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Defining ‘First Generation’ in Different Ways
Colleges and governments offer financial and academic support for these students, but there’s no set standard among colleges for what the term means, as limits on affirmative action raise the stakes.
2 More College Leaders Exit Abruptly
Admitting the Top 10%, for Geographic Diversity
University of South Carolina to admit top 10 percent of students from the state’s public high schools. Texas did that when its colleges couldn’t consider race; South Carolina officials say that’s not their motivation.
Overcrowded Middlebury Will Pay Students to Take Time Off
Middlebury lacks sufficient housing for all the students planning to attend this fall. After exhausting other options, the college plans to pay 30 students $10,000 each to stay away.
College Access Groups Fear Impact of Outsourcing Guidance
Requirements were aimed mostly at for-profit companies colleges hire to run their online programs. Nonprofits that help students attend and complete college feel caught in the crossfire.
Campus Engagement Tip: Connecting Online-Only Learners
Fort Hays State University gave the reins of website Tiger-2-Tiger, initially a digital learning community, to students to share, inspire and motivate one another asynchronously and synchronously.
Meet the Success Professionals of the University of Dayton
Two longtime staff members serve as coaches, mentors and guides for 140 scholarship recipients every year, relying on their wealth of knowledge of the university to support students’ definitions of success.