Colleges and universities are looking for ways to manage internationalization on campus as such efforts increase. According to Mapping Internationalization on U.S. Campuses: 2017 Edition, 72 percent of responding institutions indicate that campus internationalization accelerated in recent years and they are optimistic about their internationalization progress.
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ASU Connects to Hispanic Students Through Mother-Daughter Program
Arizona State University created the Hispanic Mother-Daughter Program, an early-outreach program for middle and high school students, in 1984 knowing that one of the best ways to encourage young Latinas and other first-generation students to pursue college was to involve the family.
New Outcomes Data on Students Who Graduated During the Great Recession
The National Center for Education Statistics recently released a report as part of their Stats in Brief series called Four Years Later: 2007-08 College Graduates’ Employment, Debt, and Enrollment in 2012, which tracked the four-year outcomes for students who graduated with a baccalaureate degree during the 2007-08 academic year—the middle of the Great Recession.
National Academies Report Offers Recommendations for Combating Sexual Harassment in Science
A report by The National Academies Press titled Sexual Harassment of Women: Climate, Culture, and Consequences in Academic Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine explores the direct impacts of sexual harassment in work and learning spaces and offers several recommendations to effect change.
Report Recommends Needed Changes to STEM Graduate-Level Education
The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine recently released a report titled Graduate STEM Education for the 21st Century, which outlines several recommendations for necessary changes required to meet the needs of modern STEM students through a set of updated and student-centered CORE competencies and cultural shifts in what is valued in the academy.
UNC Chapel Hill Professor Uses Inclusive Teaching to Make Class More Fair
A University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill professor redesigned her class to help close achievement gaps between minority students and white students as well as first-generation students and continuing-generation students. Her method, inclusive teaching, was recently featured by The Chronicle of Higher Education and is taking off among her Chapel Hill colleagues and beyond.
Faces of Dreamers: Jacob Maldonado and Maria Campos, Trevecca Nazarene University
Dreamers Jacob Maldonado and Maria Campos, best friends and fellow students at Trevecca Nazarene University in Nashville, persevered in their studies despite wondering if it was still worth pursuing their college degrees after the 2016 elections and political winds shifting against the DACA policy.
It Doesn’t Always Get Better for Queer-Spectrum and Trans-Spectrum College Students
Many queer-spectrum and trans-spectrum students continue to navigate stigma, peer aggression, and exclusion well into their college years. Researchers are beginning to capture their experiences, which could help lead the way to change.
Series by Third Way and AEI Sheds Light on College Completion
Elevating College Completion is a recently released series that aims to inform readers about how many students who enter undergraduate programs end up completing their degree. It examines some potential policy tools that could be used to incentivize institutions to take steps to increase their completion rates.
ACE at 100: Advocating for Women in Higher Education
Throughout its history, ACE has worked to support the inclusion of women in all aspects of higher education. From advocating women’s right to work in the 1920s to creating a pipeline to higher education leadership positions in recent years, ACE has spearheaded a number of initiatives focused on women and their success.
Analysis Traces Trends in Graduate Student Debt by Race and Ethnicity
Robert Kelchen, an assistant professor at Seton Hall University, recently wrote a blog post using the newly released NPSAS:16 data investigating graduate student debt by race and ethnicity.
STEM Climate for Students with Disabilities
More students with disabilities of all types are enrolling in postsecondary education institutions than ever before. Yet fewer of them persist to graduation relative to their peers without disabilities, and still fewer graduate with science, technology, engineering, or mathematics degrees. Rachel Friedensen, postdocotoral research associate at Iowa State University, examines this dilemma.