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Stand Alone: 2015 – 2024: 10 years of changing higher education for estranged students

HEPI

Stand Alone has announced its closure and its higher education work is coming to an end. Will the sector continue to advocate for estranged students and drive policy change? Email Address Subscribe The post Stand Alone: 2015 – 2024: 10 years of changing higher education for estranged students appeared first on HEPI.

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Parnell Named President of NASPA — Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Parnell has been with the organization since 2015 and will bring deep industry and organizational knowledge to her new role. She directed the association’s research, policy, and publications portfolio that provide critical insight and support to the nearly 15,000 student affairs professionals who comprise NASPA’s membership.

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Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom Starts with Culture First, Then Asks Questions

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

in sociology in 2015 from Emory University’s Laney Graduate School and her Bachelor of Arts degree in English and political science from North Carolina Central University. She is also a columnist for the New York Times, an award-winning author, and a 2020 MacArthur Fellow. McMillan Cottom received her Ph.D.

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Here are 9 ways higher education can ensure rural America’s long-term vitality

University Business

However, the durability of America’s rural regions rests squarely on the shoulders of its citizens accessing higher forms of education, notes the report. Census Bureau data from 2015 to 2019. The CEW studied 25-to-64-year-old adults using five years’ worth of U.S.

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The SRHE Digital University Network: A Decade of Trends and Future Directions

SRHE

In 2015 and 2021, there were more, in the latter case possibly because of a focus on online learning due to the Covid-19 pandemic. She is especially interested in the relationship between the digital economy and the higher education sector; and in digitalisation, datafication and platformisation of knowledge production and dissemination.

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Lifting As They Climb

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Janelle Scott, a professor in the School of Education and African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. and Mary Catherine Birgeneau Distinguished Chair in Educational Disparities, and is the chair of the Race, Diversity, and Educational Policy Cluster of the Othering and Belonging Institute.

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Supporting student parents is an equity imperative (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

Ultimately, I graduated from Florida State University with a bachelor’s degree in food and nutrition science and a new passion for a career in higher education to ensure more students have equitable access to college and to supports, such as childcare, that help them succeed. I would later earn my Ph.D.

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