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  • Understanding Why So Few Community College Transfer Students Graduate With Bachelor’s Degree

    Understanding Why So Few Community College Transfer Students Graduate With Bachelor’s Degree

    Transfering from a community college to a senior college often comes with a unique set of challenges. More than 30 percent of U.S. students begin their post-secondary studies at a community college, and while more than eight in 10 students intend to earn a bachelor’s degree, only 17 percent will have obtained one after six… Read More

  • Entrepreneurism 101 — Launch Your Startup on Campus!

    Entrepreneurism 101 — Launch Your Startup on Campus!

    Today’s college students – dubbed Generation Z – are beginning to make their mark on the workplace with a distinctly unconventional and often irreverent approach to problem-solving. In my day-to-day interactions with our students, I find that this group doesn’t only ask “Why?” they ask “How can I fix that?” And their curiosity, independence, energy… Read More

  • The Key to Success for Minority and Women Ph.D. Students iIn STEM

    The Key to Success for Minority and Women Ph.D. Students iIn STEM

    Women and minorities, unfortunately, continue to be underrepresented in STEM fields. To understand the underlying factors leading to such disparities, a group of researchers from UC Berkeley, UCLA, Stanford and the California Institute of Technology looked at how gender, race and ethnicity could impact a doctoral student’s success by measuring differences in publication rates between… Read More

  • More Solutions Needed for Campus Hunger

    More Solutions Needed for Campus Hunger

    A new federal report does a good job of explaining what many researchers have been saying for a decade – food insecurity among college students is a serious national problem. As one University of California, Berkeley student revealed in an interview for a 2018 research article I helped write: “Food is always on my mind:… Read More

  • ATI Alliance on Pace to Send 50,000 Low-income Students to College

    ATI Alliance on Pace to Send 50,000 Low-income Students to College

    A nationwide alliance of more than 100 leading colleges and universities has covered significant ground in opening up opportunities for low- to moderate-income students, according to a report by the American Talent Initiative (ATI). Since the 2015-16 school year, ATI members have sent 7,291 more students who receive Pell grants to the nation’s top colleges… Read More

  • Why Immigrants Are More Likely to Study STEM Than U.S.-Born Students

    Why Immigrants Are More Likely to Study STEM Than U.S.-Born Students

    U.S. immigrant children are more likely than US.-born children to study and pursue careers in STEM fields, a new study by Duke University and Stanford finds. The researchers attribute these findings to the immigrant children’s comparative advantage in non-English-intensive subjects and comparative disadvantage in English-intensive subjects. “Most studies on the assimilation of immigrants focus on… Read More

  • How to Keep Up with Your New Year’s Resolution

    How to Keep Up with Your New Year’s Resolution

    The start of a new year comes with many resolutions. People make it their goal to spend more time at the gym, raise their grades, eat healthier, move up at work and much more. The problem is, 80 percent of these goals fall apart once the second week of February comes along.   In order… Read More

  • Universities Struggle with the Spike in Emotional Support Animals

    Universities Struggle with the Spike in Emotional Support Animals

    As reported cases of mental health conditions have increased on college campuses, so have the number of student requests for emotional support animals. Understandably, a loving animal companion can serve as a much-needed distraction for students suffering from anxiety, depression and other mental health issues. And since today’s students are generally more comfortable considering, discussing… Read More

  • Would You Delete Facebook for $1,000?

    Would You Delete Facebook for $1,000?

    Everyone has friends, family members or co-workers who are constantly talking about how much they would love to delete their Facebook account. Well, why haven’t they? Chances are, they are probably bluffing, and their Facebook account might mean more to them than they would care to admit. A recent study, combining research gathered by three… Read More

  • Are We Witnessing the Death of the Traditional University?

    Are We Witnessing the Death of the Traditional University?

    Some commentators are predicting that universities and colleges as we know them will become obsolete in the not-so-distant future. I strongly disagree. The argument in support of this forecast goes something like this: because Apple revolutionized the music industry and Uber transformed transportation, it’s inevitable that online internet courses will thoroughly disrupt higher education. As… Read More

  • Students Aren’t Receiving Enough Aid to Afford College

    Students Aren’t Receiving Enough Aid to Afford College

    Securing a good job has become increasingly difficult without a college degree. Subsequently, students who want to stay on pace with their peers are often forced to take on crippling tuition prices. For those coming from low-income homes, paying tens of thousands of dollars each year in tuition is less than practical. But a college… Read More

  • How Educators Can Promote Inclusivity for Black Women in STEM

    How Educators Can Promote Inclusivity for Black Women in STEM

    Women make up just one-quarter of the U.S. workforce in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). The number is even lower for women of color — fewer than 1 in 10 women of color are employed scientists and engineers, according to a report by the National Science Foundation. There is a national… Read More

  • New Initiative May Give Women More Power in U.S. National Security And Foreign Policy

    New Initiative May Give Women More Power in U.S. National Security And Foreign Policy

    The representation of women in both the U.S. military and government has been increasing in recent years, but there is still a long way to go in order to reach true equality. Currently, women make up only 18 percent of the officer corps and 4 percent of the enlisted forces in the U.S. military and… Read More

  • Could Universal Basic Income Work? Ask Stanford

    Could Universal Basic Income Work? Ask Stanford

    Income inequality is growing, not just in the United States but in other parts of the world. There is also the fast-approaching threat of job loss caused by innovation in automation and artificial intelligence. To address these challenges, policymakers will have to come up with a viable solution. Could universal basic income (UBI) — a… Read More

  • Diversity Efforts Put More Women, Minorities in Med School

    Diversity Efforts Put More Women, Minorities in Med School

    More women and minorities are being accepted into medical school, Yale University researchers find. This positive growth was sparked by two diversity standards introduced nearly 10 years ago by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME), an organization that accredits medical education programs in the U.S. The standards made every institution capable of granting a… Read More

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