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Christopher Edley, Prominent Legal Scholar, Passes Away

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The Berkeley-based nonprofit organization promotes social equity through education, using a cradle-to-career reach across four distinct demographic groups. In 2008, he was a board member for the Obama presidential transition with general responsibility for healthcare, education, and immigration. Gavin Newsom.

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How Data Drives Student Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Our program directors and faculty chairs work closely to match them to existing courses.” As an example, community healthcare training, a workforce training program for entry-level frontline workers, earns its students nine credits toward a public health degree at LaGuardia. In many of our ACE programs, we grant academic credit.

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How to Move Latinx Students into High-Paying Jobs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This year, Excelencia also examined three specific areas of industry projected to grow by roughly 10% by 2031: STEM (statistics, technology, engineering and mathematics), healthcare, and educational professions.

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For the Common Good

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As researchers, practitioners, and healthcare workers reflect on the events of the last two and a half years, programs related to public health have become a priority at many colleges and universities. The pandemic has brought increased awareness of healthcare disparities. It includes an internship at a healthcare facility.

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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.

He has served as a consultant to Fortune 100 corporations and many nonprofit organizations. 00:05:53] Dr. Drumm McNaughton: Wow, and faculty are open to that kind of direction and ideas? [00:06:01] 00:06:01] David Decker: Well, they, the faculty, run the whole system. So, it’s all run by the faculty. [00:06:21]