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Experts Share Tips For the College Transition

Transitioning to college can be scary. Students often leave behind their familiar surroundings for new peers and places. They confront a whole new set of academic challenges and they don’t always know what to expect, especially underrepresented students. But there are things students, parents and universities can do to make the transition more smooth.

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Pitt Urban Education Forum Explores Disrupting School-to-Prison Pipeline

Using education and activism to disrupt the school-to-prison pipeline is an ongoing battle that is as fierce as ever, according to speakers at the 2019 Summer Educator Forum presented by the Center for Education at the University of Pittsburgh. During the three-day event in July, a record 450 students, teachers, administrators, scholars, activists and experts in education, criminal justice and restorative justice shared strategies in line with this year’s theme, “Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline: Re-Imagining Policies, Practices, and Politics in Education Systems.”

Howard Professor and Surgeon Promotes Minority Organ Donation

Since the early 1980s, when transplant surgeon Dr. Clive Callender began addressing the issues that kept African-Americans from being organ donors, he has seen the rate of organ donation increase significantly. In the recently published paper, “Expanding the journey of saving lives,” Callender and co-author Dr. Patrice V. Miles examined how the increase has been achieved and how other minority populations can use similar means to bring about increases.

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A Long, Tough Road from Foster Care to Ph.D. Studies

Cliches such as “the odds were against her” don’t come close to telling Tyleen Caffrey’s story. The “odds” included physical abuse as a child, placement with relatives and in foster care, back to an abusive home and back again to foster care. Today, the Kansas native is involved in academic research as a Ph.D. student in social work at Our Lady of the Lake University.

Sharp International Student Decline Costs US, Study Finds

There has been a steady decline in international students studying in the United States over the last few years, which has caused economic consequences, according to a report by NAFSA: Association of International Educators.

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Business Schools Want to Do More to End Poverty Globally

There’s a gap between the role business schools think they could play in alleviating global poverty and inequality versus the impact they’re actually making, according to a new study by the Association of MBAs and Business Graduates Association.

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University of Richmond Group Formed to Discuss Race, Social Issues

After the events of the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in 2017, members from the University of Richmond community formed a group to discuss race and racism.

Review Finds Promise in ACUE Course on Faculty Teaching

While professors spend years learning how to do their research, they’re rarely taught how to teach. But an independent review recently found promising results from a course in teaching practices for faculty, offered by the Association of College and University Educators.

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Colleges Vie for Resources to Address STEM Disparities

In an era of scarce resources, colleges and universities are increasingly turning to big donors to fund efforts focused squarely on closing achievement gaps in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields. For more than a decade, institutions have tried — without much success — to address the ongoing disparity. Still, that has not kept them from making new efforts.

HACU Presidential Leadership Academy Announces Inaugural Fellows

The Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities has announced 24 new fellows, the first cohort in its Inaugural Presidential Leadership Academy, La Academia de Liderazgo. The goal of the fellowship is to prepare emerging Hispanic leaders in higher education for roles as presidents and chancellors, especially at Hispanic serving institutions.

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Diversity Low in Higher Education IT Field, Study Finds

New research by the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR) reveals a need for diversity, equity and inclusion within the higher education information technology field.

A New Pilot Program Makes Tutoring Accessible to Non-Traditional Students

For non-traditional students, tutors can be hard to find at the times they’re needed most. Students juggle homework between work shifts and kids’ daycare schedules. They do reading over lunch breaks and on subways. They’re often working late at night when tutoring centers are closed.

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