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Access Must be Front Burner for Community Colleges

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

We’re having discussions with policy makers across the spectrum from state and federal [government] … about the fact that we need to be supporting our students through this journey,” Lee said. Creating partnerships with local industry is a crucial part of building pathways to gainful employment, Trent noted. “If

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House weaponization subcommittee seeks records from universities

Confessions of a Community College Dean

universities are getting swept up in House Republicans’ investigation into the “weaponization” of the federal government. ” House Republicans formed the ​​Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government this year in order to investigate violations of civil liberations.

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Help Wanted

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The federal government projects that more than 203,000 new registered nurse (RN) positions will be created each year from 2021 to 2031, according to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN). Information was not provided about new nursing hire recruitment.

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Profiling Some of the Institutions With the Most Minority Business Graduates

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Two recent MBA graduates became presidential management fellows, three-year positions with the federal government. The College of Business is named for Larry Gies, founder and CEO of Madison Industries. Other graduate students have received promotions to senior level managers. In 2018, Larry and Beth Gies gave $150 million.

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Updated educational attainment data show progress and gaps

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Including workforce and industry-recognized certificates in the data, later additions, accounts for about half of the percentage points gained between then and now, Brown noted.) Some states surpassed the 60 percent goal, including Colorado, Massachusetts, Minnesota and Utah. Is this diversity newsletter?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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Proponents see value in Biden's free community college plan

Confessions of a Community College Dean

“What’s really important is just that we don’t lose sight of the fact that this is a potential game changer in how we actually finance public higher ed, and then the federal government needs to think about a change ultimately in the structure of how the federal government is helping fund public higher education.”

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Australia asks universities to show they merit the title

Confessions of a Community College Dean

“If that university felt that it just didn’t want to play the research game, but had a really good local following, was regarded well by industry and was strongly sustainable, it might be tenable to be a university college. Coaldrake speculated that a university could willingly embrace this status.