Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 10, 2024

Dr. Terri Gomez has been appointed provost and vice president for academic affairs at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Dr. Terri Gomez Gomez’s “deep understanding of our campus’ strengths and opportunities; her student-centered approach to leadership; her dedication to faculty and staff excellence; and her unwavering commitment to the success of our diverse students,” said President Dr.

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College Aid Services

JUNE 10, 2024

The Department will transmit ISIRs that were reprocessed because of issues related to blank SAI fields and records that do not have an assigned tracking group despite being selected for verification. In addition, institutions will also receive ISIRs to address an error within the FAFSA Processing System (FPS) that generated incorrect values for the Earned… More » FSA Will Deliver Reprocessed ISIRs to Address Blank SAI Fields, EIC Values, and Verification Flags The post FSA Will Deliver Rep

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 10, 2024

Reverend James Lawson Jr., an early architect of the nonviolent protests during the Civil Rights Movement, died on Monday. He was 95. Reverend James Lawson Jr. Lawson served for decades as a professor, labor movement organizer and university professor. In 2021, more than four decades after Vanderbilt University expelled Lawson for his involvement in the civil rights movement, the private, Nashville University decided to honor the civil rights stalwart with the creation of the James Lawson In

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CFAA College Financial Aid Advisors

JUNE 10, 2024

Sending your child off to college is a significant milestone, both for you and your student. As the first tuition payment looms, it’s essential to have open and honest conversations about various aspects of college life. These discussions can help set expectations, clarify responsibilities, and ensure a smooth transition into this new phase of life.

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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

JUNE 10, 2024

Molloy University has received a $3.5 million, five-year grant from the National Science Foundation’s Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP) Program. Dr. James Lentini “This partnership and collaboration for a grant among seven Catholic universities is unique, creative, and noteworthy,” said Dr. James Lentini, president of Molloy University, which is part of an alliance of seven member institutions from the Lower Hudson Valley Catholic Colleges and Universities Consortium comp

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College Aid Services

JUNE 10, 2024

Federal Student Aid has announced four new webinars to discuss a range of topics such as reporting FVT/GE Data to NSLDS, general federal updates, overviews of using FAFSA data, and where to find help sources online. Each session is scheduled from 1-2:30 p.m. Eastern time (ET) and participation will be first come, first-served basis since… More » FSA Announces Summer-Fall 2024 Webinar Series The post FSA Announces Summer-Fall 2024 Webinar Series first appeared on College Aid Services.

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Thrive Alliance Group

JUNE 10, 2024

Are schools really talking too much about mental health? It’s well established that mental health is a basic need that must be addressed before students can learn and achieve academically. Yet a couple of researchers in the UK and Australia have been promoting their opinion that schools are “talking too much” about mental health. They say it’s causing students to over-identify with mental health diagnoses and that doing nothing is better than doing something about youth mental health.

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