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Dual enrollment programs enable high school students to earn college credits at little to no cost and have experienced collective enrollment growth by more than 159% since 2015. Alabama’s future is bright, and our community colleges are at the heart of it,” said ACCS Vice Chancellor for Student Success Dr. Neil Scott. “As

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It follows a $50 million grant from Lilly Endowment in 2015 that enabled UNCF to launch the Career Pathways Initiative to help enhance career outcomes for students. The grant is the largest unrestricted private grant UNCF has ever received, according to UNCF President and CEO Dr. Michael L.

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The author of Medicine and Ethics in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction (2015), her interdisciplinary research in the field of the medical humanities engages literary, historical, philosophical, and ethical explorations of black women’s health and medicine. Jones is also an associate professor of Africana Studies.

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More students earned certificates than any year in the past decade, while associate degrees awarded fell to its lowest point in a decade and bachelor's degrees awarded fell to its lowest since 2015–16 academic year. These drops “erase the gains made between 2015 and 2020,” said Dr. Pietro A.

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He was UDC’s ninth and longest-serving president whose tenure spanned from 2015 to 2023. It's a prestigious honor," said Mason, the former president of the University of the District of Columbia (UDC).

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Fuchs served as the university’s 12th president from January 2015 to February 2023, before taking a yearlong sabbatical. I look forward to working this year with the faculty, staff, students, and alumni as we lead the nation in our teaching, research, and land-grant and clinical activities,” said Fuchs, who starts in the role Aug.

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MARCH 15, 2023

Since 2015, Wellesley has allowed transgender women to apply for admission. Women’s liberal arts institution Wellesley College students voted Mar. 14 to allow transgender men and nonbinary people assigned male at birth to be eligible for admission, The Washington Post reported.

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JANUARY 10, 2024

He led the Tide to nine SEC championships and won national titles in 2009, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2017, and 2020. Saban led LSU to SEC championships in 2001 and 2003, when he won his first national title. Saban’s team dealt with an early season loss to Texas in September but rebounded to upset then-No. 1 Georgia in the 2023 SEC Championship game.

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MARCH 18, 2024

He said the plan will lead to a six-week summer internship program for high school students and leverage the “Mobile Energy Lab” program he founded in 2015 at Wayne State to engage Detroit middle schoolers. “By

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MARCH 31, 2024

Stout, who has led the organization since 2015. I think that is injecting new energy and new thinking into the movement,” says Stout, who previously led Montgomery County Community College in Pennsylvania from 2001 to 2015. “We There was also a robust focus on the humanities. ATD is not just a conference,” says Dr. Karen A.

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In 2015, 65% of state high school graduates were going straight to college, but by 2020, down to 53% were attending college the year after high school. The program – begins June 2023 – will be available to families at little to no cost and will run as two separate weeklong sessions from Jun. 18-23 and 25-30.

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She won the AERA Early Career Award in 2012 and the Qualitative Research SIG’s 2015 Outstanding Book Award for Humanizing Research: Decolonizing Qualitative Inquiry with Youth and Communities (SAGE, co-edited with D. Winn holds a bachelor’s degree in English from University of California, Davis, as well as a master’s and Ph.D.

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JANUARY 30, 2024

The Tragil Wade-Johnson Summer Reading Program, named after Wade’s sister, has extensively reduced the “summer slide” in reading achievement among Milwaukee school children since 2015. The program launched with funds from the Wade’s World Foundation and continues with monies from fundraising.

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JULY 11, 2023

PCC has not received state funding since 2015, she added. “To keep the pace, the state will need to have opportunities for postsecondary education and training that prepares Arizonans for these jobs,” Hobbs said, adding that having a trained workforce would attract companies to the state.

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JUNE 27, 2024

In 1996, she returned to campus as a dean, and, in 2015, she became president of her alma mater. Christine De Vinne first came to Ursuline College, a private, Catholic institution in Pepper Pike, Ohio, she was a young woman studying math for her undergraduate degree.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2024

It would join rowing (1996), ice hockey (2000), water polo (2000), bowling (2003) and beach volleyball (2015).

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Over 100 institutions have eliminated legacy policies since 2015, and three states have banned legacy admissions at public institutions. The decision has fueled increased scrutiny of legacy admissions, prompting policymakers in several states to introduce legislation to end the practice.

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JANUARY 26, 2024

The flag was finally removed from the State House grounds in 2015 after nine people were killed in a mass shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston. While serving as governor, Beasley advocated for the removal of the Confederate flag from the State House dome. His efforts earned him the John F.

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MARCH 21, 2024

Parnell has been with the organization since 2015 and will bring deep industry and organizational knowledge to her new role. “As president, I look forward to strengthening relationships across the industry, promoting the value and impact of student affairs for key audiences, and pursuing strategies that enhance the college student experience.”

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She has been president at A&M-San Antonio since 2015. “Dr. Cynthia Teniente-Matson Teniente-Matson will step down from her current position at A&M-San Antonio and start at San José State in January.

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MARCH 22, 2023

Pierce has previously been a tenured faculty member in English and African American studies at the University of Kentucky and associate professor of religion and literature and founding director of the Center for Black Church Studies at Princeton Theological Seminary.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Prior to 2015 it was difficult to find much formal acknowledgement of student food insecurity, let alone services to help. While that generosity of spirit is appreciated, we think it’s time to say thanks and ask how those collective energies could be harnessed to fight students’ hunger, rather than just feed them.

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JANUARY 27, 2023

Ainsley Carry It's a stark contrast to how these kinds of disputes were handled between 2015 and 2020, according to Dr. Ainsley Carry, Vice President of Students, at the University of British Columbia, and the author of Washington Next?, In the 2015-2020 period, it was largely based in protest,” Carry said.

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Crazy Bull chose The American Indian College Fund.

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This newest study focuses on the enrollment data available for the community college cohort entering in 2015, which allowed for six years to complete their journey toward a bachelor’s degree. “No state is doing well in terms of getting their community college students to transfer and complete,” said Velasco Rodriguez.

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Yet a 2024 report by Community College Research Center, the Aspen Institute College Excellence Program, and National Student Clearinghouse Research Center found that only about a third of 2015 community college entrants transferred and fewer than half of those who transferred earned a degree in six years.

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in sociology in 2015 from Emory University’s Laney Graduate School and her Bachelor of Arts degree in English and political science from North Carolina Central University. She is also a columnist for the New York Times, an award-winning author, and a 2020 MacArthur Fellow. McMillan Cottom received her Ph.D.

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JANUARY 22, 2024

from 2015 to 2017. She launched her own firm – an architecture research studio called Dahlia Nduom Design – with offices in Accra and Washington, D.C., When Nduom speaks to her students, she doesn’t speak much about projects in which she had a role.

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In 2015, the U.S. Presidential Scholars Program began recognizing outstanding students in the field of Career and Technical Education. The move was designed to highlight innovation within CTE programs and the educators who empower these students.

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In 2015, the U.S. Support for prison education was bolstered by the landmark 2013 RAND study, which found correctional education leads to a 43% drop in the likelihood of returning to prison and a 13% increase in finding a job upon release. Department of Education launched the “Second Chance Pell (SCP) Experiment.” and Puerto Rico.

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JULY 19, 2023

At various times when concerns with Dr. Tessier-Lavigne’s papers emerged—in 2001, the early 2010s, 2015-2016, and March 2021—Dr. Although there was no evidence that Tessier-Lavigne himself manipulated or was aware of manipulations at the time, he has not adequately explained why he did not make corrections when given opportunities to do so.

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Their findings helped motivate CUNY to take the steps needed to transition from remedial courses to corequisite courses in the system’s two-year institutions, a process started in 2015 and only completed this January.

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i In 2015-16, just 30% of students were immigrants or children of immigrants. Department of Education’s 2019-20 National Postsecondary Student Aid Survey (NPSAS:20). This includes 11% of students identifying as immigrants and an additional 23% reporting one or both parents born outside of the United States.

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Georgetown had previously appeared on the list four times since 2015 for a variety of conflicts including its refusal to let students table on behalf of Bernie Sanders on campus, its denial of recognition to a pro-choice student group, and its censorship of a debate on its Qatar campus about the depiction of God as a woman.

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Dr. Shana Stoddard Having first come to Rhodes as a William Randolph Hearst Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in 2015, Stoddard has cemented a role for herself at the school over time, attaining the position of associate professor of chemistry in 2022. “I I knew that I wanted an undergraduate research lab,” Stoddard said.

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AUGUST 10, 2023

schools over five application cycles (2015-2020), excluding students who attended a foreign high school or held a primary citizenship from another country. The researchers looked at 685,709 first-year college applications from 292,795 Asian American and white students to selective U.S.

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But with the revival of a way for those in prison to better access higher education, per the Second Chance Pell pilot program in 2015 , ITHAKA saw the potential to do more. “This is the first exposure many incarcerated learners have to independent, self-directed research, which is foundational to an immersive, quality college education.”

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