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These access and affordability programs geared toward high schoolers reap great results

University Business

Tackling workforce needs with financial assistance Maine Free College, a free college scholarship initiative introduced by the Maine Community College System (MCCS) in the 2022-23 academic year, has helped contribute to a mass resurgence in enrollment compared to the rest of the country.

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Can your school benefit from a consortium to keep its scientific research alive?

University Business

National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Regional Innovation Engines program awarded a development grant for universities, community colleges, leading photonics companies and statewide economic and workforce development programs to develop photonic technology further. Advancing Photonics Technologies Last week, the U.S.

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Adapting to Disruption: Unity University’s Remarkable Success – Part 1: Changing Higher Ed podcast 194 with host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and guest Dr. Melik Peter Khoury

The Change Leader, Inc.

Seventy-five percent of the universities and colleges that have closed or merged over the last five years were not under regulatory watch and/or warning or probation because our measuring stick does not meet the realities of the 21st-century institution. Academia is excellent at identifying the problem. We are excellent at deconstructing it.