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A Third of Your Freshmen Disappear. How Can You Keep Them?
When the first-year retention rate at Southern Utah University fell five percentage points over five years, college administrators there knew they had a problem. They just weren’t sure what to do about it. "They were at a loss, and frankly, we were, too," recalls Jared N. Tippets, who was hired three years ago to reverse the trend. The institution had tried several of the "high impact" practices that are supposed to help with retention — learning communities, common reading programs — but students kept leaving. By 2015, only 64 percent of freshmen were returning for their sophomore year.
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The Effects of Parental Separation on Children
Many medical associations and thousands of mental-health professionals have criticized the Trump administration’s policy of dividing immigrant families at the southern border, including the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Psychological Association. In many cases, professionals cite the negative health effects parental separation has on children.
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The Perils Of Pushing Kids Too Hard, And How Parents Can Learn To Back Off
On New Year's Eve, back in 2012, Savannah Eason retreated into her bedroom and picked up a pair of scissors. "I was holding them up to my palm as if to cut myself," she says. "Clearly what was happening was I needed someone to do something." Her dad managed to wrestle the scissors from her hands, but that night it had become clear she needed help. "It was really scary," she recalls. "I was sobbing the whole time." Savannah was in high school at the time. She says the pressure she felt to succeed — to aim high — had left her anxious and depressed.
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Microgrant Opportunity: Increasing Scientific Awareness Among US Election Candidates
Research!America has released a request for project proposals from student- and postdoc-led science policy groups for their Bipartisan Candidate Engagement Initiative.
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NIH Funding for High-Priority Behavioral and Social Research Networks
The National Institute on Aging has released two new funding announcements encouraging submission of proposals to develop research networks dedicated to behavioral research connected to aging, Alzheimer’s disease, and Alzheimer’s disease related dementias.
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Bias Is Blind: Partisan Prejudice Across the Political Spectrum
A scientific analysis upends the notion that people on the political right are more biased about their ideological views than are people on the left.
