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29Apr By EditorNo Comments
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OPINION: We need more teachers of color. Getting there requires ambitious equitable solutions

OPINION: We need more teachers of color. Getting there requires ambitious equitable solutionsWhen Marie Lewis applied to the Nashville Teacher Residency (NTR), she was earning $18,000 per year as a paraprofessional, supporting students with special needs, one-on-one or in small groups. To make ends meet, she also worked over the summers and during school breaks at a child care center, earning $10.25 per hour.  A single Black mother of two, Marie loved children and knew she wanted to be a teacher, but couldn’t afford to pay for a licensure program, which can cost $30,000 or more at local universities for a degree and license.  Lewis loved the work and the difference she felt she could make in children’s lives, but the way things were going, neither her dreams nor her potential were going to...
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The Pursuit of Education: A Story of Homelessness, Perseverance, and the Impact of Caring Educators
29Apr By EditorNo Comments
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The Pursuit of Education: A Story of Homelessness, Perseverance, and the Impact of Caring Educators

The Pursuit of Education: A Story of Homelessness, Perseverance, and the Impact of Caring Educators By: Jahnee S. I was 8 years old when I first experienced homelessness. Homelessness then became a struggle that my family and I couldn’t escape. I experienced standing in the snow, hoping my family and I had a place to sleep on a church floor; how packed and unsanitary emergency shelters are, as I got lice within two days of staying there; how “The Florida Project” brought me flashbacks to the many months my family lived in motels, and how I viewed peers with “the basic necessities” with such envy. Constantly moving and being disappointed led me to become extremely detached and avoid relationships of any kind out of fear of abandonment. Eight years later, at 16 years old, I was still experie...
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Why a new higher education review is a waste of time
29Apr By EditorNo Comments
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Why a new higher education review is a waste of time

Why a new higher education review is a waste of timeINDIA In the first 100 days of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s second administration, the government has launched yet another rethink of higher education policies and priorities through the draft National Education Policy (NEP) and the Education Quality Upgradation and Inclusion Programme (EQUIP).This is the latest, and seemingly one of the most elaborate, of an endless series of official reports and programmes aimed at improving higher education in the post-independence period.These documents – the first of which was the Radhakrishnan Commission of 1949, continuing with the national education policies of 1968 and 1986, the Yashpal Committee of 2009, the National Knowledge Commission in 2007, and most recently the draft NEP of 20...
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Student Demand:   The Critical Metric for Program Investment Decisions
29Apr By EditorNo Comments
College Rankings

Student Demand:   The Critical Metric for Program Investment Decisions

Student Demand:   The Critical Metric for Program Investment Decisions In the face of financial shortfalls, many schools make a fundamental error:  they focus on employment data to find new programs or current programs to grow.  Unfortunately, there is a very limited relationship between employer needs and program margins.    Focus on Student Demand to Increase Margins If you need to grow and increase margins, focus on student demand–it is students who fill seats and pay tuition.  Our analysis, illustrated below, shows that student demand is four times better than employment in predicting potential margins for current or new programs. Let’s look at the data behind these claims, which was drawn from actual program markets and margins.  Gray ran analytics to see which market factors bes...
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Why learning isn’t the most important thing kids lost during the pandemic
29Apr By EditorNo Comments
College Planning

Why learning isn’t the most important thing kids lost during the pandemic

Why learning isn’t the most important thing kids lost during the pandemicThe last 12 months have been a furious, unrelenting assault on the senses. In March 2020, in what seemed like the blink of an eye, the in-person school year was first suspended, and then abruptly canceled. Many children from historically marginalized communities simply failed to appear online, their absence pointing to enduring, systemic inequities in our school systems. Only a few months later, as our collective sense of dislocation grew increasingly taut and unbearable, George Floyd was killed in Minnesota, setting off months of some of the largest protests in U.S. history. Published at Fri, 23 Apr 2021 18:55:03 +0000 Article source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2021/04/23/why-learning-isnt-most-imp...
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The College Applicant Resume
28Apr By EditorNo Comments
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The College Applicant Resume

The College Applicant ResumeWhat Does a College Applicant Need to Include in Their Resume? If you think resumes are only for job applications, it’s time to think again. A resume is an ideal medium to clearly and concisely present what you’ve accomplished throughout your high school career. Consequently, many students choose to include a resume when applying to college or when requesting letters of recommendation from teachers and counselors. Creating and maintaining a resume is an excellent college prep task, but applicants may be unclear about what they should include in this important document. Keep reading for our top tips for creating a resume that will help you stand out during the college admissions process. Spotlight Extracurricular Activities  Your resume is an ideal format for hi...
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Does It Hurt Children to Measure Pandemic Learning Loss?
28Apr By EditorNo Comments
Graduate Admissions

Does It Hurt Children to Measure Pandemic Learning Loss?

Does It Hurt Children to Measure Pandemic Learning Loss? Over the past year, Deprece Bonilla, a mother of five in Oakland, Calif., has gotten creative about helping her children thrive in a world largely mediated by screens. She signed them up for online phonics tutoring and virtual martial arts lessons. If they are distracted inside the family’s duplex, she grabs snacks and goes with the children into the car, saying they cannot come out until their homework is done. She has sometimes spent three hours per day assisting with school assignments, even as she works from home for a local nonprofit organization. It all sometimes feels like too much to bear. Still, when her fifth-grade son’s public-school teacher told her he was years behind in reading, she was in disbelief. “That was very off...
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Quality doctoral programmes are vital for development
28Apr By EditorNo Comments
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Quality doctoral programmes are vital for development

Quality doctoral programmes are vital for developmentGHANA Ghana’s National Accreditation Board was established in 1993 by the government of Ghana for four primary purposes.One is giving official quality approval to both public and private tertiary education institutions in terms of curricula content and standards of academic programmes.Two, it constantly monitors tertiary education institutions to ensure compliance with normative standards and ethics of organisation, governance, academic and administrative leadership.Three, it ensures that education institutions satisfy appropriate standards in physical facilities such as classrooms, laboratories, academic and professional staffing.Four, it determines the equivalence of degrees, diplomas and certificates awarded by institutions inside ...
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Supporting First-Generation and Low-Income Students Beyond the College Acceptance Letter
28Apr By EditorNo Comments
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Supporting First-Generation and Low-Income Students Beyond the College Acceptance Letter

Supporting First-Generation and Low-Income Students Beyond the College Acceptance Letter Over the past year, the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated that pursuing a college education is not just about getting accepted and enrolling in a college. First-generation and low-income college students were burdened with the struggle to pay expensive college fees for a virtual education while being separated from on-campus resources and in-person support from students and faculty. For first-generation and low-income college students, being accepted into a college is a major accomplishment that opens the door to numerous possibilities, such as having higher average salaries and healthier lifestyles. However, there needs to be more support for first-generation and low-income students throughout college, n...
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Higher Education:  Are You Ready for the Economic Boom?
28Apr By EditorNo Comments
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Higher Education:  Are You Ready for the Economic Boom?

Higher Education:  Are You Ready for the Economic Boom?   We have a great deal to be optimistic about in higher education.  For one, most state budgets didn’t fall much and the federal government just gave them billion dollar booster shots.  The U.S. economy is poised for a boom, led by federal spending and pent-up consumer demand.   Optimistic Outlook for Higher Education   Neil Irwin of the New York Times inspired this optimism with his article “17 Reasons to Let the Economic Optimism Begin.”  He describes past recessions that gave us every right to be skittish about recoveries. “… a mild recession was followed by a weak recovery followed by a financial crisis followed by another weak recovery followed by a pandemic-induced collapse…an economy in which a persistently weak job market has...
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28Apr By EditorNo Comments
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The Invisible Minority in STEM

The Invisible Minority in STEM Graduate school is never easy, but as I neared the end of my first year, my Ph.D. training was about to get much harder. It wasn’t that the classes or research were any different. I had simply come to recognize the truth about myself: I was nonbinary, a gender identity sometimes falling under the transgender umbrella. Excited to finally express my true self, I came out to my colleagues and began to pursue my transition. Here I will share some lessons from my own experience as a transgender STEM Ph.D. student in an effort to show other transgender and gender-nonconforming students that they are not alone, as well as to demonstrate ways in which school administrators, faculty and mentors can be better allies and promote the success of transgender students. One ...
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28Apr By EditorNo Comments
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Ultimate Guide to College Grants and Scholarships for Minorities

Ultimate Guide to College Grants and Scholarships for MinoritiesScholarships and grants are a valuable tool for students who need funds to pay for college. These programs typically have criteria that consider your background and interests. One major category of gift awards is minority scholarships and grants. Minorities are groups that have historically faced societal disadvantages or challenges due to factors including: ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, and disability. Students whose backgrounds qualify them for these awards can access financial assistance that they don’t need to pay back. Like all scholarships, minority scholarships will usually have additional merit or need based criteria for selection. Minority scholarships are offered by colleges, private organizations ...
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Envisioning Alternative Course and Program Portfolios
28Apr By EditorNo Comments
Graduate Admissions

Envisioning Alternative Course and Program Portfolios

Envisioning Alternative Course and Program PortfoliosThe importance of envisioning future course and program portfolios will be familiar to readers of my recent blogs.  Provosts, deans, and others responsible for academic resourcing invest time and money to get better data on their portfolios:  e.g., by using Gray Associates’ Program Economics Platform (PEP).  These data help them identify strategies for improvement, which is especially important given the current Covid-19 disruptions.  We are pleased to introduce PEP+, our new predictive model for envisioning the consequences of changing a school’s lineup of courses and programs, just in time to help mitigate these disruptions.  Changes in student demand and modes of teaching can upend an institution’s operational activities and finances,...
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MANIPAL ACADEMY OF HIGHER EDUCATION : Eminence and Leadership in Education
28Apr By EditorNo Comments
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MANIPAL ACADEMY OF HIGHER EDUCATION : Eminence and Leadership in Education

MANIPAL ACADEMY OF HIGHER EDUCATION : Eminence and Leadership in Education(Image credit- KshitizBathwal/ Wikipedia) What comes to your mind when you think MANIPAL? Well it is MAHE for sure! An ‘Institution of Eminence’ that has many firsts to its credit, the Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE) is synonymous with excellence in not one – but multiple disciplines. Formerly known as the Manipal University, the name MAHE and the glory of its constituent colleges is a tribute to the visionary founder of the university, Dr. TMA Pai. In the early 1930’s Manipal was just a hill with a few houses on it and surrounded by the forests of the Western Ghats.  The legendary Dr. TMA Pai was a pioneer, and holds the record for establishing the maximum number of educational institutions. He is also r...
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28Apr By EditorNo Comments
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Ultimate Guide to College Grants and Scholarships for Minorities

Ultimate Guide to College Grants and Scholarships for MinoritiesScholarships and grants are a valuable tool for students who need funds to pay for college. These programs typically have criteria that consider your background and interests. One major category of gift awards is minority scholarships and grants. Minorities are groups that have historically faced societal disadvantages or challenges due to factors including: ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, and disability. Students whose backgrounds qualify them for these awards can access financial assistance that they don’t need to pay back. Like all scholarships, minority scholarships will usually have additional merit or need based criteria for selection. Minority scholarships are offered by colleges, private organizations ...
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