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Investing in Community Colleges

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“Because we believe that teams with experience on the front lines of challenges will know best how to put the money to good use, we encouraged them to spend it however they choose,” Scott wrote in a June 2021 blog post listing some of the gifts. The Student Research and Advocacy Center at Lee College houses a food pantry. “So,

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How to Help Students Navigate a Difficult Job Search

Supporting Student Success

In a survey by the Collegiate Employment Research Institute at Michigan State University, 48% of employers expected that full recovery of the college labor market will take two to three years, and 15% felt it will take even longer. Use Digital Resources to Learn the Ins and Outs of the Industry. Volunteer or Intern Virtually.

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Hold Fast to Dreams: Parting Words from Dr. Charlie Nelms

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I also considered joining my cousins who had left the rural south for jobs “Up North,” working in the automobile, steel, or other manufacturing industries, where little formal education was required, and where even a custodian could earn several times more than a seasonal farm worker, sharecropper, or subsistence farmer.

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Addressing Failures of Implementation

Confessions of a Community College Dean

As a leader in the academic and enrollment services space, our research highlights transfer policy gaps and spotlights successful practices that drive both institutional and learner success. This is what AACRAO members do. They help document learning. They help create the bridges that connect one pathway to another.

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Co-creation, research work and collaboration: Developing graduate attributes through research practice

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

This stems from my passionate belief that students can make a real and valuable contribution to the academic research and that engaging in this kind of work is empowering them to recognise their transferable skills and exciting them to continue in study, research and other academic pursuits.

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Four Big Questions on Carnegie Classifications Changes

Robert Kelchen

It is World Series time, so why not devote a blog post to one of the most fascinating inside baseball conversations within higher education? After multiple blue-ribbon panels and meetings across the higher education industry, ACE gave the public the first glimpse of what the Carnegie classifications may look like in 2025. million.

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Time to Step Away from Twitter

Robert Kelchen

I have made connections with wonderful people, started research collaborations, and disseminated my work to policymakers and journalists. A limit of reading 1,000 tweets per day sounds like a lot, but it’s a drop in the bucket of what journalists, industry insiders, and interested parties see on a regular basis.

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