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What the Grand Canyon Taught Me: Getting Real About Goals, Failure, and Digging Deep

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This is a guest blog by Stuart Jones, vice president for advancement and enrollment management at Southern Utah University. Stuart oversees the fundraising, marketing, and enrollment efforts at the university, and we have invited him to share his insights about the strategic enrollment planning process in this this post.

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Johns Hopkins Reinstates Standardized Testing

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What differentiates Johns Hopkins from this group is its policy on legacy admissions, which it abandoned in 2014. Daniels wrote in The Chronicle of Higher Education. "It It embodies in stark and indefensible terms inherited privilege in higher education and has compromised college and university admissions for decades.

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UC President Michael Drake Plans to Step Down

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During his tenure, UC faced a weekslong strike by academic workers, boosted in-state enrollment to historic heights, and created several programs for underrepresented students. After 50 years in higher education, he plans to take a sabbatical and then return to a UC faculty position.

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California Community College Offering Free Courses to Incarcerated Juveniles

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million grant from the California Community Colleges' Rising Scholars Network, will offer on-site general education classes for incarcerated students at Indio Juvenile Hall. It's a way to serve our local youth who are coming back to our county and need an education, she said. The program, funded by a $1.5

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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. Several colleges and universities recently have announced similar cuts, eviscerating the liberal arts in response to budget shortfalls, enrollment declines, and shifting student preferences. In many cases, low enrollment drove these decisions.

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Dartmouth Announces Families Making Under $125K Pay Nothing, Thanks to Historic Gift

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Dartmouth is expanding financial aid, ensuring families making under $125,000 a year pay nothing for their student's education starting next academic year. Dartmouth said the new policy will benefit about 350 families of currently enrolled students. The rest will enhance financial aid awards for undergraduates.

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Foundation Commits $20 Million to Increasing Degrees for Men of Color

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More than 1 in 4 men are no longer enrolled in college six years after initially enrolling. To address disparities in educational attainment for minority men, the Men of Color Initiative will create programs and partnerships. In addition to enrolling less than women, fewer men also complete college than women.

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