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3 Ways Advancement Teams Can Achieve More with Less

EAB

The most successful advancement offices use these savings to invest in support services. After carefully evaluating the current state of your finances and resources, and proving that you’ve exhausted all available options, you can then begin to make the case for new investments to leadership. Ready to speak with an expert?

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How Gross Inequalities in Institutional Wealth Distort the Higher Education Ecosystem and Shortchange the Vast Majority of Middle- and Lower-Income Undergraduates

Confessions of a Community College Dean

I’m not referring here to faculty salaries or reduced teaching loads or class size or breadth of programs or extensive support services—all of which are good things (within limits). Meanwhile, expenditures on administration, even excluding student services and student life, have increased markedly.

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Should I Disclose Learning Differences on the College Application

Great College Advice

Students with learning disabilities or ADHD, however, may be entitled to reasonable academic services and aids based on the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Section 504, and ADA. Measures of independence How independent is your student? Does she independently manage things like cooking, laundry, and managing finances?

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The Power of Relationships in Undergraduate Education

Confessions of a Community College Dean

And yet, I worry that a relationship-rich college experience is a pipedream, what with teaching delivered, in large part, by adjuncts, post-docs, and graduate students, faculty torn between their teaching, research, and family obligations, support services severely understaffed, and mentoring largely unrecognized and unrewarded.