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Higher ed needs more grit (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

We’re on track to grow our student body from just under 35,000 to 40,000 over the next five years, and we have plans to build 5,000 additional student housing units in the same time frame, transforming what traditionally had been a commuter campus into a campus village. million Utahns for the better.

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12 Groundbreaking Asian Columbians You Should Know

Student Housing Works

Shinoda was the first person of Japanese ancestry to intern at Los Angeles County General Hospital and served the Little Tokyo-Nihonmachi community in Los Angeles before World War II, resuming her practice after the war. And his research on COVID-19 vaccination development has not gone unnoticed. Presidential Medal in 2001.