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Unapologetic Leadership for Black Learner Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Public health concerns increased responsibilities to care for and educate school-aged children and disrupted jobs and industries. Before and during COVID, most of these students vanished from our most affordable and accessible institutions – our community colleges. But we need to look closer at the data.

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Are cannabis programs set to become higher education’s next darling?

University Business

“Legalized cannabis is expected to be an estimated $150 billion industry by 2025,” program manager Stacy Godlewski said in a press statement. “In In addition to Missouri, thousands of jobs are being created across the country, and there is an emerging need for educated employees to support and sustain the industry.”

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The European Microcredential Landscape

Parchment

But they might also act as a kind of a bridge between the public sector and the private sector, a kind of an entry point, a way to enter the labor market, especially if we are talking about professional credentials, professional or even industry certifications, for instance. This is super, super interesting and very important for us.

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How Post University’s Career Readiness Model Can Help Not-For-Profit Universities and Graduates: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 172 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Camille Dumont

The Change Leader, Inc.

She successfully transferred the skills she learned in the hotel industry to the healthcare industry and now to higher ed, where she works in Career Services. For instance, retail workers acquire customer service and communication skills. But during that time, it made me realize that the hotel industry was not for me.

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ELEVATE program: Achievement Strategies from Illinois Tech: Changing Higher Education Podcast 166 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Raj Echambadi

The Change Leader, Inc.

For example, after learning that students were concerned about affordability, Illinois Tech partnered with the local community college system, the City Colleges of Chicago, to create an innovative program. I would educate the students so that they could become engineers, architects, physicists, or part of the industrial society.”