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Report Calls for Reforming Graduate School Debt and Data Collection

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Graduate degrees can offer a chance at high-income careers, but the rising costs of attendance have increasingly led to unequal outcomes, with many, particularly minoritized populations, swimming in debt years after graduation.

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Leadership Potential

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The Black church that influenced his educational journey has become part of Turner’s research interests — examining the connection between higher education and the Black church, specifically at HBCUs. I’m able to think about policy development, how higher education policy influences students from various backgrounds.

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Fourth-Year Grad Student Sets Sights on Collegiate Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The Black church that influenced his educational journey has become part of Turner’s research interests — examining the connection between higher education and the Black church, specifically at HBCUs. I’m able to think about policy development, how higher education policy influences students from various backgrounds.

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The 50 most in-demand skills for graduates of your master’s programs

EAB

We know that graduate students often enroll to gain the skills and knowledge necessary for bigger and better professional opportunities. Our researchers analyzed job postings data nationwide to determine the top 50 most in-demand skills for professionals with a master’s degree. 3: Finance. Methodology. 1: Data Science.

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Why Worry?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

” Although the AAUP is highly concerned about post-tenure review programs that could lead to faculty members’ termination, it is even more concerned about the replacement of tenured with contingent positions, said the organization’s senior researcher. percent in 2004 to 54.4 percent in 2021.

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Can the English Major Be Saved?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Should research and scholarship by English faculty conform to the same model as that in the biological, brain, physical and social sciences—evaluated first and foremost by quantity and citations—or might it take different forms? The purpose and value of research in English. If so, how does it differ from linguistics?

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Welcome to July-August’s Learning and Teaching Enhancement theme: Showcasing the Doctoral College

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

It is an opportunity to showcase a number of exciting and thought-provoking initiatives by staff and students at the University which all share the common aim of enhancing the postgraduate research experience. I am particularly pleased that so many of these posts have been written by postgraduate researchers.