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Let’s Partner with Agriculture to Address Food Insecurity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

These schools and their leaders have an extraordinary opportunity to work with the federal government to support those students—and it doesn’t require new institutional spending or a new Higher Education Act. In 2018 the U.S. Yet there is an enormous SNAP gap in program utilization.

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Profiling Some of the Institutions With the Most Minority Business Graduates

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

While there are many undergraduates and graduate students aiming for careers in banking or finance, there are also entrepreneurs, innovators, people interested in hospital administration, and others seeking positions at nonprofit organizations. In 2018, Larry and Beth Gies gave $150 million. in management and leadership.

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Iowa Wesleyan University announces closure

Confessions of a Community College Dean

” Reynolds added that if the state had “provided the federal funding as requested and it was used to finance debt or other impermissible uses according to US Treasury guidelines, the state and taxpayers could have been liable for potential repayment to the federal government.” Is this diversity newsletter?

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Five ways to help students take smart sustainability actions (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

A headline from New York magazine in 2018 is representative, proclaiming, “UN Says Climate Genocide Is Coming. In practice, these experiences require a level of administrative and logistical effort that is difficult for faculty to manage. Partner with local governments. It’s Actually Worse Than That.”

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Australia asks universities to show they merit the title

Confessions of a Community College Dean

In 2018, when the Australian Research Council last conducted the national research evaluation exercise known as Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA), Charles Sturt’s research was judged of world standard in 41 percent of the broad fields assessed. First up is Charles Sturt University, whose current registration expires in April.

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Social Security Offsets and Defaulted Student Loans (CFPB)

Higher Education Inquirer

8 The Social Security Administration calls the program one of the most successful anti-poverty programs in our nation's history. The CFPBs analysis of the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) pooled data for 2018 to 2021 finds that Social Security beneficiaries with student loans receive an average monthly benefit of $1,524.

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Beyond ideological debates, a focus on process (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

In a 2018 Pew Research Center poll , 61 percent of Americans said they believe higher education in the U.S. These include the students, administrators and faculty whose interests the triad is tasked with protecting. is going in the wrong direction. Second, acknowledge the important contributions each stakeholder provides.