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More Indian universities accept SAT as College Board expands

The PIE News

Rushi Sheth, Vice President (International), College Board, highlighted the importance of expanding opportunities for Indian students. The College Board recently hosted the India Global Higher Education Alliance Forum 2024 in New Delhi, which focused on ensuring successful student transitions to higher education, aimed at Indian institutions.

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Three ways colleges can re-engage adult learners

University Business

Nearly 42 million American adults have earned college credits but not a degree, creating a population of potential learners thats more than twice the size of current undergraduate enrollment. Colleges should ensure that their programs and outreach are aligned with these learners goals. This is where the work really begins.

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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. Once we received funding from the state, I was able to collaboratively develop the program,” Strachan said.

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Intentionality is Key in First-generation Student Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As a first-generation college graduate and the first-ever female, Hispanic president of St. Consistent and strong intentionality in academic, psychosocial, and financial support is key to first-generation students successfully completing college. We are fully committed to first-generation students, but commitment is just the start.

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Nation’s First-Ever Black Honors College Hopes to Inspire Others

Insight Into Diversity

A special kind of energy comes with doing something no one else has, and it’s buzzing around California State University, Sacramento (Sacramento State), this spring as early applications are being reviewed for the inaugural cohort of 70 students who will enroll in the trailblazing Black Honors College (BHC).

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Teaching students to think beyond themselves

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Explicitly teaching character in college? The Program for Leadership and Character already offers scholarships, courses, seminars, speakers and retreats to Wake Forest students. Some 350 students have participated in extracurricular discussion groups that explore such topics as “What Is College For?”

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How to Make Teaching More Inclusive, Interactive, Equitable, and Participatory

Inside Higher Ed

College instructors, in increasing numbers, have begun to think seriously and systematically about how to enhance student learning and engagement, remediate content and skill deficiencies, close achievement gaps, and build upon students’ prior knowledge and skills. Supplement grading with formative feedback.