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Team Spotlight: Get to Know Missy and Dylan

Campus Groups

Now that we have joined forces with Ready Education –the leading mobile-first student engagement platform in higher education–she serves as Contract Manager. Originally not a country music fan, Missy met several big name country singers including Toby Keith and Garth Brooks while working in entertainment law. It was great fun!

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Don't buy in to the myth: college is the real world (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The fundamental problem with this notion is that it is premised on the assumption that the world of business (even more than any other professional world students might one day hope to join) is real , while the world of higher education is flimsy, ethereal or simply useless.

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Can Video Games Provide Meaningful Learning Experiences?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Engaging, immersive and highly interactive, video games are a $97 billion industry in the United States, making up over 6 percent of all spending on entertainment and media. According to MarketWatch , “video games are a bigger industry than movies and North American sports combined.”