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More than one quarter of all middle-skills credentials and associate degrees offered nationwide are misaligned with the needs of their local labor markets, according to the latest report from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce (CEW), " The Great Misalignment." Dr. Zach Mabel, research professor of education and economics at the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce.
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New College of Florida president Richard Corcoran is threatening to withhold the degrees of students who protested at the college’s May 17 commencement ceremony. Other consequences could range from mandatory enrollment in a class on civil discourse to suspension or even expulsion, Corcoran said in a statement obtained by The Sarasota Herald-Tribune.
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The majority of Asian Americans approve of the use of standardized test scores in college admissions but oppose the consideration of applicants’ race, according to a new survey from Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Data and the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
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Donald Trump Former President Donald Trump has been convicted of all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the so-called hush money trial in New York. A 12-member jury found that Trump — the presumptive Republican nominee for President — falsified business records to cover up a $130,000 payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels by his then-personal lawyer Michael Cohen ahead of the 2016 election.
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