Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2025

Latino students are making pragmatic financial choices to pay for their education, and institutions are increasingly responding with tailored support, according to a comprehensive new report released today by Excelencia in Education. The report, "How Latinos Pay for College: 2025 National Trends," builds on two decades of research and reveals that while Latino students demonstrate high financial need, they are employing effective cost-saving measures to make higher education affordable.

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NCLC Student Loan Borrower Assistance

MARCH 28, 2025

On March 26, 2025, the Department of Education reopened the online application for Income-Driven Repayment (IDR) plans for federal student loan borrowers. Borrowers can now apply to enroll in, switch between, or update their income in IDR plans at studentaid.gov. This follows a very stressful period for student loan borrowers. On February 21, the Department pulled down the IDR application.

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Purdue University Global

MARCH 28, 2025

Have you visited our university’s newest blog space, The WACademic Blog , yet? Presented by the English and Rhetoric Department and the Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) initiative at Purdue University Global, TheWACademic Blog is a digital space where writing educators and professionals share stories, data, and research that demonstrate the power of WAC in college courses (PG WAC, 2024).

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Knack

MARCH 28, 2025

I had the opportunity to attend the University of Louisiana System Conference this week, where the theme For Our Future stood out not just as a slogan, but as a challenge. Its easy in higher education to get caught in the rhythm of the presentreacting to whats in front of us, staying within the limits of whats familiar, and measuring success by yesterdays metrics.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2025

Dr. Nicole DelMastro-Jeffery, former executive director for the DEI and Belonging office and Title IX coordinator at Richland Community College. On January 21, one day after his inauguration, President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order he called Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity, instructing federal agencies to end diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practices and programs.

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