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

Faculty Focus

Share rubrics in advance, collaborate with students to create or adjust rubrics, and encourage students to self-assess before submitting assignments (Brookhart, 2013). Active learning increases student performance in science, engineering, and mathematics. Journal of Educational Psychology, 111 (2), 189. Ambrose, S. Brookhart, S.

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Will the use of generative AI shift higher education from a knowledge-first system to a skills-first system?

HEPI

The advent of search engines has made acquiring knowledge more accessible, while generative AI has automated the communication of knowledge. Founded in 2013, Kortext is the UKs leading student experience and engagement expert, pioneering digitally enhanced teaching and learning in the higher education community.

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Report: English Majors Employed at Comparable Rates, Educators Can Do More to Prepare Students for Careers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In fact, this rate for English majors puts it below the unemployment rate for computer and information services majors, 2.8%, though still higher compared to a number of other majors – business, engineering, philosophy, physical science, and history.

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Small College America – Profile Earlham College

Edu Alliance Journal

The college also offers a 3+2 Engineering Program , where students spend three years at Earlham before transferring to an affiliated university, such as Columbia or Case Western Reserve, to complete an engineering degree. In the 2013-14 academic year , enrollment stood at 1,159 students , dropping to 677 students in 2022-23.

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Students are staying enrolled at decade-high rate, new report reveals

University Business

percentage points since fall 2013. Here’s a sample of their persistence rates and year-over-year percentage point increases: Engineering: 92.8% (+1.2) Public four-year institutions’ retention rates, now at 78%, have increased by 3.1 percentage points and its retention rate has risen for four consecutive years.

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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. These loans continue to be serviced by the private lenders that issued them.

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Parroting romanticized myths about English and humanities (letter)

Inside Higher Ed

To refer to only the humanities “in free fall” since 2013 misreads longer-term trends and makes understanding impossible. I recall clearly that we undergraduates in the late 1960s were under pressure to major in engineering, business, pre-med, or pre-law. My pursuing the Ph.D. Three major currents demand greater attention.