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How Can We Bring Many More Students to Math, Data and Statistical Literacy?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

According to one often-reported statistic from 2009, 17 percent of the general population has high levels of anxiety involving mathematics. Nor are arguments over how math should be taught new. I myself suffered through the new math in middle school. Should we expect all students to become proficient in math and statistics?

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Governance as a topic in Higher Education Studies

SRHE

The OED offers no more than “The act or manner of governing” and, misleadingly in respect to universities, defines a governing body as “the managers of the institution” ignoring the concept of ‘shared governance’ between governing bodies and senates implicit historically in the constitutions of most pre-1992 universities.

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Seeking fiscal transparency for public colleges

Confessions of a Community College Dean

” And the last bill would mandate training programs in financial higher ed management for members of institutions’ governing boards. Brian Bridges, New Jersey’s secretary of higher education, said the legislation would help ensure that investment is managed responsibly. New Jersey invested nearly $2.8