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Report Shows Increases in Retention and Persistence

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for incoming students who began fall 2013 to 55% for those who began fall 2022. This chart from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center's Persistence & Retention Report shows starting enrollment intensity from 2013 to 2022. The largest gain in retention rates over the last decade was in community colleges — increasing 3.7

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Creating Classroom Camaraderie to Promote Learning: 3 Strategies

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2013) say, “Stories, or narratives, create the glue that binds people together in networks, providing them with a sense of history, common ground, and future, thus enabling them to persist even in the context of resistance” (p. Integrating mindfulness in public and nonprofit education programs to. Information Systems Education.

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Black Students Less Likely Identified for Special Ed When They Have Black Teachers

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While gifted programs are meant to recognize exceptional academic ability, special education programs aim to address potential academic shortcomings that a student may have due to disabilities.

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Community College Incarcerated Reentry Programs: Looking Forward

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Prison education in the rearview mirror Prison education programs have long been in the crossfire of fierce clashes between those viewing prisons as proper punishment to promote a safe and just society and those seeing prisons as democracy’s hope for rehabilitation and restorative justice.

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DEI: Informing the Implicit to Create the Explicit in Classroom Culture

The Scholarly Teacher

Research in the field of educational neuroscience has demonstrated that optimal learning occurs not only when students feel a sense of belonging, but also when the brain is actively engaged in cognitively challenging tasks the learner views as relevant (Osaka et al., Culturally responsive practices in our teacher education programs.

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Watch for these 5 high-impact trends shaping higher education business in 2025

University Business

Here are five key trends shaping higher education this year, offering a roadmap for resilience as only higher education can do. Acquiring institutions will face integration challenges, including aligning cultures, meshing educational programs, merging systems and consolidating data and assets.

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Lieberman Expected to Lead La Verne to Next Stage

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University of La Verne President Dr. Devorah Lieberman is shown with graduating students in 2013. We were very focused on not telling the region what they needed, but listening to the region for what they say they need and then adapting our educational programs to their needs,” she said. That has been wonderful for us.