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$25M Foundation Grant Promotes Internships Among Humanities Majors

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

CCNY will establish a comprehensive humanities internship program that will enhance humanities students’ access to internship opportunities in the nonprofit and public sectors. The University of Missouri - Kansas City plans to launch the Mellon Humanities Internship program and institutionalize humanities students’ access to work experiences.

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A Fight Against Misinformation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Alexander’s mother immigrated from Jamaica to Queens, New York, with hopes to give her children access to opportunities she never had. They can go in and submit comments over email or engage in an intentional way to say, ‘We want our students to have access to truthful information about race and racism,’” says Alexander.

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Here’s how to engage your alumni and facilitate lifelong learning

EAB

Blogs Here’s how to engage your alumni and facilitate lifelong learning 8 tactics to benefit your alumni—and recruit more adult leaners Professional, continuing, and online leaders too often overlook one of the most fruitful recruitment pools: alumni, many of whom are excellent candidates as adult learners.

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Creating a data-informed campus: part 2

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As I discussed in the first blog post in this series , institutions need a sufficient technology infrastructure to facilitate curation, access, and retrieval of data. These individuals help ensure that data is in a format that is appropriate and accessible for various reporting and analytics tools. Data analysts.

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Find the Colleges That Give the Most Merit Aid

College Planners of America

TuitionFit is a free tool that facilitates this comparison. In searching the TuitionFit database, a student may find attractive colleges that are offering admittees a net price that they find more budget-friendly. A Common Problem of Applicants. Requesting a better price from a college is allowed and is usually a good idea.

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What does a data management platform actually do?

EAB

A data management platform gathers data from your disparate campus databases and platforms—such as your LMS, your SIS, and your CRM—and then compiles and standardizes that data to establish a single, shared source of truth across campus. Edify automatically standardizes data from those systems so that it is clean, accessible, and trustworthy.

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The 4 most common barriers to higher ed data and analytics success

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I recently facilitated a survey of higher ed leaders to understand their data and analytics goals and pain points. Faculty and staff can’t access trustworthy data. A critical first step in applying data is having reliable access to data you can trust. Regulating access is just as important as creating it.

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