Opinion: How college graduate programs can improve diversity efforts
DIVERSE ISSUES IN HIGHER EDUCATION — Diversity in graduate programs doesn’t just happen, and it certainly can’t be achieved in one admissions cycle with a few quick fixes to your recruitment efforts and admissions policies. It requires a conscious effort to build a strong base of undergraduate students from underrepresented communities, often from backgrounds that are different…
Read More about Opinion: How college graduate programs can improve diversity effortsHarvard Law professor Randall Kennedy participates in discussion on fighting racial injustice in universities
THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION — What is the role of colleges in fighting racial injustice? How can campus conversations about race become more productive? At a recent Chronicle event, two leading scholars — Harvard Law School’s Randall Kennedy and Georgetown University’s Marcia Chatelain — debated these crucial and unsettled questions. Kennedy is the author of…
Read More about Harvard Law professor Randall Kennedy participates in discussion on fighting racial injustice in universitiesWhite House urges US Supreme Court to reject Harvard University affirmative action case
INSIDE HIGHER ED — The Office of the Solicitor General of the United States filed a brief with the Supreme Court urging the court not to take the case involving Harvard University’s affirmative action policies. The brief noted that a district court judge and a federal appeals court have already reviewed the case and found Harvard’s policies…
Read More about White House urges US Supreme Court to reject Harvard University affirmative action caseHow colleges are preparing for the omicron variant
THE WASHINGTON POST — College officials were already bracing for a potential rise in coronavirus cases when students returned to campus after Thanksgiving break. Then the world learned of the omicron variant, with its troubling mutations and a host of unknowns. “We are concerned,” said Gerri Taylor, co-chair of the American College Health Association covid-19…
Read More about How colleges are preparing for the omicron variantThe American College Health Association releases new COVID-19 guidelines
THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION — The American College Health Association released on Monday its latest recommendations for Covid-19 policy on college campuses. The guidelines come as the country prepares to enter its second pandemic winter, and the world awaits more news on whether the omicron variant is more infectious or deadly than its predecessors.
Read More about The American College Health Association releases new COVID-19 guidelinesHigher tuition costs creating a dip in college applications
LANCASTER ONLINE — For many high school students, the idea of going to college is drilled into their minds. It is touted by those around them as the next logical step in the chain. However, high school graduates of today are finding college as the next step is anything but logical. According to the National Student Clearinghouse…
Read More about Higher tuition costs creating a dip in college applicationsReport shows a majority of students who took a gap year in 2020 did not return in 2021
UNIVERSITY BUSINESS — The latest High School Benchmarks report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center shows that the majority of students who took a gap year in 2020 did not enroll at colleges and universities in 2021. Despite a huge downturn in the number of students immediately entering postsecondary education after graduating in 2020, a year…
Read More about Report shows a majority of students who took a gap year in 2020 did not return in 2021How experiential learning and policy experiences benefit graduate students
INSIDE HIGHER ED — Efforts are taking shape across the nation to involve more scientists in policy at the local level. Largely absent from that process, however, is an approach that many other academic disciplines use effectively but is lacking in the pure sciences: classes that offer students real-world local policy engagement for academic credit as…
Read More about How experiential learning and policy experiences benefit graduate studentsA look at White House student loan forgiveness initiatives
NPR — The Biden administration’s approach to student loan relief began with improving, extending or expanding a handful of programs that were already on the books. “We’re working really hard to get students the relief that they’re entitled to” through these preexisting programs, Undersecretary of Education James Kvaal told NPR on Friday. While it’s not loan forgiveness, Biden…
Read More about A look at White House student loan forgiveness initiativesColleges face challenges as federal pandemic relief funds end in 2022
HIGHER ED DIVE — The findings are consistent with other leading indicators of the higher ed sector’s condition. Colleges have benefited from substantial federal relief funding, but the 2022 calendar year is likely the last in which that pot of money will buoy institutions’ budgets, Fitch Ratings said Tuesday. Admissions and retention challenges mount, as undergraduate…
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