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JUNE 17, 2025

It provides students with tools to think about their education practically and guarantees every student access to research, an internship, or an international experience. “If Students will come and students will go. We were just tired of the rhetoric.” She didn’t just lead a college — she led a liberal arts movement.”

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FEBRUARY 22, 2025

Highlighting excellence in community college education, Achieving the Dream (ATD) has named 23 institutions as either Leader Colleges or Leader Colleges of Distinction for 2025, celebrating their commitment to student success and institutional reform. The announcement was made last week at the organization's annual meeting in Philadelphia.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Williams was raised Catholic and attended private institutions—he was often the only Black student in his class, or one of the few. He became what he calls “a student for everybody.” “I It’s why, in his late twenties, he chose to volunteer at Georgia State University (GSU), speaking to young college students about his successes.

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JUNE 25, 2025

She brought raw cotton bolls into her eighth-grade classroom and asked students to feel the sharp husks that once tore at the hands of enslaved people, hoping to deepen their understanding of slavery’s daily brutality. In other words, an inclusive environment increases the likelihood that students will be interested in the learning.

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JUNE 10, 2025

Pollio has served as superintendent of the Jefferson County Public School (JCPS) District in Louisville, Kentucky, since 2017. As Ivy Tech’s tenth president, Pollio will serve as the chief executive officer of Indiana’s largest postsecondary institution, which serves more than 200,000 students at its 19 campuses across the state and online.

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MAY 21, 2025

He referenced multiple peer-reviewed studies published in respected academic journals and books from university presses that document positive effects for all students, including white male collegians. million students, which does not show high rates of white male respondents reporting routine experiences with racial discrimination.

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MAY 19, 2025

Letters Over Life Max Gruver died in 2017 with a.496 In 2017, Timothy Piazza was pledging Beta Theta Pi Fraternity at Penn State University. Southern University undergraduate students Caleb McCray and Kyle Thurman, and graduate student Isaiah Smith, are charged in the hazing death of Caleb Wilson.

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MARCH 6, 2025

Her teaching emphasizes college students and their development, issues of equity and access, leadership and policy and practice in higher education. Her research focuses on community engagement as a critical practice to explore civic identity, social justice, student learning and development. Evans and Andrea D.

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MAY 28, 2025

Lanier's lawsuit alleged Harvard had profited from the images by charging licensing fees for their reproduction and using them for promotional purposes, including at a 2017 conference. The case also raised questions about how universities monetize historical artifacts.

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MAY 29, 2025

college students rate their mental health as fair, poor, or terrible, according to a new national survey released by The Steve Fund that reveals a deepening mental health crisis on campuses nationwide. The study, conducted by The Harris Poll among 2,050 students ages 18-24 at four-year institutions, found that 51% of U.S.

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APRIL 21, 2025

At Fordham, students in the International Political Economy and Development program established the Pope Francis Global Poverty Index after hearing him address the United Nations in 2015. Francis's focus on global poverty also inspired concrete academic initiatives.

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MARCH 6, 2025

With over 25 years of administrative, research, and teaching experience in various higher education settings, Vega transitioned to academia as a faculty member and has significantly contributed to the Master of Arts in Higher Education program at Montclair State University since 2017.

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MAY 19, 2025

Letters Over Life Max Gruver died in 2017 with a.496 In 2017, Timothy Piazza was pledging Beta Theta Pi Fraternity at Penn State University. Southern University undergraduate students Caleb McCray and Kyle Thurman, and graduate student Isaiah Smith, are charged in the hazing death of Caleb Wilson.

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MARCH 27, 2025

A Simple, Fallen Mathematician: The Humble Genius Behind Supersymmetry Former students praise Gates for the great level of personal investment that he makes in his students growth and success. I didnt quite make the final cut but got pretty close.

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MARCH 12, 2025

It argues that schools deny female students an equal opportunity to participate in sports when they require them to compete against males or to share locker rooms where theyd be in a state of undress in front of males. The administration refers to trans women as males. On average they are stronger. They are bigger and faster, Cahn says.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2025

This new directive marks a stark departure from the Biden administration's interpretation of Title IX, which had previously established that schools excluding transgender students from sports teams were in violation of the law. However, the scientific basis for such broad restrictions remains contested.

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JANUARY 17, 2025

However, priorities for the first few months include passing the Fiscal Year 2025 appropriations bill by March 14 and using the budget reconciliation process to extend the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act tax cuts. Many new Members have no experience with the Federal TRIO Programs, so sharing information about your programs and students is key.

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

MARCH 10, 2025

The recent cancellation of critical postsecondary studies conducted by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) will have dire effects on our understanding of the realities of todays college students especially those who are veterans, parents, working, or first-generation. No other sources are as robust in this regard.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Jones is a former New Jersey Superior Court judge who retired from the bench in 2017. In August 2023, he brought his creative thinking to the University of New Mexico, where he charged his first group of constitutional law students to take a critical look at the Academy Awards. There are so many sub-issues to consider here, he says.

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MARCH 13, 2025

The South has made strides in college affordability, but significant challenges remain for lower-income students, according to new data released Thursday by the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB). more need-based financial aid than the national average a notable achievement in supporting students with financial need.

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Patter by Pat Thomson

JULY 2, 2025

And despite the unread, we are always making reference to papers and books – we publicise our own, congratulate our friends on their publications, and recommend and review books in our field to our students. John McPhee (2017) Draft no 4. Which books do I most often recommend to students? But what about our own reading lists?

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FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Craig Slaughter Slaughter has served as the associate vice president for enrollment and director of financial aid at Kenyon College since 2017. He currently serves as past chair of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators Certified Financial Aid Administrator Program.

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MAY 4, 2023

In 2017, hip-hop became the most streamed genre in the United States of America. Cole’s common references to his days as a college student at St. Here are 5 hip-hop quotes to inspire students at academic institutions as they proceed into finals week. 1. Nipsey Hussle (“Racks In The Middle”, 2019) “Double check the details.

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OCTOBER 17, 2023

Holding students back a year may have its benefits, according to a recent study published by the American Educational Research Association (AERA). Opponents of the practice have argued that grade retention is punitive and can harm students socially and emotionally, Hwang said. As of 2019, 18 U.S.

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OCTOBER 25, 2023

Beth Schueler University of Virginia Policy debate is a competitive activity in which students engage in structured argumentation about public policy issues, often requiring in-depth learning about policy areas. The impact was almost entirely concentrated among reading subskills that involve more analysis and argumentation.”

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JULY 11, 2023

Having student loans is associated with worse health outcomes and practices, according to a new study published in the Journal of American College Health. universities, looking to see whether there was a relationship between student loan presence and the health of students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

s national college completion rate has remained stagnant, with rates even falling for some populations, according to a new report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center (NSCRC). This year’s edition examined enrollment and completion for college students who started in Fall 2017 through June 2023, a cohort of approximately 2.4

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NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Kim Schatzel Schatzel – currently president of Towson University (TU) – previously served as provost of Eastern Michigan University and dean of the College of Business at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, A first-generation college student herself, she has been praised for making diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) a priority.

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AUGUST 4, 2024

While a large majority (90%) of college students see in free speech as necessary, a somewhat smaller majority (70%) view the exercise as potentially injurious, according to a new study by Knight Foundation-Ipsos. It examines the nuances of free expression on campus and highlights the evolving views of students.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

A more holistic assessment of students, including the use of the ACT test score alongside HSGPA, acts as a better predictor. That’s according to the latest report from the ACT , which analyzed high school GPAs, ACT test scores, and first-year grades in students from 2017 to 2021. HSGPA would be predicted to earn a 2.0

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MARCH 7, 2024

Black students in elementary school, particularly Black boys, are less likely to be identified for special education when their teachers are also Black, according to a new report published by the American Educational Research Association (AERA). But the latter, though meant to be helpful, can come with distinct drawbacks, the report noted.

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JANUARY 10, 2024

Testy served as Dean and Professor of Law at University of Washington School of Law from 2009 to 2017 and at Seattle University School of Law from 2005 to 2009. She began her career as a law professor at the University of Puget Sound in 1992, which then became Seattle University.

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MARCH 28, 2024

Johnson reminded the audience, during the historic ceremony, that seven years prior, Artis was not supposed to start until September 2017, but she voluntarily arrived a month early in August. Artis is the first female and 14th and current president and CEO of the historically Black college and universitiy. Board Chairman Dr. Charlie W.

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MAY 11, 2023

Students from underrepresented backgrounds face considerable barriers when it comes to completing a community college program. Nationally, only 24% of African American, Latinx, and Native American students finish within two years. DFC has graduated an average of 56% of its students since its formation in 2017.

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AUGUST 9, 2023

Burwell, the institution’s 15 th president and its first female leader, has been in the post since 2017. In 2017, 17% of an administrative group called the president’s council were people of color. Burwell has announced that she will step down as president of American University at the end of the upcoming academic year.

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APRIL 4, 2023

Abrams for her commitment to investing in the future of Howard students as the Ronald W. The well-known political figure was a state representative in the Georgia General Assembly, having served as minority leader of the Georgia House of Representatives 2011-2017. Walters Endowed Chair, Ms. Abrams holds a B.A.

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AUGUST 9, 2023

Burwell, the institution’s 15 th president and its first female leader, has been in the post since 2017. In 2017, 17% of an administrative group called the president’s council were people of color. Burwell has announced that she will step down as president of American University at the end of the upcoming academic year.

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