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Arkansas Transfer Achievement Scholarship: New, but Growing Rapidly

Inside Higher Ed

The University of Arkansas’ new transfer scholarship program seeks to address these challenges. 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. and $186.51

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Divination Modalities and the Art of Scholarship Agreements

Inside Higher Ed

Join us at the next national Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) conference plenary session for a fascinating look into future thinking and the art of crafting effective scholarship agreements. Donors may have many wishes about who receives their scholarships and how the selection process is handled.

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University, Community Colleges Partner for More Inclusive STEM Education

Insight Into Diversity

The University of Wyoming (UW) and five community colleges in the state are building a faculty network to share best practices and make science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education more inclusive. The IE3 initiative will function similarly to a pilot program instituted by UW and NWC in July 2022.

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Does research provide insights to many of the global challenges we’re facing? A publisher’s view

HEPI

In June 2022, HEPI and Taylor & Francis hosted a successful dinner discussion around open access and evidence-based based policymaking which produced a co-authored Policy Note , and webinar. The UN’s Higher Education Sustainability Initiative sees a clear link between research and scholarship and building a workforce for the future.

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New digital texts shake up monograph publishing (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

” In recent years, Brown University Library has expanded its innovation in digital scholarship by pushing beyond the boundaries of the traditional printed monograph. Asking readers to imagine Islam anew, as a vast web of interconnected traces seen through the prism of time, the book opens with a networked table of contents.

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2023 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award Winners

Insight Into Diversity

INSIGHT Into Diversity 2023 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award winners are recognized for their exemplary and innovative initiatives designed to recruit and retain underrepresented individuals in science, technology, engineering, and math. Read about them here. MS in Business Analytics – STEM-designated Adelphi University Robert B.

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Colleges used these 3 strategies to spark big enrollment rebounds this Fall

University Business

Out in the Midwest, the smaller liberal arts-focused Wheaton College missed its 2019 enrollment mark by only 20 students after suffering from a series of budget cuts last year. While the University of North Carolina Greensboro’s enrollment overall is down from Fall 2022, it has seen an 11.5%