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New Report Highlights Hidden Costs and Privacy Risks of Digital Courseware for Higher Education Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

That’s the findings from a new Privacy Rights Clearinghouse report, funded by a Michelson 20MM grant. This report emphasizes the need for proactive measures to ensure that students’ personal information is only used for its intended educational purpose.” Titled “ Paying Twice to Learn?

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Leading with Purpose: Lessons from My Initial Years as a College President

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As an institution searches for its next president and publishes information regarding its presidential search, there is what the institution understands about itself and what it is globally unaware of. Perform due diligence, seek wisdom, pay attention, secure support, and keep your college informed.

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How Universities Can Support Undocumented Students as Federal Policies Continue to Threaten Them

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

No Pell Grants. Be informed. Seek out information and updates to better advise and support students. You can follow relevant social media accounts like Immigrants Rising , Informed Immigrant , National Immigration Law Center , and the President’s Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration. No student loans.

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Community College Incarcerated Reentry Programs: Looking Forward

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

College-in-prison programs flourished in the 1970’s and 1980’s after the 1965 Higher Education Act made people who were incarcerated eligible for Pell Grants. He credits his English 091 class for giving him tools to translate his thoughts and experiences into meaningful expression and fill what he called an “information gap” in his life.

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Profiling Some of the Institutions With the Most Minority Business Graduates

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

After degree completion, undergraduates get positions such as account analysts, managers, contract specialists, and business analysts. The business school also received a Missouri Career Attainment Network grant to provide minority students comprehensive information about career pathways.

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USC will reinstate alumni status to 1,600+ graduates. Why was it ever revoked?

University Business

Students who graduated from USC with a graduate certificate in 2000 onward were positive they’d be recognized as USCAA members and granted access to its exclusive perks. Harvard Business School’s website specifically designates which programs, certificates and degrees grant alumni status and which don’t.

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Education Department faces calls to rescind outsourcing guidance

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The department wrote a Dear Colleague letter in February that said any entity involved with the administration of an institution’s federal student aid is considered a third-party servicer, which puts them under the department’s oversight authority and subjects the companies’ contracts with institutions to regular audits.