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OCTOBER 7, 2024

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Higher Education Inquirer

MARCH 13, 2025

For decades, Americas elite university medical centers have been the epitome of healthcare research and innovation, providing world-class treatment, education, and cutting-edge medical advancements. (Image: Mass General is Harvard University Medical School's teaching hospital.)

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HEPI

DECEMBER 29, 2024

As a recent graduate of Cambridge, where I spent four years, I understand the urge to herald its unique history and methods of teaching. But my report wasnt about personal experience it was about systemic flaws which were patently disadvantaging entire groups of students.

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Today's Learner

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Reading Time: 2 minutes Shaloun Mims is a student at The University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee   and a Cengage student ambassador Throughout my academic journey, the meaning of Black History Month has changed tremendously. Black History Month was the celebration of their stories and how they paved the way for the lives of Black people today.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 7, 2024

Esdaile complained about the book, Yale and Slavery: A History , published alongside Yale’s apology. level careers in research — for students who come from an economically disadvantaged background, are first-generation college students, or have faced significant obstacles in pursuit of higher education. programs.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 11, 2022

In 2021, Harvard University handed out 39 bachelor’s degrees in English language and literature, 118 in history, and 22 in philosophy. history survey) without discussion labs or supplemental instruction sessions, that have outsize DFW rates. Inequities pervade American higher education.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Astrophoria programme aims to help students from disadvantaged backgrounds fulfil their potential When Jessica Neate told her friends in Leicester that she was going to study at Oxford University, they didn’t believe her. Continue reading.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 1, 2023

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and NCAA President Charlie Baker At the North American Society fror Sports History conference last weekend, the topic was front and center. DeSantis is now running for President of The United States of America.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

The very question—posed by educational historian Bruce A. The consequence: the richest institutions can fully fund the education of lower-income students, while the vast majority of working-class and lower-middle-class undergraduates must take out loans to pay for their education. Kimball and Sarah M. They’re not.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 17, 2023

Not that long ago, higher education advocates regularly complained about the lack of national attention on colleges and universities. Today, higher education is a hot topic and almost always for negative reasons. To the dissenters, our current reality only comes into focus in light of this history.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Title: Assistant Professor of Political Science; Director of the Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies at the University of Rhode Island Tenured: No Age: 38 Education: B.A., history, Tufts University; M.A., international affairs, The New School; and Ph.D., political science, Binghamton University Career mentors: Dr. David L.

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HEPI

JUNE 7, 2023

Let us assume that higher education institutions want to have the best students they can get, admitted in the fairest way possible: not a very controversial assumption, even if sometimes people look to satisfice, by settling for something good enough, but perhaps not best. How should admissions practices and criteria change?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 25, 2024

Title: Assistant Professor of Political Science; Director of the Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies at the University of Rhode Island Tenured: No Age: 38 Education: B.A., history, Tufts University; M.A., international affairs, The New School; and Ph.D., political science, Binghamton University Career mentors: Dr. David L.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 10, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as ChatGPT can prove very valuable and promising in the realm of higher education but come with their own suite of issues that need to be considered, according to higher ed leaders and faculty who participated in a panel discussion on Wednesday. ChatGPT launched in November of 2022,” Watson said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 13, 2023

Now, Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce has released a report on the potential impacts of the decision and how higher ed and governments can react. Race-conscious admissions were now only allowed for the achievement of the educational benefits of diversity. Carnevale, director of the CEW. “It

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The PIE News

MARCH 3, 2025

Another benefit of making green cards more available to those who graduate from US higher education institutions is that it helps us to retain talent here to create jobs, drive innovation, and improve public health. By encouraging them to stay and work post-graduation, we retain talent that contributes to U.S. Learn more.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Sarra has previously blogged for HEPI on the topics of getting the best fit for students and supporting students to move into higher education. What else have you done to prepare outside of education, and why are these experiences helpful? How have your qualifications and studies helped you to prepare for this course or subject?

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The PIE News

APRIL 18, 2024

“The ideal situation is to get an undergraduate degree in the humanities, then do an MBA or some kind of professional training… our data shows that those with a [humanities] education actually do better long term,” Fry noted. We just commercialise vocational and undergraduate education in America. It’s terrible.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

In recent years, new efforts have been put in place to educate and support students on their journey to become financially secure and independent. Experts have also sounded the alarm about the need for financial education programs to address the racial wealth gap.

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Higher Education Inquirer

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

As the lawyers note, many for-profit colleges have histories of using deceptive advertising and recruiting to draw people into high-priced, low-quality programs that leave many students worse off than when they enroll deep in debt and without the careers they sought.

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The PIE News

APRIL 11, 2023

We’re at a particularly pivotal moment in history where we need thoughtful, interculturally effective, empathetic global citizens more than ever. However, recent guidance proposed by the Department of Education would make it impossible to proactively cultivate more capable global citizens for the future.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 18, 2023

Supreme Court’s decision to strike down affirmative action in college admissions in June has left universities, nonprofit organizations, Richard Kahlenberg and other higher education stakeholders with a single question: What are the best paths forward? Programs like Landscape and the Davis Scale have been developed across the U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Even though higher education has its own hazing rituals and rites of passage, it doesn’t impose tests of character. I raise these examples to prompt a bigger issue: Are there things that higher education should do but can’t or won’t? We can dismiss flawed graduates as a handful of bad apples.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 10, 2023

For most of its 50-year history, the Pell Grant has not covered summer classes, with two brief exceptions: 2009-2011 and 2017 to the present. Students studying in the summer may be more likely to remain engaged with their education and can progress to a degree more quickly. They may also avoid summer learning loss.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

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? By any standard, I had a privileged education, first at Oberlin, then at Yale.

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HEPI

JANUARY 9, 2023

For a city that was once the richest in the UK and the second richest in Europe, and which had seen settlement by different people since pre-Roman times, Leicester has a history that is as economically rich as it is ethnically diverse. Their education is global and truly prepares them for world that awaits them.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Kelman, chair of the Stanford task force and Jim Joseph Professor of Education and Jewish Studies, sees Stanford’s deep dive into its history on admissions as a part of this broader movement. “Everybody is taking a good, hard look at their own history,” he said. Examining the Past.

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University Business

OCTOBER 15, 2024

In the 1970s, Congress committed to funding a higher education system controlled by Indigenous communities. These tribal colleges and universities were intended to serve students who’d been disadvantaged by the nation’s history of violence and racism toward Native Americans, including efforts to eradicate their languages and cultures.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 6, 2022

A focus on aspiration can blame members of under-represented groups themselves for their low rates of participation , and critics of this stance instead point to the structural barriers and lack of encouragement which can limit expectations of higher education study for these groups.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2023

It bans affirmative action not only in race but other protected categories, and not just in admissions but in hiring practices and awarding money,” says Dr. Mark Henderson, associate dean of admissions and vice chair for education in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of California (UC) Davis. Dr. Jessica Faiz.

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WCET Frontiers

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

For those in higher education, the U.S. Department of Education created its own rumblings by releasing new guidance with rules about any contracted services and a series of questions about companies helping institutions with online learning. Note by “Education” after the colon, they mean the Department of Education.)

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The PIE News

JULY 4, 2023

Higher education leaders are calling for a science and research “rebalance” to supercharge global scholarship and create a research ecosystem that doesn’t disadvantage Africa and the Global South.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 5, 2022

“I think at the end of the day, we want to be good fiduciaries of people’s money, people’s time, and have excellent education outcomes for students,” she said. The status quo will continue to disadvantage students we’ve historically disadvantaged in higher education.”

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Image: Results of the biennial National Assessment of Educational Progress , which evaluates math and reading skills among fourth and eighth graders, were released Monday, and they were as dismal as many education experts feared. It marked the first time in the test’s 53-year history that fourth grade math scores have gone down.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

Data describing the institutions from which faculty members receive doctoral degrees can also inform understanding of (the lack of) diversity of perspectives and the potential advantages and disadvantages that different faculty members have. The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, sponsored by the U.S. What Do We Do?

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 12, 2023

Michael Mindzak, assistant professor in the department of educational studies, Brock University. Neem, professor of history, Western Washington University. Higher ed professionals are asking how ChatGPT will affect students or change education. Don’t Abandon Pencil and Paper. Remind Students to Think.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 25, 2023

As educators in the field of higher education today, we are led towards several questions, the most important of which is: Is there a failure to understand the crucial and circular cause-effect relationship between emotions, cognition, and academic success?

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