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Community College Incarcerated Reentry Programs: Looking Forward

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

College-in-prison programs flourished in the 1970’s and 1980’s after the 1965 Higher Education Act made people who were incarcerated eligible for Pell Grants. Within a decade of the bill’s passage, in-prison college programs dwindled from over 700 to 12. In 2015, the U.S. and Puerto Rico. Roueche and Margaretta B.

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3 Questions on Academic Library Budgets for an Assessment and Planning Librarian

Confessions of a Community College Dean

A: Doctoral-granting university libraries in ACRL spend about 37 percent of their budgets on salaries, 13 percent on fringe benefits, 40 percent on materials and 11 percent on operations. This means the enormous for-profit vendors retain their contracts because they are too big to cancel and the small nonprofit publishers usually lose out.

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Should conferences stay put or relocate? It's complicated.

Confessions of a Community College Dean

” ASHE is moving its 2024 meeting to Minneapolis, even though it may incur financial costs from breaking a contract with the Hilton New Orleans Riverside. In 2016, Kruger said, NASPA weighed whether to follow through with plans for a meeting in Indianapolis given the 2015 passage of the state’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

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The Good, The Bad & The Ugly of Microcredentials

Parchment

And if you look at research like Adam Grant out of Wharton School of Business, and you know, it says that we’re really bad at it. It’s at community colleges. And you know that when employers are looking, you know, to fill a position, they have our resume, they have our cover letter, they have our interview.

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The Good, The Bad & The Ugy of Microcredentials

Parchment

And if you look at research like Adam Grant out of Wharton School of Business, and you know, it says that we’re really bad at it. It’s at community colleges. And you know that when employers are looking, you know, to fill a position, they have our resume, they have our cover letter, they have our interview.

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