Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2025

Education is the key to unlock the golden door to freedom. George Washington Carver People generally enroll in college with dreams of creating lives like the ones their parents provided, or better. Ambitious, and often anxious, students enter collegiate Alicia P. Peoples environments aspiring to find answers, solve problems and create systems to support themselves and others.

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Patter by Pat Thomson

JANUARY 5, 2025

Writing from the PhD isn’t always easy. You may finish the PhD full of enthusiasm for your topic and really want to get stuck into publishing. Or you may not. You may never want to see or hear of your PhD again. This happens. If you just cant bring yourself took at your text again, you need to be kind to yourself. Dont beat yourself up. You have to find a way to be OK with leaving it behind, ignore the haters and move on.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2025

A new report from United Educators reveals that enrollment concerns reclaimed the top spot as the most pressing risk facing colleges and universities in 2024, with 71% of institutions identifying it as a major challenge. This represents an increase from 67% in the previous year. The annual Top Risks Survey, which gathered responses from 194 colleges and universities between August and December 2024, showed a significant shift in institutional priorities.

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Steve Keating

JANUARY 5, 2025

Humans are emotional beings. Sometimes we are overly emotional and occasionally, not emotional enough. Sometimes we use emotions as an excuse for our behavior. Some emotions are more beneficial to us than others. And some, like feeling discouraged, can be downright harmful. It is completely normal for humans to get discouraged from time to time. Stuff happens, things dont go our way, and we begin to doubt ourselves.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2025

Marist College, the private school in Poughkeepsie, New York, has announced it will become Marist University effective later this month, marking a significant milestone in its nearly century-long history. The change comes after unanimous approval from the Board of Trustees and the New York State Board of Regents. President Dr. Kevin C. Weinman emphasized that the new designation better reflects Marist's evolution from a small regional college into a comprehensive global institution.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2025

The U.S. Department of Labor has announced a major investment of $65 million in community colleges across the country, aiming to expand access to high-quality Acting U.S. Secretary of Labor Julie Su workforce training in critical industries. The funding, distributed through the Strengthening Community Colleges Training Grants program, will support 18 colleges across 14 states.

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