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Seeking Solutions to Strengthen Career Pathways

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“This initiative aims to strengthen the capacity of our community colleges to serve as hubs for regional Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) that convene high school educators, community college faculty, and representatives from local employers and workforce agencies,” Dr. Karen Stout says in the award notification. Why healthcare?

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Education security officials ‘unprepared to cope’ should a cyberattack occur, report

University Business

” The survey gathered the opinion of 1,600 chief information security officers (CISO) across different sectors such as healthcare, manufacturing and the public sector. For example, 73% of CISOs in retail say they are willing to pay a ransom.

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Did emergency funding create a crutch for the Connecticut college system?

University Business

Dozens of state leaders representing Connecticut State Colleges and Universities (CSCU) packed the Legislative Office Building on Monday to air their dissent of an approved budget that would lead to more than 650 full-time faculty and staff layoffs, axe 3,000 part-time positions and raise the possibility of potential college closures.

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3 Questions on UT Austin’s New $10K Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence

Confessions of a Community College Dean

I was (and still am) the first faculty director of the MSCS program. We knew that some MSAI courses would focus on healthcare or clinical research, where AI/ML approaches will be transformative. There’s also an increasing prevalence of AI technologies in less publicly-visible sectors like analytics, manufacturing, and security.

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3 Enrollment Boosting Strategies for Accredited Institutions: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 178 with Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Dr. David R. Decker

The Change Leader, Inc.

His extensive corporate experience includes serving as president and CEO of a $130 million manufacturing company. Then, I was in manufacturing for several years and became the president of a manufacturing company. 00:05:53] Dr. Drumm McNaughton: Wow, and faculty are open to that kind of direction and ideas? [00:06:01]

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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.

A program designed with the university’s deans, faculty, and community engagement managers is also more valuable. In manufacturing, you have just-in-time manufacturing. But in the technology, manufacturing, and safety worlds, it’s not that way anymore. You can see that in the medical and healthcare fields.

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A Research-Based Look at Stackable Credentials

Parchment

There was also a study in California that looked at healthcare. We looked at manufacturing, healthcare, and IT. And then there’s other ones that are, you know, manufacturing in Ohio where we’ve talked with some manufacturers and they’re not sure. what these associates degrees are leading to.