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Why certificates are becoming popular beyond the undergraduate realm

University Business

Kentucky—along with North Carolina and Montana—saw the highest increases in graduate certificate completions between 2019 and 2023. “It’s very hard once you’re working to [return to school full-time] with all the obligations of an adult learner,” she says.

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Honoring Excellence in Urban Teaching

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Growing up in South Florida, Jhaneil Thompson remembers playing school with her four sisters as a youngster. Thompson’s connection to the community where her school is headquartered, has also proven beneficial. “As They always chose me to be the teacher,” said Thompson, who was born in St. James, Jamaica. “I

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Doctoral Distress: Graduate Program Pressures Impact Student Mental Health

Insight Into Diversity

In 2019, Nature conducted a survey of 6,320 global PhD students that revealed 36% of respondents sought help for anxiety or depression reportedly caused by their academic pursuits. one for STEM and professional schools, the other for arts, humanities, and social sciences. a rate six times higher than the general population.

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Is it time to rethink university rankings?

The PIE News

When MBA student Nitin Bishnoi decided he wanted to go to business school, there was no doubt where he would start his search: the rankings. When we see that a publication released their list of the top 100 universities, we say: Oh, cool, this college is here again that means they must be a really good school.

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Penn State African American Studies Head Resigns, Alleges Broken Promises and Wavering Institutional Commitment to Diversity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Michael West, head of Penn State’s Department of African American Studies, has resigned from the role, alleging that leadership broke promises and questioning the school's commitment to diversity and equity, Centre Daily Times reported. Dr. Michael West West will continue to serve as a tenured professor in the department. West resigned Apr.

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UNC Chapel Hill leaders diverge on what new "school" will be

Inside Higher Ed

So this is an effort to try to remedy that with the School of Civic Life and Leadership, which will provide equal opportunity for both views to be taught.” ” A draft budget memo , provided Tuesday to Inside Higher Ed in response to an open records request, projects the school would cost about $3.5 million next year but $12.7

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Dr. Jessica T. DeCuir-Gunby Selected to Lead USC Race and Equity Center

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DeCuir-Gunby, a prominent educational psychologist and racial equity expert who is on the faculty at the USC Rossier School of Education, has been named the next executive director of the USC Race and Equity Center. She will replace Dr. Shaun R. Dr. Jessica T. DeCuir-Gunby DeCuir-Gunby is a tenured full professor and holds the Robert H.

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