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Access Must be Front Burner for Community Colleges

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Students navigate housing and food insecurity, transportation issues, and other limitations to access. Individuals committed to community colleges and the vital role they play in American higher education continue to advocate for the students and the institutions that serve them. Dr. Everrett A.

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Five ways to help students take smart sustainability actions (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Higher education professionals have long been concerned with how to raise public awareness about climate change. In practice, these experiences require a level of administrative and logistical effort that is difficult for faculty to manage. Yet today we face a different problem. Smaller cities (where most people in the U.S.

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Is a merger a closure by another name? (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Some in higher education believe that a merged institution will preserve much of what is good of the smaller institution, while closure is merely oblivion. We are recognized by the federal government as both a predominantly Black institution and as a Hispanic-serving institution.

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Overcoming Barriers in Higher Ed: Strategies for Student Success and Employability: Changing Higher Education Podcast 157 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guests Kathryn Campbell and Dr. Zack Mabel

The Change Leader, Inc.

Colorado automatically grants associate’s degrees to these students instead of waiting for them to apply or for a college administrator to make them aware of the opportunity. There are so many things going on with the economy and especially with people’s perception of higher education.

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Why Study in Germany – Universities, Admission, Tuition Fees, Post-study Work Permit and Work Opportunities

Buddy4Study

It was founded in 1868 and has managed to stay on top of the higher-education landscape by embracing the entrepreneurial spirit. Freie Universitat Berlin has also been repeatedly selected as one of the best institutes for higher education in Germany. Transport – EUR 94 monthly. in Geophysics. Why Study in Germany?

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Student Loans, College Costs, and Parental Self-Denial

Great College Advice

A report by Yale faculty points to the possibility that university administrators have proliferated, while faculty salaries and budgets have stagnated. Regardless of the reasons for the high cost of higher education, the fact is that many, if not most, American parents are in denial about how they will pay these extraordinary costs.

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How can America Encourage College Dropouts to Complete their Degrees

Edu Alliance Journal

Employers, government, and adults all believe it’s needed, and it has financial benefits for all. Yet nearly 40 million people from the age of 18-64 started higher education and did not complete one degree. million, while transportation jobs could grow by nearly 800,000. How industry addresses the education of employees.