Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 25, 2025

In a news release, Howard University and Google Research announced the release of data which can be used by artificial intelligence (AI) developers to improve the experience of Black people using automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology. As a part of the Howard and Google partnership, named Project Elevate Black Voices , researchers traveled across the U.S. to catalog dialects and diction used frequently in Black communities but often not recognized or misconstrued by artificial intelligenc

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JUNE 25, 2025

By: James Bergeron, Acting Under Secretary, U.S. Department of Education and Acting Chief Operating Officer, Federal Student Aid Earlier this week, there was big news from the U.S. Department of Education (Department): Major improvements are coming to the 2026–27 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA®) experience. Whether you’re a student, parent, counselor, or higher Continue Reading The post What’s New for the 2026–27 FAFSA® Form?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 25, 2025

Dr. Doug Shapiro The National Student Clearinghouse Research Center (NSCRC) has released its 2025 Persistence and Retention report which finds that over 86 percent of the college freshman class of 2023 returned for their second semester. This represents the second-highest persistence rate in the past nine years, NSCRC said in a news release. The 2025 Persistence and Retention report is the latest in a series that tracks the percentage of students that stay in college after their freshman year, a

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Patter by Pat Thomson

JUNE 25, 2025

The most common piece of writing advice given to doctoral researchers is “write every day” or some variation thereof. This advice appears consistently across academic writing guides, dissertation workshops, and mentor discussions. I bet you’ve read this. The reasoning behind this advice, yes there’s reasoning, highlights some key benefits.

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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 25, 2025

Dr. JT Torres We have all heard stories of flawed approaches to inclusive teaching. Here’s one. March 3, 2022, a middle school teacher at San Francisco’s Creative Arts Charter School wanted to incorporate active learning in her history lesson on slavery. She decided that the best way to experience picking cotton was to, well, pick cotton. She brought raw cotton bolls into her eighth-grade classroom and asked students to feel the sharp husks that once tore at the hands of enslaved people, hoping

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College Aid Services

JUNE 25, 2025

The U.S. Department of Education is inviting financial aid administrators and state agencies to participate in a brief, optional survey aimed at enhancing the processing of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA®). This initiative seeks to gather insights on how institutions and agencies receive and utilize FAFSA data to determine student eligibility for… More » ED Seeks Feedback to Enhance FAFSA Services—Participate by July 11 The post ED Seeks Feedback to Enhance FAFSA Servi

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College Aid Services

JUNE 25, 2025

The Department of Education has announced that, starting June 29, 2025, schools must report Federal Work-Study (FWS) earnings for the 2024 calendar year using the Common Origination and Disbursement (COD) System and Campus-Based XML Schema Version 1.0b. This data will be utilized in the 2026–27 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA®) processing cycle.

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CAMPUSPEAK

JUNE 25, 2025

Too often, prevention efforts on college campuses focus solely on what not to do. While setting boundaries is important, the… The post Reframing Prevention: Focusing on What’s Right in Campus Culture appeared first on CAMPUSPEAK.

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