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Multiple Measures of Assessment Needed for College Readiness Post-Pandemic

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

That’s according to the latest report from the ACT , which analyzed high school GPAs, ACT test scores, and first-year grades in students from 2017 to 2021. Before the pandemic, in 2017, a student who had a 2.5 A more holistic assessment of students, including the use of the ACT test score alongside HSGPA, acts as a better predictor.

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A sectorwide approach to higher ed's future (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

Here at American University, we doubled our externally funded research over the last five years, and we opened a new Hall of Science that stands alongside our historic strengths in public affairs and international service. Burwell has been president of American University since 2017. government, serving as secretary of the U.S.

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Colleges hire directors to tackle student basic needs

Inside Higher Ed

Student affairs administrators at UC Irvine used a one-time grant to create a new position for a food access and security coordinator. She was later promoted to basic needs coordinator in 2017, which she says was an acknowledgment of the growing needs of students and an expansion and evolution of efforts to address them.

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Fraternities cut ties with USC

Inside Higher Ed

John Hechinger, author of True Gentlemen: The Broken Pledge of America’s Fraternities ( Public Affairs, 2017 ), said that, crucially, disaffiliated fraternities also lose out on access to free educational training in Title IX regulations and sexual assault prevention.

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Stacey Abrams Appointed Inaugural Ronald W. Walters Endowed Chair for Race and Black Politics at Howard University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The well-known political figure was a state representative in the Georgia General Assembly, having served as minority leader of the Georgia House of Representatives 2011-2017. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, and a J.D. Abrams holds a B.A. from Yale University.

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What role will higher education play in the next general election?

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HEPI’s most recent report on student voters and the difference (or not) that they made at the 2019, 2017, 2015 and 2010 general elections is here. We are hopeful that we can count politicians among those numbers. The post What role will higher education play in the next general election? appeared first on HEPI.

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HEI Resources 2025

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Public Affairs. 2017) For the Common Good: A New History of Higher Education in America Cornell University Press. and Kelly Nielson (2021) Broke: The Racial Consequences of Underfunding Public Universities Hampel, Robert L. Diploma Mills: How For-profit Colleges Stiffed Students, Taxpayers, and the American Dream.

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