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Panicked universities in search of students are adding thousands of new majors

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Temple has started a master’s degree in sport business, among the 41,446 degree or certificate programs colleges and universities have added since 2012. Related: How one university is luring coveted honors students with social justice. Students walk on the Temple University campus in Philadelphia.

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New faces on campus: Students of all races welcome first black presidents to largely white colleges

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The 2012 survey from the American Council on Education was sent to public and private colleges and universities across the U.S., 6 percent — The number of colleges and universities led by a black president, according to a 2012 survey from the American Council on Education (13.3 percent of the U.S. population is black).

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How to find minority teachers who want to stay in the job?

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The Alumni Teach Project was launched in 2012, when two alumni finished college and followed up on their 2008 PUC graduation-day-letter job offers (PUC started including the letters with students’ diplomas in 2007). The program’s emphasis on social justice has also taught him how to craft better lessons.

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OPINION: In higher ed, lower enrollment isn’t the only sign of trouble

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These trends are confirmed by a 2012 survey conducted by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development , which showed that the U.S. According to Joseph Fuller , a Harvard Business School professor, our students’ literacy and numerical skills have declined over the last two decades.

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Intersectional Anthropology as an Avenue Toward Praxis, Pedagogy, and New Anthropological Horizons

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Kimberlé Crenshaw stated that in its original formulation, Intersectionality worked to expose “ how single-axis thinking undermines legal thinking, disciplinary knowledge production, and struggles for social justice.” I received my Ph.D. in 2023 from the University of Florida (UF) as part of the “COVID generation” of students.

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How can being bilingual be an asset for white students and a deficit for immigrants?

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We talk about our existence as an act of social justice.”. The same is true of the Muñiz Academy, which opened in 2012 as the city’s first such high school. We talk about our existence as an act of social justice.”. We talk about [our dual-language school] as a revolution. Read more about immigration.

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For adults returning to college, ‘free’ tuition isn’t enough

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If we are not doing this,” he said, “it is a social justice issue. Only about half of high school graduates go on to college, which makes adult education critical, but since 2012, Kentucky’s adult undergraduate enrollment has fallen nearly 50 percent. Should you not get college credit just because we don’t teach it here?”.

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