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Bringing Greater Impact

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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 have all the data that shows you can still go to med school,” he says.

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

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He couldn’t get credit for his prior education in Syria. 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.