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Temple University leadership is under fire yet again for these 3 reasons

University Business

More from UB: Concerned about low rate of LGBTQ+ students? An overarching cause for tension is the school’s depleting enrollment. The university has seen a decline in undergraduate and graduate students since 2017 and a 14% crash since 2019 specifically. Take some notes from these colleges.

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HEED Schools Prioritize Recruitment and Retention of Diverse Employees

Insight Into Diversity

Black and Latino faculty were severely underrepresented at a majority of public, four-year institutions, despite research that overwhelmingly shows students who identify as Black and Latino are more likely to graduate when they have faculty members who look like them and serve as mentors and role models.

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Post-Traditional Students are the New Premium Students

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First, post-traditional students being recruited aggressively by a surprisingly broad swath of colleges and universities. This target group is now expanding to students who either didn’t complete their degrees or didn’t go to college at all. For students who skipped college, how many of them will come back?

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Thinking Strategically About Student Belonging in Online Learning

WCET Frontiers

Thank you to Katy Kappler, Co-Founder and CEO with InScribe, for today’s post considering the importance of student belonging for online courses and the suggestions for ways to enhance student belonging for online classes. The significance of student belonging in the online learning experience can’t be understated.

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NASA Selects 15 MSIs for MUREP Partnership Learning Annual Notification Awards

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NASA's Minority University Research and Education Project (MUREP) has selected 15 minority-serving institutions (MSIs) to receive the MUREP Partnership Learning Annual Notification (MPLAN) award. The schools will be given funds for research, professional development, and student experiences.

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The divestment problem

University Business

Columbia University President Minouche Shafik’s testimony on Capitol Hill last week , followed by the arrest and suspension of over 100 pro-Palestine student demonstrators, has ignited a new wave of fiery campus protests across some of the country’s most reputable schools, including Yale, MIT and NYU.

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Students nationwide fight for reproductive rights on campus

Inside Higher Ed

Better financial support for student parents. These are just a handful of the asks, both big and small, that students will make of their colleges and universities on Oct. Jackson Women’s Health Organization to revoke long-standing federal protections for abortion. Wade was overturned just over 100 days ago.