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Pursuit of R-2 status can expand opportunity (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

As universities “ascend” from one Carnegie Foundation classification to another, alarm bells often go off—particularly among those who study higher education. But institutions of higher learning are recreating what it means to be a publicly engaged research institution.

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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Faculty do it as part of their research and part of their service to the university and to the state.” His dissertation research was on the CEED summer programs. To address that, there are now approximately 40 graduate ambassadors who will speak to student groups about their journeys. After completing his Ph.D. Dr. Tremayne O.