the worries of a typical parent. The college application deadlines were looming, and my daughter always seemed to have too much homework or too many tests, or she was too tired from practice.

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What Are Bisynchronous Classes?

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

We are light-years beyond the initial pandemic shift into asynchronous learning in higher education, but we are still trying to identify the trends that work, weed out a few that didn’t and select the best ones to keep for years to come. Now, all eyes are on higher education’s integration of bisynchronous learning, which combines some on-screen, real-time learning between students and the educator with an asynchronous component.

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How Much Risk Should You Take with Your College Essays? Here Are Some Tips

Great College Advice

What Is a Risky College Essay? In an interview that I read the other day, a former Dartmouth College admissions officer lamented the fact that students don’t take enough risks with their college essays. Their Personal Statements, in particular. When a college is receiving thousands and thousands of applications from qualified students. An admissions reader has only 10-15 minutes to review each application in its entirety.

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College students struggling with hunger face potential loss of food stamp benefits - ASHRAF KHALIL and ADRIANA MORGA, Associated Press

Ray Schroeder

The U.S. Department of Agriculture relaxed eligibility SNAP requirements for college students during the pandemic, allowing in those on financial aid with no expected family support and anyone who qualified for work-study programs, regardless of hours worked. Researchers estimate as many as 3 million college students were added to the program as a result.

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Top universities ‘will turn away more UK students’ as fees fail to match costs

The Guardian Higher Education

Elite Russell group says institutions will make up funds shortfall by increasing international intake Elite universities will turn away increasing numbers of UK students over the next few years in favour of more lucrative international applicants, experts and vice chancellors are warning. Tuition fees for home students have been frozen at £9,250 a year since 2017.

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Organizations Must Ban Together to Address the Court’s Ruling on Affirmative Action

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The recent Supreme Court’s decision in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College and S tudents For Fair Admissions, Inc. v University of North Carolina declared affirmative action admissions programs unconstitutional at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina. The case is one of a series of cases that the Court has rendered that have diminished the rights of Blacks and other marginalized groups.

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Biden Administration Sets Deadlines for Cybersecurity Goals - Julie Pattison-Gordon, GovTech

Ray Schroeder

The new National Cybersecurity Strategy Implementation Plan sets specific time frames for providing boosted state and local cyber support, deciding on a federal cyber insurance backstop and more. The administration first released its broad vision for improving national cybersecurity in March. The new National Cybersecurity Strategy Implementation Plan — released late last week — now outlines clearer steps for putting the objectives of the first plan into action, attaching deadlines and identifyi