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Community College of Vermont and Hospital Pay Students to Take Classes

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The hospital received two tranches of money: one to expand their childcare center and one to increase the center’s staffing. It’s a simple, intuitive idea that Trimarchi believes could be replicated in many different regions and industries. CCV and SVMC anticipate funding 8-10 applicants. This isn’t rocket science.”

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Lieberman Expected to Lead La Verne to Next Stage

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The early days of her presidency were not without bumpy moments and naysayers, including alumni who objected to a president not of the university’s founding faith and others who questioned having a woman president, but as she retires in August of this year after a remarkable 12 years, she leaves a legacy in terms of student support and diversity.

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Building a Meaningful Microcredential Program

Parchment

Can you help build that volume of alumni that will come work for us, that want to work for us, that want to learn more about our industry, our company. So that we created industry specific micro credentials and those are curriculum aligned. They came to us and said, you know, we’re a medical device industry.

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Making Sense of Changes to the U.S. News Rankings Methodology

Robert Kelchen

I wrote last year about things that I was watching for in the rankings industry, particularly regarding colleges no longer voluntarily providing data to U.S. Fully seventy percent of these rankings are tied to metrics of social mobility, with a massive survey of students and alumni (20%) and diversity metrics (10%) making up the remainder.

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The Art of Persuasion and Personas in Enrollment Marketing

HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

Featuring alumni stories and your rankings and endorsements from reputable educational bodies can help you leverage the influence of others to validate your institution’s quality and desirability. What pushes a single mom working full time in hospitality to go back to school? Use them, and use them thoughtfully.

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Age Consciousness, Age Segregation, and Age Denigration

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Around the middle of the century, the first children’s hospitals appeared, as did a branch of medicine focused on children and their diseases, pediatrics. Syrett, and others have shown, a product of the era of the Industrial Revolution. Invite more adults, including alumni, to campus to share practical tips and advice.

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Study Business in the Ivy League – Expert Advice

Great College Advice

So, it wasn’t until the 19th century that Europeans and Americans began thinking of teaching university courses that were directly relevant to both agriculture (where most Americans were employed at the time) and to the advances of the Industrial Age (and the rise of engineering as a discipline).