Education

[ad_1] The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is considering tracking workforce data on nonbinary employees, and last year, it announced an updated discrimination charge intake form that includes a gender option for nonbinary people. Yet gestures like censusing have not necessarily improved the overall state of nonbinary people within academe. Despite gay men having the highest …

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[ad_1] Fitch Ratings’ 2024 outlook for higher education enrollment is fairly bleak, according to data offered during an online presentation Thursday. Emily Wadhwani, Fitch’s senior director for U.S. higher education, cited demographic declines as a primary factor, especially in the Northeast and Midwest; she said certain states, including Maine and Pennsylvania, have been particularly hard …

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[ad_1] University of Chicago Press Rhetoric is a discipline drawing much of its core technical vocabulary from lectures that Aristotle gave 2,400 years ago. Two or three other ancient authors elaborated on his work, and with that, the foundations were laid for a field of study that remained in good stead for two millennia. By …

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[ad_1] Pinkypills/iStock/Getty Images Plus The ability to collect, organize, interrogate and make sense of data is an essential job skill in the 21st-century marketplace. A Harvard Business Review analytic services report notes that nearly 90 percent of organizations say success depends on data-driven decisions made by front-line employees. To ensure students can succeed in this market, …

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[ad_1] A professor and two students were stabbed Wednesday in a philosophy class on gender issues at the University of Waterloo, in Canada, the Associated Press reported. A suspect in the stabbings is a member of the “university community,” a spokesman said. The suspect is being questioned. The three who were stabbed were being treated at a …

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[ad_1] Supporters and detractors of affirmative action faced off Thursday near the Supreme Court after the justices said the use of race-conscious admissions violated the U.S. Constitution. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images For Yukong Zhao, the Supreme Court’s decision on Thursday to strike down the use of race in college admissions was a “sweet and long-overdue victory.” …

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[ad_1] Psychedelics Reduce Anxiety and Depression in Cancer Patients: Academic Minute Doug Lederman Fri, 06/30/2023 – 12:00 AM [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Calvin University has acquired Compass College of Film and Media, a small nonprofit college also located in Grand Rapids, Mich. The move will allow Calvin to expand its offerings for students as well as extend the physical reach of its campus in downtown Grand Rapids. Both Calvin and Compass College are Christian institutions. Compass …

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[ad_1] I’ve spent a couple of weeks trying to work out a blog post that dug into some of the current challenges facing higher education (particularly public higher education) with a desire to cut through the examples and perhaps provide a glimmer of insight to help interested people think about them more productively. I’ve been …

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[ad_1] This is a developing story. Please return throughout the day for more coverage. The U.S. Supreme Court declared Thursday that the admissions systems used by Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill illegally violate the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. “Both programs lack sufficiently focused and measurable objectives …

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