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Benefits of Integrating Service-Learning With Other High-Impact Practices

The Scholarly Teacher

What happens when students design their own service-learning projects involving collaborative and research-based work? This article describes two examples of public health service-learning combined with other HIPs that have resulted in high student engagement and success. college students, 1977–2014. & O'Donnell, K.

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Meet the people who took an evening class… and changed their life

The Guardian Higher Education

I arrived in the UK in 2014, only intending to stay for a week, but I became a refugee. I loved being part of the health service, starting as a lab assistant before moving on to train doctors and nurses. In my 20s, I fled the place where I was born and raised, when Islamic State were advancing. Continue reading.

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Discovering Issues with IPEDS Completions Data

Robert Kelchen

To provide an example, the Mental and Social Health Services and Allied Professions master’s program at Rollins College did not report data for 2015 after reporting 25 graduates in 2013 and 24 graduates in 2014. We found consistent evidence from websites that programs continued to exist during their hiatus in IPEDS data.

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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

All Latino students from the Fall 2014 cohort graduated with a B.A. One of Breakthrough Central Texas’s goals is to prove the significance of state and federal investments in resources – for matters such as college advising, mental health services, emergency assistance, immigration aid, and other student needs, Griffith says. “If

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President Sasse to face protests and demands on first day

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Critics have questioned how Sasse emerged as the sole candidate from a pool of hundreds who presumably had more higher ed experience than the former senator, who previously served as a college president at the private Midland University in Nebraska from 2010 to 2014.

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Learn the Dangers of Alcohol Misuse

Missouri State

Researchers have estimated that around 1,500 college-age students die each year from alcohol-related injury (Hingson, Zha, and Smyth, 2014). Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration. 2019 National Survey on Drug Use and Health. About Alcohol. 2021) Center for Disease Control (CDC).