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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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National Urban League Report Examines Five Years After George Floyd: "A Movement, Not a Moment"

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

President Biden's executive order on safe policing created a national database to track police misconduct and banned chokeholds for federal officers.

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Senate Democrats Challenge Administration on International Student Visa Revocations

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Of particular note, the senators requested information about "the use of artificial intelligence to search national databases, criminal records, and social media to identify nonimmigrants for visa revocation or to otherwise end status."

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Trump Administration Reverses Course on International Student Status Terminations

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However, ICE will not terminate statuses solely based on findings in the National Crime Information Center, a computerized criminal history database that had been used to justify many of the recent terminations.

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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. Granberry Russell acknowledged that, since the legislation and executive order, many DEI officers and employees have lost their roles.

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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

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The report offers a glimpse at the over 200 successful programs Excelencia has catalogued in its database, which is publicly available on their website, Growing What Works. Santiago acknowledged that “what works in Houston might not work in Little Rock,” but the database and report provide good places to start.

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