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Turing funding timeline in UK causing participants to drop out

The PIE News

Aneta Hayes, dean of internationalisation in the faculty of humanities and social sciences at Keele University said many of findings of the report align with the experiences at Keele, and what she has heard across the sector. ” The post Turing funding timeline in UK causing participants to drop out appeared first on The PIE News.

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Yale Revives Standardized Testing in Admissions

Insight Into Diversity

In a statement announcing the policy change, Jeremiah Quinlan, dean of admissions and financial aid, reversed course and argued that standardized tests are one of the best measures of a student’s academic success in college and that their use, in conjunction with other factors, can help disadvantaged students.

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SOULS: The Academy’s Recipe for Transformation, Retention, and Creating a Better World

Insight Into Diversity

As a tenured full professor of political science, a former director of graduate studies and admissions, dean, and now vice president for diversity, I view the crisis of Black faculty and staff retention in the Academy as a quiet earthquake — slowly moving beneath the ground, embodying the terrors that make academic life untenable.

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Program Equips Community College Students to Obtain Four-Year Degrees

Insight Into Diversity

First-generation students and those from underrepresented groups and disadvantaged backgrounds are given priority in the application process for the five-week summer program at Vassar, a private liberal arts institution in New York state. It’s making sure that they know that the world is wider than they might have had experience with.”

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Nearly 80% of admissions officers were against the fall of affirmative action. How have they coped?

University Business

Acuity Insights surveyed admissions teams’ deans, associate directors, committee members and more to gauge the impact of the ruling and how they adapted. A new report identifies how deeply institutional leaders were affected by the decision. Additionally, 15% use a score for socioeconomic diversity.

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Lessons from learning analytics

SRHE

The gap between disadvantaged students’ attainment and their peers widened during online teaching and assessment conditions, and disadvantaged students were also less likely to obtain all 120 module credits on their first try. What is important is to understand what works – and for whom.

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Dismantling Global Injustices

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Riley, dean of Arts and Sciences at URI, says Mark has contributed much to the campus community and points to the recent $250,000 Knowledge for Freedom Grant that he and Dr. Catherine John, chair of Africana Studies, received from the Teagle Foundation. Jeannette E.