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Graduate Student Completion Rates Rising but Vary by Discipline
Funding Student Success: Boosting Undergrad Teaching Grants
Rice University promotes innovation among undergraduate faculty through a $60,000 annual grant.
Academic Success Tip: Continual Feedback for Student Assessment
As part of a larger ungrading initiative, one professor implemented a performance-review process for students to connect their classroom experiences to strengths, growth and skill development—while preparing them for review processes in future jobs.
Expanding Community College Access for High School Students
Partnerships between high schools and community colleges are increasing opportunities for high school students to earn college credits.
Program Innovation: Training the Trainer
A mentorship and support program for up-and-coming student leaders helps boost students’ academic and interpersonal skills as well as student success metrics.
Giving an F for Recording Classes, Even for Students With Disabilities
A UCLA professor whose classroom hosts contentious debates says she’ll fail any student who records. She says it’s a matter of academic freedom. But does federal law allow it?
Academic Success Tip: Engage Students in Real Talk
A pilot initiative at SUNY Oneonta encourages vulnerability among instructors in the classroom, helping students to see their professors as people and seek help.
The State of Higher Ed in Prisons a Year After Pell Restoration
A new report by the Vera Institute of Justice marks one year since the return of Pell Grants to incarcerated students and analyzes how programs can improve.