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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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Carol Ann Tomlinson, University of Virginia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Her two lives as an educator have enabled her to develop, pilot, research, refine, and share a model for differentiating instruction in todays diverse classrooms. Carol Ann Tomlinson taught in public schools for 21 years and was later a faculty member at the University of Virginia for 30 years.

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Using Cogenerative Dialogues for Learner-Centered Teaching

The Scholarly Teacher

2019; Smith, 2013). Although substantial research has been conducted on the topic of effective teaching (Campbell et al., Although substantial research has been conducted on the topic of effective teaching (Campbell et al., Currently, I am using cogen in a graduate level research methods course. 2019; Silvestri, 2005).

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UNC Chancellor Dr. Kevin M. Guskiewicz Appointed President of Michigan State University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Guskiewicz Guskiewicz – a neuroscientist, sports medicine researcher, and academic leader – is currently chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. During his time at UNC, he founded the Matthew Gfeller Sport-Related Traumatic Brain Injury Research Center; led the school’s $1.2

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Report Shows Increases in Retention and Persistence

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A new report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center noted that more than 76% of students who started college in the fall of 2022 returned for their second year. for incoming students who began fall 2013 to 55% for those who began fall 2022. The rate of college freshmen returning for a second year is at a decade high.

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UNCF, Steve Fund, and TMCF Partner for National Initiative to Support Mental Health at Black Colleges and Universities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The program will now begin administering a customized Black college module of the Health Minds Study, the most comprehensive research survey on mental health in higher education. More than 60% of students met criteria for one or more mental health problems in 2021, an almost 50% increase since 2013. college students.

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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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