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The Value of Micro-Credentials for Higher Ed Institutions: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 154 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Matt Frank

The Change Leader, Inc.

Higher ed and employers can trust micro-credentials backed by professional organizations like the American Medical Association or the American Psychological Association that create standards of professionalism for their industries. In manufacturing, you have just-in-time manufacturing. Matt Frank 05:33 Absolutely, it is.

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Funding Research for Tier Two Institutions with NSF: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 165 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Sethuraman Panchanathan

The Change Leader, Inc.

Panchanathan is married to Sarada “Soumya” Panchanathan, an academic pediatrician and informatician who has taught medical students, pediatric residents, and informatics fellows. So we have programs like Broadening Participation in STEM, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation called BP Innovate.

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Federal earmarks a boon for higher ed

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: The University of Maine system is planning to use an infusion of federal funds to construct an advanced manufacturing research lab, start a new program in aviation maintenance, modernize a wild blueberry research facility and launch a statewide tick and tick-borne disease study. “That just doesn’t happen very often.

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