Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 14, 2023

Although women and people of color have made small amounts of progress over the past half-decade, the college presidency is still mostly white and mostly male That’s the main takeaway from the American Council on Education (ACE)’s The American College President: 2023 Edition , released Friday. ACE’s study, performed approximately every five years since 1986, surveyed over 1,000 college presidents and chancellors about their experiences and backgrounds during 2022.

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APRIL 14, 2023

Student loan borrowers are contending with a deepening loan servicing crisis that may impact every aspect of the federal student aid system. This includes student loan repayment, student loan forgiveness, and implementation of a wide array of student loan debt relief initiatives enacted by the Biden administration. The problems have arisen largely because Congress flat-funded […] The post The Student Loan Servicing Crisis Worsens: What Borrowers Can Do appeared first on Student Loan Planne

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 14, 2023

WASHINGTON — Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson, noted physicist who recently retired as president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), was honored with a Dr. John Hope Franklin Award last Friday night by Diverse. The presentation took place during the annual meeting of American Council of Education (ACE). Dozens gathered to celebrate Jackson’s extraordinary academic, industry, and government career.

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Catherine Cronin

APRIL 14, 2023

Higher Education for Good: Criticality, resistance and hope What a joy and a privilege to travel to Inverness, Scotland to participate in the Open Education Conference #OER23 last week. For me, the OER Conference is always special – both because of the warmth and openness of the community as well as the critical focus on open education research and practice.

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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

APRIL 14, 2023

Susan Davis Susan Davis has been appointed vice president for student affairs at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. She served as the senior associate vice president for student affairs at the University of Virginia. Davis holds a bachelor’s degree in Spanish from Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, and a juris doctorate from Temple University in Philadelphia.

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APRIL 14, 2023

Blogs The 4 stages of an integrated lifecycle approach for community college student success How EAB’s Navigate helps community colleges at every stage There is encouraging data showing that six-year completion rates have been rising across all community colleges, with a.9% increase in six-year completion rates for students who started in fall 2015 compared to fall 2016.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 14, 2023

Amid escalating political attacks on diversity, equity & inclusion work, over 1,100 Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) professionals descended on Baltimore last week for the 17 th annual National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education (NADOHE) Annual Conference. NADOHE President Paulette Granberry Russell says in-person conference attendance hit a record this year.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 14, 2023

Some people are undoubtedly wondering why United States Vice President Kamala Harris chose the Fisk Memorial Chapel as the venue from which she offered last Friday's remarks in support of the Tennessee General Assembly's then-recently expelled Democratic Reps. Justin Pearson and Justin Jones. Jones has since returned to the Capitol following a unanimous vote by the Nashville Metropolitan Council to reappoint him as an interim representative.

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