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How 6 Students Uncovered Over $500M in Higher Education Fossil Fuel Funding

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As her internship at Data for Progress (DFP), a progressive research firm, was coming to an end, Bella Kumar, a student climate activist at The George Washington University (GW), decided to pitch an idea — a data investigation into higher education's funding from fossil fuels. higher education system.

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AANHPI in Higher Education: Facts and Statistics

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As a single demographic, Asian Americans appear to be doing well — high educational attainment, high household incomes — but a closer look by origin group paints a more complicated picture of how some Asian Americans are really doing. population older than 25 had a bachelor's degree or higher. National Center for Education Statistics.

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Students With Disabilities in Higher Education: Facts and Statistics

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5] Despite how common disabilities are, society and institutions — like higher education — sometimes fail to provide adequate accommodations or truly inclusive spaces for all to participate equally. Here's some of the latest research on disability inclusion in higher education. 24.8%) has a disability. [5] Spring 2022.

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Building an Action Plan for Enrollment Success at the Strategic Enrollment Planning Forum

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Writing the book on strategic enrollment planning again Coming in April 2023 SEP is complex enough that you could fill a book with what it entails…which we did when we published the first edition of Strategic Enrollment Planning: A Dynamic Collaboration in 2012.

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5 Stats That Graduate Enrollment Leaders Need to Know

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Two competing—and contradictory—reports have been released in the last 30 days that seek to portray the state of the graduate education market, and my own analysis of the most recent IPEDS completions data are adding to our understanding of graduate enrollment trends. percent among CGS member schools.

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Reimagining the Liberal Arts and Humanities

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Except that it's not entirely shocking given what's happening across higher education. This is a time of great change in higher education," Gee said , "and we are leading that change rather than being its victim." From 2012-2018, the number of bachelor's degrees earned in the humanities fell by 27%.

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California State University Names Mildred García as Next Chancellor

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García is a highly skilled, dynamic, and principled leader who has championed student success — especially for those students from underrepresented communities — throughout her long and distinguished career in public higher education," Wenda Fong, chair of the CSU Board of Trustees, said in a statement.