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Do test-optional policies increase diversity?

Higher Ed Data Stories

There are a couple of problems with using that paper to prop up this argument, however: First, the study included about 200 liberal arts colleges, and nowhere does it suggest that the conclusions can be generalized, or even that the results are reflective of reality every where else.

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Protecting Trans Rights? Disability Inclusion? International Students? Why It’s All the Same Battle

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

These laws ban gender-affirming care, criminalize parents and providers, and force trans people to use facilities that dont match their gender. One student from India pursuing a STEM degree at a liberal arts college put it bluntly: "They want our minds, but not our lives." increasingly precarious.

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Survey: Campus facilities' impact on student success

Inside Higher Ed

Image: A common concern among campus facilities directors has long been not having a seat at the table of top institutional officials. In other words, facilities leaders shouldn’t just be brought in to execute building projects after details have already been determined. Don’t give up that seat.” block:block=176].

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Radical imagination: not just for the radical among us

LSE Higher Education Blog

From campus facility plans to humble textbooks, subverting the status quo can happen in the most unlikely places, says LSE HE Blog Fellow , Ijeoma N Njaka It may seem unlikely, but around 2017, something interesting happened in a college facilities plan. It’s quite radical, really – and it’s a facilities plan !

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Small College America – Profile: Davidson College

Edu Alliance Journal

Background Founded in 1837 by Presbyterian leaders, Davidson College is a private liberal arts college located in Davidson, North Carolina, just north of Charlotte. Curricula Davidson College offers a broad and rigorous liberal arts education, exclusively focused on undergraduate learning. Why is Davidson Important?

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30 years of Amity: From lone business school to international recognition

The PIE News

Today, it spans 11 campuses across India, offering programs in business management, engineering, media and communication, psychology, international relations, liberal arts, and more. But Amitys expansion efforts havent been confined to India alone. Then we thought, lets go global and create our own campuses.

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BMCC and John Jay College Team Up to Create Prison-to-College Pathways Program for Incarcerated Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Borough of Manhattan Community College and the Institute for Justice and Opportunity at John Jay College of Criminal Justice have teamed up to create a new degree-granting Prison-to-College Pathways (P2CP) program for incarcerated students at Otisville Correctional Facility in upstate New York.