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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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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.

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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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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. According to her philanthropy website, Yield Giving, Scott has gifted more than $16 billion to approximately 1,960 nonprofit groups.

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Museums and College Campuses as Community Hubs and Cultural Centers

Inside Higher Ed

But just as teaching and administering a college provided Weiss with training that proved invaluable in running the Met, so, too, presiding over a major museum taught him lessons that higher education ought to embrace. Even the most elite and exclusive institutions fail to connect to the public at their peril.

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Wellesley students want trans men to be allowed to enroll

Inside Higher Ed

Still, some women’s college students, faculty, staff and graduates say that expanding who can attend these institutions takes away from their mission to celebrate womanhood and give women an educational space that is wholly theirs. “For me, this is the next step in that evolution.”