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$25M Foundation Grant Promotes Internships Among Humanities Majors

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Mellon Foundation has awarded a total $25 million in grant funding to five public colleges and universities to establish paid internship programs for humanities majors. To those ends, the humanities internship grants aim to make internship participation more widely available for humanities majors.

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Community Colleges Are Well Positioned Historically, equity and inclusion in higher education have been shaped by various legislation and milestones that improved learner access in America. These historical progressions made the relationship between college access and inclusiveness symbiotic.

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Research Finds that Higher Ed is Responsive to Labor Markets

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The paper quantifies the magnitude and nature of human capital responses to shifts in labor market demand for oft-critiqued undergraduate programs at four-year institutions across the U.S. Stange said institutions that are moderately selective or open access — with more students — tend to be more responsive.

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Higher Ed Leaders and Scholars Discuss Promises and Pitfalls of AI Tool Usage

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We really emphasize the importance of social considerations in every technology course throughout the entire curriculum,” Barabino said. “In For instance, although AI can be used to create even more accessible and free open educational resources (OER), the content such tools produce often lacks attribution, Watson said.

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Experts Gathered to Discuss Challenges Facing Higher Education

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I am prepared to call elite higher education a ‘luxury good,’ and we’re in this world where we want it to be accessible.” As tuition continues to rise, so does the question of return on investment for students and their parents, which inevitably targets less lucrative fields of study like the humanities. Dr. Nicholas B.

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Seeking Equity in Healthcare Education

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Jamal-Eddine said she envisions spoken word poetry becoming one of several tools of humanizing critical narratives that challenge and disrupt harmful hegemonic ideologies within nursing education. “I Sabrina Ali Jamal-Eddine Institution: University of Illinois Chicago, College of Nursing Graduate Program: Ph.D.

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For the Common Good

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Some are creating new programming, while others endeavor to increase access for students interested in serving the most vulnerable populations. With health services management they can work as managers in hospitals and in enhancing healthcare access. Dr. Shamard Charles is an assistant professor of public health at St. Francis College.