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Community Colleges Test New Model Linking Student Success to Community Impact

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The Community Vibrancy Framework, developed by Achieving the Dream (ATD), moves beyond traditional metrics of student completion to create a more comprehensive model of institutional and community transformation.

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The Power of Role Modeling Self-compassion Practices in Your Class

Faculty Focus

Leading the way by role modeling self-compassion, in addition to teaching and supporting self-compassion practices to our students, can propel the transition to emotional wellness and resiliency in any academic or professional environment. Teach it by role modeling it. Great question! American College Health Association.

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Flipped Finally Flopped and Up Floated a Better Model

Faculty Focus

I desperately wanted my face-to-face classes to follow the flipped learning model where students begin the learning process at home before class – typically through video content over core concepts – so that valuable, limited class time could be spent working through the most difficult problems in the course together. Yes, it is painful.

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Flipped Finally Flopped and Up Floated a Better Model

Faculty Focus

I desperately wanted my face-to-face classes to follow the flipped learning model where students begin the learning process at home before class – typically through video content over core concepts – so that valuable, limited class time could be spent working through the most difficult problems in the course together. Yes, it is painful.

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Private colleges and discount, 2020

Higher Ed Data Stories

First some definitions: Discount rate measures the amount of institutional aid you award as a function of how much gross tuition you charge. I don't look at public universities because doing so is only meaningful within a state because of funding models that vary from one state to another. But as a thing unto itself? Here's why.

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Ten campus living-learning communities to model

Inside Higher Ed

“The definition of a living-learning community is a dedicated number of beds that are contiguous to each other and have additional resources dedicated for the purpose of that community,” explains Kathy Bush-Hobgood, vice president of the Association of College and University Housing Officers. Click here to submit.

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Weekend Reading: Rethinking the Cost of Higher Education – A Lecture Revisited

HEPI

BIS [The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills] doesnt allow independent access to their higher education finance model so we have to rely on their crude ready reckoner published some time ago. In my model Ive assumed a two year intensive degree say 39 weeks of study a year would cost 20% less to deliver than a three year degree.