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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

for students who entered in 2017. A current major effort is to build relationships with HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) and MSIs (Minority-Serving Institutions) to create mutual pathways. Taylor Cupp When Watford began CEED, the graduation rate for Black engineering students was around 25%. That rose to 61.2%

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Creating a data-informed campus: part 3

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Blogs Creating a data-informed campus: part 3 Using data to facilitate institutional effectiveness The conversation around data-informed decision making in higher education continues to accelerate. All too often, however, the question of how to capture these data and use them to positively affect the institution remains.

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It’s time for wealthy colleges to share the wealth (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Proposed and enacted remedies have been punitive, such as eliminating various tax benefits for higher education and, above all, imposing an excise tax on the endowment income of several dozen of the wealthiest private colleges and universities, as provided in the Tax Cut and Jobs Act (TCJA) of 2017.

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Lehigh University’s data strategy: A roadmap to a university’s analytics transformation

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Blogs Lehigh University's data strategy: A roadmap to a university's analytics transformation January 31, 2023 Yenny Anderson Vice Provost for Institutional Research and Strategic Analytics, Lehigh University The views and opinions expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of EAB.

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Transforming educational partnership in China: The Zhejiang University-University of Edinburgh Institute (ZJE)

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

International and Chinese students are taught by active researchers from the University of Edinburgh and Zhejiang University as well as newly appointed academics recruited globally to the ZJE Institute. This establishes a strong and integrated education, research and entrepreneurial base at the ZJE Institute.

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TSU’s Systematic Approach to Student Success

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That is a very long title to say basically our office is responsible for institutional research, institutional assessment, as well as some components of academic technology. So for me, being an institutional research person, we're always saying, let's address the true problem.

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What is a ‘research culture’?

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by GR Evans Should higher education providers foster a ‘research culture’? As the body responsible for research under the Higher Education and Research Act (2017), UK Research and Innovation offers its own definition.