Advice for first-generation, working-class graduate school students
INSIDE HIGHER ED — During my senior year of high school, I applied to dozens of colleges, eager to finally prove to myself that I could “make it out” of my low-income neighborhood.
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HIGHER ED DIVE — Congress passed legislation in late 2020 to simplify the FAFSA, an infamously difficult form for students and their families to complete. The updated version will debut in December, according to the U.S. Department of Education.
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NEW YORK TIMES — Test takers whose families were in the top 20 percent of earners were seven times as likely as those in the bottom 20 to score at least 1300. But the gap was even larger for the children of the richest 1 percent. They were 13 times as likely as the poorest…
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer set an ambitious goal for the state to boost college attainment by more than 10 percent by 2030. There’s been some progress, but the plan has a long way to go.
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STAR TRIBUNE — College applications this fall still include questions asking about students’ race — even after the U.S. Supreme Court said race shouldn’t be considered in admissions. Why are schools still asking about it? They need the information for other reasons.
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — A federal policy change could give thousands of students access to transcripts and academic credits their colleges have withheld because they owed the institutions money.
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EDWEEK — The number of students taking the SAT college admissions test at least once is growing back to pre-pandemic figures—even as some colleges and universities made the test optional at the onset of the pandemic.
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — Being accepted to your choice of graduate school and program is usually an exciting moment.
Read More about How to foster community among graduate studentsHow conflict in the Middle East has affected political tensions on university campuses
THE WASHINGTON POST — Someone scrawled “Free Palestine” on the exterior of a Jewish fraternity house at Georgia Tech over the weekend, next to a large image of a menoroah. These and other incidents have rattled Jewish communities on campuses across America as they mourn victims of the Oct. 7 massacres and kidnappings.
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PITTSBURGH POST GAZETTE — Duquesne University senior Jason Minicozzi saw his peers struggling. The lack of options led his organization, the Migration Club, to create the McAnulty College Community Food Pantry last year, joining a growing list of local universities opening, and expanding their pantries to meet the food insecurity crisis.
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