The University of Texas at Austin and Emerson College have recently announced staff layoffs due to declining enrollment numbers and internal crises linked to the recent wave of protests. Some staff believe institutions are using the demonstrations as a scapegoat to downsize.
Over half of recent graduates and current students who searched for jobs within the past six months said employers always, often or sometimes inquired about their protest history.
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The challenge lies not in the medium but in how it's structured. Institutions can do more to foster the essential communal aspects of traditional learning to combat the loneliness of remote learning.
All K12 districts, regardless of their average family incomes, suffered deeper learning setbacks the longer they maintained hybrid or remote learning models. Unfortunately for higher ed, college preparation fell to the backburner.
After studying first-year Ivy-Plus students' admissions records and grades between 2017 and 2022, Harvard-based Opportunity Insights found that student's test scores are a far more significant predictor of collegiate success than their high school GPA.
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