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Unleashing Economic Opportunity: Honoring the Legacy of the March on Washington

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Prioritize Policies that Support Small Businesses and Entrepreneurs : Entrepreneurship can be a powerful driver of economic growth and social mobility. Colleges and universities can take the lead in advocating for policies that support small businesses and entrepreneurs. Like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,

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Michigan Expands Tuition-Free Community Scholarship Program to Adults Ages 21-24 Without Degrees

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This expansion will help us reach our Sixty by 30 goal—to have 60% of adults earn a postsecondary education or training by 2030—and build on our economic momentum. With low unemployment, growing advanced manufacturing industries, and strong small business growth, we need to expand Reconnect to bolster our pipeline for talented workers.

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Cultivating cannabis: Higher ed’s influence on a billion-dollar industry

University Business

Fast forward, and now they are churning out chemistry and business majors. Yet, the US only has a handful of schools offering full-fledged degrees; most stick to certificates or minors. The post Cultivating cannabis: Higher ed’s influence on a billion-dollar industry appeared first on University Business.

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Must Headlines Deceive?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

That report examined the median earnings of graduates from 3,887 US “higher ed institutions” and found that 74% of these graduated students who earned more than the estimated earnings of a typical high school graduate (26% did not – 1022 institutions). Notably, a number of these are HBCUs or Tribal colleges or universities.

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Study: American College Presidency is Still Largely White and Male

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Although women and people of color have made small amounts of progress over the past half-decade, the college presidency is still mostly white and mostly male That’s the main takeaway from the American Council on Education (ACE)’s The American College President: 2023 Edition , released Friday.

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How real work builds student character at these 10 Federal Work Colleges

University Business

Eight other small liberal arts schools are currently designated four-year federal work colleges. “We want to be affordable and accessible, and this allows us to enroll more students through these grants and programs,” she says. A high proportion of the students are first-generation and Pell Grant eligible.

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Notre Dame’s tiny namesake shows plight of religious colleges

University Business

Similar stories are playing out at many of the 850-or-so colleges in the US that have religious, usually Christian, affiliations. The economic vise tightening around the nation’s small secular colleges is squeezing religiously affiliated schools even harder. Some have closed already. More are bound to follow, administrators say.