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Johns Hopkins Revives Standardized Testing Requirement

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The university plans to resume its standardized testing requirement for undergraduate admissions to the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and the Whiting School of Engineering. Students applying to enter Hopkins in fall 2025 are encouraged but not required to take and submit scores from the college entrance assessments.

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President moves: Milestone hires and dramatic exits start off the month

University Business

He came into power at the small liberal arts school after a DeSantis-backed overhaul of the Board of Trustees ousted former President Patricia Okker. Beginning as a professor of obstetrics and gynecology, she then went on to become the associate dean of diversity and inclusion for BU’s biological sciences division.

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Can a ‘degree’ hold its value?

HEPI

The ‘trade’ of Oxford and Cambridge as corporations lay in the study of the artes , the ‘liberal arts’. In both, a student ‘apprentice’ ‘graduated’ gradus by gradus , ‘degree’ by ‘degree’, to become a Bachelor then a Master of Arts. They have proliferated in range and subject. The question is whether that affects their ‘value’.

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President moves: Holloway from Rutgers out, and these 2 provosts climb the ladder

University Business

Ken Trachte, Lycoming College’s longtime president, announced his plans to retire in June 2025. Aside from the construction or renovation of its new science center, residence halls and athletic facilities, Lycoming also finished constructing a community baseball park and downtown art gallery.

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Advancing Social Justice Through Scholarly Work

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Williams notes that, for more than a century, HBCUs have provided education for African Americans, bringing the world physicians, engineers, attorneys, inventors, politicians, and many other professions. Rooted in the African American community, CSJ has become a recognized research center integrally connected to HBCUs.

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ELEVATE program: Achievement Strategies from Illinois Tech: Changing Higher Education Podcast 166 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Raj Echambadi

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By following three core principles, Illinois Tech has ranked first in the state for people it has successfully moved from the bottom 20th percentile of household income to the upper 20th percentile. Moreover, Illinois Tech’s employment rate is 92% six months after graduation, even when 37% of its students receive Pell Grants.