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Test-optional admissions may be hurting disadvantaged students, study says

University Business

A new study from Dartmouth College suggests that test-optional admissions policiesdesigned to level the playing fieldmay be making it harder for high-achieving students from disadvantaged backgrounds to get into top colleges. Disadvantaged students benefit from submitting scores. Colleges consider test scores in context.

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College Completion Rates Edging Upward

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

of learners who began college in fall 2018, which is the most recent cohort tracked, earned a credential within six years. The improvements here were mostly driven by students who started at community colleges. Community college completion rates jumped 1.2 Over 80% of the student body at Lehman are individuals of color.

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PGWP eligibility expanded for college degree students

The PIE News

Canadas college sector has welcomed a recent policy change from the IRCC stating that graduates of college degree programs will now join university students in being exempted from PGWP field of study requirements announced in October 2024. The post PGWP eligibility expanded for college degree students appeared first on The PIE News.

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Thinking Beyond College Rankings

MindMax

Cardona declared college rankings “a joke.” He made this bold statement in support of a broader point he presented in an article for The Chronicle of Higher Education : elite institutions “spend enormous resources to climb college rankings and compete for the most affluent, highest-scoring students.”

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Colleges should help disadvantaged faculty attend conferences (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

Category: Conditionally Accepted How much an institution helps pay for financially disadvantaged BIPOC faculty to attend conferences indicates how equitable and embracing it truly is, writes Reem Khamis.

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Create university ‘cold spots’ and it’s the disadvantaged that will suffer | Torsten Bell

The Guardian - Higher Education

New research from the US shows that poorer students living more than 30 miles from college are unlikely to continue with their studies Too many people go to university is a popular argument. I disagree.

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Morehouse Joins Initiative to Bring College Courses to Disadvantaged High Schoolers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It's one of the new offerings coordinated by the National Education Equity Lab, an educational justice nonprofit that brings credit-bearing college courses into Title I and Title I-eligible high schools, at which large numbers of students come from families with little money. The Lab is looking to change that.