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Community Colleges Build Workforce Through Partnership and Student Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Harrison has connected with Intel, one of the world’s largest semiconductor chip manufacturers. Karen Colbert, general education faculty chair and lead math and STEM faculty at Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa Community College (KBOCC) in L’Anse, MI, teaches her math students the skills they need to pick up data-mining jobs in their local, rural area.

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The Global Sand Crisis: Examining Causes, Consequences, and Sustainable Alternatives

Clark Nesxen

A multitude of factors contribute to the global sand crisis, from over-reliance on concrete construction to illegal sand mining. Unfortunately, the demand is too large and domestic mining cannot keep up. The Hidden Effects As of writing this, there is no international governing body which regulates sand mining and consumption.

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Top Global Cities for Economics Internships

AIFS Abroad

Economic opportunities in Sydney intersect with (but arent limited to) banking, finance, telecommunications, professional services, mining, and manufacturing. Sydney Sydney is the business and finance capital of Australia and a major player in regional and global economics.

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Capital Funding Strategies in Higher Education: How Universities Are Solving Infrastructure and Student Housing Challenges: Changing Higher Ed podcast 256 with host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and guest Brent Miller of HED

The Change Leader, Inc.

And I think what you’ve seen now is a little bit of transition from kind of the hands-on manufacturing to the technological advances that we’re seeing now within the marketplace. To really provide those vocational skills to go out into the marketplace directly and be ready with the skill sets to move forward in their careers.

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AI/ML in EdTech: The Miracle, The Grind, and the Wall

eLiterate

For example, I found that GPT-3’s idea of what a first-year college student understands about philosophy differed from mine. You have a helpful philosophy-teaching chatbot. It’s not quite that simple. I got better results when I asked it to target 11th grade. I couldn’t have known that in advance.

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A Global Shift in Higher Education Requires a New Business Model: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 180 with Drumm McNaughton and Catherine Friday

The Change Leader, Inc.

I just got an article from a good friend of mine today talking about the whole situation at West Virginia University. He headed up a manufacturing plant, and was a president of a manufacturing company, also in higher ed as well, applying the four P’s of marketing to higher ed. 00:07:14] Drumm: It really does.

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Funding Research for Tier Two Institutions with NSF: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 165 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Sethuraman Panchanathan

The Change Leader, Inc.

Sethuraman Panchanathan 03:15 I was very fortunate to have NSF support me and my ideas by funding various projects of mine. I know you have a broad background in higher ed, but how did you get to NSF? Through that, not only was I able to foster my ideas, but more importantly, train the next generation of researchers and practitioners.