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Addressing the divide: The impact of university-related migration on UK’s subregions and policy roadmap

HEPI

Policy implications The study’s insights prompt crucial questions for policymakers: How can strategies be developed to support subregions experiencing “ brain drain ”? In turn, this might entice back at a later stage in their life course some individuals who move away initially.

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Health Equity, Working to Identify Effective Policy Interventions

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Peiyin Hung’s academic passion lies in rural health and learning how to help people in those more sparsely populated areas get the care they need. Hung is assistant professor of health services policy and management in the University of South Carolina’s (USC) Arnold School of Public Health. They made a difference in my life.

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Challenging 'bad' online policies and attitudes

Inside Higher Ed

—About a decade ago, nearly all—97 percent—of IBM’s job advertisements required a four-year college degree, according to David Barnes, vice president of global workforce policy at the tech giant, who spoke this week at the annual SXSW EDU conference here. ‘Bad’ Policy No.

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Prioritize universal access in AI policy response (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

The last several decades have been characterized by significant advances in flexibility around academic assignments, with swift adjustments during the COVID pandemic. No doubt these advances have been beneficial for all—but they’ve been life-altering for some.

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English majors earn similar salary earnings, life quality than other degree holders, report

University Business

Despite questions around the value of an English degree, graduates who earned one were found to possess similar rates of life satisfaction, peak salary earnings and unemployment rates to non-English degree graduates, according to a recent report by the Association of Departments of English (ADE), a subsidiary of the Modern Language Association.

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CSU Awards $4.6 Million to Advance Black Student Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The universities self-assessment of campus offerings highlighted areas of strengths as well as opportunities for growth, cross-campus collaboration, and innovation in supporting Black students, said Dr. Dilcie Perez, deputy vice chancellor of Academic and Student Affairs and Chief Student Affairs Officer. “We

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Strategies for Speaking Out

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

My family is deeply Jewish, with both Sephardic and Ashkenazic roots, and taught me the core lessons of tikkun olam (repair the world), tzedakah (create justice), g’milut chasadim (engage in loving kindness), pikuach nefesh (life matters), and ometz lev (courage). It also made me admire the incredible scholar activists who lit the way.

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