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Colleges hire directors to tackle student basic needs

Inside Higher Ed

She’d spent seven years as a part-time student at Los Angeles Pierce Community College after graduating from high school and struggled to earn money and find financial aid to pay for a four-year education. UC Irvine was one of the earliest colleges to have such a center.

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Enrollment trends new and old emerge from pandemic

Inside Higher Ed

Enrollment officials at colleges that experienced robust increases aren’t even waiting for the official numbers and are instead publicly announcing enrollment upswings. Administrators at colleges that had modest gains are being more circumspect and have adopted a wait-and-see attitude. ” The effort paid off: WIU had a 2.5

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What is Higher Ed Community Looking for in State of the Union Address?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

But the world of higher education will be listening carefully for what Biden may say about the many issues America’s colleges and universities are facing, several of which have assumed national prominence in recent months. Bumphus, president and CEO of the American Association of Community Colleges, by email. Dr. Kenneth K.

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Hamline reviews policies that set off academic freedom dispute

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Hamline University has been engrossed in an academic freedom debate this year over the actions of an adjunct instructor at the private Minnesota institution who was teaching global art history. The idea that any one student’s beliefs can trump the honest teaching of art history is a chilling idea indeed.

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Museums and College Campuses as Community Hubs and Cultural Centers

Inside Higher Ed

opened with a searing attack that is at once ferocious and amusingly sarcastic: “Recent visitors to the Smithsonian's Natural History Museum were greeted with some unpleasant news: the museum was contaminated. Colleges and universities don’t inhabit an ivory tower. ” Certainly true, but, as written, insufficient.

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Record bond measures, higher ed policy on states' ballots

Inside Higher Ed

About 2,000 Arizona high school graduates each year are undocumented, according to the Higher Ed Immigration Portal, which tracks a range of data points related to DACA and undocumented and other international students to inform policy makers and advocate for expanded access to higher education.

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Groups may sue over Biden's debt plan, but they need a plaintiff

Inside Higher Ed

However, others, especially those who have paid off their debt or did not go to college, view it as a handout at the expense of taxpayers. So that’s still a bit of an unsettled question,” said Jack Fitzhenry, a legal policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation. But scale alone is not going to get you to major questions.