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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. But by 2013, that percentage had more than doubled. As of last August, 60 colleges and universities had created similar efforts on their campuses with support from the grant program.

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Formerly Incarcerated Man Earns Degree After Decades-Long Fight for Education Behind Bars

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Davis-Brantley explained the origins of the program to BestColleges: This all grew out of a psychoeducational program called ESUBA we brought into the prison in 2013 that taught individuals how to reverse the effects of abuse. Minca Davis-Brantley and Samantha Carlo, both professors at Miami Dade College.

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California’s Revised Budget Plan Slashes Financial Aid Funding

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The state budget, finalized in June, includes $510 million in cuts to the Middle Class Scholarship and excludes funding for changes to Cal Grant, California's financial aid program. The budget also leaves off investments to Cal Grant.

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Morehouse Receives $1.6M to Expand Prison Education Program

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Department of Education granted incarcerated students access to the Pell Grant for the first time since 1994. California State University, Dominguez Hills offers two-year master's degree programs for incarcerated students, and Miami Dade College has served over 900 incarcerated students since it began in 2013.

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Creating a data-informed campus: part 2

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5,100 reasons to invest in your grant data. Download this data strategy diagnostic to assess your institution's performance on 10 key elements of data culture and practice. take the diagnostic. Sources (numbered throughout). Eight realities learning professionals need to know about analytics. T+D, 66 (8), 54-58. Norris, D. M., & Baer, L.

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Average LSAT Score and Scores of Accepted Law Students

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Data Summary Check The average LSAT score for first-time takers was 151, according to scores tracked from 2006-2013. [1] 3] Check In 2022, there were 35,000 first-year, full-time students enrolled at JD-granting institutions. The American Bar Association (ABA) has approved 196 law schools to grant Juris Doctor (JD) degrees. [5]

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UT-Austin External Transfer Admissions Guide

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In 2013, UT sent 10,539 CAP offers. I worked at UT when they rolled out PACE in 2012 or 2013. Non-Texas college transcripts are evaluated by hand and accreditation granted on a case-by-case basis. For Fall 2013 to 2017, the number of transfer applicants ranged from 7,741 for Fall 2012 to 8,515 for Fall 2014.