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Fourth-Year Grad Student Sets Sights on Collegiate Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Looking at finance and budgeting in higher education, how some budgeting policies are inherently racist or they disenfranchise students from certain backgrounds or how institutions are affected by the budget process in state systems.” He is already building relationships toward that objective. “I

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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

To address that, there are now approximately 40 graduate ambassadors who will speak to student groups about their journeys. Sanders says CEED makes sure that Virginia Tech undergraduates are exposed to graduate education. Dr. Tremayne O. Waller Taylor Cupp “We’re engaged, especially with the student organizations,” Waller says.

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Fox Transitions From 20-Year Transformational Career

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

They learned in pods and had a different approach to their graduate education. The campus closed in March 2020, but in June 2020 the new doctoral cohorts in physical and occupational therapy were due to arrive. The school opened to welcome those cohorts. Some of the didactic and professional curriculum were flipped.

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European research universities group: doctoral supervisors should be trained

Confessions of a Community College Dean

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New graduate program at Gustavus Adolphus College

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Editorial Tags: Graduate education Image Source: Gustavus Adolphus College Image Caption: Gustavus Adolphus College is adding a master’s program in athletic training, the college’s first-ever graduate program. Is this diversity newsletter?: Newsletter Order: 0 Disable left side advertisement?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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Can the English Major Be Saved?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

English was once the discipline that thought most intensely and penetratingly about how to effectively communicate complicated ideas and technical information and needs to reassert that role and not fob off that responsibility onto poorly paid adjuncts or graduate students. Addressing the ongoing crisis of graduate education.

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From Past to Present: New Book Explores the Importance of HBCUs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“Whenever I give a talk and share my educational journey, I like to open by saying that I bleed orange and green, but I am also a die-hard Aggie,” writes Esters, who is now dean of the Graduate School and the vice provost for graduate education at The Pennsylvania State University. “To

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