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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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Beyond ChatGPT: Why School Counselors Should Use Perplexity for Research-Backed Practice

The Counseling Geek

Perplexity represents something fundamentally different: a research partner that provides real-time, sourced information when our professional credibility depends on accuracy, not approximation. Why This Matters for Our Professional Identity Our field demands credibility built on current, reliable information.

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Senate Democrats Challenge Administration on International Student Visa Revocations

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Senator Alex Padilla A group of 36 Democratic senators is pressing the Trump administration to reconsider its recent actions revoking international student visas and terminating Student Exchange and Visitor Information System (SEVIS) records, calling the moves potentially unlawful.

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Trump Administration Reverses Course on International Student Status Terminations

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Kurlan, representing the Justice Department, informed the court that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is reactivating student records in the Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVIS) system while developing "a framework for status record termination" to guide future policies. Elizabeth D.

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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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. Dr. Jimmy E.

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Two Scholars are Building Diversity Initiative Database for All

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The Academic Pipeline Exchange is an open access database charting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs in businesses, organizations, and institutions of higher education across the nation. While the full database is only in its initial stages, Drs. We do more than many people realize, both internally and externally.

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