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College Revives Standardized Test Requirement

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The college adopted a test-optional policy for applicants to the Classes of 2025, 2026, and 2027 and a test-recommended policy for applicants to the Class of 2028 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Lee Coffin, the college’s vice president and dean of admissions and financial aid.

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Students left out of Texas A&M’s Qatar decision

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They announced that the university would wind down to an official closure in 2028 so all current students can complete their studies. They were informed of the news via an email from president Mark A. Welsh delivered at 1 am AST on Friday, at the start of the weekend which falls on Friday-Saturday in most Arab countries.

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MIT Faces Diversity Decline For Incoming Class

Insight Into Diversity

MIT has reported a decline in the diversity of its incoming Class of 2028, a direct result of the 2023 Supreme Court ruling that ended race-based admissions. In my time as dean, we have considered only applicants who meet our extremely high threshold of academic readiness.

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Guiding Community Colleges Toward Mission Fulfillment

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

At the same time, the deans are talking to their faculty about the data in the classroom that faculty are using. million grant from the Ballmer Foundation that runs until 2028 to enhance transfer success through a replicable model. The important thing for Achieving the Dream is that conversation happens at multiple levels, she says.

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2022 INSIGHT Into Diversity HEED Award Recipients

Insight Into Diversity

IUPUI continued the White Racial Literacy Project with the Chancellor’s Leadership Reading Program, which is inclusive of all vice chancellors and deans, in a yearlong reading of “Presumed Incompetent: Race, Class, Power and Resistance of Women in Academia” as well as an auditorium-packed lecture featuring Ibram X.