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Canada treats its adjunct professors better than the U.S. does – and it pays off for students 

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That information is based on a survey distributed to adjuncts who are AFT members and, through social media, to adjuncts who are not members of the union; 1,043 responded. Fewer than half of adjuncts say they’ve received the training they need to help students in crisis, the AFT survey found.

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What researchers learned about online higher education during the pandemic

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There were 236 papers presented with the word “online” in their titles at this year’s meeting of the American Educational Research Association, compared to 158 the year before the pandemic — a nearly 50 percent increase. a university administrator enthused in a survey, referring to a type of scholarship that examines an activity in progress.

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OPINION: The low-cost steps the government could take right now to ease hunger and homelessness on college campuses

The Hechinger Report

Prior to Covid-19, Temple University’s Hope Center for College, Community and Justice, surveying nearly 167,000 students at 227 institutions, found 39 percent of participants had been food insecure in the previous 30 days, and the numbers are now worse.

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Looking to Eliminate Dropouts? How Idaho Reached English Language Learners with a ‘Hybrid’ Course Experiment

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In hybrid courses, IDLA teachers and students meet on a weekly basis in real-time (synchronously), in addition to the asynchronous nature of online content and assessments, which students can tackle on their own time, at their own piece. But don’t take solely our word for it—hear how the students responded.

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While focus is on fall, students? choices about college will have a far longer impact

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Now, just as happened in the last recession, it is likely to take them even longer and cost more, while — after years of hard-won progress — dropout rates rise and graduation rates fall. In-person events like this have proven to reduce dropout rates for first-year students, but some may be canceled this year because of the pandemic.

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PROOF POINTS: COVID has been bad for college enrollment — but awful for community college students

The Hechinger Report

When the coronavirus hit in the spring of 2020, student surveys indicated that four-year colleges would be hit the hardest this fall, with many students turning to cheaper two-year community colleges until the pandemic ended. Those surveys didn’t get it exactly right.

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A battle at one university is a case study in why higher education is so slow to change

The Hechinger Report

I actually lower my standards,” John Hunt, who teaches history, told Tuminez at a contentious meeting of the faculty senate she attended in October, a video of the meeting shows. As for graduation rates that weren’t increasing, and dropout rates that didn’t decline, she said, “you have to ask why.”. I do it myself.