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  1. Feb 2025
    1. As Ethnic Studies has recently become a requirement for the California State University (CSU) system, and soon the University of California (UC) system, California Community Colleges (CCC), and California high schools, more attention has been placed on Ethnic Studies

      Ethnic studies becomes a requirement in all California Colleges

  2. Nov 2024
    1. One of her colleagues—­­a star professor at Harvard Business School named Francesca Gino—­had just been accused of academic fraud. The authors of the blog post, a small team of business-school researchers, had found discrepancies in four of Gino’s published papers, and they suggested that the scandal was much larger. “We believe that many more Gino-authored papers contain fake data,” the blog post said. “Perhaps dozens.”

      Special Preview: January 2025 Issue

      Illustration by Pablo Delcan Science The Business-School Scandal That Just Keeps Getting Bigger By Daniel Engber

      Juliana Schroeder. a teacher at the UC Berkley business school had a colleague accused of academic fraud.

      (https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/01/business-school-fraud-research/680669/)

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  9. Jul 2021
    1. Crossing the Stage: Bachelor Degree Completion Programs

      Social annotation can be used to help students development fundamental "college" skills but also discipline specific skills and practices once on a degree pathway.

    2. For high-stakes courses (i.e., prerequisites), Santa Cruz has early alert programs to identify students at risk of failing a course early in the quarter and provide academic advising and support.

      Could Hypothesis data be used to inform this early warning system?

    3. UC campuses are integrating online technology into existing courses, expanding the number of courses available online,

      There's a definite need then to make these not just simple platform based courses, but to add third-party tools that deliver on the learning not just the management piece of online education.

    4. Research findings from the UC Undergraduate Experience Survey (UCUES) show that students with a lower sense of belonging (on the campus) have lower graduation rates than their peers (see Figure 4).
    5. I also was able to network a bit, making some friends in the process.

      Social annotation can enhance sense of community and belonging in students which can in turn increase retention, especially in first generation students.

    6. The first step to increasing degree attainment is ensuring students get off to the right start.

      How do we know if they do? Hypothesis social annotation can act as an early impetus for students and early warning system for instructors.

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