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Seal of Excelencia 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

To earn the Seal of Excelencia a college or university must demonstrate an intentional, institutional focus on advancing Latino student success by aligning data and practice. Lastly, a college or university’s commitment must be sustained over time. By example, initially funded in 2007 by a grant from the U.S. and graduate 19%.

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When Banks Lost Control of the Student Loan Mess

Higher Education Inquirer

In 2007, President George W. Bush signed the College Cost Reduction and Access Act of 2007 (HR 2669) which cut subsidies to lenders and increasing grants to students. For-profit colleges, the engine for much of this bad debt, did get scrutiny, and from 2010 to 2023, their presence was reduced.

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20 Years of WOW: Celebrating Innovation in Digital Learning

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The first four winners of the WOW Awards were: Colorado Community Colleges Online for its Online E-learning Quality Assurance Manual, a comprehensive guide for developing and evaluating courses, programs, and faculty training to ensure continuous improvement in distance education.

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Interdisciplinary Studies: Preparing Students for a Complex World

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Space scientists and engineers collaborate on spacecraft design, propulsion, and landing systems, recognizing the synergy essential for safe human transport. Improving college and university teaching , 30(1), 23-30. Our mission: establish a self-sustaining colony on the Red Planet. Educational Researcher , 41 (9), 352-362. Newell, W.

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Seven Best Practices in 40 years of Reporting on Diversity in Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

14, 2003) While there is no shortage of higher education news outlets, none has covered two-year and four-year colleges and universities and their efforts to promote equity and inclusivity quite like this one. A 2007 Emerging Scholar, Dr. Peniel Joseph (“Interpreting African-American Life and History,” Jan. White House Honoree, Jan.

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Laying the Foundation for Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

While working at AT&T as an engineer, she joined the company’s group for Hispanic employees and was asked to go speak to a class of middle school students in Newark, New Jersey. We continue that with programs in high school and in college.” Ivonne Diaz-Claisse found her destiny in a middle school classroom. She gladly agreed.

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Interdisciplinary Studies: Preparing Students for a Complex World

Faculty Focus

Space scientists and engineers collaborate on spacecraft design, propulsion, and landing systems, recognizing the synergy essential for safe human transport. Improving college and university teaching , 30(1), 23-30. Our mission: establish a self-sustaining colony on the Red Planet. Educational Researcher , 41 (9), 352-362. Newell, W.