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Nandi Mehta - Soccer

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

School: Northwestern University Year: 2016 Major: Economics and International Studies Nandi Mehta is a Northwestern University senior majoring in economics and international studies. A member of the womens soccer team, she was named co-captain in 2014 and 2015.

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

Faculty Focus

2014; Agarwal, 2019). Rahmat, PsyD, is a core faculty member at Antioch University, where she specializes in compassion-focused pedagogy, trauma-sensitive mindfulness, and mindful self-compassion. Collaborative syllabus design: During the first class, engage students in setting community and classroom norms and goals. Cook-Sather, A.,

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Dr. Harold L. Martin Sr. Honored with Peter McPherson Lifetime Achievement Award

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Chancellor Emeritus at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, was honored with the Peter McPherson Lifetime Achievement Award last week at the annual meeting of the Association of Public & Land-Grant Universities (APLU) in Orlando, Florida. Martin, Sr., Dr. Harold L.

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More Pell Grant Recipients Enrolling at Top-Tier Universities

Higher Education Today

The post More Pell Grant Recipients Enrolling at Top-Tier Universities appeared first on Higher Education Today. Pell Grant recipience is often used as a proxy for low-income status, pointing to an.

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Do test-optional policies increase diversity?

Higher Ed Data Stories

However, critics of test optional like to trot out this study from 2014 , suggesting test-optional policies do not increase diversity. You'll also notice, perhaps, the big drop in African American enrollment at the University of Florida, one loud resistor of test optional during the pandemic. I said I didn't know."

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From Crisis to Solutions: Global Conference Charts New Course for Urban Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

CANCUN—What started off in 2014 as a simple idea, has blossomed into a major convening, drawing more than 700 educators from K-12 school districts and colleges and universities together to strategize and share best practices on how to tackle some of the most pressing issues facing urban schools around the globe. State University.

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Howard University Rescinds Sean "Diddy" Combs Honorary Doctorate

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Howard University said that it has rescinded the 2014 honorary degree given to rapper and hip-hop mogul, Sean "Diddy" Combs. The university made the announcement on June 7, several weeks after Combs was seen on a 2016 hotel video assaulting his then-girlfriend Cassandra "Cassie" Ventura. "The