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How can America Encourage College Dropouts to Complete their Degrees

Edu Alliance Journal

million, while transportation jobs could grow by nearly 800,000. How industry addresses the education of employees. Attendance at educational conferences (51%). Continuing education courses (50%). than there are R-1s, our view is that they are really good anchor institutions to route federal investment through.

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Teachers as Transformers

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Contributing to higher education’s democratization was the federal government’s mounting role, funding university research and subsidizing attendance through federally-financed grants and loans.