Shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court decision was issued that outlawed affirmative action, calls went out for elite institutions to end legacy admissions in order to admit more low income students. Many of these calls were for the 12 Ivy Plus institutions to end their admissions preferences. I wrote an article providing details of the […]
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My recent posts about Dual Credit programs for high school students indicate that some of the most popular courses selected are math, English, social sciences, and history. Each of these subject areas are part of the freshmen general education requirements at most colleges. Back in September, Shannon Watkins published a paper titled Making General Education […]
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I’ve admired Bill Gates’ ability to analyze technology advances from a practical and scientific perspective. In his most recent blog post, Bill writes that AI is about to change how we will use computers in the future.
Bill summarizes the state of computers today when he writes that to do any task on a computer, we must tell our device which app to use. He writes that this will change over the next five years. We will tell our device what we want to do, and the software will respond personally because of its knowledge about our lives. […]
Last week, I read a Calli McMurray article in the Chronicle of Higher Education that reported about the financial issues at the University of Arizona disclosed by its president, Robert Robbins. President Robbins described two major problem areas – the athletics department and financial aid. Evidently, during the Covid pandemic, the university lent the athletic […]
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My father was a mechanic. He could fix just about anything. As a young boy, whenever I asked him to fix my bike or later, my car, he would agree to do it if I watched (and handed him tools whenever he needed them). Dad maintained that there was a lot of value to having […]
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I have been a fan of the National Student Clearinghouse for years. The Clearinghouse publishes several research papers a year utilizing data from enrollment surveys its members submit. Data from those surveys precedes the publication of enrollment data by the U.S. Department of Education by months, if not a year. Each Fall, the Clearinghouse publishes […]
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My recent article about the growth of dual enrollment programs left me wondering why there is a wide variability by state with the percentage of high school students earning college credits. The National Alliance of Concurrent Enrollment Partnerships Fast Facts reported that 34% of U.S. high school students take college courses. NACEP listed five states […]
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Dual Enrollment partnerships between high schools and colleges that allow high school students to earn college credit for courses they take are known as dual enrollment, concurrent enrollment, dual credit, and early college. Dual enrollment programs have grown tremendously over the past decade primarily because state and federal governments have encouraged these partnerships and recognition of […]
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