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Online Transition Programming in the Time of COVID

Supporting Student Success

In just two months, while still performing their regular job functions in the new online environment, the Get Ryerson Ready team researched, developed, designed, and launched a robust, innovative, multi-disciplinary, and award-winning transition curriculum to support the success and well-being of the incoming class of 2020. The Context.

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Century-Old Institutions Paving the Way for DEI in Sports with Strategic Plan

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Day, the Centennial Conference announced its creation of a three-year strategic diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) plan, uniting the conference’s 11 private, Division III institutions in a shared mission to make their athletics programs a place where all students, particularly those in marginalized populations, feel they belong.

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The Power of Relationships in Undergraduate Education

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Two books that appeared in 2020 – which were mainly written pre-pandemic -- speak to an issue that campuses need to take more seriously: The centrality of interpersonal relationships to students’ learning, retention, and psychological well-being. But only 14 percent of graduates said they had experienced such a relationship.

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Transgender athletes: NCAA sees “clear standard” in new restrictions

University Business

NCAA officials are preparing to comply with President Donald Trump’s newly ordered restrictions on transgender athletes in women’s college sports. Department of Educationthe very existence of which has been called into question by Trumpsaid it will prioritize Title IX enforcement on behalf of female athletes. ” U.S.