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How to Address the Dearth in Black Male Teachers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

She also serves as project director of the Males for Alabama Education (MALE) initiative, a state-funded program scholarship and mentorship program for minority men walking the teacher education pathway. We have an academic adviser. We also have an academic coordinator who coordinates daily activities.

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Engineering success center opens at Boise State

Inside Higher Ed

The success center will centralize internship, mentoring and advising services, in addition to creating a shared space for current, new and transfer students to engage with one another. The gift, which will be dispersed over three years, includes $150,000 for student stipends and scholarships. What is the center?

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Honors ed is changing to grow more accessible (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

While Mintz criticizes “exclusive merit scholarships,” the data also show that a majority of honors colleges at R-1 institutions base scholarship decisions on merit and need. —with scholarships for room and board. The program has received national attention for its success. But that work has already begun.

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A professor's job is endangered for teaching about race

Inside Higher Ed

The professor, Samuel Joeckel, said in an email that the dean of his department and the university’s provost waited outside the class he was teaching last week to inform him of the news. The dean had an envelope in his hand and gave it to me. “On Feb. “On Feb. “They asked to speak with me privately.

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Plan B Propels Engineer to Higher Ed Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Teik Lim “My family did not have much money, but with the help of a generous undergraduate scholarship from Michigan Tech, I was able to support myself through college and become the first member of my family to earn a college degree,” said Lim. That began my pathway forward and my love of engineering.”

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Int’l education debates AI wins and warnings

The PIE News

And if AI built into a high-touch, human-based advising service, then I’m all for it.” Participants acknowledged potential AI benefits for students, noting the use of ChatGTP to help find admissions and scholarship information quickly, thus “disrupting” the field of education consultants and agents and the application services provide.

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Association of American Law Schools President Speaks on Cooperative Politics

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

So much of my career I did my scholarship in the field of election law,” said Alexander, the Arthur J. Kania Dean and Professor of Law at Villanova University. “I He advises people to look for a way to at least talk to each other. He said it was one of the reasons he went to law school.