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Boldly Future Forward

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

We’re going to produce — and it’s happening now — graduates in critical areas at the research level, at the workforce level, in ways that are meeting critical needs particularly of talent,” says Dr. Tonya L. At present, none of the nation’s 101 HBCUs has Research 1 status, which refers to doctoral universities with high research activity.

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Experts Gathered to Discuss Challenges Facing Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Paul Getty Trust, which funds research and visual art preservation, and Dr. Josef Sorett, dean of Columbia College at Columbia University and vice president for undergraduate education. Public universities and private universities all have very different kinds of funding allocations,” said Dirks. Katherine E.

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Legacy Admissions

Great College Advice

Legacy admissions is a policy that grants preferences to the children of alumni. The policy has been particularly important in the Ivy League and other elite, private schools. At these private, elite universities, alumni represent a huge chunk of the donors who regularly and generously give to the college.

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Janine Davidson, president of Metropolitan State University of Denver. Programs include the university’s “earn and learn,” which provides funding for off-campus internships, undergraduate research, study abroad, service learning, and cohort programs that serve particular student groups. Edward’s University St.

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These are the top 10 colleges for cybersecurity education

University Business

Accredited by the Department of Homeland Security, the university utilizes technology that enables students to take a game-like approach to learn where they’re presented with simulations of cyberattacks and it’s up to them to solve them. Alumni work at high-profile organizations, such as Apple, Microsoft, Paylocity and others.

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Fundraising During Uncertain Times: What Not to Do

EAB

Don’t stop engaging prospects During the pandemic and past disruptions, those partner institutions who chose to limit outreach to alumni/ae have consistently reported to EAB that they ultimately felt these decisions were mistakes due to the relationship-building time they lost as a result.

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3 Questions for Sue Lorenson, Vice Dean for Undergraduate Education at Georgetown

Confessions of a Community College Dean

I registered folx for Alumni Weekend. My younger son studies engineering at a large public university; I’m a dean for liberal arts education at a midsize private university. His experiences, and those of his friends, remind me of the blessings and limitations of elite private education. I was an RA.