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Colleges hire directors to tackle student basic needs

Inside Higher Ed

She’d spent seven years as a part-time student at Los Angeles Pierce Community College after graduating from high school and struggled to earn money and find financial aid to pay for a four-year education. “All of those intersectionalities opened my eyes to a lot of inequity in higher education,” Mora said.

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A free, online, global university seeks seal of approval

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Image: When the Taliban banned women from pursuing higher education, they did not simultaneously extinguish half their citizens’ educational ambitions. The New England Commission of Higher Education] is getting more comfortable with pilots, for examples.”

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Fraternities cut ties with USC

Inside Higher Ed

John Hechinger, author of True Gentlemen: The Broken Pledge of America’s Fraternities ( Public Affairs, 2017 ), said that, crucially, disaffiliated fraternities also lose out on access to free educational training in Title IX regulations and sexual assault prevention. “It is very difficult to rein them in.”

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University TikTok bans cause concern and confusion

Inside Higher Ed

” Both Madnick and Skill believe the bans are primarily political in nature , focused more on influencing public opinion of the universities than on mitigating any real risk. The Montana University System is currently considering additions to its policy that would address this issue. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Enrollment trends new and old emerge from pandemic

Inside Higher Ed

Image: After a bruising year of pandemic-related enrollment declines, higher education leaders across the country are anxiously waiting for this fall’s national enrollment picture to emerge. As the fog of the pandemic’s impact clears, those numbers could reveal the contours of a new landscape for higher education.

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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. Is this diversity newsletter?: Newsletter Order: 0 Disable left side advertisement?:

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DC higher ed associations opt out of debt relief legal fight

Inside Higher Ed

So far, no Washington-based higher education interest group has submitted a brief in support of the administration’s position. Terry Hartle, the senior vice president for government relations and public affairs at the American Council on Education, said his association was not asked to submit a brief.