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Arkansas Transfer Achievement Scholarship: New, but Growing Rapidly

Inside Higher Ed

The Arkansas Transfer Achievement Scholarship (ATAS), rolled out in fall 2019, has shown incredible growth, particularly among students from low-income and underrepresented backgrounds, including first-generation students. The University of Arkansas’ new transfer scholarship program seeks to address these challenges. and $186.51

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The Power of Empowerment

Faculty Focus

Additionally, research asserts that specific practices associated with growth mindset highly impact student motivation, learning, and achievement (Dweck, 2008; Barber, van Oostveen, and Childs, 2019). In her book, Carol Dweck posits that all people are of two mindsets: a growth mindset and a fixed mindset.

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The Power of Empowerment

Faculty Focus

Additionally, research asserts that specific practices associated with growth mindset highly impact student motivation, learning, and achievement (Dweck, 2008; Barber, van Oostveen, and Childs, 2019). In her book, Carol Dweck posits that all people are of two mindsets: a growth mindset and a fixed mindset.

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Assignments with Significance

Faculty Focus

When people learn their brains encode, not so much their experiences as their reactions to those experiences, which are then expressed as emotions (Shackleton-Jones, 2019). Some level of familiarity engenders a sense of mastery in the face of new challenges that in turn nurtures engagement and retention. What a waste! Significance.

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Colleges deploy new strategies to revive English programs

Inside Higher Ed

percent from 2012 to 2018, according to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences’ Humanities Indicators. Image: For students in Sarah Blackwood’s How to Read Moby-Dick class at Pace University, learning about Herman Melville’s work isn’t confined to lectures, essays or classroom discussions.

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A clash of viewpoints at a struggling college

Inside Higher Ed

” But detractors of Oubré and the board have questioned the authenticity of the concerns, alleging that the president and trustees are trying to stifle criticism of a leader they believe doesn’t have a plan to turn around slumping enrollment at the small liberal arts college.

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2022 INSIGHT Into Diversity HEED Award Recipients

Insight Into Diversity

Throughout 2022, Ball State University has made significant progress on its five-year Inclusive Excellence Plan, which aims to advance broad DEI goals across the university, including campus culture, policies and infrastructure, and recruitment and retention. Resolutions and Safe Spaces — Adelphi University.