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Why I gave $25M to a small liberal arts college (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

Liberal arts colleges provide an intimate learning environment, where class sizes are small and students benefit from meaningful engagement with their professors and a social environment that encourages both close social bonds and peer-to-peer learning opportunities. Since then, we have become regular supporters of the college.

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UCLA Alumni Couple Pledges $10 Million to Ethnic Studies Centers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The two have made several other gifts to UCLA over the years, leading to a 2001 scholarship fund in their name, as well as an endowed director’s chair for IAC’s Asian American Studies Center. from Yale University and a law degree from Harvard University. He gained prominence as a trial and intellectual property lawyer. Though, the Ralph J.

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Providing Wraparound Services for UCONN’s Asian American Studies

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The Asian/Asian American Mentoring Program (AMP) – housed in UConn’s Asian American Cultural Center – pairs returning students to incoming ones to help these new Asian students better adjust to their new environment. One example of domestic anti-Muslim racism is the U.S.’s Patterns of racialization in the U.S. Chang shares.

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How Academic Advising Impacts the Question: Are You Coming Back Next Semester?

Faculty Focus

Light (2001) states, “It is hard to imagine any academic support function that is more important to student success and institutional productivity than advising” (p. Advising services in higher education assist first-year students to choose courses and appropriately schedule them, help select a major, and plan a future career. Robbins, S.,

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How Academic Advising Impacts the Question: Are You Coming Back Next Semester?

Faculty Focus

Light (2001) states, “It is hard to imagine any academic support function that is more important to student success and institutional productivity than advising” (p. Advising services in higher education assist first-year students to choose courses and appropriately schedule them, help select a major, and plan a future career. Robbins, S.,

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Providing Wraparound Services for UCONN’s Asian American Studies

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The Asian/Asian American Mentoring Program (AMP) – housed in UConn’s Asian American Cultural Center – pairs returning students to incoming ones to help these new Asian students better adjust to their new environment. One example of domestic anti-Muslim racism is the U.S.’s Patterns of racialization in the U.S. Chang shares.

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Interdisciplinarity

SRHE

The ‘research selectivity’ exercises which began in the late 1980s evolved into the Research Assessment Exercises (1986, 1989, 1992, 1996, 2001, 2008), now the Research Excellence Framework. The University of Strathclyde and King’s College London (Case Study 2) described a “multidisciplinary research environment”.