2020

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Without Better Postsecondary Data, We’re Leaving Stakeholders in the Dark

IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

by: Kim Dancy, Amanda Janice Roberson. This post also appears in the Today’s Students Coalition blog series. When exploring new territory, it’s wise to have a flashlight to illuminate areas that aren’t e asily visible. The COVID-19 pandemic, which has upended nearly every aspect of our nation’s well-being and profoundly disrupted the higher education experiences of nearly 20 million students, put higher education in uncharted territory.

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Returning Home

UofO First-Generation Student Support Blog

Being a first-generation college student often means that there is a divide between your school life and your home life. If you do not have members of your family or community that have the shared experience of going to college, then it can be challenging to bridge your new experience in college with your home life. Returning home during holiday breaks can emphasize this divide.

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International Educators’ Skills Can Span Political Impasse

Lewermark Blog

Writing a reflection piece on the recent election can expose raw emotions and, perhaps, discover a path forward to create unity in such a divisive time. A new documentary on Netflix, The Social Dilemma, is shining light on how social media is engineered to reflect your viewpoints, but it also can expose a very different Read More. The post International Educators’ Skills Can Span Political Impasse appeared first on LewerMark International Student Health Insurance.

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FAFSA is live again! It’s alive… It’s alive!!!

Moneyman

Hey everyone! It’s been a while. How have you been? I’ve been busy working on getting our students set for the Fall and opening up the application cycle for 2021-22. And as part of that process, being available for presentations and other speaking opportunities about Financial Aid and the FAFSA. It’s Alive! It’s Alive!!! So today I have three opportunities for you to make your application process easier this year.

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

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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Pathways to Student Affairs and Services Around the Globe

Supporting Student Success

By: Tricia Seifert. When I was a kid, I dreamt of traveling the world. I remember friends from a youth organization (4-H) hosting an exchange student from Japan. I was in grade 4 and I wanted to learn all about this student’s life back home and how it compared to her experience in the US. When I was in high school, I begged my parents to become a host family.

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Adult learner organizational benchmarks

EAB

Use the industry-wide data and resources below to inform your graduate, online, and adult degree completer growth strategy. Data shown on this page is drawn from EAB’s Organizational Benchmarking Survey. The survey collects over 80 different data points from nearly 300 institutions on academic governance, portfolio composition, and revenue outcomes for professional, continuing, and online education divisions.

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Climate and global mental health

WashU Institue for Public Health

by John McGinley, undergraduate student at Elon University; SPRIGHT Scholar in the 2020 Institute for Public Health Summer Research Program – Public and Global Health Abbreviated Track. Parul Bakhshi , PhD, Assistant Professor/Instructor, Program in Occupational Therapy and Brown School, and Clement Bayetti , PhD, Adjunct Instructor, Brown School, spoke about the discourses of climate change and global mental health with students from the Institute of Public Health Summer Research Program – Publ

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National Directory of Therapists of Color

Welltrack Connect Blog

12 min read Looking to explore your ethnic-racial identity, racial traumas, or privilege in therapy? Check out our directory of therapists of color. Locating a therapist of color… The post National Directory of Therapists of Color appeared first on Welltrack Connect Blog.

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listening, speaking, acting for change

Catherine Cronin

Respect. Justice. Equality. Most of us aim to embody and enact these values in the work we do, in all our interactions, in all the spaces we inhabit. In a world of increasing inequality, these values demand much of us — especially white people in relation to racism. The quote in the image above is from Audre Lorde’s ‘Learning from the 60s’, a speech she gave for Malcolm X Weekend at Harvard University in February 1982 (I include the text here again, for those who may be u

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10 Back to School Essentials for School Counselors in 2020

The Counseling Geek

10 Back To School Essentials for School Counselors. 10 Hot Summer Buys To Get Ready For The Fall. 10 Must Have Office and Wardrobe Additions for Back To School. With summer break looming or already here for many school counselors around the US – the fall still leaves a lot of questions in terms of what school will look like with the COVID-19 outbreak and mitigation measures.

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Institutions Can Help Close Widening Completion Gaps with the Postsecondary Data GPS

IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

by: Jason Cohn, Spring 2020 Policy Research Intern. Postsecondary education is supposed to be the great equalizer because it fosters upward mobility and economic sustainability. But it is only an equalizer for those who complete, and the path to completion is far from egalitarian. In particular, bachelor’s degree completers are disproportionately from higher-income households, and unfortunately, this pattern has worsened in recent years.

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Preparing for graduate and professional schools

UofO First-Generation Student Support Blog

Fall term is the start of a new academic year, but it also signals the start of the application cycle for graduate and professional schools. Many first-generation college students I have worked with often express they are not sure what steps to take to prepare for graduate or professional schools. I can relate! I can still remember the very first time I heard about graduate school.

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USCIS Processing Issues – A call to action for international educators

Lewermark Blog

My revelation hit while visiting the Russell Senate Office Building in March of 2019. During my visit, as part of the NAFSA’s Advocacy Day (LewerMark graciously supported me), an aide made it clear that his Senator did not support international education. I am being generous when I say he was “not supportive.” The aide mused Read More. The post USCIS Processing Issues – A call to action for international educators appeared first on LewerMark International Student Health Insurance.

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Income Emergencies

Moneyman

It can be hard to find or keep employment right now. If you are struggling, you aren’t alone. In many ways, this is the worst job market in recent memory, and you can expect that things are going to take a while to recover. Well, what do you do in the meantime? If being unemployed or underemployed isn’t an emergency, then what is? Source: [link].

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Developing a Strengths-Based Campus: Successes, Challenges, and Lessons Learned

Supporting Student Success

By: Liana Acri. It was early in 2017 when our Student Life department received the approval we had been waiting for – we were embarking on a journey to make the University of Guelph-Humber a CliftonStrengths campus and I was tasked with leading the project. I was both excited to lead a project I was passionate about and nervous about how it would all come together.

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Students with Learning Disabilities Find Help in Community Colleges

Community College Review

Community colleges are an excellent stepping stone between high school and a four-year institution, especially for students with learning disabilities. Learn about the support programs available at community colleges that can help students thrive academically, regardless of their disabilities.

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Adapting Student Support and Service Delivery in a Crisis

Blackboard Blog

Higher education institutions everywhere have been met with one of the most significant challenges to their operation because of COVID-19. Not only did teaching and learning have to quickly shift to an online environment, but support faculty and staff also had to undergo a transition to working remotely. This has impacted how students are supported, how they get their information, and how they make decisions about their future education.

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Learning and Teaching from Adversity: Meet TRIO Star Kontessa Siliski

Castleton Trio

For Kontessa Siliski, getting to college was the hard thing. The college search and application processes were mysterious, and paying for college seemed impossible. “I’m first-generation, so no one in my family knew where to start,” she explains. But with the help of guidance counselors and friends’ parents, the girl from Granville, New York applied to and was accepted at Castleton University.

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Low-Fee Therapy Options by State

Welltrack Connect Blog

8 min read Many of The Shrink Space providers are offering a sliding scale on fees ($0-100) during the COVID-19 health emergency. See a list of low fee providers organized by state! The post Low-Fee Therapy Options by State appeared first on Welltrack Connect Blog.

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Good mental health during COVID-19

WashU Institue for Public Health

Written by Jessica A. Gold , MD, MS, assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the School of Medicine & Faculty Scholar at the Institute for Public Health. Jessie Gold. “ How are you ?”. These three little words used to just be a casual greeting between friends, family, a doctor and a patient, or even casual acquaintances. They were a simple way to show interest in someone’s life without too much prying.

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15 Minute Tech Tools for School Counselors: The Amazing 6 Part Video Miniseries

The Counseling Geek

15 Minute Tech Tools for school counselors. The Amazing 6 Part Video Tutorial Miniseries. Great for COVID-19 Lockdown/Quarentine – but also great for everyday use as a school counselor. I want to share the complete box set of the FREE 15 Minute Tech Tools, six part video tutorial miniseries for school counselors, teachers and other educators. I know that most of us are usually busy, be it with work or life.

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Watch Free Webinar: Interfolio and Faculty-Centered Technology (Product Suite Overview)

Interfolio

Free Limited Availability Webinar: Interfolio and Faculty-Centered Technology (Product Suite Overview). This first 30-minute installment in the 2020 Faculty Lifecycle Webinars series introduces the faculty-centric technology movement that Interfolio is helping to lead and gives a functional overview of all four modules. Watch the free webinar to learn: What sorts of challenges Interfolio addresses, related to faculty information, workflows, and development.

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Compton College News, November 24 2020

Believe in Students

Compton College, Believe in Students, and Edquity to Support Dual Enrollment Students in First Ever Such Emergency Aid Initiative Compton College News, November 24, 2020 The post Compton College News, November 24 2020 first appeared on Believe in Students. The post Compton College News, November 24 2020 appeared first on Believe in Students.

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How to Identify International Student Scams: Part 1

Lewermark Blog

Last year, the Federal Trade Commission received more than 3.2 million reports regarding scams, and the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center reported $3.5 billion in victim losses. Unfortunately, anyone can be the target for a scammer, including international students. To increase our collective awareness, we at LewerMark have developed a three-part series to describe known Read More.

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Here’s to Your Health… Insurance

Moneyman

The past few days have seen a series of records for highest number of new cases of COVID-19 in Florida. Each day the curve rises, and the picture is fairly clear: we have not yet hit a plateau of cases in Florida. Source: New York Times (retrieved 6/20/2020). At the same time, many colleges and universities (in Florida, and indeed all over the country) are beginning to announce their plans for Fall.

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Is This College Regionally Accredited?

MCC Academic Advisement Resources

A student shows up with an unofficial transcript the week before class starts and wants an evaluation but you’ve never heard of their institution before. Does the college have (or did it once have) regional accreditation so that we can accept the transfer credit? Well, here is where you go to find out! The DAPIP … Continue reading Is This College Regionally Accredited?

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Retaining Students through Innovation

Community College Review

Community colleges are heeding President Obama's call for student retention. Learn about the innovative programs some community campuses are creating that keep students in their classroom seats.

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Community Colleges Fight Back Against For-Profit Attacks: The Rebuttal

Community College Review

After being attacked by private colleges, community colleges are mounting a defense and publishing studies that clearly outline the differences between the public and private institutions.

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How to Identify International Student Scams: Part 2

Lewermark Blog

In Part 1 of our series, we identified three scams, including fake calls/email scams, the “Illegal Chinese Passport Scheme,” and census scams. We also described the “red flags”—things you can look for to help identify a scam. In this post, we will continue to identify some of the most common scams and their red flags. Read More. The post How to Identify International Student Scams: Part 2 appeared first on LewerMark International Student Health Insurance.

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How to Identify International Students Scams: Part 3 – Protection

Lewermark Blog

This blog is the final post in our three-part series about scams targeting international students who, like everyone else, can be a victim of identity theft, fraud, or another type of loss. It is the uncertainty of being in a country far from home that makes international students susceptible to these criminals. It’s important to Read More. The post How to Identify International Students Scams: Part 3 – Protection appeared first on LewerMark International Student Health Insurance.

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Beirut Blast Hits Close to Home for This Nova Scotian

Lewermark Blog

It has been almost a week since the Beirut explosion, but the Lebanese are still learning more and government officials are stepping down. In the past week, I learned a few notable things I would like to share. The videos of the Beirut, Lebanon blast are astonishing. My sister-in-law, who lives in Spain, posted Read More. The post Beirut Blast Hits Close to Home for This Nova Scotian appeared first on LewerMark International Student Health Insurance.

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Wal-Mart Partners with Community Colleges to Train DC Students

Community College Review

As a major school-to-industry initiative, Wal-Mart is funding a new program to train up 2,000 D.C. residents for retail positions through the local community college to support the four new stores it plans to open in the area in the near future.

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Why Four Year Community College Degrees May Be Great for California

Community College Review

Recently, a measure passed that allows community colleges in California to offer 4 year degrees. Until now such offerings have been the sole province of other institutions. Now, the game has changed.