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Students connect peers to alumni, industry resources

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: For students, leveraging their institution’s alumni network can be easier said than done. The team puts on dozens of events and works with hundreds of alumni who conduct interviews and writes a blog to create resources for their classmates.

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Alumni Spotlight: Niki’s Summer Abroad in Salamanca, Spain

AIFS Abroad

This charming city in northern Spain has so much to offer college students interested in a global education experience, and we happen to offer programs there all year round! We recently caught up with Niki, an AIFS Alumni Ambassador and a Fairfield University student who spent a summer abroad in Salamanca for the experience of a lifetime.

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Famous Graduates of Liberal Arts Colleges

Great College Advice

Students and parents alike are wondering what the value of a broad education could be. William McKinley – 25th President of the United States NOTABLE ALUMNI of AUGSBURG COLLEGE, Minneapolis, MN Dr. Peter Agre, 2003 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry Rev. There are lots of famous graduates of liberal arts colleges. Former U.S.

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Small College America – Profile: Whitman College

Edu Alliance Journal

Whitman prides itself on a student-to-faculty ratio of 9:1, facilitating personalized education. Graduate outcomes at Whitman are exceptional, with nearly 70% of alumni enrolling in graduate or professional programs within five years of graduation. Enrollment Trends As of Fall 2024, Whitman enrollment is 1,561 students.

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First Latina Miss Coppin State faces social media backlash

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Hispanic students are increasingly attending HBCUs, said Deborah Santiago, co-founder and CEO of Excelencia in Education, an organization focused on Latino student success. Non-Black students made up a full quarter of HBCU enrollments in 2021, compared to 15 percent in 1976, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.

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Sports betting contracts should be rethought (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The agreements raised questions, as the Times put it, “about whether promoting gambling on campus—especially to people who are at an age when they are vulnerable to developing gambling disorders—fits the mission of higher education.” The university is a city-state and an educational institution.

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How to Improve College Teaching in 2023

Confessions of a Community College Dean

How might this precept apply to higher education? As the historian Henry Steele Commager observed six decades ago, American higher education is an amalgam of four distinct educational traditions. In other words, I should be the last person to call for an education that is more prescriptive or practical.