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After months of delay, an independent access agreement between North Carolina State University and law firms representing sick clients will allow independent testing to be conducted within Poe Hall to determine the levels and kinds of PCBs present in building materials that may have caused former workers and students to become ill.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Florida International University (FIU) has received $6 million to help improve access to mental health services for students in Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS). Limited access to mental health support can lead students to face issues with emotion management, relationship development, and school performance, Pham said.

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JUNE 5, 2023

Hollis will become associate dean for access, equity, and inclusion in the Penn State College of Education, effective Aug. Dr. Leah P.

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JANUARY 12, 2023

Theater doesn’t belong to any particular culture — it belongs to the human impulse to tell stories.” Wallace said Villada’s presence has made theater more accessible for their growing Latinx population. “There are specific skills that need to be taught, to be trained, but we don’t need to do that with the same plays, the same books.

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JANUARY 17, 2024

We see how introductory courses like Calculus play a unique role as a gateway or barrier for racially minoritized students in terms of access to STEM majors and careers,” he says. “We Dr. Donna Y. mathematics, Rutgers University; Ed.M., mathematics education; and Ph.D.,

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JUNE 5, 2024

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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DECEMBER 12, 2023

Kristina Londy Kristina Londy has been named director of student success and inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility at MiraCosta College in Oceanside, California.

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JUNE 12, 2023

The professional development program, “Fifty Years Later: The Vietnam War Through the Eyes of Veterans, Vietnamese, and Southeast Asian Refugees,” is funded by The National Endowment for the Humanities and will educate 30 scholars. The program will run Jun. 12-16 residentially and Jun. 19-23 virtually.

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JANUARY 30, 2024

Find your people, learn how to support them, and let them support you when you need it too.” Human interaction is at the center of Dr. Melva Treviño Peña’s work. Treviño Peña, an assistant professor in the department, describes herself as a human geographer, ethnographer, and social scientist. Are they young children?

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JUNE 7, 2023

and master’s in sociomedical sciences and anthropology as well as a master's in human rights, all from Columbia University. Previously, she was acting dean of the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver and director of the Pacific Basin Institute and dean of women at Pomona College. She earned a Ph.

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APRIL 3, 2024

Members of the Fund for Leadership, Equity, Access and Diversity ( LEAD Fund) are mourning the death of their board chair, Dr. Christopher A. Metzler was a graduate of Columbia University in New York, in international human rights, and a graduate of the University of Oxford in England, in human rights law. Dr. Christopher A.

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OCTOBER 3, 2024

By eliminating these programs, institutions are actually limiting access to the kind of education and skill development that employers are saying students need the most to succeed in their organizations. These uniquely human competencies are not just useful but necessary across nearly every profession.

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JULY 14, 2023

Some believe that it’s a first step toward a reimagining of the role of human instructors. If we have computers that can operate certain aspects of the higher education environment, then we can re-prioritize what humans do. With the use of a plug-in, ChatGPT can do data analysis and visualizations very quickly, saving human labor.

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APRIL 23, 2024

However, rural-serving institutions often do not have the same access to state funding, infrastructure, and human resources as other institutions to provide innovative and responsive programs and supports for rural learners.

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DECEMBER 11, 2023

The truth is you can’t pour from an empty cup, and we are hearing more and more that young people are unable to access the mental health care they need because of how expensive these services can be. Anyone over the age of 18 can also access free professional peer support sessions through our friends at Peer.net.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2024

The new regulations in those dozen states will lead to over 10 million additional K–12 students – 21 percent of current students – gaining guaranteed access to this knowledge, the Survey notes. Ford is a Distinguished Professor of Education and Human Ecology at The Ohio State University. Indeed, reading is fundamental. Dr. Donna Y.

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OCTOBER 10, 2023

Madeleine: You're entitled to access professional mental health support when you need it. This might mean going to your university's mental health team or accessing help elsewhere, such as with your GP. Feel confident that you deserve to be heard, even if your experiences look different to others. ? Can you think of any others?

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

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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NOVEMBER 19, 2023

As my Administration continues to work toward making higher education more affordable and accessible throughout our state, we recognize that success depends on what happens both in and out of the classroom,” said Murphy.

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JANUARY 10, 2024

The fast pace at which AI tools can gather and process data and can develop early warning systems for student advisers to use is valuable, he said, adding that human analysts will still be needed to distinguish between patterns of correlation from causation.

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MAY 8, 2024

“The school’s mission-vision aligns with my work as a scholar and leader, and I believe the school is poised to reach new heights in the areas of K-12 and higher education, human development, exercise, health, and wellness.”

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MAY 16, 2023

She previously served as vice president of organizational development and human resources; associate vice president of organizational communication and development; and academic coordinator at Valencia College. Amy Bosley Bosley is currently chief of staff and vice president for institutional planning and development at Valencia College.

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MARCH 24, 2023

Cora-Cruz said the project will entail an exploration of access and quality of maternal healthcare and social impacts of care delivery in countries with different healthcare models, Bolivia, England, and Germany. Quality of life is a human right.

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JUNE 17, 2024

The Board of Trustees of the City University of New York believes in the dignity of all human beings and stands united against bigotry or hate of any kind on our campuses,” said Board of Trustees Chairman William C. Department of Education’s (ED) Office for Civil Rights. Thompson Jr. Thompson Jr.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2023

You would still have access to all of the traditional news sites and streaming services that are based around old fashioned notions like editors and actually paying people for the content they produce for you. But what would the impact be on the average internet user? It might not actually be so bad.

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MARCH 24, 2024

In his speech titled, "From Mirage to Oasis: The Role of Higher Education in Advancing Opportunity for All," Baston noted that food and housing insecurity and access to the internet, are among the litany of challenges that continue to serve as barriers to student success. Dr. Michael A.

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JULY 5, 2023

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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JULY 31, 2023

And a second “welcome center” in Quincy, Massachusetts – in the Cove Fine Arts Center on Eastern Nazarene's campus – will be a place to access state shelter and services, the Healey administration said. The center – run by Bay State Community Service and the Executive Office of Health and Human Services – will be open 8 a.m.-8

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FEBRUARY 27, 2023

I am very much looking forward to working with the faculty, staff, and students to promote equal access to education, and to continue building a human resources department that works in partnership to those we serve,” Whittaker said. Whittaker holds a B.A. from Howard University and a J.D. from Hofstra University School of Law.

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OCTOBER 20, 2022

Jee Hang Lee For this FY 2022 Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Employment & Training (E&T) National Partnership Grant , Seattle Jobs Initiative (SJI) and American Public Human Services Association (APHSA) will assist as partners. Jee Hang Lee.

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DECEMBER 12, 2022

No matter where a student is in their educational journey, when their institution closes for the holidays, some will lose access to the mental health supports and resources they could previously count on. D-L Stewart, professor and chair of the higher education department at the University of Denver.

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JANUARY 18, 2024

Has support declined as more women and people of color gained access to college? Treat the public like the humans that comprise it, acting like educators partnering with students to learn, and we will elicit a more productive response. Definitely. Has the perceived value of higher education diminished as the price went up?

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

What the exhibition and symposium will do — and what we do in the Mass Incarceration Lab — is humanize this phenomenon. Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve, an associate professor of sociology professor at Brown.

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JUNE 13, 2024

Education is a human right regardless of one’s background, and access and support should be readily available to those in need. For example, we have developed an integrated framework to decrease student debt and increase access to outside scholarships. Dr. Montserrat Fuentes is president of St.

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APRIL 10, 2024

“Certificates are a new frontier to help us promote degree completion at the bachelor’s level, and we can think about what this looks like post bachelor's degree for a master’s degree,” said Sasso, adding that more programs in humanities can consider using certificates to encourage persistence and retention.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

When ChatGPT, the large language model (LLM) AI that can generate long, detailed answers to complicated questions, was first made accessible to the public in November 2022, it changed the landscape of education forever. “As Many faculty have found ways to mix AI with human-driven writing solutions, marrying the two skills.

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MARCH 12, 2023

Computer access is really atrocious,” said Appleman. Inmates were not allowed to access the computer lab on days when they had class, even if class ended early or was cancelled. I think that there is a national wave of humanity and mercy and [a] rethinking [of] the incarcerated and the fact that they are human beings.”

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