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Target to Launch Internship Program for HBCU Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Maya Moss The Target Scholars Sophomore Internship Program will give second-year students industry experience in a number of the retailer's departments, such as retail, supply chain facilities, technology, merchandising, and product development. “We Paul Business Journal reported.

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Oden Assumes Historic Appointment at Thurgood Marshall College Fund

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Joyce Payne as a bastion of support for Black students seeking higher education. Oden was tapped to lead HSBC Bank’s wealth management, global private banking, and retail companies in the United States. Oden was tapped to lead HSBC Bank’s wealth management, global private banking, and retail companies in the United States.

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Unapologetic Leadership for Black Learner Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government and higher education institutions have fed the public a steady diet of bad enrollment news. Public health concerns increased responsibilities to care for and educate school-aged children and disrupted jobs and industries.

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Roanoke College to Launch Cannabis Studies Program

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Despite 2021 legislation allowing adults age 21+ to possess up to 1 ounce of recreational marijuana and grow up to four plants, in Virginia there is no framework for retail sales of cannabis yet, though efforts are being made. I think [the faculty vote] passed because people realize that cannabis isn't going anywhere,” Poli said.

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Crafting More Efficient Transportation Systems

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Operations Research Education: B.S., Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, Northwestern University; M.S., While addressing a problem in a for-profit industry is different from a project like public school transportation, he said the mathematics of it intrigued him.

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Why higher education must be reinvented to suit the new generation of students

University Business

The pandemic was more than an inconvenient wrinkle to higher education. It may have transformed the sector for good, and those that cannot adapt shouldn’t be surprised when they close, according to a new joint report from Ernst & Young and Times Higher Education. Build new value with new capabilities.

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Teacher-Researcher Crafts More Efficient Transportation Systems

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

That resonates with Banerjee, who acknowledges that when he got to college at Northwestern University, he didn’t know what he wanted to pursue as a career even though he declared an industrial engineering major. It’s not something I knew even existed before, and I realized what I wanted to do for the rest of my life,” said Banerjee.