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Common App Launches the 2024-25 Application

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The Common App has launched its 2024–2025 application for more than 1,100 colleges and universities worldwide. The platform also offers access to a mobile app, comprehensive financial aid and scholarship information, online portfolios, and an extensive library of counselor resources in English and Spanish.

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U.S. Department of Education to Plans ‘2024 Engage Every Student Summit’

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Memorial Library in Washington, D.C. The summit’s opening session will feature education department officials and will recognize 2024's Engage Every Student Recognition Program Champions. The Initiative aims to ensure that every student who wants a spot in a high-quality out-of-school time program has one.

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Harvard Faculty Suspended From Library Over Protest

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Harvard Faculty Suspended From Library Over Protest Josh Moody Fri, 10/25/2024 - 03:00 AM Roughly two dozen faculty members will temporarily lose access to Harvard’s main library following a silent protest in support of students punished for the same reason. Byline(s) Josh Moody

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EDUCAUSE 2024: Counseling Model Meets Students Where They Are: In the Esports Arena

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

At San Diego State University, a grassroots, student-led esports team grew so much that school officials decided to invest in a new Esports Engagement Center inside the school library. That’s nothing new, of course, but the way SDSU collaborated across campus to tackle other pressing issues facing higher education…

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Library Faculty Eliminated Amid ‘Fiscal Insanity’ at Western Illinois

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Library Faculty Eliminated Amid ‘Fiscal Insanity’ at Western Illinois kathryn.palmer… Tue, 08/20/2024 - 03:00 AM The university laid off all its library faculty as part of massive cuts, leaving employees and supporters to wonder how the library will serve campus constituents. Byline(s) Kathryn Palmer

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New AI Guidelines Aim to Help Research Libraries

Confessions of a Community College Dean

New AI Guidelines Aim to Help Research Libraries Lauren.Coffey@… Wed, 05/01/2024 - 03:00 AM The new list of seven principles support librarians increasingly bombarded with questions about artificial intelligence. Byline(s) Lauren Coffey

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Civil Rights Leaders Declare The Freedom To Learn at Rally in Washington D.C.

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The annual Freedom to Learn DC Rally convenes at the Library of Congress, and participants will march to the U. May 3 is the Second Annual National Day of Action, part of the Freedom to Learn coalition’s launchpad for Freedom Summer 2024, which marks 60 years since Freedom Summer 1964. The two have to come together.”

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