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Biden Administration Puts Grad Schools in the Hot Seat

The Education Department’s new transparency measures will tell prospective students if a graduate program will leave them with debt they can’t afford to pay back. But the agency nixed its original plan to include nonprofit undergraduate programs.

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Students Free Speech

Campus Free Speech Survey Rife With Contradictions

Diversity Race & Ethnicity

California Community College Professors Sue Over DEI Rules

Several California Community College system professors are challenging new rules requiring employees be evaluated on their adoption of diversity, equity and inclusion principles.

Students Financial Aid

Freeing Stranded Credits, Removing Barriers to Completion

Eight Ohio colleges took part in a trial program that forgave debts owed by students and allowed them to re-enroll. Transcripts of students who stick with the program will eventually be unlocked.

Student Success The College Experience

First-Gen Videos Welcome New Students to Higher Ed

To welcome incoming students and promote university resources, Saint Mary’s College in Indiana recruited first-generation learners to provide success tips in a five-part video series.

Student Success Life After College

Positive Partnership: West Virginia Colleges Partner to Keep Recent Grads In-State

A new program created by West Virginia and Marshall Universities aims to support recent graduates in establishing remote work opportunities within the state.

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Creative Challenges and the University Reimagined: Academic Minute

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Our Transcripts Are Academic Rap Sheets—and We Can Do Better

Learning (not rigor) is what prepares students for life after graduation, and our teaching—and transcripts—should reflect that, Jane L. Lubischer writes.

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In Our Own Backyards

The Supreme Court decision on race-conscious admissions was a wake-up call to embrace the full diversity of the talent pools in our cities and communities, Nancy Cantor writes.

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Improv in the College Classroom

Take a chance and apply the playful techniques of improv with your students.

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‘The Question’ for Making Important Decisions

In meetings, how much time should you spend making consequential decisions versus discussing various options before making a final decision?

Career Advice

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Is It Time for the 32-Hour Workweek?

Robert Roßbach, Kendra Sewall and Stefanie Robel explore why shorter work hours are, in fact, realistic for academic researchers and the advantages this approach can offer.

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Big Ambitions, Small Teams

Roshni Rao explores the challenges of scaling career services to meet the needs of thousands of grad students with diverse backgrounds, disciplines and career aspirations.

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The Key Podcast

Ep. 99: Designing Courseware to Produce Equitable Outcomes
Early insights from new "gateway" courses in chemistry and statistics aimed at closing attainment gaps for underrepresented students.
Ep. 98: Streamlining and Scaling Transfer for Equity’s Sake
This week’s episode explores how university systems are working to improve student mobility between and among institutions.

Academic Minute

Creative Challenges and the University Reimagined
Is it time to reimagine our educational institutions? In today’s Academic Minute, part of SUNY Polytechnic Institute Week, Robert Edgell suggests a creative approach.
Heroes of the Digital Age
Those behind the scenes don’t usually get their time in the limelight. In today’s Academic Minute, part of SUNY Polytechnic Institute Week, Andrew Russell explores how this unfolds in a digital context.

Student Voice: The College Experience

Students share their experiences with and thoughts on new-student orientation, campus involvement in extracurriculars and events, and related technology.

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Student Success The College Experience

Following the Leaders: Understanding and Promoting Student Leadership

Student Voice results show that students with certain advantages are more likely to have held leadership positions on campus than peers. Here’s why that matters and what institutions can do to help boost students’ leadership creds.

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Student Success The College Experience

Survey: Inequities in Student Involvement

Student Voice data reveal disparities in who’s participating in campus life outside the classroom—and opportunities for closing these gaps.

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Student Success The College Experience

Summer Bridges Build First-Gen Connections

Student Voice survey data on new-student orientation experiences indicate that summer bridge program participants who are first generation feel more comfortable accessing resources, more prepared for college and more socially connected than other first-gen and even continuing-generation students.

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Student Success The College Experience

Orientation for ‘Gen P’

New student orientation satisfaction rates fell early in the pandemic but they’re back up, according to Student Voice survey data. First-year experience leaders say it’s not business as usual: less is now more.

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Student Success The College Experience

Students’ Insights on Orientation

Students tend to rate their orientation experiences highly, according to a new Student Voice survey. Yet data suggest modality matters in student satisfaction, and there’s a gap between what students want from orientation and what they’re getting out of it.

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Student Success The College Experience

Student Views on the College Experience

Learn what boosts and limits student participation in campus extracurriculars and events in this preview of findings from the newest Student Voice survey. Hint: timing and location of events matter, as do advertising and promotion.