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OCTOBER 17, 2022

One college admissions officer at a large public university described how test-optional admissions had spurred more disagreements in his office. Admissions officers at selective colleges were also “overwhelmed” by the volume of applicants that test-optional policies had unleashed. Some have since restored them, but many haven’t.

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JANUARY 26, 2021

18, I posted in two Facebook groups devoted to college pedagogy. Did anyone get institutional money for any items?”. Instructors from all types of institutions and in both non-tenure track and tenure-stream/tenured positions commented. Additional expenses not calculated include new anxiety medicines and medical visits.

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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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Edsurge

JANUARY 29, 2020

For almost a decade, Mary Marcy has been president of Dominican University of California, a liberal arts college outside of San Francisco. What began 130 years ago as a religious school for women now serves about 1,750 co-ed students, many of them first-generation. We've heard about all of the challenges small colleges are facing.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2020

It was one of the first major institutions of higher education to say that courses could be virtual to start the semester, depending on updates from health officials about in-person classes. Indiana’s Ivy Tech community college, for example, already had half of its nearly 70,000 undergraduates taking some courses online.

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Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2020

With campuses closed around the world, aspiring college students may well depend on digital tools to decide where to attend. News & World Report’s school rankings or nonprofit GreatSchools’ directory. Skurman’s company originally focused on college ratings under the name College Prowler. Radian Capital led the round.

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Edsurge

JULY 22, 2019

Institutions like Southern New Hampshire University, Western Governors University, Liberty University, Grand Canyon University and Arizona State University are aiming to reshape higher education through massive investments in technology, new approaches to teaching and credentialing, and an appetite for growth.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

NEW YORK — When planning an election-year trip to the Southwest border for our undergraduate political reporting class last spring, we imagined reprising an award-winning reporting journey we took to a rural swing district in Maine during the 2018 midterms. We could neither travel nor meet in person. Still, we were taking a risk.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 1, 2023

With book bans all over the news, intellectual freedom is under attack, with a specific focus on materials and programs related to or representative of marginalized communities. Oltmann’s work has been funded by the American Library Association and the Institute of Museum & Library Services. In this Library 2.0

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2018

Sweet Briar College in Virginia. The liberal arts college was saved from closing only by the intervention of alumni and others. Colleges are shedding liberal arts programs and faculty. Small liberal arts colleges are closing. Photo: Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post via Getty Images.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 13, 2023

This story also appeared in The Washington Post So, Amrita Bhagia, a second-year medical student from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, caught that flight to Boston to attend a weekend workshop hosted by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. This is a fantastic institution and I want to serve this community.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2021

We imagine that some of you, especially teachers and school administrators, have encountered narratives about how COVID-19 has devastated learning and created new anxieties for students. News headlines dwell on the risks, challenges and deprivations experienced by students, crystallized in the ubiquitous phrase, “learning loss.”

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Grinnell College, halfway between Des Moines and Iowa City. Grinnell is among a small but growing number of colleges and universities that, increasingly judged on graduates’ placement rates and job satisfaction, are beginning to advise students about careers before their classes even start.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 5, 2023

With book bans all over the news, intellectual freedom is under attack, with a specific focus on materials and programs related to or representative of marginalized communities. Oltmann’s work has been funded by the American Library Association and the Institute of Museum & Library Services. In this Library 2.0

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2019

NEW ORLEANS —“Diversity” was top of mind when Angel Carter was applying to schools. Raised in an African-American enclave in Atlanta, she said, “I would have loved to go to an HBCU,” the acronym for historically black colleges and universities. Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. Chris Graythen/Getty Images.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2018

I started to work side jobs in college to earn extra money; now all I have are side hustles,” said 31-year-old ride share driver Andrea as she whisked me to the Chicago O’Hare airport. Andrea estimated she has worked at least 10 to 12 jobs since graduating from college six years ago. She lacked mentors in high school and college.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

million acres sprawling across parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah. He lives in a trailer next to his two grandmothers and earns grades good enough for a four-year college. Yet on the morning of the SAT college admissions exam, Nachae drives to the testing site from his home near Chinle, Arizona, looks around – and drives away. “I

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 6, 2020

Here are the sessions that have been scheduled so far : Teaching Visual Literacy Through Fake News with Dr. Lesley S. Farmer, Professor of Library Media || Interested to learn new ways to communicate, collaborate, and connect? The 2020 Learning Revolution daily online conference starts today!

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APRIL 23, 2019

Like many other institutions, the university has expanded its graduate enrollment. As the number of undergraduates steadily declines in seeming direct proportion to rising costs, debt and the many other obstacles faced by college students, graduate enrollment is quietly on the upswing. Thomas University School of Law.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

ATLANTA — When Keenan Robinson started college in 2017, he knew the career he wanted. His parents had never finished college, and they always encouraged Robinson and his two older siblings to earn degrees. This podcast about colleges using predictive analytics is produced by APM Reports.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Liberal-arts colleges remain under pressure to reduce the cost of attendance while maintaining a commitment to academic excellence. The Teagle grant supported course-sharing and online module development at more than 35 institutions and organizations, and engaged more than 180 faculty and staff between 2014 and 2017. Weekly Update.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2020

It’s common for graduates to earn high-skills credentials from community colleges or enroll in the state’s public universities. Members of previous classes have also been accepted to prestigious out-of-state institutions, like Howard University and the nation’s military academies. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Commodore, who is black, couldn’t help but wonder whether race played a part as she was rejected from one college teaching job after another. And even those minorities completing their doctorates aren’t getting hired by some top colleges and universities as easily as their white counterparts. But only seven of those hires, or 1.3

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Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2018

From among hundreds of nominations, the award team gave the Learning Science Research prize to Arthur Graesser, Professor in the Department of Psychology and the Institute of Intelligent Systems at the University of Memphis. Most college classrooms had almost 40 percent of women in their CS classes. Oh, there are so many!

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2023

A new wave of college closures is expected to begin this year. . The colleges won’t be closing solely because of Covid, although it did flip the entire universe of higher education on its head. Students are often victims, too, in that many of them give up their studies or are unable to find a new path to earning a degree.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 19, 2020

Montana Department of Revenue overturned a Montana Supreme Court ruling that prohibited using funds from an education tax credit program to attend a religious school. They, in turn, award scholarships that students can use to attend the public, private or religious schools of their choice. The Court’s June 2020 decision in Espinoza v.

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MARCH 28, 2023

I entered college in 1989 with an interest in human rights advocacy, planning to be a lawyer. Before long, I immersed myself in literature, philosophy, religious studies and creative writing classes. If that sounds impossible, it may be time to step away from traditional higher education and into the spring breeze of new possibilities.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2016

In 1978, just a few years before Helgeson’s birth, the American Indian Religious Freedom Act became law, finally affirming the right of country’s indigenous people to access sacred sites, worship in traditional ceremonies and use materials they consider sacred artifacts, like eagle bones, that are restricted to non-Indians.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2019

That’s why instead of pedagogy, we talked about the constant cycle of violence at religious sites and educational institutions in the United States. Ultimately, teachers can help students get to the point where they see similarities, rather than differences, among religious beliefs, too.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2020

Missouri has pulled more than $70 million from its public colleges and universities. New Jersey has frozen spending on them. Related: Desperate for students, colleges resort to previously banned recruiting tactics. If the 2008 recession is a guide, public universities and colleges are in for even bigger blows than these.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Chestnut Hill College director of student success Kim Cooney meets with senior Erin Crowley. Cooney changed her major at the end of her junior year in college, adding an extra semester to the time it took to graduate. Related: One state uses data about job needs to help decide what colleges should teach.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2019

It was a bittersweet moment for Casey and Dean Jorgensen, Courtney’s parents, who live two hours away from the college, in Grantsville, Utah. They’d always hoped that their daughter might be able to attend college, but a college education was never a guarantee. I’m probably going to cry all the way home,” said Casey. “I’m

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NOVEMBER 10, 2018

Residential campuses that serve foster youth are a mix of large for-profit and nonprofit providers, religiously affiliated organizations and smaller groups, like this one, run by Pathways Adolescent Center, in Oil City, Pennsylvania. Photo: Caroline Preston for The Hechinger Report/HuffPost. PHILADELPHIA and GREENVILLE, Pa.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Rinata Williams was an “extraordinary” student, who always wanted to go to college. She dreamed of attending a historically black school out of state, maybe Spelman College or Clark Atlanta University.1 Lake Pontchartrain glistened as Rinata Williams rode north from New Orleans. illiams had always wanted to go to college.

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JULY 1, 2022

The Court ruled that Maine’s exclusion of religious schools from a state tuition program was “discrimination against religion.” In light of the Carson decision, a state cannot single out and exclude religious options from a program in which other programs are allowed to participate. The tuitioning programs are not vouchers.

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MindShift

OCTOBER 25, 2019

This story about intellectual disabilities was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. It was a bittersweet moment for Casey and Dean Jorgensen, Courtney’s parents, who live two hours away from the college, in Grantsville, Utah.

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AUGUST 3, 2016

ORLANDO — In a convention hall echoing with words like “leads” and “starts” and “business” — all, in this case, meaning “students” — Vivek Zaveri is describing how he helps colleges and universities drum up customers. Related: Some religious colleges forgo federal funding, staying free of civil rights rules.

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