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This program dedicated to boosting first-gen success rates is tripling down

University Business

First-generation college students are among higher education’s most prominent yet precarious student demographics. First-generation college students’ four-year graduation rate at the University of Michigan reached 83% , one point less than continuing education students. Consequently, its buzz is growing.

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How can America Encourage College Dropouts to Complete their Degrees

Edu Alliance Journal

Yet nearly 40 million people from the age of 18-64 started higher education and did not complete one degree. According to the Federal Reserve Bank of Saint Louis, the US Civilian Work Force from 25-34 as of June 2022 has the following educational attainment. million, while transportation jobs could grow by nearly 800,000.

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Teachers as Transformers

Confessions of a Community College Dean

To better understand how higher education got to where it is today, you might read Harvey J. Graff’s “ Lessons from the 1960s ,” a brief essay that looks back to that fateful and contentious decade for ideas about how we might reinvent higher education for the 21 st century.