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For yrs #California has had the Associate Degree for Transfer program. Since '23 CA also has the Transfer Success Pathway program, essentially a dual admission program for @calcommcolleges.bsky.social students w. @calstate.bsky.social colleges: buff.ly/nVmYiUT #highered #AcademicSky

Creating a Clearer Transfer Path

California State University’s Transfer Success Pathway provides eligible community college students guaranteed admission and support as they pursue a bachelor’s degree.

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For outstanding info about everything to do with dual enrollment (college courses taught to high school students), including how states can enhance it, see Davis Jenkins and John Fink's CCRC article: buff.ly/fDyOGvV #highered #AcademicSky

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This article on dual enrollment (college courses taught to high school students) opens with a great subtitle: "Dual enrollment has its challenges, a research brief argues. Few states fund it sufficiently. Equity gaps persist. And too many credits lead nowhere." buff.ly/Z6uyG5L #highered #AcademicSky

Open Campus: Dual enrollment has boomed. Now what?

Dual enrollment has its challenges, a research brief argues. Few states fund it sufficiently. Equity gaps persist. And too many credits lead nowhere.

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This experiment w. German adults to improve their media literacy(to help them "distinguish trustworthy from untrustworthy news outlets" & "assess the credibility of specific claims")was least effective w. "supporters of populist radical-right parties." #psychology #AcademicSky @lfoswaldo.bsky.social

Related to different cultural norms, people may be more likely to express anxiety & depression symptoms in some languages than others (e.g. Japanese vs. English). Clinicians need to take such differences into account, including in people who are bilingual: buff.ly/ZwIzat7 #psychology #AcademicSky

APS Journal Article

Abstract In the United States, there are persistent disparities in mental-health services for linguistically and culturally minoritized groups. We examined whether bilinguals reported psychological…

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Here's a good way to get bachelor's IHEs to be more supportive of vertical transfer: Improve their performance by "recognizing and celebrating the institutions where those efforts are producing exceptional results" as Phi Theta Kappa is doing. buff.ly/cjUBxC3 #AcademicSky #highered #beyondtransfer

Recognition as a Lever for Improving Transfer

Recognition as a lever for improving transfer.

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"[Before], students [in] developmental #math had roughly an 11% chance of completing a college-level math course within a yr. After...accelerating students into college-level math w. support[it's now]nearly 65% in[one]semester." James Gray, Math Dean, Pima CC. buff.ly/V0hOWGg #highered #AcademicSky

Strengthening Student Success Through Math Reform

Curricula should be designed around students to remove barriers to learning, retention, and completion.

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The fact that the number of traditional-age college students is decreasing increases competition between bachelor's & community colleges, making it harder for community colleges to get approval to offer bachelor's degrees, which would help many students: buff.ly/OVlDLSQ #highered #AcademicSky

Facing political attack and falling enrollment, colleges take the fight to … each other

Competition is intensifying among institutions and recruiters for a dwindling supply of students

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Distance to a @calstate.bsky.social campus negatively affects p(that a @calcommcolleges.bsky.social associate-degree student will transfer there) for a bachelor's buff.ly/93FT3fV. Offering CA community college bachelor's degrees can help, but the CSU system keeps objecting. #highered #AcademicSky

COMMENTARY: Not every California student can afford to transfer. Community college bachelor’s degrees could help

Since the implementation of California Assembly Bill 927 in 2021, students have faced an unexpected barrier to expanded educational opportunity — one that runs in direct opposition to the bill's…

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Critical to achieving 2 of the 4 points made in this @insidehighered.com article by @joshuabay.bsky.social ("How Colleges Are Redesigning the Path to a Degree") is the Transfer Explorer website which shows how all prior learning transfers. buff.ly/XYkud2t buff.ly/bsaCxw2 #highered #AcademicSky

How Colleges Are Redesigning the Path to a Degree

From transfer reform to apprenticeship credit, colleges are building more flexible pathways that connect learning, credentials and careers.

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Sometimes chatbots are giving advice concerning #eating that can be harmful to someone with an eating disorder. It's important that people not rely entirely on a chatbot for advice concerning what they should eat. buff.ly/rD0o8jm #health #psychology #AcademicSky

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12-14,000 years ago, humans in such disparate sites as Alaska/Yukon, North America, and South America all focused on eating large herbivores for food--they did not have a generalist diet, and this specialized diet did not cause them excessive health risks. buff.ly/g5YscsY #food #health

Hemisphere-wide evidence of Early Paleoindian megaherbivore specialization

The three earliest continent-wide cultures in the Americas focused on the largest prey, like mammoths and giant ground sloths.

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In addition to articulation agreements for Criminal Justice associate to bachelor's degrees working well in #Philadelphia (buff.ly/Y4j32T5), they have been extremely successful in the @cuny.edu system for 20 years, spearheaded by John Jay College of Criminal Justice. #highered #AcademicSky

Beyond lost credits: articulation agreements as a pathway to student success and persistence

This essay explores the multifaceted value of articulation agreements between community colleges and four-year institutions within the context of criminal justice studies. As higher education incre...

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Research has taught us that incarcerated people given opportunities to earn decent salaries are less likely to commit future crimes (buff.ly/hSgAfVx). @CUNY.edu is helping by providing opportunities for incarcerated people to earn college degrees: buff.ly/kjiJ0pA #highered #AcademicSky

From Inmate to College Graduate

CUNY’s Prison-to-College Pathways Pipeline celebrated its first commencement while helping incarcerated students earn associate degrees and find belonging.

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When the justification for keeping courses in the core curriculum is simply that removing them “threatens those courses with effective extinction,” that is putting keeping jobs ahead of student needs. buff.ly/CDRlixd For similar points see buff.ly/aKKeW3Y #highered #academicsky @uh.edu

U. of Houston Is Planning Big Cuts to Its Core Curriculum. Faculty Aren’t Happy.

The university is moving to cut 40 percent of classes from its core curriculum in response to a state law. Professors say administrators’ interpretation of the law is too broad, and that they should…

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Dual enrollment (college courses taught to high school students) has been growing hugely around the country, with most states promoting it. @arizonastateuni.bsky.social has been contributing by offering dual enrollment courses, not just in AZ, but across USA: buff.ly/TUZDn4n #AcademicSky #highered

Dual enrollment: How to enhance results for underserved students

Arizona State has partnered with over 550 schools, including those supporting rural and neurodivergent students, using 3 vital principles.

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The LEARN Commission has stated: “Institutions & systems—& all involved constituents—should seek to maximize credential applicability & embrace the assumption that a learner is prepared for additional education, unless proven otherwise.”” buff.ly/AGFpVa7 #highered #academicsky #beyondtransfer

Why Credit Evaluation Work Deserves a Bigger Table

The work of learning evaluation matters now more than ever.

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