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Data-Based Decisions Tip: Removing Barriers to Completion With Policy Revision
To boost completion rates among students, the University of California, Irvine, used data to work collaboratively with institutional divisions to reimagine major-change policies.
Leadership Academy Provides Access, Equity in Career Development
Semester-long program for disproportionately impacted students at Ohlone College in California offers job experience and career preparation skills.
A Challenge to Close the Gender Gap in Economics
An experiment to encourage more women undergraduates to study economics produced mixed results but raised awareness of gender disparities in the field.
3 California Universities Acknowledge Admitting Legacies Who Didn’t Meet Minimum Requirements
Three private universities in California universities acknowledged to the state that in recent years they admitted some legacy students who...
Faculty Opposes Penn State Reverse Discrimination Lawsuit
Over 370 faculty members and a few dozen others have signed a letter supporting “antiracist faculty” at Pennsylvania State University...
The Quest to End Human Trafficking: Academic Minute
Today on the Academic Minute: Dennis McCarthy, lecturer at the University at Albany, explains why we all have a role...
American Confidence in Higher Ed Hits Historic Low
A Gallup poll shows only 36 percent of Americans have “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in higher education, which is down by about 20 percentage points from eight years ago.
American Anthropological Association Names New Director
The American Anthropological Association has named Ady Arguelles-Sabatier its new executive director, effective July 31. “Anthropology has the power to...