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SkillPointe Updates Help Community Colleges Bridge the Skills Gap

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The National Association for Community College Entrepreneurship (NACCE) and its technology platform, SkillPointe, have released an improved SkillPointe website to help students pursue in-demand skills while helping community colleges meet workforce demands. In fact, 35% of referrals from SkillPointe register in a program.

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What is Demonstrated Interest in College Admission?

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Quite simply, colleges want to know that you are really, really excited about attending their institution. The sales and marketing division is also very concerned about certain statistics that (supposedly) measure the quality of the college or university. Let’s talk about “yield rate.” There are two reasons.

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Report: Communication Key to Improving Transfer Rate

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Garcia, executive director of CCCSE, said conversations about transfer must begin at the onset of a student’s time at a community college. Dr. Linda Garcia One student mentioned using the website Transferology after learning about it from an advisor. It’s really about intentionality,” said Garcia. “We Dr. Linda L.

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Report Shows the Shift Away from Tenured Faculty in the U.S. Academic Workforce

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Dr. Taylor Odle In fall 1987, only about 33% of faculty members at U.S. Only about 24% of faculty held full-time tenured appointments as of fall 2021, versus 39% in 1987. Third, it introduces AAUP’s new website. “If It will also be updated regularly, thus providing ongoing information about continuing shifts. “We

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How to Write an Email to College Admissions Counselors

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If you want to communicate with admissions, it’s best to think carefully about how you will communicate with the humans that populate those offices of admission. Here are some things to think about and research before you write. The admissions website will usually (but not always) list the people in the admissions office.

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Walden University Settles in False Advertising and 'Reverse Red-Lining' Lawsuit

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Her capstone dissertation was sent back to her by Walden’s review committee about 12-14 times, she said. According to the settlement – which was completed last week and filed March 28 after months of negotiations – about 2,300 people could get relief, Ramchandani said. We were already too late in the game to stop or go somewhere else.

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Panel: Erasing Black History Threatens to Harm Black Community, Students, and Nation's Future

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the NREI website stated. These people who are pushing this agenda, they don't care about what CRT is, what it actually means, what 'woke' is, what 'woke' means,” George said. Across the nation, 23 states have introduced legislation to ban the discussion of ‘divisive’ concepts, including issues related to race and gender.