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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Contained in a thumb drive that had to be manually installed and updated, the offline version held a catalogue of 500,000 JSTOR article titles and accompanying short descriptions that learners could peruse. If they found some interesting, they could then make requests to their administrator or librarian for the full text of articles. “I

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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. I really can’t even speak on the logic behind it,” said James.

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How to Achieve HSI Status: Intentionality

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Institutions that receive HSI designation are then eligible to apply for various federal grants in support of their programming. After years of developing student supports, three of the four institutions featured in this article recently received HSI designation and the fourth is moving toward designation.

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Dr. Timothy Alvarez Retires from Otero College in Purpose, with Satisfaction

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In addition to more than 30 academic and certificate programs, there are bachelor’s degree programs offered in collaboration with Colorado University, Denver. The T-PREP (Partnership for Rural Educator Program) allows students who want to remain in the local community to earn a four-year degree and a teaching license.

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Lieberman Expected to Lead La Verne to Next Stage

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Lieberman has written and co-authored multiple books and articles relating to diversity, institutional transformation and issues affecting higher education. Lieberman sees challenges as opportunities, so she saw to it that the institution fully embraced its HSI status, which was not initially welcomed. That has been wonderful for us.

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Strike starts at Chicago State University, more on the way

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Yes In-Article Careers: 3 Progress is being made at the bargaining table and that is where we will be directing our energy—toward reaching an equitable new contract.”

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Digital community lends academic support

Confessions of a Community College Dean

What’s the problem: WGU’s College of IT offers competency-based education programs, allowing learners to work at their own pace. No In-Article Careers: 3