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Morgan State University Wins 2022 ETS/CGS Award for Innovation in Promoting Success in Graduate Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Morgan State University, a Historically Black university in Baltimore, has been awarded the 2022 ETS/CGS Award for Innovation in Promoting Success in Graduate Education: From Admission through Completion from The Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) and ETS. Its instructional curriculum is built on a series of four courses.

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Attack of the “Math Shark”: Why Unfinished Learning Is a Lurking Threat to Student Success in the Late 2020s

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Blogs Attack of the “Math Shark”: Why Unfinished Learning Is a Lurking Threat to Student Success in the Late 2020s Students are no longer entering college with the same levels of academic preparation that we might have expected before the pandemic, one of the many ripple effects we face as a result of disruptions in high school learning.

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Attack of the “Math Shark”: Why Unfinished Learning Is a Lurking Threat to Student Success in the Late 2020s

EAB

Blogs Attack of the “Math Shark”: Why Unfinished Learning Is a Lurking Threat to Student Success in the Late 2020s Students are no longer entering college with the same levels of academic preparation that we might have expected before the pandemic, one of the many ripple effects we face as a result of disruptions in high school learning.

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Study Shows Limit to Benefits of Online Classes for Community College Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“But all those positive things about face-to-face education, a sense of belonging, community engagement, interacting with faculty members and advisors, those things can be harmed if [students] are left to be self-directed learners who are only learning in an online environment.” Students, like everyone else, love flexibility,” he said.

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Close the Gap Foundation Supercharges its Boards with Teachers and Industry Experts Invested in Student Success

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Serving as trusted advisors to shape Close the Gap Foundation's trajectory, board members will pulse-check program curriculum and admissions processes, and provide hands-on guidance to Fellows during the Social Impact Fellowship. This term, the group will assume a broader and more impactful set of responsibilities.

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The Consuming Effects of Commodifying Education on Faculty Members

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Rightfully, many higher education institutions afforded pandemic-related circumstantial reprieves for students between March, 2020 and May, 2022. Students received virtual and hybrid courses, delays of customary academic probation processes, and institutional annotations to academic transcripts noting peak COVID-19-affected semesters.

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Advising, Counseling, Mentoring and Teaching Black Males in Secondary and Postsecondary Settings

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They can be used in the classroom as subjects to challenge stereotypical depictions by centering experiences, ideas, and concepts that are often marginalized in traditional curriculum. Black boys are also suspended and expelled at much higher rates than other students ( Graves & Wang, 2022 ). Frazier, R.-M. Hines & E.C.

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