Fri.Apr 26, 2024

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Colleges are now closing at a pace of one a week. What happens to the students?

The Hechinger Report

It was when the shuttle bus stopped coming that Luka Fernandes began to worry. Fernandes was a student at Newbury College near Boston whose enrollment had declined in the previous two decades from more than 5,300 to about 600. “Things started closing down,” Fernandes remembered. “There was definitely a sense of things going wrong. The food went downhill.

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How Higher Ed Institutions Are Strategically Managing Change

ED Surge

It is no secret. Higher education institutions are facing unprecedented challenges that are forcing strategic changes. Since the onset of the pandemic, institutions have grappled with financial sustainability concerns exacerbated by falling enrollment rates and political pressures on academic freedom. As dissatisfaction among higher ed employees rises , there is growing concern about retaining faculty amid widespread burnout.

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Supporting Multilingual Learner's Journey of Language and Literacy

Heinemann Blog

With the newly release Growing Language and Literacy, Grades 6-12, Andrea Honigsfeld outlines how this text is a must-have for all teachers with multilingual learners.

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Navigating the Challenges & Considerations of Fieldwork: APSA’s Committee on the Status of Graduate Students Virtual Workshop

Political Science Now

Join the APSA Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the Profession for the third entry to their 2024 virtual workshop series. Friday, May 3, 2024 | 3:00 PM | Register Here This workshop will help graduate students better navigate the challenges and considerations of fieldwork. Our speakers will discuss questions about positionality in the field, personal safety, and resource constraints.

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What We Come To Accept

All Things Pedagogical

I took a few days off from work with the intention of visiting friends that I hadn't seen in a while, but my bodymind had other ideas. So instead I have spent the last three days doing a whole lot of the usual around here, which is thinking too much, and seeing instructor friends and students cross the finish line of the semester with exhaustion, and other common feelings one finds at the end of the academic year.

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Can Biden’s new jobs program to fight climate change attract women and people of color? 

The Hechinger Report

This story was originally published by The 19 th and reprinted with permission. At a national park in Virginia on Monday, President Joe Biden announced that people can start applying to the American Climate Corps , a program that is expected to connect workers with more than 20,000 green jobs. “You’ll get paid to fight climate change, learning how to install those solar panels, fight wildfires, rebuild wetlands, weatherize homes, and so much more that’s going to protect the environment and build

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Where Americans Are — and Aren’t — Politically Divided on Education

ED Surge

There are plenty of heated debates happening about what should be taught in schools: whether it’s over the type of books students should read , how LGBTQ topics are discussed or how to talk about racism. There are a few problems with those debates, says Morgan Polikoff , one of which is that they’re not particularly informed by evidence about what people want for public education.

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