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Education Department Revises Restrictions on Race Initiatives

Insight Into Diversity

Department of Education has modified its previous directives on race in hiring, scholarships, student programs, and other educational policies. Since coming into power, the new administration has focused on enforcing conservative legal principles in education, particularly regarding race and gender policies.

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UK free speech: “time will tell” if guidance works

The PIE News

Draft guidance announced by the UK’s Office for Students on free speech and academic freedom could have far-reaching consequences on international partnerships, but “time will tell” if the guidance might build more understanding, stakeholders say.

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A look at a unique law that makes transfer credits count

University Business

One recent report from the Center for Higher Education Policy and Practice found four-year institutions that embrace seamless credit transfers reduce students’ expenses. Opportunity Next Colorado will grant more than 14,000 graduating seniors a one-time $1,500 scholarship.

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Seal of Excelencia 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Brown, is to advance Latino student success in higher education by promoting Latino student achievement, conducting analysis to inform educational policies and advancing institutional practices. Outreach efforts include education on financial aid options, including grants, scholarships and aid for undocumented students.

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Passionate pleas for and against tuition-sharing agreements

Inside Higher Ed

Like just about every policy discussion in Washington these days, this one found the students, consumer advocates, college officials, corporate leaders and others who shared their opinions in three-minute increments to be sharply divided, with little to no middle ground to be found.

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Redeveloping Academic Career Frameworks for Twenty-First Century: Why on Earth do we need another academic career pathway?

HEPI

This blog was kindly authored for HEPI by Professor Mark Sterling, Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the University of Birmingham, and Dr Lia Blaj-Ward , Associate Professor (Teaching & Scholarship) at Nottingham Trent University.

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Five challenges for policy research on higher education

SRHE

While this may have led to a certain lack of interaction and integration initially ( Macfarlane, 2012 ; Tight, 2014 ), the trend towards interdisciplinary scholarship can bring these different perspectives together in creative ways. We might also ask what form might an acceptable evidence base take?