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

Experiential Learning Depot

Toy Donation Drive Students can gather new or gently used toys to bring holiday cheer to children in hospitals or family shelters, brightening their winter season. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital. A few of my students coordinated this exact service-learning project example with St.

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Four from MIT named 2025 Rhodes Scholars

CAPD

Julia Mongo | Office of Distinguished Fellowships Published by MIT News on November 16, 2024 Yiming Chen ’24, Wilhem Hector, Anushka Nair, and David Oluigbo have been selected as 2025 Rhodes Scholars and will begin fully funded postgraduate studies at Oxford University in the U.K. In addition to MIT’s two U.S.

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The Forces That Are Shaping the Future of Higher Education

Confessions of a Community College Dean

It’s these long-term developments, processes and trends, which take place under the surface, that even the most powerful politicians or institutions must respond to. That’s roughly equal in size of state spending on health care and hospitals. million in federal relief funding. percent year over year.

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Rural-Serving Institutions: Innovative Lessons for Higher Ed Success: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 147 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Andrew Koricich

The Change Leader, Inc.

Public RSIs are more dependent on state appropriations but receive fewer appropriations per student because state funding metrics focus on enrollment growth, which is more constrained. Dr. Koricich and his team have received generous funding from The Joyce Foundation, Lumina Foundation, and Ascendium Education Group.

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If You Were Designing Cal State Today: A Proposal Out of MIT

eLiterate

I’ll be developing and calling out tags I use for these themes so that you can go to an archive page on each one. J-WEL is one of many funded centers at MIT. The group started its work with some funding from J-WEL and continued on a volunteer basis afterward because they all cared about the project. The context of the paper.

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How to Attract and Inspire Underrepresented Students: Lessons from Lucy Cavendish College: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 152 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Madeleine Atkins

The Change Leader, Inc.

Madeleine then joined the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) as its Chief Executive in January 2014, retaining that post until March 2018. In addition, she has served as vice chancellor at Coventry University, chief executive of the UK’s Higher Education Funding Council, and now she’s president at Lucy Cavendish.

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The Power of Recognizing Higher Ed Faculty as Working-Class (Helena Worthen*)

Higher Education Inquirer

Nearly 75% of faculty in higher education are precarious workers, more like restaurant and hospitality workers, gig performers, contract healthcare workers, and delivery drivers than the tenured professor. They are likely to have to apply for a new campus parking permit or library card every semester.

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