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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In Florida, the state board of education adopted social studies standards that ignited an uproar by calling for students to be taught about “how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.” This is why I’m so enamored with a database called “Freedom on the Move.”

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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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Creating a data-informed campus: part 2

EAB

The need for data-informed decision making in higher education continues to increase. 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. Creating a data-informed campus: part 2. Ready to learn more? Krawitz, M.,

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What does a data management platform actually do?

EAB

In this blog post, we answer that question with examples of the transformative impact that a data management platform can have on higher education. EAB's data management platform, Edify , is built specifically for higher education. What is a data management platform?

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

EAB

The 4 most common barriers to higher ed data and analytics success. Results from our recent survey of higher ed leaders. I recently facilitated a survey of higher ed leaders to understand their data and analytics goals and pain points. Create data dictionaries to define codes and fields in your databases and systems.

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Consider Best Value Colleges

College Planners of America

Other publications with Best Colleges rankings include Forbes, Princeton Review, Money, Kiplinger, New York Times Higher Education, and the Wall Street Journal. To develop their rankings, publishers use proprietary algorithms that reflect their judgment on what contributes most to the quality of a college education.