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How can America Encourage College Dropouts to Complete their Degrees

Edu Alliance Journal

Upon graduation, I started immediately after commencement at a small university in Kentucky as an admissions officer and completed my master’s in a relativity short amount of time while working. Attendance at educational conferences (51%). Continuing education courses (50%). The Harsh Facts on College Dropouts.

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Teachers as Transformers

Confessions of a Community College Dean

A college education increasingly became the primary route to a secure, middle-class income, but this in turn led to soaring student and parental debt. More ambiguously, it encouraged individual professors and institutions as a whole to allow research to trump teaching to become the top priority. Be a transformer.