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

HEPI

In a closing members’ discussion, we noted that higher education is connected to all of the big political topics of our moment, but rarely seems to be acknowledged by politicians as such. Either way, we inevitably found ourselves wondering what role higher education will play in these parties’ campaigns – if any.

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Multiple Measures of Assessment Needed for College Readiness Post-Pandemic

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This could negatively impact a student’s self-perception of belongingness and readiness for higher education. “We According to the report, using HSGPA alone as a prediction for first-year GPAs fell dramatically in 2020 and 2021. In 2020 and 2021, a 2.5 Before the pandemic, in 2017, a student who had a 2.5 GPA in college.

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Black and Hispanic Students Far Less Likely to Receive Race-Matched Instruction

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

From a sample of over 560,000 first year, first time community college students and over 32,000 instructors in Texas between 2013 and 2020, researchers found that 77% of white students experienced a racial match. These obstacles include everything from discriminatory funding of public schools to personal biases. Dr. Kimberly A.

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Stancia Jenkins

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

She brings more than a decade of experience in higher education leadership roles that have required strategic planning and execution of diversity-related efforts.

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Investing in Community Colleges

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A good portion of those donations were given to various kinds of institutions of higher education, many serving students from underserved backgrounds. The scholarship program at Northeast has been in operation since fall 2021 as one of the 384 organizations to receive funding from Scott in December 2020.

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Enrollment trends new and old emerge from pandemic

Inside Higher Ed

Image: After a bruising year of pandemic-related enrollment declines, higher education leaders across the country are anxiously waiting for this fall’s national enrollment picture to emerge. As the fog of the pandemic’s impact clears, those numbers could reveal the contours of a new landscape for higher education.

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Colleges hire directors to tackle student basic needs

Inside Higher Ed

She’d spent seven years as a part-time student at Los Angeles Pierce Community College after graduating from high school and struggled to earn money and find financial aid to pay for a four-year education. “All of those intersectionalities opened my eyes to a lot of inequity in higher education,” Mora said.

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