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20 Winter-Inspired Service-Learning Project Ideas for High School Students

Experiential Learning Depot

Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital. Community Book Drive For this service-learning project example, students organize a book drive to collect winter reading materials for libraries, shelters, or literacy programs, helping promote learning and escape through books.

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Enhancing Understanding of Urban Community Colleges

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“In an era when so many faculty and young scholars are trying to just focus on their scholarship or focus on writing the book, Everrett is that rare individual who can bring it all together.” His research contributes to the understanding of the factors that influence financial, governance, and policy decisions in higher education.

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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. To accomplish the goals that the fundraising will enable, she sees it as essential that the faculty, staff and board work collaboratively on the visioning for the university.

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Does Volunteer Work Matter for College Admissions?

Great College Advice

sports, the arts, research, internships, paid work, or volunteer work). To make the point, consider the young man who spends four hours every Saturday shelving books at the local library. This sort of volunteerism has greater value in admissions than the previous example of shelving books.

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How Gross Inequalities in Institutional Wealth Distort the Higher Education Ecosystem and Shortchange the Vast Majority of Middle- and Lower-Income Undergraduates

Confessions of a Community College Dean

What inspires these grim thoughts is Kimball and Iler’s richly researched, provocative and pivotally important history of college endowments, campus fundraising campaigns, university finances, institutional spending and student debt. The 35 most prestigious U.S.

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10 Super Cool Examples of Project-Based Learning Experiences Led by Students

Experiential Learning Depot

Age Group: 12th grade Community Expert: A book publisher Final Product(s): A professionally written memoir of her life Authentic Presentation: She published the book online and shared it with friends and family. One of those students chose a book called “SOLD”, which is about human trafficking.

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It’s time for wealthy colleges to share the wealth (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The fundamental reason is that the wealthiest colleges and universities compete intensely to increase their revenue, wealth and spending, while the earnings growth of most Americans has lagged behind the cost of living, as we explain in our new book. How, then, can that rivalry be curtailed in order to restore public esteem?