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Seal of Excelencia 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

They are taking responsibility and raising standards.” California State University, East Bay Dr. Cathy Sandeen Almost 60% of California State University, East Bay (CSUEB), students are transfers, and their needs are taken into account. By example, initially funded in 2007 by a grant from the U.S. They’re on a journey.

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How Gross Inequalities in Institutional Wealth Distort the Higher Education Ecosystem and Shortchange the Vast Majority of Middle- and Lower-Income Undergraduates

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The consequence: the richest institutions can fully fund the education of lower-income students, while the vast majority of working-class and lower-middle-class undergraduates must take out loans to pay for their education. Swensen, taking advantage of alternate assets, including hedge funds, private equity and natural resources.

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Faculty Strike Ends at U of Illinois at Chicago

Confessions of a Community College Dean

20 percent raise pools over the course of the 4-year contract[.] Increased professional development funds[.] As for student mental health wellness, the university said back then it had approved a “$4.47 Increased minimum salaries for the lowest paid faculty: $60,000 [non-tenure track] and $71,500 [tenure track].

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Faculty Strike Ends at U of Illinois at Chicago

Confessions of a Community College Dean

20 percent raise pools over the course of the 4-year contract[.] Increased professional development funds[.] As for student mental health wellness, the university said back then it had approved a “$4.47 Increased minimum salaries for the lowest paid faculty: $60,000 [non-tenure track] and $71,500 [tenure track.]

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CPL for Incremental & Non-Credit Credentials

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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. Yeah, please.

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Drive Enrollment Growth with First-Gen Pathways to Success: Changing Higher Education Podcast 167 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Marielena DeSanctis

The Change Leader, Inc.

With AP, ACE, or IB courses, high schools are inadvertently thinking about their students who are more likely to go out of state to a traditional R1 university and pushing them towards these courses because they’re universally accepted. My mother is our family’s first-generation student in the United States.

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Your student loan payments are due: 3 strategies to support community college students’ financial wellness

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Financial aid offices are well-positioned to provide guidance on these areas, but there are likely other offices on campus who also have resources to support students as they make this financial transition such as money management centers or student services.