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Morgan State University Wins 2022 ETS/CGS Award for Innovation in Promoting Success in Graduate Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Morgan State University, a Historically Black university in Baltimore, has been awarded the 2022 ETS/CGS Award for Innovation in Promoting Success in Graduate Education: From Admission through Completion from The Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) and ETS.

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Dr. Levon Esters Appointed Vice Provost for Graduate Education at Penn State

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Levon Esters will become vice provost for graduate education at Penn State and dean of its Graduate School, effective May 1, 2023. Previously, he was coordinator of the Agriculture Teacher Education Program in Iowa State University’s College of Agriculture. “Dr.

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Postgraduate Education Leaders Release Recommendations on Strengthening Graduate Education Mentorship After Summit

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Postgraduate education leaders from 14 countries released recommendations to strengthen graduate education mentorship at the 2022 Strategic Leaders Global Summit.

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The 50 most in-demand skills for graduates of your master’s programs

EAB

The 50 most in-demand skills for graduates of your master's programs. We know that graduate students often enroll to gain the skills and knowledge necessary for bigger and better professional opportunities. Prepare your graduates for today and tomorrow’s tech jobs. #1: Blogs.

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How UCF is Expanding Opportunities for Hispanic Adult Learners

EAB

Through the initiative, EAB is working with UCF to increase their capacity to recruit and educate students to meet soaring demand for skilled healthcare workers. Insights Adult Learner Graduate EducationPodcast. How UCF is Expanding Opportunities for Hispanic Adult Learners.

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The 3 big bets university presidents and provosts are placing on graduate and adult learner enrollments

EAB

The 3 big bets university presidents and provosts are placing on graduate and adult learner enrollments. Although there have long been peaks and valleys in graduate enrollment year over year, total graduate enrollment has increased across the last decade. Blogs.

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How MBA programs can set a winning messaging strategy

EAB

With rapid growth in MBA programs and fewer students taking graduate admissions tests , this competition can easily drive up digital marketing bottom lines. Through my work with Cappex for Graduate Business Programs, my team and I have worked hard to do just that. Blogs.

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Mentoring Opportunity: MIT Summer Research Program (MSRP)

CAPD

Consider serving as a Pod Leader for the MIT Summer Research Program (MSRP) , hosted by the Office of Graduate Education. All graduate students are encouraged to apply! Are you seeking a rewarding opportunity to mentor summer research interns and earn money?

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Dr. Paula D. McClain

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

McClain is professor of political science and professor of public policy and dean of the graduate school and vice provost for graduate education, having moved to Duke from the University of Virginia in 2000. In addition to being dean of the graduate school, she is co-director of the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Gender in the Social Sciences. Title: Professor of Political Science/Public Policy Duke University Paula D.

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First-Time Graduate Enrollment Rises, But Declines Domestically

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Graduate school first-time enrollment has gone up between Fall 2020 and Fall 2021, according to a new report. Data for this report came from the 2021 CGS/GRE Survey of Graduate Enrollment and Degrees, which got useable responses from 545 colleges and universities.

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Congrats to the Prize Winners from the 2023 Spring Study and Go Abroad Fairs!

Study and Go Abroad

From Vancouver to Montréal to Toronto, we had a blast chatting with students and parents about studying abroad or staying in Canada for post-secondary education and beyond. Aaron E. won the $250 Apple Gift Card from the Spring Madness contest, and Sania K.

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Carnegie Mellon Launches $150M STEM Diversity Initiative

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Carnegie Mellon University announced today a $116 million donation from the Norman and Ruth Rales Foundation to help underrepresented students pursue graduate education in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

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3 Questions on UT Austin’s New $10K Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence

Confessions of a Community College Dean

We recognized that the need for this kind of training was far greater than traditionally sized technical graduate programs could handle. We think our program sets a new standard for advanced education in AI moving forward.

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Johns Hopkins Grad Students Successfully Unionize

Confessions of a Community College Dean

“TRU has been around since 2015, and now we are heading into the next stage of our movement to support grad student workers to do the work we came to JHU to do,” said Andrew Eneim, a graduate worker, in a Wednesday union news release. ” Ad keywords: administrators studentaffairs teachinglearning Editorial Tags: College administration Graduate education Unions/unionization Is this diversity newsletter?: Johns Hopkins University Ph.D.

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St. Joseph’s Cuts 4 Programs Acquired in Merger

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Joseph’s is also considering selling off or leasing part or all of the former University of the Sciences campus, apparently ditching plans to use the space for graduate health programs, as originally intended in the merger. Ad keywords: administrators executive Editorial Tags: Graduate education Medical education Mergers Is this diversity newsletter?: When St.

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Samvid Scholars provides up to $100,000 for graduate study

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Samvid Scholars is a merit-based graduate scholarship and leadership program for changemakers. Samvid Scholars was established in 2021 by Samvid Ventures to invest in the graduate education of future leaders who are committed to effecting positive change in society.   The Samvid Scholars program supports up to $50,000 per year for two years of graduate study. Applications are due on Sunday April 9, 2023 at 11:59PM ET.

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New Report on the Resilience of Puerto Rican Universities

Confessions of a Community College Dean

A new research brief by Excelencia in Education, an organization focused on Latino student success, examines how Puerto Rican universities weathered a series of challenges, including Hurricanes Irma and Maria, earthquakes, unexpected changes in governmental leadership, demographic shifts, and the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Temple Grad Students Start Strike

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Temple University graduate students began striking Tuesday for the first time in that union’s history, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. Bethany Kosmicki, a member of the Temple University Graduate Students’ Association’s negotiating team, said in a news release that “Temple’s administration has repeatedly ignored our demands, refusing us fair pay, affordable dependent health care and increased parental leave.”

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Pursuit of R-2 status can expand opportunity (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

As universities “ascend” from one Carnegie Foundation classification to another, alarm bells often go off—particularly among those who study higher education. Institutions of higher education still strive for higher U.S.

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Mentors should be gate openers, not gatekeepers (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Graduate pipeline programs were created to level the playing field by providing students from historically excluded populations with the resources to be competitive in pursuing their graduate degrees.

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European research universities group: doctoral supervisors should be trained

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Leysinger said the number of staff directly involved in doctoral education and the professionalization of their role have both risen over the past 25 years, a theme the paper summarizes as “it takes a village to raise a Ph.D.,”

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What a Tech Company’s Big Shift Portends for the Future of the Master’s Degree

Higher Ed Connects: News

This article was originally appeared in The Chronicle for Higher Education on August 7, 2019, written by Goldie Blumenstyk. In the future, Hickman said, “We don’t think graduate education is going to be this point in time” that students pursue a few years after their undergraduate years.

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New graduate program at Gustavus Adolphus College

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Gustavus Adolphus College went 161 years without any graduate programs. Kelly said there were also discussions about whether graduate programs fit with the college’s mission. Kelly said administrators are considering starting graduate programs in other areas.

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Reflections of the Career of a University Expatriate

Edu Alliance Journal

In my own case, I came onto the academic job market in the early 1980s, a time of severe global recession when jobs in many fields, including higher education, were scarce. Graduate assistants and postdoctoral researchers are scarce in many localities without robust traditions of graduate education of their own. Dr. Bruce Taylor recently retired after a career of nearly 40 years in the field of higher education.

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What can big consumer brands teach graduate and adult enrollment leaders?

EAB

What can big consumer brands teach graduate and adult enrollment leaders? Current Tactics Aren't Reaching Prospective Graduate and Adult Learners. -->. of surveyed graduate and adult learners are opting not to take admission tests. -->. Blogs.

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Will China End US Academic Preeminence?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

US higher education is distinctive in many ways, above all, in the public-private divide (which leaves public institutions subject to legislative whims) and the existence of a highly competitive national education marketplace in which institutions strive for prestige, resources, talent, and revenue. Between 1978 and 2020 university enrollment grew from 860,000 to 40 million, with half of all 18 to 22 year olds attending college and 6 million students graduating annually.

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Can the English Major Be Saved?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The book covers a host of topics: How fluency in English literature became a hallmark of an educated person and why it has lost that privileged status. How graduate training in English might evolve to better serve those without academic job prospects. It signified intellect, style, taste, sophistication and refinement and represented the truest alternative to a vocational or practical education. Addressing the ongoing crisis of graduate education.