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Seal of Excelencia 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

They are taking responsibility and raising standards.” The CSUEB Pathfinders Institute is dedicated to enhancing culturally relevant professional development through an intensive two-week program for faculty teaching critical first-year courses. By example, initially funded in 2007 by a grant from the U.S.

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Examples of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It also added professional development for all the tutors and faculty. Among the issues addressed are reading academic text and managing assignments, which can be especially challenging when the students are still developing their command of English. Approximately 80% of the students who access EAP are Latino.

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U.S. university world dominance in jeopardy due to disparity

University Business

There are five categories THE used to asses universities: teaching, research quality, research environment, international outlook and industry. universities scored above the world median in all five categories and particularly well in industry, there is one area it shot itself in the foot: research funding. Another issue U.S.

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Sports betting contracts should be rethought (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The agreements raised questions, as the Times put it, “about whether promoting gambling on campus—especially to people who are at an age when they are vulnerable to developing gambling disorders—fits the mission of higher education.” Their contracts have raised a number of ethical and policy flags.

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The Forces That Are Shaping the Future of Higher Education

Confessions of a Community College Dean

It’s these long-term developments, processes and trends, which take place under the surface, that even the most powerful politicians or institutions must respond to. million in federal relief funding. How about industry credentials: Are these replacing traditional degrees? How about the defunding of higher education?

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The importance of academic mental health

SRHE

It is also well evidenced that poor mental health of students is strongly related to poor academic outcomes such as achievement and retention ( Pascoe et al , 2019 ; Thomas et al , 2021 ). Since then Advance HE has also developed the “race charter”. But what do we know about academic mental health?

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President Moves: Morehouse’s ‘record-breaking’ leader announces retirement

University Business

Jim Lucchese Jim Lucchese , a 20-year music industry executive who’s known as an artist advocate, will step up as Berklee’s fifth president on Jan. In 2019, he was was named CEO of Sofar Sounds, which has has curated over 30,000 live performances. Hired Jim Lucchese, Berklee College of Music (Mass.)