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

Faculty Focus

Creating a trust-based classroom begins with an essential mindset: students are doing their best. When we approach teaching from this perspective, we move away from punitive measures, fear-based management, and skepticism about students honesty. 2014; Agarwal, 2019).

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Freshman enrollment is up for the first time since 2019

Inside Higher Ed

Image: After more than two years of declining enrollment numbers, fall 2022 finally brought refreshing news: freshman enrollment, which represented the most significant deficits throughout the pandemic, is up from the previous year, according to the latest data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. and 2 percent.

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Unis and agencies work to leverage Bangladeshi market

The PIE News

While India remains one of the major source destinations for international students, countries like Bangladesh are becoming significant markets for institutions across the globe. As per UNESCO data , over 50,000 students from Bangladesh studied abroad in 2023. Canada was the third choice, with USA and Australia being the top two.

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Performance-based admissions open the door to a master’s in electrical engineering.

Coursera blog

Allen Xu enrolled in the Master of Science in Electrical Engineering (MS-EE) on Coursera when it was first announced in May of 2019. My background is in mechanical engineering with experience in III-IV compound semiconductor manufacturing. I worked mostly with electrical engineers on process development and integration.

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Leveraging Materials Engineering to Improve Human Health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Erika Moore Title: Rhines Rising Star Larry Hench Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, University of Florida Age: 31 Education: B.S., biomedical engineering, The Johns Hopkins University; Ph.D., Since 2019, Moore Wealth has gifted over $30,000 in scholarships.

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Are graduation rates and input or an output? (redux)

Higher Ed Data Stories

But what if I told you that a college's six-year graduation rate (and, to a lesser extent, its four-year graduation rate) can be easily predicted by a single variable that we know before a student ever sets foot on campus? The variable is the mean SAT (or ACT) score of the incoming class of first-year students. some of you are saying.

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Higher Education Strategic Planning That Drives Growth and Faculty Buy-In: Changing Higher Ed podcast 257 with host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Dr. Andrew Hsu

The Change Leader, Inc.

Rather than introducing immediate top-down changes, he led a full year of strategic planning that included participation from faculty, staff, students, alumni, and governing boards. Hsu became the 23rd president of the College of Charleston on May 16, 2019. This broad engagement was critical for building support.