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Report: Certain Degrees in Tennessee Schools Leave Students with More Debt than Earnings

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“This data allows us to objectively analyze programs and determine which ones provide opportunities to increase incomes and which ones will likely leave students with excessive debt and a salary that does not allow them to get out of it,” said Beacon Director of Policy and Research Ron Shultis.

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Small College America – Profile Earlham College

Edu Alliance Journal

Curricula Earlham College offers a diverse range of undergraduate programs, with popular majors including Biology, Environmental Science, International Studies, Business, and Psychology. Values-Driven Education Quaker principles of peace, social justice, and ethical leadership are embedded in the curriculum and campus culture.

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Co-creation, research work and collaboration: Developing graduate attributes through research practice

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

Barrie, 2004:262 However, what I have noticed through practice is that this undoubtedly critical element of higher education are often still attempted to be “taught”. This is supported by international studies of the need for higher education environment to do more applied “living curriculum” (Bath, et al.,

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Shall we all pretend we didn't see it coming, again?: higher education, climate change, climate refugees, and climate denial by elites

Higher Education Inquirer

Can US higher education do much to reduce climate change, either as a leader or as a teacher? That's not to say that there aren't universities doing climate change research. But that research is outweighed by those who control higher education, trustees and endowment managers, and their financial interests.

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Meet the Syllabus: engaging in current research

Teaching Matters Student Employment

While many courses of this kind are excellent, there is nevertheless the danger of conveying an impression that research and teaching are disconnected. Research is something that happens upstream, where experts produce ideas. The course is designed to bridge the gap between teaching and research. General discussion ensued.

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Study Abroad in College

Great College Advice

So, before you start zooming around college websites looking at their study abroad programs, make a short list of things that might be fun for you to study while you’re abroad. For example, I knew students who went on geology-focused study abroad programs as part of their geology major. So as a consumer, you have more choice.

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MIT Scholars Present at 2023 AHRC International Conference

CAPD

His research interests broadly include the relationship between the built environment and cultural geography in the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with a particular focus on historically marginalized groups in a Canadian context. Her research focuses on the intersection of social policy, finance, and inequality.