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Education Department Announces Final Regulations Regarding Predatory Recruiting Practices Against Veterans

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“Veterans and their families deserve the very best education America has to offer,” said U.S. These new rules crack down on some of the most deceptive practices we see in higher education, such as predatory marketing tactics that target U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary Denis McDonough.

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Breaking the Assimilationist Trajectory

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“I was working in a non-Indian community, not building new relationships with American Indian education professionals, and not really focusing much of my work around those topics.” The history of Native education in the United States is fraught with dispossession.

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How Public Universities Can Tackle the Teacher Shortage

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Department of Education is stepping up with $368 million in new grant funding to aid teacher retention and recruitment and improve diversity. But there’s more the federal government can do.

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Researchers Present Recommendations for Reversing Minority Male Enrollment Declines at Community Colleges

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

They also recommended coordinating efforts around student needs, such as food and housing, and suggested establishing industry partnerships with career and technical education programs. Other ideas focused on teachers. Harris said that strategies for making change in states with unfriendly climates was a priority for future work.

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Washington Update: New Guidance for Higher Ed on the Build Back Better Initiativewith host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and guest Tom Netting | Changing Higher Ed Podcast 096

The Change Leader, Inc.

Federal Government is continuing to create new guidance for higher ed on the Build Back Better initiative. Department of Education, and changing perspectives in relation to areas such as Title IX. When higher education programs align with compassion for students, student persistence and graduation rates change for the better.

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Despite regulation efforts and student complaints, this popular edtech platform marches on

University Business

As a result, online program managers (OPMs) have become one of the hottest edtech assets a college and university can partner with, but few OPMs are big enough to stand toe-to-toe with 2U, Inc. Students and the federal government have waged lawsuits and called for stronger oversight of the edtech company.

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Beyond ideological debates, a focus on process (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Lately, university governing boards around the country have been considering the balance and diversity of intellectual scholarship in the institutions they oversee. That takes us to issues of higher education governance—a process that is often tediously slow and too often inefficient but nevertheless the way we do business today.