Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

About seven years ago, Columbia University welcomed its first HBCU Fellowship cohort, allowing students who had graduated from historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) to pursue select master’s degrees in the university’s School of Professional Studies (SPS), all the while getting financial, career, and academic support. Zelon Crawford The SPS’s HBCU Fellowship Program continues to progress as it has graduated more than 100 fellows in the span of its existence.

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Student Minds

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The Editorial Team have come together to share their thoughts on finding support at university. - Student Minds Blog Editorial Team ⭐ How could you reach out for support? ⭐ Taylor: Reaching out can seem the most daunting step, especially when you have to figure out how to put your feelings into words. But this can be made easier, with a solid and safe network of people you trust and can talk to when times are tough, or by knowing who you can reach out to professionally at your university.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

G. Preston Wilson Jr. G. Preston Wilson Jr. has been appointed director of the Fisk Jubilee Singers at Fisk University in Nashville. Wilson, a former member of the ensemble, holds a bachelor’s degree in music education from Fisk, a master’s in choral music education from Bowling Green State University in Ohio, and a Ph.D. in music education from the University of Missouri.

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College Aid Services

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Test ISIRs for the 24-25 FAFSA are now available to financial aid offices and software vendors along with open-source tools to help users integrate this new data into their operating systems. While this is a step in the right direction, institutions will not officially receive ISIR files until “the first half of March” as the… More » Department of Education Releases 24-25 Test ISIRs, Integration Tools The post Department of Education Releases 24-25 Test ISIRs, Integration Tools

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Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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HEAG

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

This time of year always makes us think about student loan exit counseling programs. Are they effective and, if not, how do we make them so? For starters, the timing of exit counseling is less than ideal. For enrolled students … Read more ».

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Purdue University Global

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Wednesday, February 14 was Valentine’s Day, and what better way to continue to celebrate love than to practice kindness? Tomorrow, February 17, is Random Acts of Kindness Day ! The Random Acts of Kindness Foundation (2024) invites us to “make kindness the norm” and take a minute or two to practice random acts of kindness at school, home, and work.

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