Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 20, 2023

Despite an upward trend in diversity in the public health educational pipeline, minority students are still underrepresented in the field, a recent study from George Washington University found. “ Diversity of the US Public Health Workforce Pipeline (2016-2020): Role of Academic Institutions ,” developed by researchers at the GW Milken Institute School of Public Health and the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH) looked at public health student diversity from 2016-2020 us

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Student Loan Planner

JULY 20, 2023

North Dakota has fewer than one million residents, according to recent Census data. Still, 66% of graduates in the class of 2019-2020 had student loan debt, with an average balance of $31,939, according to The Institute for College Access & Success (TICAS). Whether you’re in Bismarck, Fargo, or somewhere else in North Dakota, if you […] The post 4 North Dakota Student Loan Forgiveness Options to Consider appeared first on Student Loan Planner.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 20, 2023

Gavin Gonzales thought he would go into physics. He had been inspired towards academic research by Dr. Richard Feynman, the Nobel laureate physicist, and physics was his undergraduate major. But his path was altered by an NIH-sponsored fellowship designed to diversify an entirely different field: biomedicine. As part of the Maximizing Access to Research Careers program, Gonzales did a summer at Duke University, where he studied the optimization of hydrogels to promote the 3D growth of cells.

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EAB

JULY 20, 2023

Blogs If You Aren’t Growing Applications, You’re Losing Enrollment New evidence regarding connections between application volume and downstream enrollment outcomes Many colleges have seen an increase in applications in recent years, even as the number of college-bound students has decreased. This, along with persistent staffing issues within admissions teams , has led some enrollment leaders to question whether it is worth allocating scarce resources to drive further application growth.

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Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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HEAG

JULY 20, 2023

The online Fiscal Operations Report for 2022–23 and Application to Participate for 2024–25 (FISAP) will be available on the Common Origination and Disbursement (COD) website on August 1 and is due on September 29, 2023. You can read this blog … Read more ».

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Steve Keating

JULY 20, 2023

Some decisions are easy and some are hard. One of the hardest decisions can be knowing when it’s time to leave a company or job you’ve enjoyed. That’s especially true if you’ve been in the job for a long period of time. Sometimes you feel “stuck” in a job you’ve never really liked but hey, a paycheck is a payback. It just seems easier to stay then it would be to start over somewhere else.

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EAB

JULY 20, 2023

Blogs How universities equip stakeholders to build a culture of campus well-being with in-the-moment resources Faculty, staff, and students are experiencing unprecedented levels of stress. A recent survey by the American Council on Education found that the mental health of employees and students ranked among the top concerns of university leaders. Counseling centers are working tirelessly to support the overwhelming rates of distress on campus, but it has become clear that the counseling center

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 20, 2023

The White House Initiative on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity through Historically Black Colleges and Universities has announced its ninth cohort of HBCU Scholars. Education Secretary Dr. Miguel Cardona The cohort recognizes and commends the 102 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students from 29 different states for academics, leadership, and civic engagement.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 20, 2023

In June, the U.S. Supreme Court blocked President Biden's student loan debt relief plan that would have forgiven up to $20,000 debt for some student loan borrowers in the U.S. About half of all Latino borrowers would have had their entire debt forgiven under President Biden’s debt relief plan, according to Excelencia in Education, a Latino student advocacy organization.

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