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Finding a Place at an HBCU

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

With her dream in sight, she started pursuing a doctorate in higher education administration in 2020 at Baltimore’s Morgan State University, an HBCU. Hollingsworth – who has also taught and advised students at Johns Hopkins University – anticipates that she’ll graduate next May. For her Ph.D., she decided it was time to take the leap.

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Bringing Greater Impact

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

At the height of the pandemic in 2020, without ever visiting the campus, Dr. David A. Students organized Black student unions demanding more African American studies courses, Black faculty and staff,” says Canton. In 2020, that plan became concrete, and the search was on to find a director who could do that.

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Community college resource center takes on male retention

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Students often encounter barriers when completing enrollment or financial aid forms—such as needing a parent’s Social Security number or financial information. In addition to the space and a full-time coordinator, the MRC will increase its number of peer mentors who offer guidance and support to male students.

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Miranda McClellan ’18, MEng ’19 awarded 2025 Schwarzman Scholarship

CAPD

While at MIT, she served on the board for the Black StudentsUnion and presented recommendations for making the campus more inclusive. Since 2020, she has been working as a data scientist at Microsoft, building machine learning models to detect malware.

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Making financial wellness a priority for student success

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Get closer to students physically If you can’t bring the student to the financial aid office, maybe you should bring the financial aid office closer to the student.

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Facilitating study abroad opportunities for incoming students

Teaching Matters Academic Support

At the University of Edinburgh, we currently welcome Visiting Students on Erasmus Exchange, International Exchange and the Study Abroad programme. Visiting Students choose Edinburgh for a variety of reasons, the culture and history of the city and the university ranking being some of the reasons.

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New! AIFS Global Education Centers

AIFS Abroad

Students can take courses, meet with staff and take advantage of libraries, technology and lounge areas at our centers. In 2020, Fairfield University and AIFS partnered to develop a school of record relationship that will allow academic credit to be available for both Fairfield and non-Fairfield students. The post New!