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UMD Ranked a Top 5 School for Entrepreneurship

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星期三, 十一月 8, 2023
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COLLEGE PARK, Md., Nov. 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The University of Maryland climbed into the nation's top five colleges for cultivating student entrepreneurialism, according to rankings released today by The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine.

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  • 1 in the Mid-Atlantic in the 2024 edition of the annual list of undergraduate entrepreneurship programs; this marks Maryland's ninth straight year in the top 10.
  • While many entrepreneurship rankings focus only on a university's business school, The Princeton Review reflects a university's campuswide entrepreneurship ecosystem, analyzing a variety of factors including academic offerings, mentorships, competitions, programs, centers and faculty support.
  • Nearly one in four undergraduates—more than 7,000— in 89 majors are enrolled in undergraduate entrepreneurship courses at UMD, taught by 59 faculty members across 30 departments.
  • Beyond traditional entrepreneurship, UMD also offers over 100 courses in innovation-related areas like creativity, entrepreneurial mindset, social value creation, business models and design thinking.

Lumen Learning Awarded Prestigious Grant to Improve Educational Outcomes for Underserved Students

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星期三, 四月 13, 2022
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PORTLAND, Ore., April 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lumen Learning, a leading provider of teaching and learning materials, today announced it has been awarded a significant grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to further its work in creating and implementing equitable courseware. Lumen was chosen as a result of its long history of creating change in education and providing innovative, high-quality and affordable digital learning courseware to students and educators nationwide. Since its founding, Lumen Learning has set industry benchmarks through its commitment to increase equity, access and affordability in education. This grant will extend this work, focusing specifically on eliminating race and income as predictors of success for students. The selection process for the grant was highly competitive and included dozens of publishers, edtech organizations and institutions of higher learning.

Key Points: 
  • Since its founding, Lumen Learning has set industry benchmarks through its commitment to increase equity, access and affordability in education.
  • The selection process for the grant was highly competitive and included dozens of publishers, edtech organizations and institutions of higher learning.
  • Additionally, Lumen Learning has a partnership with Howard University to gain guidance and feedback on course and platform development, learning from Howard's rich history of success supporting Black students.
  • "This grant will propel us faster to our goal of implementing more relevant digital learning and improving outcomes for Black, Latino/a, Indigenous and low-income students.

Decade of Transformation: Graduation Rate Gains Continue at Wayne State University

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星期四, 十月 7, 2021
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To address the issue, the APLU initiated a major initiative, Powered by Publics , to scale student success and achieve parity in graduation rates by race/ethnicity.

Key Points: 
  • To address the issue, the APLU initiated a major initiative, Powered by Publics , to scale student success and achieve parity in graduation rates by race/ethnicity.
  • Participating universities were asked to commit to the aggressive goal of boosting Black graduation rates by 2.7 percentage points a year.
  • Wayne State's targeted rate of increase should lead to parity for Black students at the university in 2030 five years ahead of the APLU's stretch goal.
  • "So, for Wayne State to improve almost 10 percentage points in a single year on its Black graduation rate is remarkable.