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A look at a unique law that makes transfer credits count

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. “This law will make it easier for students pursuing higher education in Colorado to understand the cost of their degree or certificate,” Democratic Rep. One recent report from the Center for Higher Education Policy and Practice found four-year institutions that embrace seamless credit transfers reduce students’ expenses.

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Biden Admin Issues Guidance after Affirmative Action Decision

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Kellogg Professor of Community College Leadership at the University of Texas at Austin. The departments also emphasized that the Supreme Court’s decision only addressed admissions programs—not racially or ethnically-based scholarships and hiring. Dr. Liliana Garces, the W.K.

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Leadership Potential

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Those fellowships as well as Morgan and HBCUs more broadly have helped me to understand that my Blackness is a strength and I don’t have to put it on the backburner to pursue scholarship and knowledge development,” he said. “It

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What Are the Big Higher Education Stories for 2024?

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“This backdrop underscores the urgency of addressing key issues around opportunity, such as increasing college access, addressing college affordability, strengthening pathways to meaningful employment, and ensuring implementation fidelity for current higher education policies and initiatives,” says Jez. Dr. Fred A.

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IHEP Offers Lessons for Schools to Improve Transfer Pathways

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Although 80% of students who enroll in community colleges plan on getting a bachelor’s degree, only around 15% do so within six years. It’s a product of what seems like a perpetually leaky transfer process, in which, nationwide, 43% of credits are lost between schools.

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

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Excelencia in Education works to advance Latino student success in higher education by promoting Latino student achievement, conducting analysis to inform educational policies and advancing institutional practices. It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students. Morishita, interim president at CSULA.

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OEE Scholar Interview Series: Dr. Sharla Berry

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We’re excited to highlight the scholarship of Dr. Sharla Berry , Assistant Professor in the Center for Evaluation and Educational Effectiveness (CEEE) at California State University, Long Beach. I found more support in communications and sociology, but I was in an Education Policy Ph.D.