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Removing Credit Transfer Barriers Key to Improving Higher Ed Completion Rates

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Support is notably strong for requiring that students have free and easy access to their transcripts, credentials, and degrees; requiring institutions to create public databases with transfer information; and requiring that prospective transfer students are quickly told how many credits will be accepted.

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Beyond ChatGPT: Why School Counselors Should Use Perplexity for Research-Backed Practice

The Counseling Geek

Traditional methods—accessing academic databases, reading complete studies, cross-referencing multiple sources—require hours we don’t possess or multiple expensive subscriptions. Traditional research involves database searches, journal access, and hoping your findings reflect recent advances in selective mutism research.

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No Safe State: Former DEI Employee Says to Look for the Red Flags

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

But she does not know how many, as there is no national database tracking these changes. Their website still hosts a page for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging and Accessibility, which affirms these as a core institutional value. Richland leadership did not respond to requests for comment.

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A Primer on the US Department of Education

Counselors' Corner

DOGE and ED The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has made its presence known at ED, and while DOGE can have access to all kinds of databases and personalized information, its role at ED has, so far, been mostly structuralwhat can they cut, what can they offload to another division.

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Report and New Database Identify Successful Programming for Latinx Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Excelencia in Education, an organization working for increased access and completion of Latinx students in postsecondary education, has released its latest report on programs that have qualitatively and quantitatively shown to improve and increase the success of Latinx students in higher education.

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Two Scholars are Building Diversity Initiative Database for All

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The Academic Pipeline Exchange is an open access database charting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs in businesses, organizations, and institutions of higher education across the nation. While the full database is only in its initial stages, Drs.

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CSU Opens Up Access to Transfer Planner to All California Community College Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Community college students in California will now have an easier time lining up their academic progress to transfer to a California State University (CSU) system school, now that CSU has opened up access to its recent Transfer Planner to even more students. Also, sometimes students work nights or they can't get in to see a counselor.