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Reimagining Higher Education: A New Campus in Colorado, Open to Everyone

ACE — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 19:24:15 +0000

The fact that Colorado is among the top states in the country in the percentage of adults who have completed at least a bachelor’s degree is a great bragging point for educators and boosters of our communities. But it’s also misleading. The truth is that our state and its economy benefit from the considerable number of people who come here for ...

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The Power of Data to Promote Equitable Higher Education Pathways

ACE — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 16:30:06 +0000

The higher education landscape in the United States consists of over one million credentials offered by more than 60,000 providers. While these options hold the promise of increasing access to postsecondary education, pathways built from a mix of credentials can be confusing. A new report from Credential Engine's Equity Advisory Council aims to help.

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Redefining Prestige

Laurie Arnston — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 14:39:49 +0000

Education Secretary Miguel Cardona has laid out plans to hold higher education more accountable for student success. We owe it to our students—and ourselves—to embrace his vision. Nearly six in 10 students who attend the University of La Verne identify as Hispanic, half of our undergraduates are low-income students, and more than 40 percent are the first in their families to ...

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Helping Students Explore Transfer: How Phi Theta Kappa’s Transfer Honor Roll Can Help

Laurie Arnston — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 18:52:32 +0000

By Lynn Tincher-Ladner and Dan Phelan Recently, the Joint Statement on Transfer and Award of Credit was updated for the first time since 2017, part of the work of the ACE National Task Force on the Transfer and Award of Credit. The statement, revised by ACE, the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers, and the Council for Higher Education ...

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Smith College Replaces Student Loans With Grants, Making Access and Equity a Priority

ACE — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 19:07:45 +0000

By Kathleen McCartney Last week marked one of the most moving moments of my higher education career. With the enthusiastic support of our board of trustees, Smith College announced the elimination of loans from our financial aid packages. Beginning in fall 2022, Smith will replace federal loans with institutional grants for all current and future undergraduates. As a first-generation college student, ...

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How Centering Learner Success Helped Us Face a Year in Flux

ACE — Wed, 13 Oct 2021 19:24:12 +0000

By Lindsey P. Myers While launching a new program requires a great deal of thinking and planning, few would have imagined the sudden emergence of the global pandemic that upended all our well laid plans in 2020 and 2021. Fortunately, the inaugural cohort of the ACE Learner Success Lab (LSL) not only pivoted successfully to a virtual environment, but learned to ...

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Veterans Need Colleges to Keep Some Pandemic-Driven Changes

ACE — Mon, 27 Sep 2021 18:21:12 +0000

By Ryan Pavel and Amy Bernard The flexibility that colleges and universities introduced during the pandemic provided an unexpected benefit for student veterans, and those improvements shouldn’t be thrown out if and when the world can go back to normal. Student veterans in general have an even greater need for flexibility than traditional students do. Veterans are more likely to be ...

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Virtual Learning Can Be a Gateway to Increasing Equity in Higher Education

ACE — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 17:52:00 +0000

By Joseph I. Castro When an entire nation of college students suddenly found themselves faced with the reality of closed campuses in spring 2020, the disruption caused by the abrupt pivot to learning in an environment without classroom instruction was daunting. What followed, however, would be more than a year of resilience, adaptability, and resolve demonstrated by students, faculty, and staff ...

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Congress Lifted the Pell Grant Ban for Incarcerated People. What Now?

ACE — Thu, 22 Apr 2021 15:06:49 +0000

By Ruth Delaney and Allan Wachendorfer In December 2020, Congress lifted a 26-year ban on Pell Grants for people in prison. The change means that incarcerated people, who are disproportionately Black and brown, can now benefit from the monumental expansion of access to the transformative experience of education. Postsecondary education in prison is shown to have a positive impact on incarcerated ...

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Higher Education’s Challenge: Disability Inclusion on Campus

Laurie Arnston — Mon, 19 Oct 2020 20:18:56 +0000

By Dahlia Shaewitz and Jennifer R. Crandall This post is part of the series Beyond the Margins: Meeting the Needs of Underserved Students. Disability is inherently diverse—it is a category that includes people from every gender, race, culture, sexual orientation, geographic region, age group, and socioeconomic level. It’s also a group to which all of us can belong at any time. In ...

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Supporting Students Through Faculty Professional Development

Laurie Arnston — Mon, 19 Oct 2020 16:35:01 +0000

A conversation with Broward College’s Marielena DeSanctis. Originally posted on the Association of College and University Educators’ The “Q” blog. Research published in June 2020 found that Broward College students were more likely to complete and pass their courses, with Black and Pell-eligible students achieving outcomes comparable with their peers, when taught by faculty who completed ACUE’s course in research-based effective teaching ...

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Learner Records: If You Build It, Will They Use It?

Laurie Arnston — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 20:16:31 +0000

By Louis Soares This post is presented as part of ACE’s Education Blockchain Initiative, which aims to identify ways that blockchain can improve connections between education and employment. Apply by Oct. 30 to be part of the Blockchain Innovation Challenge, designed to explore both the opportunities and the risks of using blockchain in higher education. Today’s students stop and restart their ...

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