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Bringing Greater Impact

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

His mission is to transition the long-time program into a department. Two years in, Canton is preparing a proposal that outlines the reasons for making African American studies a department, and the benefit it would bring to the university, to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in which it is situated, and to the community. “We

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The Catalysts for Competency-Based Learning and Prior Learning Assessments Have Arrived

eLiterate

While this problem is often framed by academia as a decrease in the supply of students—the so-called “enrollment cliff,” the hot job market, and so on—I think it is better understood as a failure to respond to changing demand and new opportunities. Mr. Hadhad was midway through medical school when he fled Syria.