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Report: National Six-Year College Completion Rates Stalling

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NSC’s researchers found that, on a national level, the six-year completion rate for students who began college in Fall 2017 was 62.2%, the same as those who began in Fall 2015. Older college students – those older than age 24 – seem to be finishing college at gradually higher rates, now at 52% from 2015’s 50.5%. million students.

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Credentials Awarded Drop for Second Year in a Row

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More students earned certificates than any year in the past decade, while associate degrees awarded fell to its lowest point in a decade and bachelor's degrees awarded fell to its lowest since 2015–16 academic year. These drops “erase the gains made between 2015 and 2020,” said Dr. Pietro A.

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Jones Cultivates Inaugural Role in Faculty Development at Brown

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The author of Medicine and Ethics in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction (2015), her interdisciplinary research in the field of the medical humanities engages literary, historical, philosophical, and ethical explorations of black women’s health and medicine. Jones is also an associate professor of Africana Studies.

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Lilly Endowment Awards $100M Grant to United Negro College Fund

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It follows a $50 million grant from Lilly Endowment in 2015 that enabled UNCF to launch the Career Pathways Initiative to help enhance career outcomes for students. The grant is the largest unrestricted private grant UNCF has ever received, according to UNCF President and CEO Dr. Michael L.

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Wayne State to Collaborate on $75M Department of Energy Award

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He said the plan will lead to a six-week summer internship program for high school students and leverage the “Mobile Energy Lab” program he founded in 2015 at Wayne State to engage Detroit middle schoolers. “By

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DREAM Conference Marks Milestone

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Stout, who has led the organization since 2015. I think that is injecting new energy and new thinking into the movement,” says Stout, who previously led Montgomery County Community College in Pennsylvania from 2001 to 2015. “We There was also a robust focus on the humanities. ATD is not just a conference,” says Dr. Karen A.

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Princeton African American Studies Chair Dr. Eddie Glaude to Step Down

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Glaude has been chair since AAS , originally a certificate program, became a department in 2015. With this move, he said he would be staying at Princeton and returning to full-time research and other responsibilities, such as “trying to help the nation imagine itself differently when it comes to race matters.”