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How 6 Students Uncovered Over $500M in Higher Education Fossil Fuel Funding

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As her internship at Data for Progress (DFP), a progressive research firm, was coming to an end, Bella Kumar, a student climate activist at The George Washington University (GW), decided to pitch an idea — a data investigation into higher education's funding from fossil fuels. higher education system.

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AANHPI in Higher Education: Facts and Statistics

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As a single demographic, Asian Americans appear to be doing well — high educational attainment, high household incomes — but a closer look by origin group paints a more complicated picture of how some Asian Americans are really doing. population older than 25 had a bachelor's degree or higher. National Center for Education Statistics.

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Reimagining the Liberal Arts and Humanities

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A national grant program aims to reposition the liberal arts and humanities as central to the general education curriculum. Except that it's not entirely shocking given what's happening across higher education. From 2012-2018, the number of bachelor's degrees earned in the humanities fell by 27%.

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Creating a data-informed campus: part 2

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The need for data-informed decision making in higher education continues to increase. Higher education leaders often overestimate the analytics, data, and information capabilities of the institution (2). In reality, education lags behind all other sectors in adoption of analytics solutions (3). take the diagnostic.

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Watchdog: Colleges Should Improve Outreach to Students With Disabilities

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Some students are granted accommodations, but professors and instructors don't abide by them. A watchdog called on the Department of Education to do more to help students with disabilities. That's up from 11% in 2012, according to GAO. As of 2020, approximately 21% of college students report having a disability. million in 2020.

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Should the U.S. Provide Reparations? Start With HBCUs

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Earlier this year, the Department of Education reported that land grant, historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in 16 states have been underfunded by $12.6 A joint letter from the Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona and Secretary of Agriculture Thomas J. Board of Education. billion over the last 30 years.

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First-Generation College Students: Facts and Statistics

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According to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), around 37% of undergraduate college students were first-generation in 2016. Note Reference [1] For comparison, roughly 18% of students identified as the first person in their immediate family to go to college in 2011-2012. [3] 43% were also first-generation immigrants.