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MassBay Community College to Offer Free Tech Education and Training to Unemployed and Underemployed Workers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Participants will be able to get individual career service assistance, career counseling, resume-building and interview skill workshops, and wrap-around services such as childcare and transportation stipends. Collaborating with area workforce partners to fill the needs in MetroWest is a winning combination for the local economy.”

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How a Mass. nonprofit helps ready students of color for top colleges

University Business

But the mission extends beyond that: it helps see participants through graduation with career counseling and other support. This summer, there are nearly 240 students on Amherst’s campus, and 912 total participants across the six-year program.

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Driving Global Economic Success Through Diversity and Prosperity in STEM Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Therefore, it is crucial that STEM education receives proper funding and provides the career counseling programs necessary to help students from every representable community to thrive. For this reason, STEM education suffers from an absence of student diversity spurred by financial burdens and obstacles.

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Maximizing the value of higher education: A shift towards personalized student pathways

University Business

This information also allows the student services and admissions teams to build strategies around supporting academic and career counseling. By measuring abilities in these areas, students can understand where their strengths lie and be armed with indisputable facts.

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How Vermont is winning the fight against falling enrollment

University Business

The initiative also provides students with a living stipend and career counseling. Warren & Lois McClure Foundation in partnership with the Community College of Vermont allows recently graduated high school students to complete their associate degree at no cost through the state’s Free Degree Promise.

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The hybrid campus: Why colleges still need a physical presence in a virtual world

University Business

As proponents of hybrid campuses suggest , institutions should reimagine a campus-based education as a “technology-enabled student experience” that blends the physical and digital worlds in instruction and academic programs, scheduling, career counseling, student engagement and other services colleges normally offer.

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Adult learners: Who they are & what they want from college

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Learn more Learn more about intent marketing to recruit adult learners How to support adult learners For adult learners, the weight of career, family, and other personal obligations can make college especially difficult to navigate.