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Report Finds That Affirmative Action Only Led to Incremental Progress

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The report is a retrospective analysis of the changing demographics at selective and open-access institutions from 2009 to 2019; researchers ended their analysis in 2019 to account for changing enrollment patterns that resulted, in part, from the COVID-19 pandemic. Supreme Court ruling in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc.

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Hoke’s Notes – The Plight of Small Colleges

Edu Alliance Journal

During my senior year, I also completed a year-long internship in admissions. By combining innovative research, advocacy, and problem-solving, this initiative seeks to provide practical tools for fostering resilient rural communities. The research will focus on rural communities in Indiana, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.

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Diverse Students Need Diverse Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Michigan community colleges are open-admission institutions that offer affordable education and provide a vehicle for African American males who might not otherwise pursue a college education. Sabree discovered that huge educational gaps existed in transfer rates for this population at community colleges across the nation (Harper, 2009).

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Moving the Needle on Graduation Rates

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

These are the four pillars of transformation, ingredients critical to the mission of Complete College America (CCA), the advocacy organization working to improve college graduation rates since 2009. We believe if you scale and adopt certain strategies, content experiences, research and resources, you can drive behavioral change.

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Narcissistic presidents linked to “deterioration” in performance, study shows

University Business

If this was once a gut feeling, a scientific study supports it with research-backed data. The researchers then compared their decade-long performance with the signature size of each institution’s vice chancellor, which is the equivalent ranking of presidents in the U.S.

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Should I Take a Gap Year?

Great College Advice

What do college admissions officers think if you take a gap year? At Harvard , between 80 and 130 students defer admission each year to take a gap year (including Malia Obama). Since 2009, admitted students have been able to apply for a tuition-free nine-month service post at one of five international locations.

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Was affirmative action overrated? This study implies it is

University Business

College leaders aired their frustration over the fall of affirmative action last summer, and admissions officers everywhere were predominantly against its erasure. Researchers boxed institutions’ changing enrollment rates into two categories: selective and open-access institutions. “A

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