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‘Freedom on the Move,’ Clarifying Complicity in American History

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The “Freedom on the Move" database, maintained at Cornell University in partnership with several universities, is a free and open archive of “runaway slave” ads placed in newspapers in the 1700s and 1800s. This is why I’m so enamored with a database called “Freedom on the Move.” So, I did a simple search for “shoemaker.”

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$25M Foundation Grant Promotes Internships Among Humanities Majors

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

CCNY will develop an online database tracking internship and job placements of humanities majors and offer new courses that would provide academic credit for supervised internships. At least 250 internships will be funded by the grant over five years.

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A Fight Against Misinformation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

She is the project director of Critical Race Theory (CRT) Forward, a database that, she says, identifies, tracks, and analyzes governmental actions or legislation “that aim to restrict access to truthful information about race.” Alexander is a lecturer of law at the University of Southern California (USC) Gould School of Law.

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

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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. Here’s what to do next.

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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. A deep knowledge of database management, statistical analysis, and research techniques are generally necessary skills for an analytics team. Ready to learn more?

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What does a data management platform actually do?

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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. What is a data management platform?

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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. Facilitate onboarding by recording training sessions and creating templates for onboarding processes. Create data dictionaries to define codes and fields in your databases and systems.

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