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Empowering Community Colleges Through AI: A New Era of Access and Economic Mobility

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Since Apple introduced Siri, its voice-controlled software, in October 2011, consumers have begun normalizing interactions with narrow AI. Community colleges have a rich history of serving as open-admission institutions and pioneering college access in America.

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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., Becoming physics people: Development of integrated physics identity through the learning assistant experience. Physical Review Physics Education Research, 12 (1). link] Deil-Amen, R.

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Pushing to No Longer Keep Meredith College a ‘Best-Kept Secret’

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

She enjoys being able to see how budgets function, how admissions and financial aid operate, and how campus security is run. Jo Allen, the retiring president of Meredith College, enjoys the administrative part of higher ed. She enjoys being able to understand how higher ed works beyond just the academic parts. “I

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"We Know More Than What Those Damn Tests Claim to Measure”: How Tests are Inequitable for Black and Other Minoritized Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Fletcher : I learned about test bias when applying for admission into a doctoral program. I was fortunate that I spoke to the admissions committee and made a case that I was capable of doing well in the doctoral program based on my prior work experiences and by earning a high GPA in my undergraduate and graduate programs. Dr. Erik M.

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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Students know that if they successfully complete this program, they are guaranteed admission to an affiliated four-year institution. The transfer rate is 85% for students within three years of admission to EPW. Espiritu says EPW creates a sense of belonging in the engineering program and in the profession. or a graduate GPA of 3.0;

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The college closings of 2024—and what lies beyond

University Business

Year founded: 2011 Goddard College (Vt.) Nine schools guaranteed admissions for the college’s remaining students with more than 60 credits completed. Employees sued the university at least five times in the past four years due to breach of contract/employment. 29 that it would close at the end of the spring semester.

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How online learning can help tackle global injustices

Teaching Matters Online Learning

In 2011, I embarked with colleagues at the School of Social and Political Science to develop our school’s first fully online distance learning MSc postgraduate programmes, partnering with an interdisciplinary team spanning the three Colleges of the University to co-create and co-teach the MSc in Global Challenges.