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National Science Foundation Expands Mentoring Requirements to Bolster STEM Pipeline
Under a newly adopted policy, the independent federal agency now requires mentoring plans for all graduate students involved in NSF-funded research projects.
Program Innovations: Promoting Success in Student Research
To enhance the student experience and increase access to experiential learning, colleges and universities have gotten creative with undergraduate research experiences.
More Project-Based Learning Is Better: Academic Minute
Maximizing Learning Through High-Impact Practices: Academic Minute
Positive Partnership: Streamlining and Speeding Up Transfer Completion
A partnership between George Mason University and Northern Virginia Community College promotes timely degree completion among two-year college students through a seamless transfer process with guaranteed admission.
Report: Grade Inflation Highlighted in Developmental Course Placement
A new study from ACT finds students who completed high school during the COVID-19 pandemic were placed in developmental courses more often, despite holding similar GPAs to their peers who entered college before 2019.
Positive Partnership: Maximizing Student Strengths in Research
A cross-department collaboration between graphic design and biology students at the University of Dayton produced high-quality research posters.
Why Faculty Should Randomize Grading Order
Research from the University of Michigan finds sequential grading biases impact students with alphabetically lower last names, due in part to LMS default ordering. Here’s what professors can do about it.