Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Dr. Ruha Benjamin, a transdisciplinary scholar at Princeton University, and Dr. Jericho Brown, a poetry professor at Emory University, are among the academicians who were awarded a “genius grant” by The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation earlier this week. Dr. Jericho Brown The 22 fellows will each receive a grant of $800,000 over five years to spend however they want.

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Active Minds

OCTOBER 2, 2024

From the students (officers): Aliyah Chapman, Liz Kowlski, Rylee McTernan, Morin Yacoub, and Maren Bowmen After losing our friend Ava to suicide, we didn’t know what to do. We lost her at the end of the 2023 school year and it was a hard summer trying to make sense of everything. We thought about the “new normal” we would face as we navigated the next school year without her.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 2, 2024

The underrepresentation of Black and Latinx physicians has profound implications for our communities and the medical profession itself, as it perpetuates health disparities and limits the perspectives that shape patient care. The journey from aspiration to achievement for many aspiring doctors is fraught with obstacles, leading to a punctured pipeline that often fails to nurture talent from diverse backgrounds.To mend this pipeline, we must first confront the barriers faced by these communities

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College Aid Services

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Registration for the 2024 Virtual Federal Student Aid Training Conference for Financial Aid Professionals has officially opened! Participants can register through the Training Conference Home page on FSA Partner Connect and clicking ‘Registration.’ FSA recommends that users register online with Google Chrome because the website does not support Internet Explorer or Firefox at this time;… More » Registration Opens for the 2024 Virtual Federal Student Aid Training Conference The

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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

OCTOBER 2, 2024

NASA has awarded the University of Houston $1.2 million to grow diversity initiatives in STEM and aerospace-related engineering fields and address barriers to access and success for historically underserved and underrepresented students. "Partnership for Inclusivity in Engineering Education and Research for Space" also known as PIE 2 RS, is a collaboration between UH, UH – Clear Lake, NASA’s Johnson Space Center, the Boeing Company and the Greater Houston Partnership.

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Counselors' Corner

OCTOBER 2, 2024

by Patrick O'Connor, Ph.D. He was the best combination of head and heart, the kind of student who wanted to change the world, who knew that doing so would take more than just hoping it would happen. That’s why he went to see the director of our summer studies program one spring, having done his homework. “I was reading an article the other day that said something like 85 percent of all students living in urban areas don’t know how to swim” he told the director.

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HEAG

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Navigating college is challenging for any student, but for those experiencing homelessness, the road is far more daunting. In fact, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development estimates that around 56,000 students in higher education experience homelessness annually. This … Read more ».

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Dr. Ansley Booker has been named the inaugural Penny and Jim Coulter 1982 Executive Director of Dartmouth NEXT, a university-wide initiative at Dartmouth College aimed at expanding opportunities for students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Dr. Ansley Booker Dartmouth NEXT was launched with a historic $100 million goal to diversify the STEM pipeline by creating opportunities for students to pursue careers in the sciences.

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