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Report: Latinos Essential to Growing STEM Workforce

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Martínez, senior director of research and impact at SHPE during a Sep. Undergraduates are most concerned with scholarship opportunities, financial literacy, and paying for their education,” survey conductors reported about the financial needs of Latino students. Encourage research and scholarship on U.S. And as the U.S.

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Why higher ed needs to get on board with micro-credentials

University Business

However, similar to how online degrees were perceived two decades ago, some are critical about the quality of non-degree programs, despite a lack of evidence to support a systematic problem,” said Jim Fong, Chief Research Officer at UPCEA. The majority worked in finance (14%), followed by healthcare (13%) and manufacturing (12%).

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Leading in complexity: Are higher education leaders ready for the age of austerity?

SRHE

The perils of academic self-governance One of the studys most compelling findings is the tension between traditional academic self-governance and the need for growing professionalisation of higher education leadership. Danya He is Research Assistant, Swiss School of Public Governance SSPG, D-MTEC, ETH Zurich.

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Microcredentials confuse employers, colleges and learners

Confessions of a Community College Dean

“Employers say, ‘It’s great that this individual has these skills, but we’ll ask our own questions to verify the learner’s knowledge,’” Kyle Albert, assistant research professor at the George Washington University Institute of Public Policy, said. “It’s a trust-but-verify situation.”

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Rising higher ed leaders tackle campus challenges in EAB’s fellowship

EAB

The culminating experience for the EAB Rising Higher Education Leaders Fellowship was the capstone project that substantively contributed to the fellows’ professional advancement and helped solve a pressing challenge facing their home institutions. In many cases, partners jointly completed a project that benefitted both institutions.

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Why not HE? The reasons those from under-represented backgrounds decide against university

SRHE

The opportunity to do just this was presented in two small research projects I recently worked on (Raven, 2021a and 2022). Whilst the discussions addressed the main focus of the research, they also provided an opportunity to explore the reasons why some had decided against HE. Three observations emerge from these two studies.

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Costs and Benefits of Adding 30-units to Accounting Students' Requirements for Licensure as a CPA

Higher Ed Ethics Watch

Recent changes in the laws in many states have moved to a bifurcated system in which students must have 120 credit hours of college education to sit for the CPA exam and 150 credit hours (225 for quarter schools) to be licensed as a CPA. Future Research. I was certainly one of them. Conclusion.