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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 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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It’s the metrics, not the Matrix, part 3: Degenerative AI

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Student grades, attendance, and staff’s citations fuel the academic-industrial complex by fostering connections between businesses ready to absorb the highly-graded students while partnering with high-ranking research initiatives. For one, we do not prohibit the academic study of leisure, especially if it attracts big grants).

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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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A pantomime without a happy ending

SRHE

Best of all, Cinderella’s pay rags turn into a shimmering and apparently permanent contract, and her glass ceiling is transformed into slippers. Jack lived in desperately poor circumstances with his departmental colleagues, until one day all he had left was one research grant. Unfortunately the giant was already halfway down.

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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.