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How Higher Ed Can Help Underserved Communities Access Broadband

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Postsecondary education provides graduates with greater access to job opportunities and higher earning potential throughout their lifetimes. But higher education isn’t the only provider of communal uplift. Angela Thi Bennett, digital equity director with the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. “We

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Certificate Program Empowers Professionals to Drive Change in Juvenile Justice System

Insight Into Diversity

Matt Allen Operated as a partnership between UNO’s School of Criminology and Criminal Justice and its College of Public Affairs and Community Service’s Juvenile Justice Institute, the curriculum was structured around monthly themes critical to juvenile justice work. This article was published in our July/August 2023 issue.

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What role will higher education play in the next general election?

HEPI

With presentations from UEL’s Professor Bugewa Apampa, Professor Julia Davidson OBE, Dr Michelle Morgan and Robert Gordon University’s William Hardie, the day’s conversations took in a breadth of topics including institutional equity, the Online Safety Bill, and the cost-of-living crisis.

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Post-Traditional Students are the New Premium Students

eLiterate

We’re still in the early days of “post-pandemic” higher education. Terry Hartle, senior vice president of government relations and public affairs at the American Council on Education tells us that selective schools have done well, as have schools in states with growing populations. Enrollment shifts.

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Investing in Community Colleges

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A good portion of those donations were given to various kinds of institutions of higher education, many serving students from underserved backgrounds. In the process of selecting recipients, Scott’s team sought out colleges and universities successfully educating those from chronically underserved communities, she wrote.

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Record bond measures, higher ed policy on states' ballots

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Arizona voters will decide next month whether to allow undocumented students in the state to receive in-state tuition—one of three statewide measures on the ballot this November related to higher education. Harnisch said Arizona’s Proposition 308 is “the marquee higher education ballot measure this year.”

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Museums and College Campuses as Community Hubs and Cultural Centers

Inside Higher Ed

” Also correct, but whether you regard this statement as extraneous or relevant hinges on your understanding of the museum’s educational mission. Major museums, even more than public and private universities, must navigate a fraught, contentious environment without the broad base of support that comes from alumni.

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