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Pell Grant Expansion Extends Educational Opportunities to Thousands of Incarcerated Students

Insight Into Diversity

“These courses also provide incarcerated students and formerly incarcerated alumni with knowledge, skills, and connections they can use to benefit their children and families, multiplying the impact of a single college degree.” Currently, only about 35% of state prisons offer some form of college programming, according to NCAN.

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Colombian Higher Education

HESA

On this week’s episode of the World of Higher Education Podcast, Javier Botero joins us to discuss Colombian higher education. Colombia’s higher education system is complex. That prosperity has also benefit higher education in the country with enrollments more than doubling over that period.

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Columbian Higher Education

HESA

On this week’s episode of the World of Higher Education Podcast, Javier Botero joins us to discuss Colombian higher education. Columbia’s higher education system is complex. That prosperity has also benefit higher education in the country with enrollments more than doubling over that period.

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The UK University-Territory Relationship in a Post-Brexit World

GlobalHigherEd

Or might an equivalent of Cornell Tech NYC be worth creating in European higher education and research space? Hearing 2 – Higher Education and Research (A. Corbett, LSE Commission on the Future of Britain in Europe, 8 December 2015). Research Councils UK – Written evidence (4 December 2015).

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Closing Higher Ed’s Equity Gaps

Inside Higher Ed

The fact is that Princeton is not a research powerhouse in the applied sciences. That “ elite colleges simultaneously reproduce class inequality and belief in the justness of that inequality.” ” That “ Nothing divides America—economically, socially and politically—like a college degree.”

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