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Next up at #prsache Senior Summit, we hear from Dr. Cynthia Warwick, president of @StillmanCollege and
@SeanLHuddleston, president of @MartinU1977, as Ashley Northington from @RWJonesAgency guides the conversation. @prsache @PRSA – at Washington, DC
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COVID-19 or not, current students are about as likely to have considered withdrawing in late 2021. Read Gallup and @LuminaFound’s The State of Higher Education 2022 Report to learn more: on.gallup.com/3rH43oK
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Excited to share this pub about culturally affirming practices at #HBCUs, co-authored w/ @DrSDMobleyJr & #Ed_PERC assoc. @EricaTCampbell & @JowersWB. We hope that this study conveys #HBCUs' value to #highered & we stand in solidarity w/ them during recent attacks. #ScholarGrind
In honor of #BlackHistoryMonth, this week the @EdPolicyEquity #D9 #HBCUResearchCollab is featuring a recent pub about #HBCUs, Meeting at the Margins. The full text is available below, or follow #EdPERC for highlights. @UGA_IHE @universityofga #highered
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi @SpeakerPelosi will receive an honorary degree—and offer a Presidential Colloquium as part of Smith’s Year on Democracies—at 8 p.m. tonight! Tune in to the livestream on the college's Facebook page. smithcollege.me/Presidential…
ALT Smith College Presidential Colloquium Series, Year on Democracies, 2021-22, Nancy Pelosi with a photo of Pelosi smiling
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When the police are starting to lose the approval of Pat Robertson, you know things are bad.
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New @IthakaSR report coming from @MakalaSkinner + @nkbetancourt + me next week: The Disproportionate Impact of the Pandemic on Women and Caregivers in Academia, documenting perspectives from thousands of faculty on the impact of COVID-19 on research and teaching
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Today, we joined nearly 1,200 organizations, including nearly 900 colleges and universities, in calling on Congress to bring an affordable, high-quality college education within reach for all students by doubling the maximum Pell Grant. #DoublePell
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There's a lack of good leadership in the world today. We've created a culture in which leadership is focused on maximizing profits, regardless of the human cost.
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OUT TODAY: New guidebook released by @IHEPTweets, w/ support from @Kresgefdn and @LuminaFound, highlights how equity-centered #ReverseTransfer models in two communities ensure that students most in need of support are #ReclaimingEarnedDegrees.
Read More: ihep.org/research/publicatio…
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Give @mintamolly a follow. She'll be covering higher education for us at @MSTODAYnews and I am SO HYPE about it.
We're excited to welcome @mintamolly to our team of local reporters. She'll be covering higher ed for @MSTODAYnews starting Tuesday. Read more about Molly in this week's newsletter: opencampusmedia.org/2021/01/…
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This is some of the data that @JoeBiden just referenced. It is published regularly — but not mentioned often enough.
The #HouseholdPulseSurvey estimates that 13.7% of American adults lived in households where there was either sometimes or often not enough to eat in the previous 7 days based on responses collected Dec. 9-21. #Census #food_scarcity #COVID19
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Mellon Foundation gives $72 million in grants for humanities-focused projects addressing issues of racial justice bit.ly/35FHUMC
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Recent #highered survey shows that awareness of open educational resources as an affordable way to give students access to class materials is growing among #college faculty. Professors who know of #OER initiatives are much more likely to be adopters:
insidehighered.com/news/2020…
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This is a big one.
BREAKING: Hopkins will be online-only for the fall semester. Students are encouraged to stay home, and University housing will be offered only to students with demonstrated hardship. This is a developing story. Article to come soon.
covidinfo.jhu.edu/informatio…
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Bill Gates will devote all of his philanthropic resources to taking on Covid-19 trib.al/moLoZ3f
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This program is all about teaching parents strategies to be effective reading coaches with their kids at home. That way, it isn't all on the teacher in a limited 6-hour school day. @anya1anya ow.ly/ElGY50zipIR
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Why are universities w/ multi-billion $$ endowments announcing wage cuts/freezes, hiring freezes, letting “non-essential” workers go, etc.? This article, shared by many folks already, goes a long way towards explaining things: bit.ly/2X8x8L3
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A new report from @Research4Action looks at how three of @LuminaFound's Talent, Innovation, and Equity (TIE) states worked to close racial equity gaps in higher education attainment. #HigherEd
researchforaction.org/projec…
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Ithaka S+R US Library Survey 2019 | Ithaka S+R. The results of the important academic library dean/director survey. sr.ithaka.org/publications/i…