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Best Open Access Journals and Scholarly Articles for Research Students

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Unfortunately, a sizeable portion of this academic scholarship is locked behind paywalls thus restricting its access to those who can afford to pay. Several researchers and students are unable to afford the high costs required for access thus crippling their efforts to participate in the generation of quality knowledge.

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The Metaverse Hype Died Down. Where Does That Leave Colleges That Invested In It?

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But the concept resonated, says Marcy Drummond, the college’s vice president of economic and social mobility innovation. Some of the initial lessons that the university wanted to create, like organic chemistry and anatomy labs, required details that raised the expense and priced the school out. “I

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As Student Need Rises, More College Faculty Set Up Emergency Aid Funds

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As she made progress toward her major, chemistry, and needed fewer courses directly related to that degree, the state grant she relied on covered fewer of her credit hours, leaving her with thousands more dollars to pay. But during her junior year, the expenses started to add up. Yet, he adds, “something like that is supplemental.

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Facing Pressure on Enrollment, Will Colleges Support More Transfer Students?

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For example, if it’s part of the mission of a bachelor’s degree-granting institution to educate diverse students and facilitate economic mobility, then supporting transfer students from community colleges fits the bill, LaViolet says. A few pressures might incentivize four-year colleges to step up their efforts.

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Free Lesson Plans from Study.com

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Study.com is an online distance learning portal that provides over 70,000 lessons in fifteen subjects (including algebra, calculus, chemistry, macro- and microeconomics, and physics) aligned with many popular textbooks. Students and you can watch the videos and access the lessons from a desktop, a tablet, or a smartphone. **.

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From field to lab: the changing nature of archaeology

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In these spaces you had Indigenous communities, European settlers, indentured servants, and enslaved Africans all engaged in a changing socio-economic landscape.” We have found a lot of tableware from the 17th and 18th centuries, suggesting that despite being inland, people had access to materials from Europe,” says Liza. “We

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How can engineering address human rights issues?

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Across Peru, thousands of people do not have access to clean water or efficient transport links. Access to water and sanitation are fundamental human rights. By combining engineering and human rights disciplines, he is researching the links between access to transport and the inequalities facing Peruvians today.