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What Drives Graduate Student Enrollment Decisions?

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RNL graduate student data helps institutions better target graduate students Cost and flexible program options are two of the biggest enrollment factors. Do you know why your graduate students choose to enroll at your institution?

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Pennsylvania Grants 30 Colleges $1M to Fight Food Insecurity

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The state of Pennsylvania is battling food insecurity across 30 colleges, universities, and trade schools in the state through $1 million in grants. Students of all ages learn best when they start the day with a full stomach and are better prepared to succeed when they have access to nutritious, healthy food," Gov.

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Pell Grant Calculator: How Much Federal Aid Can You Get?

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The upcoming Simplified FAFSA will change the way the government awards Pell Grants. Experts expect these changes to increase the number of students eligible for the award. New releases from Federal Student Aid give us insight into how to calculate Pell Grant awards for future students. as well as Washington, D.C.

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University of Michigan Graduate Students Strike As Labor Dispute Heads to Court

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Graduate student employees at the University of Michigan (U-M) went on strike at the end of March, demanding better wages, healthcare benefits, and working environments. The graduate student union at U-M started their strike last Wednesday with a rally on the Diag, U-M's central open space, according to a press release.

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Meet Sophia, Your Robot Commencement Speaker

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As such, the university sought someone capable of unpacking the potential that [AI] has to change the world in various ways, Benjamin Grant, D'Youville's vice president for student affairs, told BestColleges. She's also the first robot to earn citizenship , which Saudi Arabia granted her in 2017.

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Projecting Graduate Enrollment by Format

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Given the fact that millions of students were forced into online (or emergency remote) instruction, the most important issue will likely be the instructional format choices of graduate students. degree-granting institutions of at least two years.) All F2F led in 2021 by just 113,000 students compared with 776,000 in 2019.

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Enrollment Format Choices: Snapping Back to “Normal”?

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degree-granting institutions of at least 2 years.) Graduate students were far more likely to return to their pre-pandemic format in 2021. In fall 2021, an additional 470,000 graduate students decided to enroll in all F2F classroom courses, after 844,000 had migrated away from all classroom study in 2020.