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The appointment was approved during a special meeting held Wednesday at the UC Student & Policy Center in Sacramento. Hu has championed innovation and academic initiatives that have increased opportunities for students and faculty and have positively impacted their lives and the communities they serve," said UC President Dr. Michael V.

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These include the National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS) and its longitudinal follow-up study of the outcomes of first-time college students, the Beginning Postsecondary Study (BPS). By analyzing these data, we gain a better understanding of how these factors vary across different student characteristics.

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JANUARY 31, 2025

A unique aspect of the program pairs each fellow with a Howard student, creating mentorship opportunities while advancing research goals. The new institute will implement a competitive residential fellowship program, bringing together international scholars to pursue research projects across various disciplines.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2024

“I just began loving teaching from there, even if I had imaginary students.” I remember clearly the day she first sat in my methods class as a transfer student. At FAMU, Thompson began taking education courses in her major. At FAMU, Thompson began taking education courses in her major. "I

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DECEMBER 6, 2023

As associate director of the university’s Center for Advancement of Teaching, Rahming oversees FSU’s Learning Assistant Program, which has yielded impressive results in helping students excel in some of the school’s high-enrollment, lower-division courses that provide the foundation for learning in late courses. The concept is quite simple.

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JULY 10, 2024

Mary Ann Villarreal has been appointed vice president in the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Student Success at the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U). She will focus on advancing equity and student success efforts in service to undergraduate populations and academic excellence.

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APRIL 9, 2024

Latino college students are more likely to be first-generation students and less likely to leave college having earned their degrees, according to a new report from Excelencia in Education. Of the Latino students in U.S. The vast majority of these students are citizens of the U.S. (90%),

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MAY 9, 2025

The research, which surveyed 1,045 adults who earned undergraduate degrees between 2019 and 2024, found that 82% of recent graduates have secured employment, with nearly three-quarters working in fields related to their degrees.

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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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SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

Two new reports from The California Alliance for Student Parent Success (The Alliance) detail the challenges that student parents face at California institutions. Approximately 300,000 undergraduate student parents are currently enrolled at institutions of higher education in the state of California.

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DECEMBER 4, 2024

It highlighted the University of Tennessee’s exclusion of Black students. He enrolled along with two other students, that following semester on January 4, 1961, becoming the first African American admitted to the state’s flagship university. To ease students’ paths, Robinson and his family established the Theotis Robinson Jr.

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MARCH 7, 2025

Whitaker became interim president of Colorado College, a medium, private nonprofit college in Colorado Springs, Colorado, in 2024, just five years after earning tenure as an associate professor at the college in spring 2019. I dont really have fears, Whitaker told The Catalyst, an independent student newspaper at Colorado College.

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DECEMBER 4, 2024

It highlighted the University of Tennessee’s exclusion of Black students. He enrolled along with two other students, that following semester on January 4, 1961, becoming the first African American admitted to the state’s flagship university. To ease students’ paths, Robinson and his family established the Theotis Robinson Jr.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2025

It was at least a decade later before Fisk's John Lewis Center for Social Justice was established in 2019 to carry on a similar mantle. Her forthcoming book Greatest Good: Nashvilles Black Colleges, Their Students, and the Fight for Freedom, Justice, and Equality is under contract with Vanderbilt University Press.

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APRIL 4, 2025

Alvero When my daughter transferred to Queens College in Spring 2019, I could not have been more excited. At the same time, reality struck: A student should not need to have an associate provost as a parent to transfer college credits. Nationally, the transfer system has been set up to let students fail for decades.

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OCTOBER 15, 2023

At the University of Southern California’s (USC) Race and Equity Center , we collect survey data about undergraduate students’ educational experiences concerning race and other critical topics. The National Assessment of Collegiate Campus Climates (NACCC) has been administered to more than 2 million students across over 200 institutions.

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MARCH 19, 2025

This study offers a clear picture of what institutional funding can be when policymakers prioritize the needs of students, said Dr. Kayla Elliott, co-author and Joint Center Workforce Policy Director. The 39 institutions analyzed in the study received about $765 million for direct student aid and $1.9 million to $348.3 million.

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APRIL 29, 2024

The report is a retrospective analysis of the changing demographics at selective and open-access institutions from 2009 to 2019; researchers ended their analysis in 2019 to account for changing enrollment patterns that resulted, in part, from the COVID-19 pandemic. Supreme Court ruling in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc.

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MAY 4, 2023

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. Gotta cross my T's and dot my I's or I can't sleep well.” Dr. Jeremy C.

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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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MARCH 6, 2025

Under her leadership, the AU School of Education became a stand-alone school in 2019 and grew its enrollment from 200 to more than 1,500 students. She joined AACTE after serving as a distinguished professor and dean of the School of Education at American University (AU) in Washington, D.C., for over eight years.

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OCTOBER 31, 2022

Craig, vice president for student affairs at BMCC. She’s been with the Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC) since 1980 and became its vice president for student affairs in 2008. The rising rents have made it increasingly more difficult for BMCC students to live near campus or to even find stable housing. Dr. Marva M.

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MARCH 27, 2023

George Washington University will replace the nickname of its athletic teams, removing “Colonials” after years of pressure from students, the New York Times reported. Student critics said the current nickname had connotations of violence toward Native Americans and other colonized people. In 2019, students voted to remove the nickname.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2022

According to the report, first-time enrollment in this context refers to the number of students enrolled for the first time in graduate certificate, education specialist, master’s, or doctoral programs for the fall term. citizens and permanent residents – domestic students – first-time graduate enrollment in general declined by 4%.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2023

mass shooting has killed three and critically wounded five Michigan State University (MSU) students. In November 2021, a shooting at Oxford High School killed four and injured six students. “As Yet another U.S. We have no idea why he came to campus to do this tonight,” Rozman said. according to the Gun Violence Archive.

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MARCH 20, 2025

A first-generation college student raised in rural Wyoming,Tromp brings nearly 30 years of experience in higher education. During her six-year tenure at Boise State, she successfully navigated the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic while increasing student enrollment and improving affordability.

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JANUARY 24, 2024

higher education institutions is finally seeing growth again, according to a new report from the National Student Clearinghouse (NSC). Among the years captured in the report, 2019 to 2022 all faced varying rates of decline, with Fall 2021 being the worst (-3.4%). "We There's been a lot of growth in graduate students."

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MAY 4, 2023

More than 39,000 people have signed an online petition for the University of Wisconsin-Madison to expel a student who used racist slurs and said she wanted Black people returned to slavery so she could abuse them, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2024

In 2019, following the 5000 Role Models of Excellence Project Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Scholarship Breakfast in Miami, I observed attendees gathering around one of the honorees, actor Danny Glover. However, my attention was drawn to the man accompanying him, Bob Moses, who went largely unrecognized by many.

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JANUARY 11, 2023

An additional 1,600-1,700 students at Emory University received grants and scholarships instead of loans in their financial aid packages this fall, the Atlanta-based institution announced recently, more than doubling the number of undergraduates expected to finish school with limited or no debt. This allows us to enroll those students.

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AUGUST 3, 2023

Recently released data from the Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration highlights a significant decrease in enrollment for post-secondary undocumented students and an increase in enrollment for students from immigrant families. Immigrant-origin] students are not from the other side of the moon. More than 5.6

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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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FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Frederick Shegog, former Delaware County Community College student, now motivational speaker. On last Friday, it was all about the students. If I were community college president for a day, I would make student representation a bigger part of school,” said Miclaus. “We Sometimes students don’t know how to share their knowledge.

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MAY 13, 2025

I am excited to partner with faculty, staff, students, alumni, and supporters to build on our legacy and write the next chapter of Morehouse's transformative story." At Michigan, Bowman leads one of the nation's top public health schools, overseeing more than 1,300 students and managing an annual research portfolio exceeding $100 million.

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AUGUST 16, 2023

Department of Education’s 2019-20 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:20) underscores a disconcerting reality: most students face a gap between what their families can afford and what they must pay to attend college. New IHEP analysis of data from the U.S.

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JULY 18, 2023

Latino student success in higher education is not where it needs to be, according t o findings from Latino student success organization Excelencia in Education. Santiago "Our mission is to accelerate Latino student success in higher education,” said Dr. Deborah Santiago, lead analysis researcher and CEO of Excelencia CEO.

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DECEMBER 15, 2023

The survey found Class of 2022 employment rates nearly match those for the pre-pandemic Class of 2019, at 64.6% NACE President and CEO Shawn VanDerziel said that the overall outcomes rate for Class of 2022 bachelor’s degree graduates returned to 86%, the same mark as that for the Class of 2019. overall and 59.7% overall and 53.6%

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