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Are institutions leveraging their alumni to their full potential? Here’s how they can

University Business

” Aside from attracting more applicants, alumni can help institutions diversify their marketing strategies for a broadening net of college applicants unaware of the opportunities after college and who don’t fit in the traditional “cookie-cutter” mold. ” At Wabash College, a men’s private school in Ind.,

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Microcredentials confuse employers, colleges and learners

Confessions of a Community College Dean

” Nonetheless, demand in the large, growing microcredential market is strong, but learners also struggle to make sense of offerings. By one count, the United States is home to more than one million unique educational credentials, which represents a more than threefold increase since 2018.

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How can America Encourage College Dropouts to Complete their Degrees

Edu Alliance Journal

I thought in early 1969 when I left the university, I didn’t have the academic ability to get a degree and my university advisor certainly was not supportive and suggested I should go sign up for military service that day. Yet nearly 40 million people from the age of 18-64 started higher education and did not complete one degree.