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German language barrier stalls African nurse recruitment

The PIE News

The partnership between Koblenz University of Applied Sciences and Kenya’s Mount Kenya University , whichpiloted over 2023 and 2024, has slowed because few candidates meet the required language skills. Language training and test facilities in Kenya both remain the key constraints for scaling up, he explained.

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Campus sustainability: Where the U.S. lands in the world rankings

University Business

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Pell Grant Expansion Extends Educational Opportunities to Thousands of Incarcerated Students

Insight Into Diversity

Beyond individual benefits, however, high-quality PEPs contribute to safer correctional facilities, increased public safety, and taxpayer savings, writes Taber. Among correctional facilities for women, White women made up 65% of SCP enrollees, despite accounting for only 47% of the prison population.

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Closing Higher Ed’s Equity Gaps

Inside Higher Ed

” Princeton’s defense: “Operating expenses don’t include hundreds of millions in capital expenditures the endowment provides every year to fund things like research equipment and facilities.” Nor does it have a major nanoscience facility. Does Princeton have robust graduate programs in those areas?

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Bridging Research and Practice

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Floyd Hall—home to the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences facility— named in honor of the school’s sixth and first African American president to lead WMU. Take a stroll through campus and you’ll find visible markers of how the minoritized community shaped the institution dating back decades.

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2023 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award Winners

Insight Into Diversity

PEER and WISE Programs Clemson University College of Engineering, Computing, and Applied Sciences The PEER and WISE programs support students academically and demonstrate best practices and high graduation rates for underrepresented populations at predominantly White institutions.

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The Invisible Student Majority

Inside Higher Ed

Introductory STEM courses, far too often, serve weed-out functions that “disproportionately push underrepresented minority students out of the natural and applied sciences.” Ensure that commuting students can access recreation facilities at times that meet their schedules.