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Common App Launches 2024-25 Direct Admissions Program

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Jenny Rickard First-generation and low and middle-income students interesting in attending college will receive proactive admissions offers through the newly launched 2024-25 Common App Direct Admissions Program. “As

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Common App Sets Goal to Increase Reach to Low-Income Students, Publishes Findings of Pilot Programs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

If business continues on as usual, the network is projected to only reach 200,000 more below-median income students by 2030, she added. The college admissions process is stressful in general,” Steele said. “So, The guide is meant to communicate the efforts Common App has been undertaking and would like to scale up, Sample said.

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Manhattan College to Launch School of Health Professions in July

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

On the postgraduate level, the SoHP will give access to opportunities in fields such as osteopathic medicine, physical therapy, physician assistant, occupational therapy, and pharmacology through agreements where Manhattan graduates get preferential admission at certain institutions. Department of Labor Statistics (DLS) estimates a 52.2%

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Harvard University becomes latest Ivy League to reinstate SAT, ACT for admissions

University Business

Following the footsteps of its Ivy League peers, including Yale, Dartmouth and Brown, Harvard University announced that it is reinstating its standardized testing requirement in admissions beginning with the Class of 2029. ” Read more from USA Today. ” Read more from USA Today.

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Revolutionizing Education: How Integrated Software Solutions Can Transform Higher Education

Creatrix Campus

Understanding Integrated Software Solutions Centralized education management systems or integrated software solutions centralize admissions, curriculum creation, faculty management, student services, compliance, and more. Instead of managing several technologies that don't communicate, your institution runs like a symphony.

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Facility reinvestment, bogged by inflationary costs, manages upswing in 2024, report

University Business

Staffing shortages will possibly increase in the coming years, as an estimated 40% of current building industry workers will retire by 2030, according to the National Center for Construction Education and Research.

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A free, online, global university seeks seal of approval

Confessions of a Community College Dean

” Nonetheless, he has promised the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) that UoPeople—as the institution calls itself—will educate 25,000 refugees by 2030, a goal Reshef expects to accomplish early. ” Many, if not all, of the commendations are supported by technology.