Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Brown, is to advance Latino student success in higher education by promoting Latino student achievement, conducting analysis to inform educational policies and advancing institutional practices. Since 2018, the graduation rate for Latine/x students has increased from 24% to 34%. Santiago and Sarita E.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 7, 2023

“These folks have clearly shown some interest in college-going,” said Dr. Taylor Odle, an assistant professor of educational policy studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “If million high school students who started the Common App during the 2018-19 application cycle, the last one unaffected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 3, 2023

By one count, the United States is home to more than one million unique educational credentials, which represents a more than threefold increase since 2018. The study also followed up with 2,288 of the learners who completed the courses between April 2018 and November 2022. Some are offered by nonacademic providers.)

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Floyd Hall—home to the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences facility— named in honor of the school’s sixth and first African American president to lead WMU. Take a stroll through campus and you’ll find visible markers of how the minoritized community shaped the institution dating back decades.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Ending the absurdity of current practice Exam Nation by Sammy Wright Exam Nation: why our obsession with grades fails everyone and a better way to think about school by Sammy Wright recounts a journey through the system of compulsory education. The sport, Gladwell says, was tailor-made for a little bit of extra social engineering.

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HESA

APRIL 20, 2023

Ireland trailed most of Europe by ten to fifteen years in massifying its higher education system, and as Ellen notes in our talk, the country’s universities only really gained a research mission at the turn of the millennium. But falling meant the higher education sector could learn from other countries’ success and mistakes.

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