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Top 7 Tips on How to Be Successful in College

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Tuition was only a few thousand dollars a year, making higher education an affordable way to boost your chances of landing a high-paying job. As the economy grows more technologically advanced, you’ll likely find that 15 or even 17 years of education might become the new standard. Do You Have to Go to College to Be Successful?

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Navigating Financial Aid Letters: Making Sense of College Offers

Georgia Tech Admissions Blog

Many state higher education agencies offer free resources and counseling to students about financial aid and financial aid notices. She joined the Georgia Tech Office of Undergraduate Admission in 2013 as the Institutes first Regional Director of Admission. There is FREE help! Part 1 The blog post about money!

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IGNITED 2023 sneak peek: Key trends shaping higher education today

EAB

Blogs IGNITED 2023 sneak peek: Key trends shaping higher education today Each year, EAB creates a State of the Sector presentation, leveraging our global perspective to identify the big trends shaping higher education strategy and operational directions. The pandemic has only “poured fuel on the fire” according to U.S.

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How Will the Harvard Lawsuit Affect Affirmative Action in College Admissions?

Spark Admissions

Despite this initial focus on employment, affirmative action became most commonly associated with education, and particularly higher education, during the 1970s. That lawsuit led to the first major Supreme Court case on affirmative action in higher education admissions. Regents of the University of California v.

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West Virginia University May Cut 32 Majors, 7% of Faculty

BestColleges

Officials cited low and declining enrollment in foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics across higher education and at the university in deciding to cut the program. State funding for higher education decreased by 24% between the 2013 and 2024 fiscal years in West Virginia, to the tune of $146.2

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Reimagining the Liberal Arts and Humanities

BestColleges

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." But by 2013, that percentage had more than doubled. West Virginia's situation is hardly unique.

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Creating a data-informed campus: part 2

EAB

The need for data-informed decision making in higher education continues to increase. Higher education leaders often overestimate the analytics, data, and information capabilities of the institution (2). In reality, education lags behind all other sectors in adoption of analytics solutions (3). take the diagnostic.