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Learning Assistantships

The Scholarly Teacher

Educational research demonstrates the impact of engagement, both social and academic, on student outcomes like persistence (Deil-Amen, 2011; Karp et al., 2016) and enhance their communication skills (Goff & Lahme, 2003). Physical Review Physics Education Research, 12 (1). 2021; Close et al., Conn, J., & Close, H.

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Should African Americans Trust the College Board with African American Studies?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The gap between exam scores among different racial groups has grown since 2003, highlighting a lack of resources and support for some student populations. In 1901, the Board was created in order to standardize college admissions across the United States.

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Dr. Dara N. Byrne: Leveraging Public Higher Education for the Common Good

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“Macaulay can provide an elite education — or a model that exemplifies the best of what higher ed has to offer — but without elitist recruitment or admissions processes,” says Byrne, who has been a faculty member at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (part of CUNY) since 2003. The racial gap in graduation rates is minimal.

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Community College: The Right Path and the Right Foot

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

According to the Community College Research Center, “ the cumulative amount owed after 12 years is an estimated $10,300 per student who started at public two-year college in 2003-04 (for all entrants, not just borrowers). For public four-year entrants it ’ s nearly $20,000. For those starting at for-profit colleges, it ’ s $13,000.”

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Legal Expert Art Coleman Examines the Affirmative Action Ruling

EAB

My name is Tom Cakuls, and I oversee research publications for EAB's Enrollment Services division. Interestingly, Students for Fair Admission also requested that the Court overrule 45 years of precedent that found the educational benefits of diversity to be compelling. The Court actually refused to do that.

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Black Youth Mental Health: Understanding and Being Culturally Responsive to Promote Homeplace and Black Joy

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

And in a research study among the youngest children — ages 5-12 — Black youth were approximately two times more likely to die by suicide than their White counterparts. Though freedom dreaming, Black youth are invited to envision a liberatory future that is not limited by the present, often anti-Black, systems and constraints (Kelley, 2003).

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Coronavirus COVID-19 Webinar: What higher education leaders need to know right now

Higher Ed Connects: News

But then, he continued, in 2003 the SARS virus hit. We don’t know what this will do for admissions and enrollment, especially for lower income students. Terri opened the discussion with a recount of her experience with the H1N1 crisis in 2009 at the University of Texas. That was the first of the big coronavirus outbreaks.