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Complete College America Offers Playbook on How Higher Education Can Bolster Civic Engagement

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

higher education institutions can strengthen democracy by prioritizing civic engagement and civic education in the student experience. By making civic education a priority, higher education can play a role in fostering civic awareness and engagement skills. There should be adequate support services.

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Our Advice for Making College Campuses Ready for Diverse Student Populations

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Across higher education, the desire for diversity among student populations is usually the responsibility of recruitment efforts but falls short in retention strategies. Colleges typically use a variety of assessments such as standardized tests, essays, and GPA to determine a student's readiness for life in academia.

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California's Community Colleges See the Benefits of Student Housing

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A 2019 survey of almost 40,000 California community college students found that 60% of respondents indicated they were housing insecure in 2018, according to The Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice, an action research center working to make higher education more equitable.

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How Gross Inequalities in Institutional Wealth Distort the Higher Education Ecosystem and Shortchange the Vast Majority of Middle- and Lower-Income Undergraduates

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The awful truth is that the wealthiest institutions are so flush with resources that they are deforming the entire system of higher education. I’m not referring here to faculty salaries or reduced teaching loads or class size or breadth of programs or extensive support services—all of which are good things (within limits).

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Southampton University given mental health warning after student’s suicide

The Guardian Higher Education

Coroner in Matthew Wickes inquest raises concern over ‘awareness and curiosity’ of academic staff around mental health A coroner has issued a warning to Southampton University over the “awareness, understanding and curiosity” of academic staff around the mental health of students after a student killed himself on the day his exam results were due.

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President’s corner: President Elizabeth Davis crunches the numbers on new molds of student support

University Business

In the business of running an entire liberal arts college in South Carolina, the most cherished metric to study Furman’s success is student satisfaction. This is complex work, especially as one considers how susceptible the needs of students are to change in today’s new higher education marketplace.

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Understanding the purpose and role of the CAA UAE in higher education

Creatrix Campus

CAA is UAE’s official higher education quality assurance organization. It accredits all higher education institutions not affiliated with the federal government by taking them through a series of quality assurance steps and offering them a license to operate. What is the commission for academic accreditation (CAA)?