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JSTOR's Digital Archives Now Reach Over Half a Million Incarcerated Learners

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

More than half a million incarcerated people can now access scholarly materials and texts online via digital library JSTOR’s expansion of its availability in U.S. If they found some interesting, they could then make requests to their administrator or librarian for the full text of articles. “I Some states use it like full JSTOR.

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With Pell Grants Expanding to the Incarcerated, Experts Say Prisons Need To be Less Restrictive of Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Demetrius James, program manager at the Bard Prison Initiative and a former incarcerated student Demetrius James, a program director with the Bard Prison Initiative, which runs higher education programs in seven New York State prisons, knows this firsthand. It becomes a normal thing, just like a law library,” he said. “I

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Admissions Counselor on the Mission of a Liberal Arts College

Great College Advice

But in most cases a major is only about 10 courses out of the 32 or so a student may take as an undergraduate, so the expertise is not nearly as deep as one expects in a Masters or Doctoral program. Students are encourage to follow their own curiosities and learn about whatever tickles their intellectual fancy.

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NYU pauses admissions in music ed, surprising students

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: When New York University announced last month that it would suspend admissions to its undergraduate music education program, students were shocked. Students wrote a letter to MPAP administrators asking for the decision to be reversed. " Administrators met with students via Zoom on Nov. Student Worries.

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How Change Leadership Propelled University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Journey to Equity

EAB

Form a Powerful Guiding Coalition Dr. King assembled a diverse and powerful coalition of individuals from various departments and disciplines, including academic staff, faculty, administrators, and students, all working together towards a common goal—improving retention and graduation rates for minoritized students.

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CPL for Incremental & Non-Credit Credentials

Parchment

We’ll see under the new administration, everything I’m hearing that my ears are open to and that I’m reading is that it will probably be a sooner rather than later priority. or workforce pellets it’s being called coming to fruition, at least in this next administration. And those are general education programs.

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Potential Title IV Disruption Catastrophic (Glen McGhee)

Higher Education Inquirer

While the order cannot immediately eliminate the department without congressional approval, it has already resulted in substantial workforce reductions and signals major changes ahead for the administration of federal education programs 1.