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Key Takeaways: The 2023 Supreme Court decision to end race-conscious admissions compels colleges to find innovative ways to maintain campus diversity. Institutions should adopt holistic admissions criteria and expand outreach to underrepresented groups without relying on racial identifiers. AI tools can help analyze applications impartially, address biases, and provide strategic insights to optimize diversity. Embracing…

Key Takeaways · AI can reduce inherent biases in college admissions by analyzing patterns and outcomes systematically, helping human overseers identify and correct inconsistencies in the selection process. AI automates routine tasks, reduces human errors, and ensures thorough and impartial reviews of applications, benefiting underrepresented groups and democratizing access to higher education. Successful AI integration…

Shifting global student demand: Asia’s role in diversification, a report jointly written by the student recruitment platform and the global testing company, detailed how traditional and emerging markets have performed between 2019-2023, and how universities in the big four destinations can capitalise. Bangladesh’s numbers grew by 129% between 2019 and 2023 in the US Report…

Campus France has announced it has won European funding to coordinate phase four of the ‘Study in Europe’ initiative aiming to improve the visibility of Europe as a study destination for non-EU students. Campus France is the lead partner in a European consortium comprising of Germany’s DAAD, the Netherlands’ Nuffic, the Education and Youth Board in Estonia, the Academic…

Problems with visas and other issues unique to international students could be behind the hike in these grievances, the Office of the Independent Adjudicator (OIA) suggested. Some 3,137 complaints were logged by the OIA in 2023, up from 2,850 in 2022 – continuing a steady trend of increasing numbers of complaints year-on-year since 2017, according…

Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Persistence rates among first-time students are the highest they have been in the past decade, according to a report released Thursday by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Of first-year students who enrolled in fall…

Listen to the article 11 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. The past few months have been trying for Saint Louis University’s student financial aid office, which worked overtime trying to process and distribute financial aid packages to prospective students.  Like financial aid administrators across the country, employees…

In many of these cases, the affected students were the object of discussion or mere part of the equation: more about us rather than with us, and with less affluence within their communities, this implied less capacity for international students to exercise agency. Very recently, we have seen a manifestation of this more general political…

Overview Digital Learning in Higher Education calls for change in the educational ecosystem which will lead to significant improvement in the productivity of the students. Blending technology with teaching and learning in a classroom using digital tools such as laptops, mobile phones, and touchpads not only goes high-tech with digital learning platforms but also provides…

Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Faced with intensifying financial challenges, Eastern Nazarene College in Massachusetts is moving to close permanently after a vote by its board, according to a Tuesday announcement. The private Christian nonprofit has forged teach-out agreements with…