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Bridging Research and Practice

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Back in September, Western Michigan University—a public research institution located in the southwestern corner of the state—released its fall 2024 enrollment and retention numbers, much to the delight of the school’s provost, Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig. The fact that we had an increase of 3% last year, we don’t take that for granted.”

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Student Success in STEM

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Positions such as data scientists, medical and health service managers, physician assistants, and epidemiologists highlight the immense potential need for students entering these fields. Similarly, Hispanic students earned 12% of STEM bachelors degrees, despite comprising 15% of all bachelors degree recipients (Pew Research Center).

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Transparent Lab Report Templates Affect Scientific Success

The Scholarly Teacher

Then, from an instructor's perspective, the rubric allows them to provide general feedback that minimizes assessment bias through the standard rubric form while also having the freedom and time to tailor specific feedback about a particular lab or for a unique student as learning needs are recognized (Feldman, 2018). Cornell College.

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Study: Number of Surgeries on Black, Latino, and Asian Children Lower Than on White Children

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

according to a University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UTSW) study. The study looked at surgery data for more than 200,000 children from the 1999-2018 National Health Interview Surveys. There are fewer surgeries on Black, Latino, and Asian children than on white children in the U.S.,

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Here are the 5 academic programs emerging in 2025

University Business

While implementing cutting-edge academic programs may excite institutions interested in gaining a leg-up over the competition, leaders must also be mindful about optics, says Elaine Rowles, associate vice president of research at GrayDI. “Social media is ubiquitous and increasingly important part of our everyday lives. .

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Reconciling Contrasting Findings on Perceptions of Higher Ed

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A Gallup poll was released, bearing terrible news: only 36% of Americans have “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in higher education, down 12 percentage points from 2018 and 21 percentage points from 2015, when more than half of U.S. Drezner, a professor of higher education who led the Columbia research.

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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It began as a pilot program in 2015 and started in earnest in 2018 with 25 students after receiving a $1.68 million research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). There are also partnerships with laboratories at Princeton University and Northeastern University that provide students with research internships.