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2023 Seal of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. Latino first-year retention has increased from 59% to 71% after implementation of the dual credit program.

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Arizona State turns to YouTube to reach learners on the margins

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History to 1865 course , for example, is taught by Danielle Bainbridge, an assistant professor of theater at Northwestern University and “history nerd” host of PBS Origins. history and human communication. The same is true about retention efforts. Indeed, a viewer would be hard-pressed to fall asleep.)

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New Research Shows Benefits of Summer Pell

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For most of its 50-year history, the Pell Grant has not covered summer classes, with two brief exceptions: 2009-2011 and 2017 to the present. African American students also had increased earnings in their sixth and ninth years from college entry.

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ASHE Conference Urges Humanization of Higher Education

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Natalie Youngbull, an assistant professor of educational leadership and policy studies at the University of Oklahoma, shared research on how TCUs are improving the lives of their students and their communities. Dr. Natalie Youngbull, assistant professor of educational leadership and policy studies at the University of Oklahoma.

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

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DeSantis is doing in a way that stigmatizes those who are genuinely concerned about parental rights or who care about teaching history the way that they learned it.” “I don’t want him to come out and condemn everything that Gov. Instead, Pasquerella believes that an appeal to shared values could succeed. “I Dr. Kenneth K.

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It is not too late to shift gears to a more visionary International Education Strategy for Canada 

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As a policy area, it has evolved to incorporate a wide range of both policy sectors and policy actors on the federal level: GAC; Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC); Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC); and Research and Innovation. Creating consensus among all those diverse actors is difficult.

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What Are the Big Higher Education Stories for 2024?

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Financial issues, along with enrollment, retention and graduation, will be newsworthy also. Bonner II, who holds the Wilhelmina Endowed Chair in Educational Leadership at Prairie View A&M University, an HBCU, brings a different perspective. The attacks on Black stories, authors, and history will be met with resistance.