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BMCC Grad Looks to Make Restaurants More Accessible

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

On a Friday night in 2019, Gesy Duran prepared to dine at an Italian restaurant with her wife. You could take it anywhere and use for it anything from eating meals to studying in a library. Gesy Duran recently graduated from Borough of Manhattan Community College. She was excited for the special occasion.

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Have Academic Library Staffing Numbers Really Declined That Much Over the Past Decade?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Blog: Learning Innovation The first draft of this blog post was written before I published a post on 1/22 titled How Do Academic Libraries Spend Their Money? The idea that academic library budgets are fungible shows ignorance of how these budgets work. Probably some change in how library staff are counted. What is going on?

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My 2025 Higher Ed Finance Reading List

Robert Kelchen

I link to the final versions of the articles whenever possible, but those without access to an academic library should note that earlier versions of many of these articles are available online via a quick Google search. 2019, December 9). Students pay the price if a college fails. Happy reading! link ) Ducoff, N. Denning, J.

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Community colleges' positive, pervasive digital leap

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Against the backdrop of headlines blaring news about declining community college enrollments, one bright spot has emerged: community college students, faculty and administrators are broadly aligned in their enthusiasm for the digital transformation that has occurred at their institutions since the start of the pandemic.

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My 2024 Higher Education Finance Reading List

Robert Kelchen

I link to the final versions of the articles whenever possible, but those without access to an academic library should note that earlier versions of many of these articles are available online via a quick Google search. 2019, December 9). Students pay the price if a college fails. Friedman, J. link ) Ducoff, N. Denning, J.

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How Vermont is winning the fight against falling enrollment

University Business

Two big initiatives pushing this change are recent school mergers and a powerful free community college pipeline. Starting this July, Castleton University, Northern Vermont University and Vermont Technical College will consolidate into Vermont State University—a lean, cost-effective hybrid learning machine.

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My 2022 Higher Education Finance Reading List

Robert Kelchen

I link to the final versions of the articles whenever possible, but those without access to an academic library should note that earlier versions of many of these articles are available online via a quick Google search. 2019, December 9). Students pay the price if a college fails. Massachusetts Board of Higher Education (2019).

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