Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 30, 2024

Morris, a former reporter for Diverse, said that postsecondary institutions should partner with local industry leaders to assess their needs and discover which jobs will be most plentiful in the future to better align programs and build pathways into good jobs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Jessica Perez, director of the Center for Career & Professional Development at LaGuardia Community College in New York City, found the report’s projections informative. It is predicted that Washington, D.C., Dallas and Boston will experience the greatest shortages relative to projected labor market demand.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2024

This year, Excelencia also examined three specific areas of industry projected to grow by roughly 10% by 2031: STEM (statistics, technology, engineering and mathematics), healthcare, and educational professions.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 17, 2023

Image: The Biden administration’s $90 billion plan to provide free community college likely won’t make it through Congress, but supporters of the effort say the request shows it’s a priority for the administration and helps to continue the national conversation about the policy. percent decline in enrollment.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 5, 2023

The National Society of Black Engineers is moving its 50th annual convention from Orlando, Fla., We have members that go all the way from professionals in industry to collegiate students down to pre-college students down to the third-grade level,” Layne said. to Atlanta. said Avery Layne, the group’s national chairperson. “We

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University Business

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

This gap widens at an institution like Trine University, where many students graduate with degrees in high-paying fields such as healthcare and engineering and many of our graduates earn above the national average in their field. The benefits of a college experience extend well beyond a graduate’s bank account.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 21, 2023

These colleges and their certification advocates argue that certification not only readily equips students with the real-world skills to transition successfully to their first job post but also addresses many of the equity concerns colleges face by validating the idea that all forms of learning are valued, including forms of skilled labor.

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University Business

MARCH 27, 2025

While Yale and other research universities are offering technical support, they will also gain insight from the consortium’s community colleges that are tapped into the state’s workforce needs, says Ron Harichandran, CAIA co-founder and dean of New Haven’s engineering department.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 7, 2023

STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) is expanding into STEAM, with the addition of art. Creative thinking is the basis of the development of [many]of these industries now,” Akbar noted. Some of McPherson’s students envision careers in the music industry while others want to use music as a tool for impacting society.

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University Business

JUNE 23, 2023

The federal government has awarded Bergen Community College a five-year, $4.5 The 2023 Feeding the Economy report commissioned by agriculture industry leaders shows that nearly 20% of all U.S. The 2023 Feeding the Economy report commissioned by agriculture industry leaders shows that nearly 20% of all U.S.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

While some campuses are still struggling to meet the moment of generative AI, several community colleges are collaborating with regional employers to ensure their students won’t be left behind by a disrupted workforce. Students will use AI to handle personal health data or solve complex engineering problems in computer science.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

This fundamental challenge is a driving force behind recent colleges propped up in the past two years by other widely respected R1 universities, whose leaders also joined the call. Steve Harmon is the associate dean of research at Georgia Tech’s College of Lifetime Learning, the first new college in 36 years.

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University Business

AUGUST 28, 2024

Among the first objectives in Kansas State’s 2023 strategic plan is to enroll 5,000 to 7,000 alternative credential-seeking learners by 2030 across continuing education courses, micro-credentials and industry training collaboratives.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 5, 2023

Yet the humanities are crucial , even—or especially— in a world that prioritizes science, technology, engineering and math disciplines. Similarly, good engineering seeks to improve the human condition, like the LEED-certified building methods that minimize negative impacts on the environment.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 4, 2023

The half-day event promoted business and career advice and networking opportunities for science, technology, engineering and math students interested in pharmaceuticals and biotech, boosting students’ interest and confidence in postgraduate opportunities.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

So a core feature of a set of online, lifelong learning programs launching at Gonzaga University stands out: in both the cybersecurity and software engineering boot camps, each student will be matched with an industry mentor based on their interests, goals and location.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 28, 2023

Image: Microcredentials —quality, verifiable, bite-size, low-priced, nondegree online offerings targeted to specific industries—have boomed in recent years in response to demand from employers and would-be workers alike for additional options that can better prepare learners for the workforce. Others see synergistic opportunities.

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University Business

OCTOBER 18, 2024

That’s why we developed the College and Career Accelerator program, also known as CCA. Our goal is simple: provide students with opportunities to earn college credits, certificates and associate degrees, gain industry-recognized credentials, and build real-world experience while they’re still in high school.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Image: A new National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine report notes some improvement in minority representation in higher education related to science, technology, engineering, math and medicine (STEMM)—but not enough to match those groups’ share in the overall population.

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Parchment

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

In this episode, we speak with Melanie Booth, Executive Director of the Higher Learning Commission’s Credential Lab, and Ian Roark, Vice Chancellor of Workforce Development & Innovation at Pima Community College, to discuss the policy and practice of making CPL a reality for different forms of credentials.

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Clark Nesxen

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

As current President of the Virginia Chapter ( VANOMA ), I wanted to use this post as an opportunity to communicate why this organization is important to me and our industry. As we celebrate Black History Month, I thought it would be important to share with everyone the work of the National Organization of Minority Architects.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Image: One organization is creating space at the tech industry’s table for undergraduates by providing short-term work experiences to equip them for summer internships and beyond. Employment in science, technology, engineering and math has grown over the years, with about 24 percent of the U.S.’s How do you make money?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 27, 2023

Nevertheless, I still spent last summer traversing my state’s population cores and rural outposts, reacquainting myself with the people, industries and landscapes that make my state the dynamic and diverse place I love. I was raised in Utah. These academic initiatives are the very real stuff of survival in my state.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 18, 2023

But growth in doctorates awarded is not uniform across areas of study: education and humanities disciplines are experiencing a decline in doctorates awarded, while the number of engineering and agricultural science doctorates grew by more than 30 percent over 10 years. Finally, we only explored Ph.D.-granting

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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2025

Local Bonds: Community colleges and public systems in states like California and Texas are leveraging general obligation bonds approved by local voters to fund long-term renovations and new construction. So here are people that are moguls of the music industry coming back and like giving back to USC. Brent Miller: Sure.

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University Business

APRIL 15, 2024

Colleges and universities must create more robust data networks to efficiently analyze their graduates’ occupational outcomes and ensure that more of their credentials can serve today’s high-growth industries, declares an inaugural report from the Strada Education Foundation, an education company focused on increasing upward mobility.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 4, 2023

The main reasons for the decline in English majors, according to the New Yorker piece, are a lack of student interest in the traditional literary canon and the belief that an English degree doesn’t lead as easily and directly to a good job as, say, an engineering degree does. “The culture industry is alive and well.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

DECEMBER 23, 2022

” Community colleges and for-profits have borne well over 90 percent of the drop. All we can say with confidence is this: the overwhelming majority of college goers prefer something that looks more or less like a traditional college experience. Free community college? Underserved markets exist.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 3, 2023

Abundant nomenclature aside, all parties appear eager to work together to deliver or pursue quality, verifiable, bite-size, low-priced, nondegree online offerings targeted to specific industries. But such a win would require enhanced communication between employers and colleges, Fong said, and between learners and employers, Hollands said.

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University Business

JULY 25, 2024

Hired Jim Lucchese, Berklee College of Music (Mass.) Jim Lucchese Jim Lucchese , a 20-year music industry executive who’s known as an artist advocate, will step up as Berklee’s fifth president on Jan. Pharr, Pitt Community College (N.C.) Thomas, Morehouse College (Ga.) Pharr Maria A. Thomas David A.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

A majority of LLCs are centered around academics: prehealth, engineering, business, honors , ROTC or music and performing arts. While there’s no major requirement for FETCH LLC, one aim is to help students learn more about the service animal industry.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JULY 25, 2023

Podcast Highlights NSF’s Regional Innovation Engines is a $44 million investment that promotes competition and exploits the innate potential of the region through partnerships. A recent pilot in Hazleton, Pennsylvania, is transforming industrial hemp into automated building materials that capture carbon, making it carbon-negative.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Our learners have been asking for opportunities to acquire and practice a range of human skills; to gain competencies that will help them contribute to solving big challenges in our societies; and to engage with specialized industry skills and tools.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

engineering schools, and it provided 18 examples that closely match U.S. The tool can also help you optimize your copy for search engines by identifying your topic’s most relevant keywords. I asked ChatGPT to identify the top U.S. News & World Report ’ s 2023 list.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 20, 2023

Such a signal would be discoverable only by those with the “key” to a cryptographic function—a mathematical technique for secure communication. He recounted the story of an engineering professor he knew years ago who assessed students by administering oral exams.

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EAB

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Blogs Navigating Privacy Controls with Google Analytics 4 (GA4) By Adnan Sosic Adnan Sosic serves as the Director of Marketing Analytics in EAB’s Agency team, focused on helping colleges and universities design audience centric and action oriented.edu content strategy.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 27, 2025

In industry, what happens when there is more inventory than there are customers? Programs such as coding bootcamps, certifications, and apprenticeships are particularly attractive in industries like technology and skilled trades, where demand for specialized skills is high. Unfortunately, those go-go days did not last. million to 15.5

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