The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2020

Student Chris Provencher sharpening the edges of a ski in a rental shop where he works as part of Castleton University’s resort and hospitality management program, taught at the Killington ski area. “We Another university teaches fermentation at a brewery. Related: Subscribing to college and other visions of higher education’s future.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Were it not for the community college course in fire science that he took as an adult, Carter wouldn’t have had access to any education after the vocational track in which he was placed in high school, nor would he have been able to advance in his work. We are not made from whole cloth in college.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 18, 2022

This funding opportunity will allow K-12 schools and districts, colleges and universities, and public libraries to connect students to safe, reliable internet outside of the classroom. “At Neal, chairman, CEO and founder of Kajeet. An estimated 12 million students in the U.S. and Canada.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2017

million fewer college students in the United States than there were just six years ago, meaning institutions have to work much harder to fill seats. DELAWARE, Ohio — Behind the deceptive quiet of a small college campus in the summer, things are buzzing at Ohio Wesleyan University. There are 2.4

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PlagiarismCheck

DECEMBER 27, 2022

While some say that AI writing will kill college essays , others see it as a new perspective for students and higher ed. . ChatGPT ’s release stirred the internet community in general and educators in particular. Actually, the technology behind it, GPT-3 , isn’t brand new. Here’s how (by the way, we’ve been doing it for a while).

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2018

The Founder’s Library at Howard University in Washington, DC. It was probably around then that people started questioning the need for black colleges and universities. But Rising’s main contribution to history is how it properly situates the role that black colleges played in the civil rights movement.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Reinforcing established community connections helps colleges and universities grow enrollment via local students and offers those students and others invaluable connections with nearby employers once they complete their college degrees. Higher education institutions know the benefit of a strong pipeline.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

That’s why I am pursuing a bachelor’s degree in psychology at the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma. But in order for more Native youth like me to be able to access college, institutions of higher learning need to address their ignorance of the realities, histories and cultures of Native communities.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2019

colleges pride themselves on building global communities. Admissions officers travel the world to tout the diverse international perspectives on campus; college brochures enumerate the countries that students hail from. colleges shut out very large numbers of international applicants. colleges. . Top U.S.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2024

I was a 20-year-old college student with a bright future. When I returned to college, I had to adapt to these changes among others. When I explained this to one of my professors, his response was, “Well, you better get used to it, because that’s what college is — looking at screens.” In summer 2012, my life changed.

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Edsurge

MARCH 7, 2024

A few weeks ago, Ferris State University made a splashy announcement that it planned to enroll two chatbot “students” in its classes, calling it a novel way for colleges to test their curricula. In fact, the experiment at the Michigan public college could be said to mark a new generation in an area known as “ learning analytics.”

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2016

College and university enrollment fell during the semester just coming to an end, marking a fifth straight year of decline. The Topic: College and university enrollment. For-profit institutions saw a nearly 15 percent decline and community colleges 2.6

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

The comprehensive fee – tuition, fees, room and board – will approach $70,000 a year at a number of high sticker priced colleges and universities. Related: The looming decline of the public research university. America’s colleges and universities have a revenue problem. Most colleges are heavily tuition dependent.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Dozens of American colleges and universities are investigating their historic ties to the slave trade and debating how to atone. And in many southern states — including the University of Virginia — enslaved people built college campuses and served faculty and students. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

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Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2024

The value of college is something that people used to pretty much agree on. In 2013, a little over a decade ago, the number of young people who thought a college degree was very important was 74 percent, according to a Gallup poll. The idea that “college is a scam” has become something of a meme on social media platforms like YouTube.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

When Alicia Garcia first enrolled at College of the Desert, she felt lost. Her first semester grades at the California community college were not good, she says, and she didn’t know much about financial aid or academic advising. Boosting community college transfer rates is a perennial challenge in higher education.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 13, 2017

Clark Atlanta University students Destiny Rudolph, Delaina Mims, Charles Finch and Jewel Cannon meet on the steps of the Joseph W. Woodruff Library, which is shared among four Atlanta colleges and universities. Related: In-demand graduate programs become a cash cow for colleges in financial distress. Woodruff Library.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2017

The official federal graduation rates for colleges and universities that serve large numbers of black, Latino and Asian students significantly underestimate how many of their students are earning degrees, according to a new report. Graduation rates at minority-serving colleges. WHY IT MATTERS.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2024

People who read college applications are a lot like detectives. But even with the extensive applications that each student submits, the detectives (college application readers) have to do a lot of reading between the lines, said Tim Brunold, dean of admission at the University of Southern California.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2018

And the federal agency that oversees the law school and other for-profit colleges like it, the U.S. And the federal agency that oversees the law school and other for-profit colleges like it, the U.S. Related: Strapped for students, nonprofit colleges borrow recruiting tactic from for-profits. “My

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Company Industry Advocacy Report 69

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

During his yearslong quest for a bachelor’s degree, José Del Real Viramontes encountered trials at four different California community colleges. At his first college, right out of high school, the young man born in Zacatecas, Mexico, hoped to play for the football team. A friend filled out an application and submitted it for him.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2024

For now, the recent high school graduate is taking some education courses at the local community college. But to pursue a teaching degree at a public, comprehensive university, she’ll need to commute four hours roundtrip or leave the town she grew up in and loves. Until fairly recently, that decision made economic sense.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2024

The resulting uncertainty is striking hardest at the hearts of our first-generation and socioeconomically disadvantaged students – especially those with undocumented parents – for whom the prospect of college is not just a personal triumph, but often a generational milestone. We also applaud those private universities that have followed suit.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2024

When Kim Churches took on the job as head of The Washington Center, a nonprofit organization that provides college students with internships, she was on a mission. But traditional internships are not universally accessible. “At It was the fall of 2021. It’s a prized commodity.”

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eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2024

This includes a growth mindset and a sense of belonging to their school or college. This includes a growth mindset and a sense of belonging to their school or college. As a result, schools and colleges reduce their present and future expenses and help cultivate a more healthy, connected, and successful student population.

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Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2024

This fall, the first official cohort of 20 students will enroll at Outer Coast, an aspiring college whose campus is in the state’s southeast chain of islands, sometimes called the Alaskan Panhandle. It’s unusual to try to open a new college these days, in an era when it’s more likely for established colleges to shutter.

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Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2024

When some students hit an obstacle in school or college, they can take it as a sign that this whole education thing just isn’t for them. That can be true with challenges like glitches in the federal financial aid forms or a student registration system, says Greg Walton, a psychology professor at Stanford University.

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Classroom Policies Report Study 191

Edsurge

DECEMBER 22, 2023

This year has seen ample debate about the value and fairness of colleges prioritizing diversity among the students they serve. Greater levels of representation benefit students from all different backgrounds,” study co-author Nicholas Bowman, a professor of educational policy and leadership studies at the University of Iowa, told EdSurge.

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Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2024

With Gen Z now making up a substantial portion of today’s college students, their attitudes toward libraries have implications for higher education. The study’s authors, Kathi Inman Berens and Rachel Noorda of Portland State University, analyzed quantitative data from about 2,000 respondents, roughly divided between Gen Zers and Millennials.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2023

in it at Oxford University. Instead of paying money to support people to go to college, this program would pay people to forgo college and instead jump right into building an ambitious company or organization. Gibson had little experience in finance. His major had been philosophy, and he had nearly completed a Ph.D.

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2024

As Joshua Eyler was researching a book on what brain science tells us about how to improve teaching , one issue kept coming up as an underlying problem: The way schools and colleges grade student work is at odds with effective teaching. Because what I have noticed is that most of this conversation happens in distinct corners,” he says.

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System Policies Assessment Report 197

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

It had always been his plan, and he had no reason to doubt it: He’d earned a full scholarship to college and acceptance into a leadership program designed to attract and retain Black male teachers. This story also appeared in USA Today. There was just one problem. I decided I couldn’t keep doing that to myself.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2024

FAYETTEVILLE, Ohio — Ghosts populate the campus of Chatfield College. They’re in the fading photos on the library walls of students who, over 177 years, attended the college and the boarding school from which it sprang, and of the Ursuline nuns who taught them, in their simple tunics and scapulars. The college has closed permanently.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2017

It’s no secret that many of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious colleges and the universities along the eastern seaboard have historic ties to slavery. Now, a new movement is calling for colleges and universities to acknowledge and atone for their slaveholding pasts.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The study, published as a working paper this month, found that taking a high-quality computer science course in high school increased the chance that the student goes on to major in computer science in college by 10 percentage points, and increased the chance that the student would finish a CS degree program by 5 percentage points.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Aléshah Brown wasn’t yet in high school when she started having doubts about college. This story also appeared in The Washington Post “Even in middle school, you’re feeling all this pressure and stress about going to college, but no one’s asking you, ‘What do you want to do?’ ” said Brown, of San Antonio, Texas.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

College in the U.S. mainly comes in a few fixed shapes and sizes: the research university, the liberal arts college, the community college, the technical college. So what if there was a new model of university designed from scratch for 2022? There is nothing brand-new in the proposal.

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