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New Vanderbilt housing requires income students don't make

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Four apartments later, she lives a short bus ride from campus but also shares a 1,100-square-foot space with two other people. But now that the apartments, known as the Broadview at Vanderbilt , are set to open next fall, some are skeptical that they will actually benefit the university’s graduate student population.

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Leadership program offers support for underprivileged students

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The Student Achievement Guided by Experience (SAGE) program provides scholars with tools for success, scholarship money and a supportive community to reach their goals during college and after. And I think that’s what sets us apart,” Moayedi says. “We’re designed to be a high-touch, highly supportive system.

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Toward a more inclusive peer-review process (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

When asked what surprised her most about publishing after a summer spent working as an intern at one of our presses, a history graduate student replied, “In graduate school, we focus on tearing books apart. But I was impressed by how much you do in publishing to build up a book.” We knew the engine of peer review needed a tune-up.

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U of Iowa business school students build storytelling skills

Confessions of a Community College Dean

A showcase at the MERGE innovation hub in downtown Iowa City, with members of the local business community and the general public invited, is being planned for the end of the semester. How to Tell a Story , published by The Moth, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the art and craft of storytelling, serves as the course textbook.​

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Minnesota Catholic colleges cut languages, other humanities

Confessions of a Community College Dean

In Minnesota, the College of Saint Benedict, for women, and Saint John’s University, for men, are about 10 minutes apart. “While faculty and administration did not agree on all points, we took care to work together as a community to engage in a process that permitted careful and rigorous conversations.”

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Sports betting contracts should be rethought (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

23 article in The New York Times , “ How College and Sports-Betting Companies ‘Caesarized’ Campus Life ,” which chronicled how universities have signed lucrative contracts with sports betting companies to promote online gambling to their students and campus communities. Nowhere has this been more evident than in a Nov.

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Interview with Robert T. Tally Jr. on historicizing 'The Hobbit'

Confessions of a Community College Dean

In The Hobbit itself, apart from the reference to Gondolin (”the Goblin Wars”), Moria, the Necromancer (whom we learn is Sauron) and a few other things, the world doesn’t require any knowledge of the earlier mythmaking. Section: Books and Publishing Editorial Tags: Books Is this diversity newsletter?:

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