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Assume the Best: Trust-Based Strategies for Empowering College Students

Faculty Focus

Scaffolded assignments: Break significant projects into smaller, more manageable parts, such as proposals, annotated bibliographies, and rough drafts, to reduce student anxiety and provide opportunities for meaningful feedback at each step, improving learning outcomes (Ambrose, 2010). Journal of Educational Psychology, 111 (2), 189.

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President moves: This Florida university has finally selected its next leader

University Business

John Butler, who has been involved with administrative leadership since 2010. Serving on the president’s senior leadership team since 2010, Boston College considers Butler an architect of its revamped core curriculum. Daniel Shipp – Maryville University (Mo.) She begins her new position in June.

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When Banks Lost Control of the Student Loan Mess

Higher Education Inquirer

Although the book was an exceptional chronicle of the student loan industry from 1958 to 2013, it missed at least one key event, the 2008-2010 bailout of Sallie Mae and a number of banks who made questionable private loans guaranteed by the US government. How commonplace this student loan grift was has not been adequately explored.

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Black Enrollees at HBCUs More Likely to Obtain Bachelor’s Degrees

Insight Into Diversity

A new study finds that African American students who initially enroll at historically Black colleges or universities (HBCUs) are nearly 15 percent more likely to graduate and have a 5 percent higher income by age 30 than those who do not enroll at HBCUs. million Black students who took the SAT between 2004 and 2010.

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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. Colleges and universities that have received the Seal of Excelencia enroll 17% of Latino students in the U.S. California State University, San Marcos Dr. Ellen J.

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Oh, the humanit(ies)! Why integrating the liberal arts and STEM is a win-win for students, institutions

University Business

Bolstered by state and national workforce needs and their promising return on investment, the STEM track represents a gold mine for colleges and universities that want to ensure credentials from their institution are providing students with good job prospects and gainful employment. What can we do?

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Universities Strive to Close Diversity Gaps in the Real Estate Industry

Insight Into Diversity

Eliminating diversity gaps in the real estate profession is the focus of long-standing and new pathway programs at a number of colleges and universities. Milwaukee School of Engineering President John Walz, PhD, welcomes fall 2022 students to ACRE. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University (ASU).