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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. Constant threats of deportation for themselves and family members, limited options for earning income, lack of accessible healthcare, and ineligibility for driver’s licenses in some states are ever-present hurdles. Research your institution’s policies. No student loans. No Federal work study.

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Community Colleges Increase Housing Options

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Presently, about 10% of CMCC’s student population reside in residential housing. Post-pandemic, we have more individual students coming to us than actual school contracts.” In the summer, certain EHS buildings have a Pell Grant rate for individuals who are Pell Grant eligible. EHS President and CEO Jeffrey H.

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How to write more supportive, inclusive syllabi (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

This is often used as an opportunity to present the syllabus as a “contract” and to make course policies and penalties clear to students. On the first day of class, many faculty will dedicate time to going over the course syllabus. She is part of the national leadership team for the Student Experience Project.

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Hearing the voices of care-experienced academics

SRHE

While there is vibrant interest in, for example, the careers of working class or disabled academics, we don’t believe that care-experienced academics have been the explicit focus of research before. In our study, we spoke to 21 academics, spanning roles from research assistant to professor in universities across the UK.

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Debt and doubt: a graduate’s frustrations with the current higher education loans regime

SRHE

Few graduate voices on their indebtedness are heard in research or policy discourse. Secondly, I had conducted no research myself on graduate experiences. I would be exposing my feelings about the current student finance regime (albeit informed by my related research) to the potentially sharp questioning of experts.

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Using Faculty Satisfaction Data for Strategic Change in Higher Education: Changing Higher Ed podcast 254 with host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and guest Dr. R. Todd Benson

The Change Leader, Inc.

He oversees the initiatives research and institutional collaborations. is the executive director and principal investigator of the Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education (COACHE) a research-practice partnership at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. That’s falling On faculty in many respects.

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The Helen Perkins era

SRHE

Helen Perkins was appointed as Director of the Society for Research into Higher Education in 2004. In December 2021, after another very successful Research Conference, she gave notice of her intention to retire. The benefits were such that the Society was able to introduce its now established series of annual research grants.