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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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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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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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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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Consider Best Value Colleges

College Planners of America

The publishers conduct research and process information from current, reliable databases. Best Value rankings are intended to facilitate the comparison of colleges across state lines. Aspiring college students often find the rank of a college’s value to be helpful. They retain on-staff experts with college recruiting experience.

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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?

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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?