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Report: Latinos Essential to Growing STEM Workforce

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

workforce participation growth between 2010-2020, the report noted. increase in undergrad engineering enrollment rates from 2010 (9.1%) to 2021 (15.8%). Graduate students’ needs are focused on financing their education and financial support for conference travel. trillion, despite comprising only 19.1% of the U.S. population.

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To Weather the Storms of Higher Education, Remember Why You’re There

Supporting Student Success

In creating that website , I recognized my passion for education lies in missed opportunities I saw in my own life. He achieved this with a technical degree and lots of continuing education. The second woman who contributed to my passion for continued education is my Tootie, my “other mother.” Dr. Cali M.K.

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How schools can streamline their alternative credentials programs

University Business

Alternative credentials have become a driving force in education, increasingly favored by non-traditional students who helped reverse a decade-plus long trend of declines that started in 2010 and fell sharply during the pandemic. Working with businesses looking to hire skilled employees is an essential part of that.

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How MOOCs helped a centuries-old institution change its ways

Teaching Matters Online Learning

The University of Edinburgh has been delivering extra-mural and continuing education since the 1960s and we will be using our more recent experiences with MOOCs and online teaching to expand and improve that offering. Can a centuries-old university change its ways?

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Growing Universities with Post-Traditional Students: with host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and guest Carol Aslanian | Changing Higher Ed Podcast 009

The Change Leader, Inc.

Online education got its major start in the 1980s driven in large part by the University of Phoenix in 1989 and the advent of Blackboard in the late 1990s. Although adult students were not the primary focus of universities, so long as these units brought in revenue, the institution was pleased as the revenue supported other areas.

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Costs and Benefits of Adding 30-units to Accounting Students' Requirements for Licensure as a CPA

Higher Ed Ethics Watch

The 2021 AICPA Trends report on accounting education, the CPA exam, and public accounting firms’ hiring of recent graduates shows that the number of accounting graduates with bachelor’s and master’s degrees has been declining between the 2009-2010 and 2019-2020 periods. The decline is most pronounced during the past four years. [3].

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Navigating President Turnover: Higher Ed Leadership Challenges: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 169 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. William E. “Brit” Kirwan

The Change Leader, Inc.

Presently, he chairs a Statewide Commission on Innovation and Excellence in Education, which has been asked to make recommendations to the Governor and General Assembly to enable Maryland schools to perform at the level of the world’s best school systems. Among Dr. Kirwan’s many honors is the 2010 TIAA-CREF Theodore M.