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“Courage, Creativity and Confidence” – Celebrating the Class of 2021

Marcia J. Ballinger, Ph.D.

At Lorain County Community College, we celebrated the class of 2021 with unforgettable tributes to our remarkable graduates. In short, the class of 2021 is remarkably resilient and will make an impact on our world like no other. To the class of 2021, congratulations on your emerging life of value as a college graduate.”.

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Families still chasing money in Kenyan scandal

The PIE News

The scandal has left more than 300 students stranded at home, while others face expulsion from Finnish universities over non-payment of fees. The scandal first came to light earlier this year when a group of Kenyan students enrolled in universities in Finland since September 2021 faced expulsion from campuses and subsequent deportation.

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Ask not what you can do for engineering…

HEPI

Moreover, as a recent study by the Engineering Professors Council found, many universities feel that the mathematical content of T levels fails to meet the entry requirement for undergraduate Engineering courses. [ii] Thats quite an ask to make of a 15-year-old with no prior educational experience in engineering.

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Netherlands: call for higher education funding rethink in ongoing international debate

The PIE News

Last year, Dutch minister for Education, Culture and Science, Robbert Dijkgraaf, told The PIE in an exclusive interview that the country was searching for an “optimal” number of international students, while he praised the role of student and researcher international exchanges. times as many as the 2005/06 figure.

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Gonzaga launches mentored tech boot camps

Inside Higher Ed

In one 2021 Student Voice survey , nearly half of students couldn’t name a single mentor, even one they’d found on their own. ” Gonzaga is Springboard’s 10th university partnership. Strawther says the university will be reviewing student evaluations regularly and reviewing the boot camp curriculum annually.

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Closing Higher Ed’s Equity Gaps

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Did you happen to see Malcolm Gladwell’s article “ Princeton University Is the World’s First Perpetual Motion Machine ”? ” As Axios explains, “The school’s entire annual operating expense in 2021 was $1.86 billion, which is less than 5% of the value of its endowment.”

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William & Mary professors cry secrecy on data school, more

Inside Higher Ed

Take the college’s recent announcement that it’s exploring opening a computing and data science school. Some professors describe this as an end run around the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which voted in early 2021 not to approve department status for William & Mary’s then year-old data science program.