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Report: Latinos Essential to Growing STEM Workforce

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“Undergraduates are most concerned with scholarship opportunities, financial literacy, and paying for their education,” survey conductors reported about the financial needs of Latino students. Graduate students’ needs are focused on financing their education and financial support for conference travel.

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A New Model for Lifelong Learning

University Business

Education for a Lifetime How one university turned a struggling enterprise into a $6 million lifelong learning powerhouse A decade ago, the University of South Florida’s Continuing Education program was by all accounts a financial burden. Then part of USF’s Innovative Education division, the unit was losing $60,000 a year.

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Strategic Adaptation in Higher Education: Navigating 2024 and Beyond: Embracing Transformation and Resilience in Higher Education Business Models

The Change Leader, Inc.

A Fundamental Rethink of the Higher Education Business Model In the rapidly evolving landscape of higher education, institutions must embrace educational innovation and strategic adaptation to change. This involves recognizing new realities in the academic world to stay relevant and effective.

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Why higher ed needs to get on board with micro-credentials

University Business

More from UB: How AI and other technology will fix value leakage in higher education How schools can benefit from a joint-developed micro-credential curriculum Sixty-eight percent of employers would like to be approached by a college or university to develop micro-credentials, and there are multiple reasons this would be beneficial to both parties.

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Rising higher ed leaders tackle campus challenges in EAB’s fellowship

EAB

The culminating experience for the EAB Rising Higher Education Leaders Fellowship was the capstone project that substantively contributed to the fellows’ professional advancement and helped solve a pressing challenge facing their home institutions. The topics covered included student success, budget models, change management, and more.

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Microcredentials confuse employers, colleges and learners

Confessions of a Community College Dean

By one count, the United States is home to more than one million unique educational credentials, which represents a more than threefold increase since 2018. “We could reverse [that trend] by giving them educational products that will get them reconnected, that will value their prior learning, that will get them to that degree.”

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Why not HE? The reasons those from under-represented backgrounds decide against university

SRHE

Efforts to widen higher education access have tended to focus on the provision of information and supportto those from under-represented backgrounds. Also referenced was the potential time and effort involved in ‘sort[ing] out student finances and funds’, as well as the strains that would be placed on their social networks.