Student Visa Cancellations: Tracking Global Trainee Status
Tracking the cancellation of visas/legal status for international students and recent graduates since April. Many students and colleges are unaware of the terminations, creating uncertainty.
Fewer Students Engage in College Activities After COVID
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.
The Struggling Sanctuary Campus Movement
“While I await legal decisions that hold the futures of my wife and child in the balance, those who enabled my targeting remain comfortably at Columbia University,” Khalil said in a statement from an ICE detention center in Louisiana.
Preparing nursing students to deliver culturally aware health care
For example, in a case study that explored end of life rituals, students discussed how they could honor a patient’s wishes that the deceased remain untouched, intact (no organ donation) and unmoved for a period in today’s fast-paced inpatient hospital environment where bed space is limited.
12% of college students won’t participate in an internship
Among the trends present: More interns are participating in paid internships and earning above minimum wage while doing so, and company culture can influence students’ willingness to return for a full-time position.
How a college career fair addresses more than just careers
Bucher: One of the things that I think is so extraordinary, not only is it that we do have this dedication of truly not having classes that day, and our students know that is worked right into their academic schedule, but also that the career and success expo really reaches beyond just our doors here on campus as well.
Technology Initiatives Support Student Mental Health in a Modern Higher Ed Environment
The effect can be devastating: Research from Gallup-Lumina found nearly two-thirds (64%) of currently enrolled college students who recently considered stopping their studies said emotional stress or mental health concerns were a significant reason.
Students Speak: Survey Indicates Students Feel Unprepared to Use AI in the Workplace
Beyond these professional impacts, universities taking the initiative to integrate AI into their curriculum will greatly appeal to prospective students looking for a place to kick-start their education and career preparedness.
Unifying supports for first-generation students on campus
“We want our first-generation students to know that they are just as capable, and sometimes that takes bringing the info to them in a designated space so that they don’t have to navigate the large university and unfamiliar lingo or jargon for themselves,” Dempsey says.
Fostering campus dialogue doesn’t start with silence
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The student as client (not customer) (opinion)
Customers are parties who are viewed as needing to be appealed to by vendors who seek to understand what a group of people are interested in and then set out to, ideally, offer a product at an attractive cost (i.e., price) to gain market acceptance and patronage.
Are short-term credentials really more affordable?
“There’s just a lot of sub-baccalaureate and sub-associate degree credentials out there” of different lengths and costs, called by a variety of names and offered by different kinds of providers, making it “hard to decipher any sort of outcomes or similarities,” she said.