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Former UNC System President Molly Corbett Broad Dies at Age 81

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Broad was system president 1997-2005 and was also the first woman to lead the American Council on Education (ACE). billion higher education bond and created the state’s first need-based scholarship program, opening the doors of higher education to far more North Carolina students. 2, 2023, at age 81.

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CMM Alumni

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Cloud State University Chair, Vice Chair for Research and Scholarship, and Scholar-in-Residence Dr. Cristobal Salinas Jr.

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Renewed efforts to promote study abroad as one million target remains distant

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Writing in The Hill, executive director and CEO of NAFSA, Fanta Aw, and president and CEO of The Forum on Education Abroad, Melissa A. Bryant Memorial Scholarship program and IES Abroad unveiled a “breakthrough” initiative to increase access to study abroad. It comes as NAFSA extended its Tamara H. Hess, said.

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About 370 more free college programs have erupted nationwide in 8 years

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When College Promise first set out to make postsecondary education as affordable and accessible as public high schools, it started with 53 programs. States and organizations offer free college under either a first-dollar program, a last-dollar program or a scholarship.

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The health of higher education studies – cause for optimism?

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By Rachel Brooks How healthy is the area of higher education studies? Higher education research has also been critiqued for occupying a relatively marginal place within the wider discipline of educational research. Indeed, there is mounting evidence that higher education research is an increasingly vibrant area of enquiry.

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Study Finds that Promise Program Still Leaves Racial Gaps

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The research, published in the Journal of Diversity in Higher Education , focused on participants in the first such program, the Kalamazoo Promise. The results reveal the limits of purportedly race-neutral policies, said Dr. Wil del Pilar, senior vice president of the Education Trust, a nonprofit that focuses on educational equity.

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Press Release: ACPA Renames Professional Development Event to the Paul Shang Institute for Aspiring SSAOs

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His career in higher education spans his first role as a research assistant in the Office of Minority Student Affairs at Florida State University in 1977 until his retirement in 2016 as the Assistant Vice President and Dean of Students at the University of Oregon.