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Louisiana Christian University Names Dr. Mark Johnson as 10th President

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

There have been countless hours of prayer, listening, seeking, reading resumes and other application materials, while asking God to guide this process and have His way," said Tommy Kiker, chair of the presidential search committee. "We We believe God has graciously and wonderfully answered those prayers and blessed this labor."

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Report Highlights Key Challenges and Support Needs for Early Career Faculty at MSIs

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However, being asked to return as a mentor each year since 2018 without being pregnant again has shown me that those tears were much more than a hormone-induced reaction. Applications for ELEVATE 2025 will open on November 15, 2024. “As a proud member of the very first ELEVATE cohort in 2015, I had very few expectations.

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Building an Academic Space for Black Women Scholars

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Founded in 2018 with the recognition that Black womens perspectives have long been marginalized in academia, BWSA was birthed as a necessary space for scholars dedicated to studying Black womens histories, politics, literature, and lived experiences. Thats how this all began. You should come to this conference.

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Reducing Barriers Like Standardized Test Requirements Expands Access

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In 2020, at the height of the COVID pandemic, most higher education institutions opted to eliminate the requirement that applicants submit standardized test scores such as the ACT and SAT. These findings show that a holistic review of applicants can predict academic success without requiring ACT or SAT scores. Dr. Suzanne M.

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College Fund Offers American Indian Law School Scholarship to Attend Harvard Law

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Maltais is an American Indian College Fund student ambassador, a 2018 Dartmouth College graduate, and an American Indian College Fund Full Circle Scholar. The American Indian Law School scholarship application window closes March 25. Interested students should complete the application through the College Fund’s web portal.

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Education Department Begins Discharging Loans of Borrowers Alleging Fraud from Colleges

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The settlement stems from a 2018 class-action suit from people accusing ED of ignoring applications for loan forgiveness through a federal borrower defense program. 24 but agreed to pause loan cancellation for a week for applicants from the three schools to give the colleges a chance to seek a stay from the appellate court.

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Study Explores the Students Who Start, But Never Finish, the Common App

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For more than a million students each year, the college process starts with logging on to the Common App, the online application that can submitted to over 1,000 colleges and universities. million high school students who started the Common App during the 2018-19 application cycle, the last one unaffected by the COVID-19 pandemic.