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Coppin State University: A Renaissance of Purpose and Progress

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Rather than accepting this as inevitable, his administration launched a comprehensive analysis of student data, policies, and practices. By taking a careful look at course offerings and degree pathways, the administration has streamlined the road to graduation. Coppin was always my first choice, says Muhammad.

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Empowering Community Colleges Through AI: A New Era of Access and Economic Mobility

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Since Apple introduced Siri, its voice-controlled software, in October 2011, consumers have begun normalizing interactions with narrow AI. Powered by Gecko, this technology has effectively increased our ability to answer prospective and current student questions 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

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Pushing to No Longer Keep Meredith College a ‘Best-Kept Secret’

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Jo Allen, the retiring president of Meredith College, enjoys the administrative part of higher ed. Spurred on by this interest in universities’ inner workings, Allen went on to eventually lead in an administrative capacity as senior vice president and provost at Widener University before returning to Meredith as its leader in July 2011.

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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. Liu found clear advantages for the students who got summer money.

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Report Examines Fragmented Reentry Services for Formerly Incarcerated Individuals Attending College

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I can sit in my position as an administrator for a higher ed in prison program and observe a tremendous amount of what our students go through, but that’s very different than the lived experiences of reentry. That is a fact and we see it all the time with our own students when they return to community (P2CP began in 2011).

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Anti-Racist Teachers: Disrupting Resegregation [Overrepresentation] in Special Education

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Therefore, we conducted empirical research to study the extent that anti-racist teachers can disrupt resegregation in special education , using nationally representative data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-2011. While anti-racism mitigated this, educators also need supporting anti-racist, administrative leadership and policies.

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5 Hip-Hop Quotes to Inspire College Students

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2. Wale (“Ambition”, 2011) “Move with aggression, use my mind as a weapon. Faculty, administration, peer mentors, and campus resources are tools for their ultimate ascension from student to graduate, and from graduate to thriving professional. Ye ("Last Call”, 2004) “I ain't play the hand I was dealt, I changed my cards.

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