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Breaking the Assimilationist Trajectory

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I was working in a non-Indian community, not building new relationships with American Indian education professionals, and not really focusing much of my work around those topics.” The history of Native education in the United States is fraught with dispossession. My Osage world was not merged with my professional identity,” he said.

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How Public Universities Can Tackle the Teacher Shortage

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Department of Education is stepping up with $368 million in new grant funding to aid teacher retention and recruitment and improve diversity. But there’s more the federal government can do. Education remains critical to our nation. Finally, we must champion the teaching profession. It’s time to dial it down.

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How to optimize technology investments for the future

University Business

While AI promises significant benefits from streamlining administrative tasks to helping improve learning outcomes and personalizing educational pathways it also comes with significant resource demands and upfront costs. This also creates additional risk when it comes to making investment decisions.

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HEI's Public Comment to ED Regarding Public Service Loan Forgiveness, Pay As You Earn, Income Contingent Repayment, Gainful Employment, and Borrower Defense to Repayment and Other Regulations

Higher Education Inquirer

By providing these programs, the federal government ensures that public servants, teachers, social workers, healthcare professionals, and other essential workers can focus on their vocations without the paralyzing weight of unmanageable student loan debt. It is a win-win for both the workers and the communities they serve.

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Accreditation: Statement to NACIQI regarding NSAD, Ambow Education, and WSCUC

Higher Education Inquirer

[Editor's note: The National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity (NACIQI) was authorized and reconstituted by the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008. The Committee complies with all requirements of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) and Government in the Sunshine Act.

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Despite regulation efforts and student complaints, this popular edtech platform marches on

University Business

As a result, online program managers (OPMs) have become one of the hottest edtech assets a college and university can partner with, but few OPMs are big enough to stand toe-to-toe with 2U, Inc. Students and the federal government have waged lawsuits and called for stronger oversight of the edtech company.

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Thoughts on ED’s New Guidance on Revenue Share Arrangements and Third-Party Servicers (TPS)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Since any associated policy changes could affect a much wider set of services than originally expected, we thought that we’d use this space to share what we think are the key points that university leaders across higher education need to understand about the potential impact of recent and anticipated actions by the federal government.