Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

The potential for community college students and adults with some college credit to obtain a future degree is limited by a higher education system that has not fully embraced the many pathways today’s learners take to complete a degree, according to a new white paper from the Center for Higher Education Policy and Practice’s (CHEPP). Center for Higher Education Policy and Practice has released white paper examining transfer credit pathways to student success.

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MAY 20, 2024

Federal Student Aid confirmed this past Friday in an electronic announcement that it has successfully reprocessed FAFSA records that were negatively affected by issues with FPS and FA-DDX. In addition, the post details how financial aid administrators can identify reprocessed ISIRs and addresses reports about applications with blank SAI fields or erroneously marked for verification.… More » Department of Education Completes FAFSA Reprocessing The post Department of Education Completes FAFS

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

Though the number Hispanic and Black students enrolling in undergraduate programs has increased in recent years, completion rates continue to lag somewhat behind, according to a report released by the American Council on Education (ACE). Dr. Ted Mitchell “ The Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education: 2024 Status Report ” comprises updated data showing significant disparities in attainment levels among underrepresented groups by race and ethnicity despite growing diversity.

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MAY 20, 2024

Federal Student Aid confirmed this past Friday in an electronic announcement that it has successfully reprocessed FAFSA records that were negatively affected by issues with FPS and FA-DDX. In addition, the post details how financial aid administrators can identify reprocessed ISIRs and addresses reports about applications with blank SAI fields or erroneously marked for verification.… More » Department of Education Completes FAFSA Reprocessing, Addresses Minor Issues The post Department of

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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

MAY 20, 2024

Within Hartford, Connecticut, lies a vast community made up of people from across the Asian continent. The Asian population in Hartford County alone totals more than 53,000, making it one of the counties in the state with the most Asian residents. This marks an increase of more than 15,000 Asian people in the county since 2010. The city and area hold a large population of people from places such as India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, along with more recent refugees from Afghanistan and Syria, accor

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

The nation and its colleges and universities have wrestled with racial injustice and the challenges of diversity for centuries. Cans were kicked down the road from the Constitutional founders to the Civil War to the long-hoped gains of the 1960s civil rights era. There have been twists and turns, steps forward and back. A confounding hurdle since the 1970s and 1980s has been the aspiration to increase the number of previously underrepresented, especially people of color, in the ranks of universi

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

The nonprofit Common Application, which offers an online tool that many students use when looking to pursue an undergraduate education, is not being used by enough students who are from lower-income backgrounds, according to the organization’s inaugural Equity Innovations Guide. Emma Steele The organization is making deliberate moves to fix that disparity.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

George Mason University’s Donald G. Costello College of Business has tapped David Tarter to be the executive director for the Center for Real Estate Entrepreneurship (CREE) and Master’s in Real Estate Development Program. David Tarter Tarter plans to work toward expanding experiential learning opportunities and building up the center and the college’s real estate programs, which support graduate, undergraduate, and non-degree academic programs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

Evangeline R. Pointer Evangeline R. Pointer as been appointed director of alumni affairs and engagement at South Carolina State University. She served as associate vice president/strategy and planning consultant for the chief operations officer on the Strategic Programs and Enterprise Change Management Team at Wells Fargo. Pointer holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from South Carolina State and an MBA in management from Strayer University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

Dr. Eileen Chia-Ching Fung Eileen Chia-Ching Fung has been named provost and vice president of academic affairs at the University of San Francisco. She served as interim provost and vice president of academic affairs. Fung holds a bachelor’s degree in English literature from UCLA and a Ph.D. in medieval English literature from UC Santa Barbara.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

Within Hartford, Connecticut, lies a vast community made up of people from across the Asian continent. The Asian population in Hartford County alone totals more than 53,000, making it one of the counties in the state with the most Asian residents. This marks an increase of more than 15,000 Asian people in the county since 2010. The city and area hold a large population of people from places such as India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, along with more recent refugees from Afghanistan and Syria, accor

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