October 21, 2020 | : Due to the limits on in-person interactions during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, graduate schools have transformed their recruitment strategies, especially for international students. According to Open Doors research, international students make up 5.5% of the student Ellen Czaplinski, a graduate student, worksin her research lab at the University ofArkansas. population […]
Educational Testing Service (ETS), a nonprofit educational assessment and measurement organization, announced the formation of ETS Strategic Capital, a new unit focused on growing the business “through strategic equity investments, growth partnerships, and mergers and acquisitions,” according to an ETS press release. ETS Strategic Capital “is actively seeking transactions to establish a global portfolio of
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August 27, 2020 | : Next100, a startup think tank of The Century Foundation that is focused on developing policies that promote diversity, inclusion and equity, has published a proposal from Next100 policy entrepreneur Taif Jany titled, “Keeping Talent in America.” In the report, Jany notes that as the U.S. economy tries to recover from
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The COVID-19 pandemic has made it unsafe for large groups of students to gather for in-person assessments. A logical and humane response is many colleges and universities are announcing SAT and ACT optional policies for the 2021 application cycle. For decades, American colleges and universities have relied on these exams for evaluating and contextualizing international
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August 10, 2020 | : Katherine Torres, now a rising senior at the University of North Georgia, never thought about a career in foreign service before last year, when she attended the Cox-State Department Diplomacy Seminar. The program, sponsored by the Una Chapman Cox Foundation, an organization dedicated to recruiting and retaining foreign service officers,
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August 10, 2020 | : When we talk about diversity, equity and inclusion on campus, religion isn’t always a part of the conversation. But with its inaugural international conference, Convergence, a nonprofit focused on campus religious diversity, worked to change that. Convergence’s International Conference on Religious, Secular, and Spiritual Identities in Higher Education gathered scholars
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August 6, 2020 | : The percentage of Black, Asian or minority ethnic (BAME) principals in charge of higher education institutions in England has dropped from 13% in 2017 to 5% or 6% of the nation’s 239 further education (FE) colleges currently, reports The Guardian. Meanwhile, the number of BAME students has risen to 30%
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July 30, 2020 | : The higher education community went into a collective uproar following the ICE guidelines that would have deported international students whose universities go to an entirely online format. Many on social media and in news outlets were writing about the topic. Colleges and universities joined a collective lawsuit against the federal
July 28, 2020 | : by Dr. Beverly Lindsay and Dr. Yolanda Moses When we began our Ford Foundation grant, “Women and University Leadership in Post-Conflict and Transitional Societies” in 2015, we could not envision addressing the effects of the global COVID-19 pandemic, particularly on universities and women leaders. Nor would we have anticipated reading
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