Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Incoming transfer students can enroll in courses early to guarantee that they have access to coursework. Necessary support is provided through GANAS (Gaining Access ’AND Academic Success), an innovative access and retention program that serves community college transfer students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

More than half a million incarcerated people can now access scholarly materials and texts online via digital library JSTOR’s expansion of its availability in U.S. She is also the one leading the JSTOR Access in Prison Initiative. Then, COVID happened, technology became more accessible to people inside.”

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Literacy Higher education Access Accessibility 325

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

In 2007, it became the first school in Kentucky to add gender identity to its non-discrimination policy. For example, at Capella, the faculty have developed a tool, on which faculty and instructional design staff are trained, to guide curriculum review to ensure that unconscious bias can be identified and removed from courses and materials.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas, partners with over 62 high schools across the state, facilitating college access for Latino, rural, and other marginalized communities. Partnering with high schools that serve predominantly Latino students reinforces accessibility. It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students.

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COE

APRIL 7, 2023

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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NCLC Student Loan Borrower Assistance

AUGUST 9, 2022

Detailed instructions on how to consolidate can be found here. Borrowers must submit a PSLF form that reflects any period of work for a qualifying employer since October 2007, when the PSLF program began. Step 3 : If necessary, consolidate your loans into a Direct Consolidation Loan.

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The University Innovation Alliance

AUGUST 24, 2023

Nothing was more instructive than watching five years of those. In 2007, the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) presented him with its prestigious National Leadership Award and inducted him into the AACC Hall of Fame. He was inducted into the United States Distance Learning Association’s Hall of Fame in 2013.

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