Fri.Nov 18, 2022

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ASHE Conference Tackles Joy and Community Building for Marginalized Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

(From left to right) Dr. Ezinne Ofoegbu from Santa Clara University, Leslie Uchenna Ekpe from Texas Christian University, Dr. Christopher J.P. Sewell, Dr. Emily Suh from Texas State University, Dion Tremain Harry from North Carolina State University, and Sam Owens from Texas State University. LAS VEGAS Dr. Emily Kyung Jin Suh began her presentation by asking the room to take a deep breath in and out.

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Gamekeepers, poachers, policy wonks and knowledge

SRHE

by Adam Matthews. I was excited to attend SRHE’s event, Bridging The Gap: Improving The Relationship Between Higher Education Research And Policy on 4 November 2022. It was the first time I’d been to London since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. The event promised to bring together and bridge the gap between those making higher education policy and those researching it.

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Diverse Students Are Going Hungry at the Cafeteria Curriculum

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Terry O’Banion Community college students who are from lower socio-economic backgrounds, are first generation, and who have not been successful in high school are starving to death trying to find educational sustenance at the cafeteria curriculum. Tom Bailey and his colleagues at the Community College Research Center in their seminal work, Redesigning America’s Community Colleges , identified the “cafeteria curriculum” as a major barrier to student success noting “…The general studies curriculum

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The University of Arkansas appoints its first Black chancellor

University Business

On Wednesday, Charles Robinson was named chancellor of the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, making history for the flagship campus for appointing its first Black leader. Charles Robinson has been named the seventh Chancellor of the University of Arkansas by the UA System Board of Trustees #WPS pic.twitter.com/L2RakBlzfm. — University of Arkansas (@UArkansas) November 16, 2022.

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Faces of PUC: Allison Arenas-Sosa

PUC

Coming from Omaha, Nebraska, is freshman business major Allison Arenas-Sosa. While looking at Adventist colleges, she wanted to find a school where she could continue growing spiritually and close to God. Allison shared, “The help I received to be here was always very attentive to me and that made me want to be at PUC.” […].

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CIP's Global Engagement Winter Trip 2022: Paris, Provence, Barcelona!

CIP

CIP staff and students are Europe-bound for this year’s annual Global Engagement Winter Trip! Now entering its second decade, CIP’s Program for Global Engagement provides an excellent opportunity for our students to broaden their horizons, practice their newfound skills, and learn about other cultures in a safe, supervised environment. A total of 33 staff and students hailing from each of our five Centers, will bring their aspiration to be adventurous along as they board their plane in New York

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Are California’s Hispanic Serving Institutions living up to their name?

University Business

As a senior in high school, Ashley Chetla hoped to find a college where she felt supported – not only as a student, but as a Latina. Chetla enrolled at Cal State Los Angeles, drawn to the university’s status as a Hispanic Serving Institution. “I knew that most of Cal State LA was primarily Latino and Hispanic, and that’s why I actually chose to go there,” said Chetla, now a fourth-year sociology student.

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How cloud-based Hostel Management System benefits Higher Education Institutes?

Creatrix Campus

How cloud-based Hostel Management System benefits Higher Education Institutes? admin. Fri, 11/18/2022 - 05:23. Automation is probably the most obvious time saver for hostel operations in colleges and universities. The Hostel Management system prevents the need for administrators to provide paper-based registration forms, billing, maintenance, or track the entry of students, visitors, or guests under their control.

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What does an SAT score mean anymore?

University Business

On the last Monday of March 2022, two weeks after MIT finished notifying 1,337 applicants that they had been accepted (and rejected some 32,000 others), a post appeared on the website of the university’s admissions office. After two pandemic-disrupted application cycles, during which basically every college in America ditched its SAT and ACT requirements, the dean of admissions, Stu Schmill, announced that MIT would be asking for test scores again, starting with the high-school seniors applying

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GDPR Compliance for Higher Education Institutions - 11 Ways of doing it right

Creatrix Campus

GDPR Compliance for Higher Education Institutions - 11 Ways of doing it right. admin. Fri, 11/18/2022 - 07:19. GDPR was declared on January 25, 2012, implemented on April 27, 2016, and got into effect on May 25, 2018. It replaces the current 28 data protection laws in place across Europe with a single, robust regulation piece that should make cross-border activities within the EU easier and provide universal protection to natural persons.

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Judge strikes down higher education portions of DeSantis’s ‘Stop WOKE Act’

University Business

A federal judge on Thursday struck down provisions of Florida’s “Stop WOKE Act” that prohibited public college employees from promoting eight concepts related to race during instruction. U.S. District Judge Mark Walker, who previously blocked other portions of the law in a separate case, quoted the opening sentence of George Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984” as he issued a preliminary injunction blocking the law’s higher education provisions and pushed back on the state’s arguments.

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What reverse admissions means for the future of college access

EAB

Blogs. What reverse admissions means for the future of college access. 5 principles that make reverse admissions unique. Much has been written this year about emerging alternatives to the traditional university admissions model. With overall college enrollments declining, institutions need to become more creative in their efforts to grow and diversify their student body.

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These colleges have the most influential student voters in the country

University Business

With the midterm elections wrapped up, higher education institutions must be recognized for encouraging their students to take advantage of their constitutional right to vote. This year’s elections saw the second-highest youth turnout rate for a midterm election in the past 30 years, as noted by The ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge. Their participation helped to influence the outcomes of several prominent races, including those in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Nevada and Wisconsin.