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Promoting Higher Education for Native Americans in Minnesota

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

These are last-dollar funds, which means it covers a student’s remaining costs for tuition and fees after all other aid—scholarships, grants, stipends and tuition waivers—has been awarded, and it does not cover the cost of housing, food, transportation, books or supplies. “One Dr. Gresham D.

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Native Son Propels Opportunities for Kentucky Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Building pipelines After attending undergraduate and graduate school, Thompson built a career as a professor, administrator, and researcher/writer before joining the CPE in 2009 as senior vice president for academic affairs. Part of the CPE’s role is to bring about a positive return on the investment of public funds in higher education.

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Fox Transitions From 20-Year Transformational Career

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It was really to lift up, determine where investment was needed, begin to raise funds to do that. Mary Baldwin is not a wealthy institution, but Fox said she believes in the power of ideas and loves to raise money. Within two months, she had raised $15 million and the board approved the project.

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Examples of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It also added professional development for all the tutors and faculty. Among the issues addressed are reading academic text and managing assignments, which can be especially challenging when the students are still developing their command of English. Approximately 80% of the students who access EAP are Latino.

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"We Know More Than What Those Damn Tests Claim to Measure”: How Tests are Inequitable for Black and Other Minoritized Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As a result, I made it my purpose through my experiences in working with Black students, as well as through my research, to ensure that all educators and all stakeholders understand how to prepare students for academic success and postsecondary readiness. Dr. Edward C. Fletcher Jr. Tests are tools.

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Rehumanizing the Research University

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Can a research-intensive university also be learning- and learner-centered, as dedicated to the quality of students’ educational experience as it is to scholarship, publication and invention? This reminds me every day why teaching, mentorship and service matter just as much as research. Why is that?

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What is a ‘research culture’?

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by GR Evans Should higher education providers foster a ‘research culture’? As the body responsible for research under the Higher Education and Research Act (2017), UK Research and Innovation offers its own definition. Nevertheless, agreed definition seems elusive. The Royal Society adopts the same wording.