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Trust and Transparency

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Assuming the position when the previous president resigned, she knew everyone was looking to her to bring stability to the community college. In California, we have great workforce needs across the board, and that’s a huge role for community colleges.” Also, the college’s nursing program is experiencing exciting growth.

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How micro-credentials can lower costs and boost workforce opportunities

University Business

These investments help colleges and universities develop new credential pathways, making higher education more accessible to students and more responsive to workforce demands. Providing grants to institutions for program development. Aligning programs with workforce needs. Approximately 3.7

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Improve Student Employability: The Great Misalignment Report: Changing Higher Ed podcast 212 with host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and guests Kathryn Campbell and Zack Mabel

The Change Leader, Inc.

. - Analysis of racial and ethnic disparities in access to well-aligned programs. Strategies for strengthening career counseling, transfer pathways, and the use of labor market data in program development. Actionable takeaways for university, college, and community college leaders to improve student employability.

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CPL for Incremental & Non-Credit Credentials

Parchment

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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Teaching students to think beyond themselves

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The funds allow Wake Forest to oversee a competitive grant-application process for the following, all related to character education in higher education: $50,000 for planning $250,000 to $1 million for program development Funds for researchers Professional development Lilly’s grant to Wake Forest also enables conferences and summer seminars that (..)

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3 Questions for Brown’s Melissa Kane

Confessions of a Community College Dean

A conversation with a senior associate director for online program development. Every time I hang out with Melissa Kane, I learn something. Recently, she and I spent time together at an Ivy+ Leaders in Online Learning meeting at Penn.

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Unspoken Truths: Stakeholders Share on Reddit What they Won't in Surveys

Campus Sonar

We need to be more aware, nimble, and humble than ever as a concerted effort to devalue higher education plays out in our communities.