Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Dr. Esther Jones Dr. Esther Jones has been named associate dean for faculty development in the Office of the Dean of the Faculty at Brown University. Jones is also an associate professor of Africana Studies. The author of Medicine and Ethics in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction (2015), her interdisciplinary research in the field of the medical humanities engages literary, historical, philosophical, and ethical explorations of black women’s health and medicine.

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Active Minds

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

In life, we often find ourselves swaying to the rhythms of obligations, responsibilities, and the needs of others. Amidst all this, it’s easy to lose sight of the most essential melody: the tune of self-care and self-love. We tend to gravitate towards our daily obligations and responsibilities and repress the self-care necessary to allow us to carry on these activities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Civic knowledge is severely lacking among Americans, though trust in business remains strong, according to a new study from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation. As such, foundation leaders assert that businesses may have a role to play in filling the civic knowledge and civility gaps. Hilary Crow The foundation’s national survey examined responses from 2,000 registered voters and revealed that Americans lack basic understanding of government.

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Symplicity

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Each and every day, our client managers across the globe help make our clients' day-to-day just a little bit easier so that they can better support their students. With a client support team that comes from across the student success spectrum, clients continuously speak to the dedication of our client support team, and we at Symplicity want to give them the attention they deserve.

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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

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The creation of the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s (NCAA) transfer portal, an online database where student-athletes submit their names with the hopes of transferring to athletic programs at other colleges and universities, has revolutionized the landscape of student-athlete recruitment and mobility. Like the portal for collegiate student-athletes; high school students will be entering their own version of a “transfer portal” at the conclusion of their time in secondary school.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Dr. DaMaris B. Hill has been writing since she was a child, growing up around books and hearing stories. She just didn’t tell anyone about it. Instead, she stuffed her work underneath her mattress and bed, hiding them from others. Dr. DaMaris B. Hill Courtesy: Beowulf Sheehan "That was for me," says Hill, adding that some of her family members had believed “artists died poor.

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NCLC Student Loan Borrower Assistance

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

A number of student loan borrowers have reached out to NCLC in the last few months regarding issues with Public Service Loan Forgiveness (“PSLF”) and the one-time payment count adjustment. Borrowers are reporting problems with how MOHELA is counting their eligible payments after consolidating their loans, including that their accounts are incorrectly showing zero qualifying payments for PSLF.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Dr. Juanita W. Hicks Juanita W. Hicks has been named senior associate vice president and chief human resources officer at the University of Georgia. Hicks holds a bachelor’s degree in management from the University of West Georgia, a master’s in human resource development from Clemson University in South Carolina, and a doctorate in higher education administration from the University of Georgia.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Higher education leaders and states can take a number of additional steps to bolster academic success, reenrollment, and degree completion for students who started college but never finished. Those are the findings from a new report from California Competes. Dr. Laura Bernhard These students with some college, no credential (SCNC) make up more than six million Californians ages 25-64.

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