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Agriculture Department Attempts to Keep Rural Colleges and Universities Afloat

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Department of Agriculture (USDA) has been loaning tens of millions of dollars to rural colleges and universities in order to keep them afloat and running, The Washington Post reported. These schools are located in what would otherwise be places void of higher ed. And household earnings are 20-25% lower in rural places as well.

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Collaboration in Higher Education: How Can Universities Partner With Employers?       

HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

While the students want universities to provide career-focused programs that prepare them for their futures, the employers want universities to provide modern, relevant programs that prepare students to become qualified employees in their companies. Employer collaborations in higher education can benefit universities in several ways.

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3 Enrollment Boosting Strategies for Accredited Institutions: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 178 with Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Dr. David R. Decker

The Change Leader, Inc.

Franklin University, which primarily serves non-traditional, part-time adult learners, offers a unique perspective on higher education growth. “Backing into Costs” for Tuition Decker emphasizes that pricing in higher education should go beyond an institution’s needs.

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3 Reasons We Joined the edX/2U University Partner Advisory Council

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Blog: Learning Innovation Last week, the three of us participated in the first in-person meeting of edX/2U’s recently constituted University Partner Advisory Council (UPAC). Separately and together, we sit on a number of advisory groups/councils of for-profit companies working with nonprofit universities in the online learning space.

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A better way to address revenue sharing and online marketing (letter)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Department of Education is now considering changes to its guidelines addressing how outside providers bundle the services they offer to colleges and universities and to the regulations that define and govern third-party servicers. At this point, nearly every nonprofit university in the U.S. The strategy worked.

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Student Loans, Basic Needs and the Public Good

Confessions of a Community College Dean

First, state investment in public higher education has been on a decline since the 1980s. history, the younger generation has fewer years of education than the generation before them. For context, some interesting student loan debt statistics from the Education Data Initiative. Alexander points out that the U.S.

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How 2 of higher ed’s most challenging trends are causing pain this fall

University Business

While every college and university has unique challenges, broad trends inevitably develop, forcing higher education leaders to deal with their implications collectively. Two macro trends nationwide seem no more consequential than continuing political interference in higher education practices and downward trending enrollment.

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