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How Being a Mother and Academic Helped Me Fix Higher Education’s Transfer Crisis

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A 2023 report by the Community College Research Center found that only 16% of community college students earned a bachelors program within six years and just 10% of low-income students did. On average, students lose a fifth of their credits when transferring to a four-year college, according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office.

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Employers Seek ‘Success Skills’ Among Potential Employees: Report

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SREB recently released its "The Skills Employers Demand: An Analysis of the Research" report to aid educators and policymakers as they work to integrate soft, employability skills into secondary and postsecondary education. The report summarizes a decade of studies, between 2013 and 2023, and analyzes job postings in 16 SREB states.

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Documenting the Growth of Responsibility Center Management Budget Models in Public Higher Education

Robert Kelchen

One popular way of doing this is through responsibility center management (RCM) budget models, which base a portion of a unit’s budget on their ability to effectively generate and use resources. [1] Most of this increase has happened since 2013, when just 25 universities used RCM.

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Creating Classroom Camaraderie to Promote Learning: 3 Strategies

The Scholarly Teacher

Although researchers suggest flipped classrooms, engaging humor, and online polling, I have found taking a more personal approach to engagement to be successful, specifically the following three guidelines: show your human side, share your professional experiences and wisdom, and admit your mistakes. Lejano et al. Ingram, M., &

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University of Vermont Launches Open-Access Academic Press

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Bryn Geffert The move by UVM Press – overseen by UVM Libraries – is meant to eliminate financial hurdles and barriers to peer-reviewed research that traditional publishing and access models impose. This is particularly worrying for folks who are working at underfunded institutions, especially in the Global South.”

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What’s love got to do with neurodiversity and HE art and design?

SRHE

Tim’s Neurodiversity in the Arts Symposium , which took two years of advocacy and planning, and draws on several more of research across neurodiversity and art education, took place at the University of the Arts Helsinki , modelling best practices for inclusivity, not just for neurodivergent folx. Universities, watch and learn.

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Scholar-Practitioner Helps to Promote Inclusivity at Alma Mater

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Patterson-Stephens guided the development of CMU’s first strategic plan for diversity since 2012 and reinstated the Faculty and Staff of Color Alliance, which had remained inoperable since 2013. She has demonstrated tireless professional service in complex administrative roles while maintaining an active research agenda.”