NERCHE Invites You to Join a Virtual Think Tank Discussion
The New England Resource Center for Higher Education (NERCHE) is pleased to announce our spring/summer series of Virtual Think Tanks designed to support the efforts of practitioners engaged in campus-wide efforts to support underserved students—who represent an increasing proportion of student populations on most campuses in New England. These virtual discussions are intended to be immediately useful whether participants are developing long-term strategic change efforts or thinking about immediate programming and teaching issues.
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Eastern Connecticut State University Advisor Honored by NACADA
Christine Guarnieri '03, student development specialist in the Academic Services Center at Eastern Connecticut State University, has been named the recipient of the National Academic Advising Association's (NACADA) Advising Excellence Award.Project Compass funding has supported the establishment of professional advising for first year students at Eastern.Read more...
From Academic Impressions - "Minority Students: Study Abroad and Academic Success"
Academic Impressions looks at the underrepresentation of minority students in study abroad programs, and talks with the assistant director for the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship at the Institute for International Education "about what steps college and university officials can take to encourage greater minority participation in study abroad programs."
Connecticut Cut Governor Seeks Review of Non-Faculty Hiring at State Colleges and Universities
The Connecticut Mirror reports that the state's newly elected governor, "concerned that the state's public colleges and universities are spending too much on administration, wants to require that all non-teaching hiring at the state's public colleges and universities be approved by his budget office."New Federal Data Show Rising Student Loan Default Rates
From "Diverse Issues in Higher Education":
The federal government’s new system to calculate student loan default rates – while highlighting the problems of many for-profit colleges – also may pose risks for some minority-serving institutions (MSIs) that are seeing their rates increase as well.
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¡Excelencia! Call for Nominations
Excelencia in Education is now accepting nominations for the 2011 Examples of Excelencia. This national initiative identifies and promotes programs and departments with significant evidence of improving educational achievement for Latino students in higher education.
Nellie Mae Announces RFP to Identify Proficiency-Based Pathways
The Nellie Mae Foundation has issued a Request for Letters of Interest (LOI) from eligible entities in order to fund up to eight projects to develop practices, tools, and innovations that reflect an evolving Proficiency-Based Pathways (PBP) approach.
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National Center for Race Amity
Wheelock College, through its new National Center for Race Amity, offers resources related to supporting first-generation college students and promoting dialogue among diverse student populations.
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Retention of most-at-risk entering students at a four year college
The data analysis and research workgroup of the Project Compass team at Eastern Connecticut State University presented on combining quantitative and qualitative methods to create models for predicting student persistence at the 2010 annual conference of the Northeastern Educational Research Association. The proceedings are now available for download at http://digitalcommons.uconn.edu/nera_2010/30
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Teaching Inclusively in Higher Education
Edited by Moira A. Fallon, SUNY College at Brockport, and Susan C. Brown.
Fallon and Brown provide valuable strategies and practical techniques for instructors to develop inclusive college classrooms that promote the learning of all students.
www.infoagepub.com/products/Teaching-Inclusively-in-Higher-Education
"It's Not How Much Student Data You Have, but How You Use It," by Sara Lipka. Chronicle of Higher Education, 11/4/10
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Decline in College Completion for Minority Men
A new report by the American Council on Education charts declines in the academic achievement of blacks and Hispanics.
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Report Suggests Which Colleges Help Disadvantaged Students
A new analysis correlates schools' student loan repayment rates with the demographics of their student bodies, in an effort to show which institutions graduate more minority students who launch successful careers and repay their student loans.
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