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Integrating Community Engagement into her Scholarship

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Moses, who served as her faculty adviser and co-chair of her dissertation committee. The other, she continues, has to do with the unilateral decision-making being done on what students can learn about their culture, history, and identity. López is a scholar who brings people together, according to Dr. Michele S.

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NCAA eliminates standardized testing requirement for student-athletes

University Business

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is the latest entity to dismiss standardized testing as a core requirement for student-athletic scholarships. Division III schools do not offer athletic scholarships, so they utilize a different method of granting scholarships.

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Our Advice for Making College Campuses Ready for Diverse Student Populations

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

One of the most common mistakes that institutions make in their efforts to retain students is an overemphasis on tuition scholarships. Scholarships without question assist with financial barriers, but they cannot unilaterally sustain a student's journey through higher education. This is how we can start keeping our students.

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Stakeholders raise alarm over fake IELTS scores in Pakistan

The PIE News

Pakistan is home to one of the largest number of English speakers in the world, owing to its colonial history and vast population. As per a British Council official, institutions are advised to always check results from prospective students using the IELTS Results Service.

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Community-Engaged Scholar Dr. DeLeon Gray Believes in the Value of Hyperlocal Work

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It’s scholarship in a different form.” Gray says he felt pressure to produce another article when a friend came to him and said that the idea was not done because the scholarship was just one leg of the relay. His friend advised him to show people what “Black and belonging” looked like.

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College search: What you need to know about parents’ roles

University Business

Perhaps not surprisingly, parents identified cost as their top college concern, followed closely by two other financial matters: finding scholarships and compiling debt. Colleges and universities can help parents navigate higher ed finances with “early and direct communication” about tuition, fees and housing, the report advises.

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Rehumanizing the Research University

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Can a research-intensive university also be learning- and learner-centered, as dedicated to the quality of students’ educational experience as it is to scholarship, publication and invention? What, then, would it take to achieve a greater balance between scholarship and teaching?