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Report: Pandemic Dealt a Blow to Internationalization

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This includes partnerships with overseas institutions, faculty with international background and expertise, and curriculum. Rick Garfunkel, vice president for global affairs, had to bring back several hundred students who were studying overseas, including 40 in China. “[It was] not easy,” he said. Some of them wanted to stay.”

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University of Maryland Reckons with the Past

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Through the combined work of research students across the country, searching through hundreds of archival documents and collaborating with local organizations like The Georgetown Slavery Archive and the Riversdale Historical Society, The 1856 Project has been able to find and acknowledge a history that is often kept behind closed doors.

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New Report from Mainstay Recommends Ways to Improve the College Experience for First-Generation Students

Student Research Foundation

Kirk Daulerio, Co-Founder, Mainstay, writing in Bridging the Gap: How can emerging technology chart pathways to completion for first-generation students?, Some findings include: First-generation students are less confident about attending college. points higher than non-first-generation students.

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Supporting the Whole Student Through Holistic Advising: Reflections on ED’s Raise The Bar Summit

IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

As a first-generation student, U.S. Resources such as Achieving the Dream’s Holistic Student Supports Redesign toolkit provide evidence-based, practitioner tested tools and guides that help institutions from initial needs exploration through successful evaluation and refinement of holistic advising models.

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Unlock a world of education with affordable study abroad programs

IEFA

Some cost-effective options include: CET Academic Programs Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE) programs Semester at Sea Exploring semester-long study abroad programs can offer international students a deeply enriching educational experience abroad, while keeping finances intact.

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2022 Keith Sherin Global Leaders Study Diversity and Inclusion, Student Empowerment, and Sustainability 

COE

The 15 TRIO college students and their two group leaders participated in the summer program offered by COE and its partners, ECHO , a non-profit organization specializing in diversity policy in Higher Education, and The Hague University of Applied Sciences (THUAS) , from June 25 to July 16 , 2022.