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Many Students Don’t Inform Their Colleges About Their Disability. That Needs to Change.

ED Surge

It turns out many students don’t inform their colleges of their disability and that has led to a support gap.The truth is, too many college and university students with disabilities decide to forgo a request for the accommodations that they may need to be successful.

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Let’s Change Financial Aid to Help Students Who Pay Their Own Way Through College

ED Surge

How My College Dream Collapsed Spring of my senior year, a letter arrived in the mail from a fund I had applied to informing me I had been selected as a scholar and would receive up to $25,000 a year for four years along with a laptop, personal adviser and numerous other perks. And then my situation became exponentially worse.

Finance 259
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Wherefore Art Thou, Physics Teacher?

National Science Foundation

In an effort to push back against these headwinds, and informed by PhysTEC effective practices and by our study of physics teachers career motivations, we have identified three key adaptable practices (highlighted in green in Table 1 above) that we will continue to sustain and deploy energetically beyond the end of the Noyce scholarship funding.

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Transforming Adult Students into Scholars

ED Surge

She talked to admissions counselors. Todd likes to help with that kind of request: how to cite an author’s work published inside an edited book, how to find a website with resources about any given topic. When Todd talks to Transformations students, he does more than simply explain how to look up information. It helps in my job.”

Professor 268
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Proponents of Competency-Based Education Push to Spur Adoption — Amid Challenges

ED Surge

The glossy document was released here at the Competency-Based Education Network’s annual conference, where it was handed out to attendees and informed the themes of many sessions. And for the back-office processes of financial aid, enrollment, admission, tuition [and] assessment, everything has to be modified.”

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