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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

Mellon Foundation has awarded a total $25 million in grant funding to five public colleges and universities to establish paid internship programs for humanities majors. The University of Missouri - Kansas City plans to launch the Mellon Humanities Internship program and institutionalize humanities students’ access to work experiences.

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A Fight Against Misinformation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Title: CRT Forward Project Director, UCLA School of Law, and Lecturer of Law, University of Southern California Tenured : No Age: 34 Education: B.S., John’s University; LL.M., John’s University Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty members: “You belong here.” legal studies, St. UCLA School of Law; and J.D.,

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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.

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Creating a data-informed campus: part 2

EAB

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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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.