Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 30, 2023

As university administrators and admissions officers scramble to comply with the Supreme Court’s opinion, here’s the counterintuitive way out. Be color blind. But keep talking about race. I’ve always talked about race. And now, I’m upping the volume. The Supreme Court made me do it. The six conservatives may have on their race blindfolds (the ones they want everyone to wear).

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JUNE 30, 2023

The Council for Opportunity in Education Announces 2023 National TRIO Achiever Award Recipients June 30, 2023 — by Terrance L. Hamm These outstanding alumni of the Federal TRIO programs have demonstrated exemplary leadership, dedication, and commitment to advancing educational opportunities and breaking barriers for underprivileged students. WASHINGTON, D.C.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 30, 2023

A new study by Course Hero, an online learning platform for educators, suggests that a rise in job satisfaction among faculty has improved since the start of the pandemic. During a time when educator retention is experiencing a sharp decline, the data suggests a trend of positive experiences and feelings by educators who are making moves to stay in their field, even as new concerns are emerging in academia.

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College Aid Services

JUNE 30, 2023

Released today from the White House: No President has fought harder for student debt relief than President Biden, and he’s not done yet. President Biden will not let Republican elected officials succeed in denying hardworking Americans the relief they need. In light of the Supreme Court’s ruling this morning, President Biden and his Administration have already… More » President Biden Announces New Actions to Provide Debt Relief and Support for Student Loan Borrowers The post Pr

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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

JUNE 30, 2023

Kimberly Hogan Kimberly Hogan has been appointed chief executive officer for Middlesex Community College. She served previously as interim CEO at Middlesex. Hogan holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Glassboro State College (now Rowan University) in Glassboro, New Jersey, and a master’s in educational leadership from Central Connecticut State University in New Britain, Connecticut.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 30, 2023

Katrina Spencer Katrina Spencer has been appointed senior associate vice president and deputy chief financial officer at Rice University in Houston, Texas. Spencer served as the deputy chief financial officer at the University of Colorado Boulder. She holds a bachelor’s degree in history from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, and an MPA from Columbia University.

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JUNE 30, 2023

Empowering Dreams and Overcoming Barriers: The Unforgettable Journey of TRIO Students at the 2023 National Student Leadership Congress June 30, 2023 — by Brian Zhang Beyond first-generation college students and low-income student-specific issues, the students tackled other polarizing topics through a mock congress, from book bans and religion in school to social media and climate change.

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Thrive Alliance Group

JUNE 30, 2023

The events of the past few years—the pandemic, shootings, riots, political and ideological battles—have left many of us traumatized. The result is widespread emotional dysregulation, an inability to manage emotional states and responses. And it’s not only children and teens who are experiencing emotional regulation difficulties. It’s the adults, too.

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NCLC Student Loan Borrower Assistance

JUNE 30, 2023

Today, the Supreme Court struck down President Biden’s plan to provide relief to millions of low-income Americans who are struggling with student loan debt. Borrowers were counting on debt relief to manage their payments when bills resume in September for the first time in three years. What did the Supreme Court decide? By a vote of 6-3, a majority of the Supreme Court decided that the states challenging student debt relief have the right to bring their lawsuits and that the HEROES Act (a nation

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EAB

JUNE 30, 2023

Blogs What does a data management platform actually do? 5 ways a data management platform can benefit your college To anyone who doesn’t work with raw data directly, data management might seem esoteric. It certainly sounds good to improve data management, but in a tangible sense, what does that mean? What benefits do staff, faculty, and students gain from better data management?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 30, 2023

The U.S. Supreme Court dashed the hopes of 40 million student borrowers Friday, striking down President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness program. The plan would have offered $10,000 of relief to borrowers making under $125,000 and $20,000 to those who had received Pell grants, for an estimated $430 billion of forgiveness. The court ruled 6-3 along partisan lines that a program with such a large impact was beyond the power of the Department of Education to enact without the approval of Congre

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