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Morgan State University Wins 2022 ETS/CGS Award for Innovation in Promoting Success in Graduate Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Morgan State University, a Historically Black university in Baltimore, has been awarded the 2022 ETS/CGS Award for Innovation in Promoting Success in Graduate Education: From Admission through Completion from The Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) and ETS.

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Report: Graduate Enrollment is on the Decline

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

"We track graduate enrollments at both the master's, certificate, and doctoral level for major institutions in the U.S. We do that to keep up with the output and production of people for the knowledge economy essentially, well-trained, graduate education-trained people." In 2020, all of the higher education sector was affected.

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First-Time Graduate Enrollment Rises, But Declines Domestically

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Increases were largest in fields of study with large shares of international graduate students, including engineering (123.9%), mathematics and computer sciences (193.1%), and physical and earth sciences (81.1%). programs, for which we are grateful and gratified as an important source of talent and diversity to our degree programs.”

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CGS Report Delves Into Under-Researched Field of Graduate-Level Microcredentials

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

However, even if such microcredentials are not stackable, they may still influence admissions and access into master’s degree programs, according to the report.

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Examples of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This is year 19 for Examples of Excelencia, an annual recognition given by Excelencia in Education. Brown, Excelencia in Education has the stated mission to accelerate Latino student success in higher education. Founded in 2004 by Dr. Deborah A. Santiago and Sarita E.

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Pursuit of R-2 status can expand opportunity (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

As universities “ascend” from one Carnegie Foundation classification to another, alarm bells often go off—particularly among those who study higher education. Towson is a comprehensive regional public university serving the greater Baltimore region, certified by Carnegie for being a community-engaged institution.

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Mentors should be gate openers, not gatekeepers (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program , established in 1986 and as necessary today as ever, we mentor students in submission , accepting the ways higher education operates instead of demanding and creating a genuinely inclusive community. This requires faculty and admission officers to be gate openers rather than gatekeepers.