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Leadership Potential

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Looking at finance and budgeting in higher education, how some budgeting policies are inherently racist or they disenfranchise students from certain backgrounds or how institutions are affected by the budget process in state systems.” He is already building relationships toward that objective. “I

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Examples of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Associate Level English for Academic Purposes Reading Area Community College (Reading, PA) The English for Academic Purposes (EAP) at Reading Area Community College (RACC) began in 2012 to strategically reduce credit requirements and accelerate student progression with the goal of boosting enrollment and success rates.

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A Grad Degree Can Be a Risky Bet

Confessions of a Community College Dean

As emerging data shows that taking out loans to earn a graduate degree doesn’t always pay off, policy experts call for even stronger regulation of graduate schools. With graduate students owing nearly half of all student loan debt, policy experts are increasingly pointing to graduate education as a risky investment.

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Why Worry?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Eroding public confidence in higher education. Community colleges failing to fulfill their mission. Not only has enrollment declined 37 percent since 2010, but the figures would be much worse were it not for high school students who now make up a fifth of all community college students. Grave threats to tenure.

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3 Questions on UT Austin’s New $10K Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Using online learning platforms like edX and distance-ed focused instructional design, programs like MSAI can achieve efficiencies that allow us to offer a master’s degree for a fraction of the cost of a traditional graduate program. For students, there are several major advantages to this model of graduate education.

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Carnegie Mellon Launches $150M STEM Diversity Initiative

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Carnegie Mellon University announced today a $116 million donation from the Norman and Ruth Rales Foundation to help underrepresented students pursue graduate education in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

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Pursuit of R-2 status can expand opportunity (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Given that Towson has distinguished itself as a student-centered, inclusive university, why have we, and other public institutions like us, identified R-2—and the new graduate education and research that comes with it—as a goal? What would it objectively add to our mission? Are we trying to mimic the flagship?

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