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Involvement in extracurricular activities, interestingly, increased during the 2020–21 academic year, which researchers theorize could be due to students seeking new ways to connect with their peers amid social distancing measures.
It aims to do that by improving its marketing, bringing artificial intelligence and predictive analytics to its recruitment process, and expanding direct admissions and dual-credit programs with local high schools as well as concurrent enrollment with community colleges.
It’s incredibly important, but you want to get to the point where this is part of the campus culture,” Vinnakota told Sara Custer, editor in chief of Inside Higher Ed.
This spring’s “Undergraduate Degree Earners” report, released today, attributes the increase to record-breaking growth in certificates, with 525,200 learners completing one, up 11.2 percent from the year prior.
“In line with President Trump’s mission to combatting discrimination and promoting fairness, HHS is partnering with other federal agencies to conduct a comprehensive review of grants awarded to universities that have failed to protect students from discriminatory behavior.
Trainor then on February 14 issued a “Dear Colleague” letter, drastically expanding the definition of discrimination to include the consideration of race, gender, or other identity in scholarships, financial aid, graduation ceremonies, and student life.
The association said restrictions to the EASE program would disproportionately hurt non-traditional and low-income students at the affected colleges, and it is urging Florida residents to sign a letter to lawmakers opposing the proposal.
In the wake of attacks on international students—especially pro-Palestinian protesters—student newspapers are grappling with questions of if and how to protect protesters whom they have featured in articles, activists who have contributed opinion pieces and even their own reporters when they cover topics they fear the Trump administration could take issue with.
Plaintiffs, including dozens of academic scientists, alleged that the agency’s leaders, starting in February, “upended NIH’s enviable track record of rigor and excellence, launching a reckless and illegal purge to stamp out NIH-funded research that addresses topics and populations that they disfavor.”
From the Trump administration's multibillion review into one of the best-known colleges in the world to continued leadership tumult at Columbia University, we’re rounding up the top-line figures from some of our biggest stories of the week.
In March, the U.S. Department of Education under President Donald Trump named Princeton as one of 60 institutions that could face enforcement action over unaddressed antisemitism, though the agency didn’t specify any specific civil rights law violations.