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Fostering Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I think public institutions have a mission to make sure that those in society have access to higher education,” says Alexander, who arrived at UCLA in 2006. AAP emphasizes that their students have earned the academic right to be at UCLA and have shown the potential to excel and graduate. Coming from such a background drives him. “I

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How College Transforms Students

Confessions of a Community College Dean

As of 2006, there were already between 6,000 and 7,000 studies of the impact of college on students. For all their talk about caring for individual student’s well-being, most institutions failed to do much to accommodate differences in students’ interests or talents or to offer personalized or customized support services.