The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine recently released a report titled Graduate STEM Education for the 21st Century, which outlines several recommendations for necessary changes required to meet the needs of modern STEM students through a set of updated and student-centered CORE competencies and cultural shifts in what is valued in the academy.
Year: 2018
UNC Chapel Hill Professor Uses Inclusive Teaching to Make Class More Fair
A University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill professor redesigned her class to help close achievement gaps between minority students and white students as well as first-generation students and continuing-generation students. Her method, inclusive teaching, was recently featured by The Chronicle of Higher Education and is taking off among her Chapel Hill colleagues and beyond.
Faces of Dreamers: Jacob Maldonado and Maria Campos, Trevecca Nazarene University
Dreamers Jacob Maldonado and Maria Campos, best friends and fellow students at Trevecca Nazarene University in Nashville, persevered in their studies despite wondering if it was still worth pursuing their college degrees after the 2016 elections and political winds shifting against the DACA policy.
It Doesn’t Always Get Better for Queer-Spectrum and Trans-Spectrum College Students
Many queer-spectrum and trans-spectrum students continue to navigate stigma, peer aggression, and exclusion well into their college years. Researchers are beginning to capture their experiences, which could help lead the way to change.
Series by Third Way and AEI Sheds Light on College Completion
Elevating College Completion is a recently released series that aims to inform readers about how many students who enter undergraduate programs end up completing their degree. It examines some potential policy tools that could be used to incentivize institutions to take steps to increase their completion rates.
Economic Value of International Students at U.S. Community Colleges
Data recently released by NAFSA: Association of International Educators shows that the nearly 100,000 international students attending U.S. community colleges contributed $2.4 billion to the economy and supported more than 14,000 jobs during the 2016-17 academic year.
ACE at 100: Advocating for Women in Higher Education
Throughout its history, ACE has worked to support the inclusion of women in all aspects of higher education. From advocating women’s right to work in the 1920s to creating a pipeline to higher education leadership positions in recent years, ACE has spearheaded a number of initiatives focused on women and their success.
Analysis Traces Trends in Graduate Student Debt by Race and Ethnicity
Robert Kelchen, an assistant professor at Seton Hall University, recently wrote a blog post using the newly released NPSAS:16 data investigating graduate student debt by race and ethnicity.
Mapping Snapshot: Education Abroad and the Outbound Mobility of U.S. College Students
What is the number one priority among activities for internationalization for campuses? According Mapping Internationalization on U.S. Campuses: 2017 Edition, it’s education abroad.
STEM Climate for Students with Disabilities
More students with disabilities of all types are enrolling in postsecondary education institutions than ever before. Yet fewer of them persist to graduation relative to their peers without disabilities, and still fewer graduate with science, technology, engineering, or mathematics degrees. Rachel Friedensen, postdocotoral research associate at Iowa State University, examines this dilemma.
New Analysis Reinforces the Racial Disparities of Student Debt
The recent release of the 2015-16 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study has very quickly raised concern and alarm around which students face the largest debt burdens.
ACE Member Institutions Participate in Mental Health Fresh Check Day
ACE member institutions make up many of the 150 colleges and universities participating in Fresh Check Day, a program designed to promote student mental health through an atmosphere of campus support.