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Panel Dives into Social Mobility

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It was clear that social mobility is increasingly important, but the best ways that colleges can help students achieve it and the best ways that it can be measured and communicated were less certain. A school might be offering access to a great many low-income students, but not graduating many of them. Or vice-versa.

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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Created in 2005 by Excelencia in Education, Examples of Excelencia is a national initiative that recognizes institutions and nonprofit organizations that identify, aggregate, and promote evidence-based practices that improve Latinx student access in higher education.

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From College to Careers: The Pell Institute Receives $748,000 Ascendium Grant to Explore Career Development within TRIO Programs

COE

By partnering with the Pell Institute, Ascendium is working to reduce institutional barriers to accessing and completing college and to help more learners from low-income backgrounds achieve their educational and career goals.

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On Section 230 and the Dream of a More Human Internet

Cal Newport

The focus of the case is a single sentence, found in Section 230(c)(1) of 1996’s Communications Decency Act : “No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.” It might not actually be so bad.

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On Section 230 and the Dream of a More Human Internet

Cal Newport

The focus of the case is a single sentence, found in Section 230(c)(1) of 1996’s Communications Decency Act : “No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.” It might not actually be so bad.

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2022: Year in Review

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In 2005, the publication broadened its focus, becoming Diverse: Issues In Higher Education. Being unaccredited meant students could not access Title IV federal student aid, and the college did not receive any ARP funds. Through his wife Lee’s affiliation with the Fairfax, Virginia, branch of the NAACP Cox met Frank L.

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Lessons in Innovation for Higher Ed

The University Innovation Alliance

He discussed how his institute works, the relative cost of failure, how organizations need both efficiency and discovery, why higher ed demands two-way communication, and leaders who foster innovation. They were built to be one-way communications devices. That's how I like to teach.' Those TVs were not built to be flipped around.