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17-Year-Old Girl Gets Accepted to All Eight Ivy League Schools
While many 17-year-olds are deciding which Snapchat filter to use, Augusta Uwamanzu-Nna has an even more difficult decision to make: Which Ivy League school should she attend? After all, she got accepted to all eight, plus MIT and NYU. The high-school senior, who is the daughter of Nigerian immigrants, says that it was her parents […]
April 5, 2016
Students
Engaging Latino Students for Transfer and Completion
Both community colleges and bachelor’s degree-granting institutions across the country are responding to a chorus of calls for dramatic improvements in student success and college completion.
April 5, 2016
Students
Engaging Latino Students for Transfer and Completion
Both community colleges and bachelor’s degree-granting institutions across the country are responding to a chorus of calls for dramatic improvements in student success and college completion.
April 5, 2016
Students
Duke Students Persist in Demands for Asian American Studies Major
For several months, determined groups of Duke University students have called for the establishment of an Asian American studies major in the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences.
April 4, 2016
Students
Initiative Aims to Eliminate Gaps Between Rich and Poor Students
Leaders from a group of public urban universities recently launched a new collaborative initiative to improve completion rates and eliminate the gaps between rich and poor students.
April 3, 2016
Students
Responding to Trump Microaggressions
There is no reason for students to be mocked due to trigger responses from “Trump” graffiti.
April 3, 2016
Students
Expert: Higher Ed Needs to Embrace Assessments of Student Learning
Colleges and universities should embrace assessments of student learning in order to prove their worth as college costs rise and the job market remains tough.
March 31, 2016
Students
March Madness: The Rest of the Story
March harkens the smell of roses, cut grass and light spring rains for most folks. For me, March ushers in the smell and shine of hardwoods, leather and tennis shoes—and sheer Madness.
March 31, 2016
Students
Harvard Taking More Steps to Acknowledge its Ties to Slavery
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. ― Harvard’s president says the Ivy league university will do more to acknowledge its ties to slavery. University President Drew Faust announced Wednesday in an op-ed in the student newspaper that the nearly 400-year-old institution will install a plaque next month at the former home for college presidents to recognize the slaves who […]
March 31, 2016
Students
I Went From Borderline Homeless to College-Bound
My academic achievements, my athletic achievements, problems I’ve solved that make me look like the premier candidate — these are all things I could talk about in this essay. But I think the most important thing I need to share is my background. My background is what has shaped me. Once you’ve understood what I’ve […]
March 31, 2016
Students
More Students Seeing the World Without Getting Credits
A survey found that roughly half of the 227 institutions responding reported an increase in the number of students who participated in non-credit education abroad for the 2012-13 academic year over the previous year.
March 30, 2016
Students
UVA Student Group Supporting Undocumented Students Finds Its Footing
A new student group at the University of Virginia—DREAMers on Grounds—is working to create a support network for students who are either undocumented or who have received DACA benefits.
March 30, 2016
Students
Pitt Settles Locker Room Case with Transgender Student
JOHNSTOWN, Pa. ― The University of Pittsburgh has settled a lawsuit brought by a transgender student who said he was wrongfully expelled from its Johnstown campus after a dispute over his use of a men’s locker room. Television station WJAC first reported the settlement Wednesday between the university and Seamus Johnston. Settlement terms haven’t been […]
March 30, 2016
Students
Lawmakers Fight Over Free Tuition for National Guardsmen
AUGUSTA, Maine ― The Maine House is divided along party lines over how to fund a program that gives National Guard soldiers and airmen free tuition in the state’s higher education system. Republicans say the University of Maine System and the Maine Community College System can pay for their tuition out of the agency’s existing […]
March 30, 2016
Students
Chicago State Backs Off Request that Employees Turn in Keys
CHICAGO ― Chicago State University backtracked Wednesday from a plan to collect keys from faculty and staff members, instead announcing that it would take an inventory of keys that might have to be collected should layoffs be necessary amid the state’s financial crisis. Administrator Aleshia Renee Terry had asked deans on Monday to begin collecting […]
March 30, 2016
Students
Minority Scholars to be Among Those Honored by AERA
Several minority scholars will be among those recognized next week when the largest gathering of educational researchers assemble in the nation’s capital for the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association.
March 29, 2016
Students
Group Calls Remedial Education ‘Bridge to Nowhere’
Complete College America, dedicated to improving graduation rates nationally, has dubbed remedial education a “bridge to nowhere” because the majority of students who begin remedial education never make it to credit-bearing courses.
March 29, 2016
Students
HBCUs One Answer to Selective Public High Schools’ ‘Diversity Problem’
Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have a longstanding commitment to social justice issues—such as educational equity and opportunity.
March 28, 2016
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