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Hochul Proposes Nearly $7.5B for Higher Ed in FY24

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

However, the proposal has also drawn criticism from those who say that the funding is insufficient to make up for years of stagnation under Cuomo and from some who work in New York’s public colleges. “[It] Funding for community colleges will match the fiscal year 2022 level at $689 million despite drops in enrollment.

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Only 13 Percent of Students See Middle East as Key Issue

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Though 45 percent of students say they agree with pro-Palestinian protests on campuses, only 13 percent consider the conflict in the Middle East the most important of nine issues, according to a survey of 1,250 two- and four-year college students conducted by Generation Lab and reported by Axios.

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UNC Ends Century-Old Student-Run Honor Court

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has replaced its student-run honor court with a staff “conduct board” that will now rule on student conduct violations, The News and Observer reported Monday.

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Black, Hispanic Students More Likely to Drop Out

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Black and Hispanic students are more likely than their peers to consider dropping out of college, according to a Gallup and Lumina Foundation survey of current students conducted last fall. The most common reasons they gave for stopping coursework were emotional stress and personal mental health, followed by cost.

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Facilitating online peer interactions to sustain student motivation

Teaching Matters Academic Support

A challenge for online, postgraduate students enrolled on a SLICC is sustaining motivation over an 8-month period. In my role as course lead and tutor for the online, part-time SLICC in Critical Care, I place emphasis on creating a supportive environment in which students conduct their independent projects.

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Key takeaways from government guidance on SCOTUS’s affirmative action ruling

EAB

Specific approaches on which it gives detailed guidance include: Approaches to adopt or expand: targeted outreach and pathways programs dual-enrollment and early-college programs summer programs K-12 college counseling community-college partnerships direct-admission programs top-percent plans Approaches to phase out or limit: legacy preferences heavy (..)

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Colleges, universities feature prominently in the top 10 worst censors of 2024

University Business

Hypocritical university admins Brandies University, The University of Southern California and all three university leaders present at the Congressional hearing on antisemitism in December were grouped together by FIRE for failing to remediate student conduct surrounding the Israel-Hamas war.

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