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

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This denial of economic opportunity causes a well-intentioned policy to fail to live up to its economic and humanitarian aspirations. Instead, let’s look at this purely from a policy perspective. He hopes to go back to school to become an engineer. Mr. Clark wants to go back to school to become an engineer.

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The Impact of Crushing Student Debt on American Society: Causes, Consequences, and Solutions: Changing Higher Education Podcast 164 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest David Linton

The Change Leader, Inc.

One solution to rising tuition costs would be that a large consortium of schools, e.g., PAC-12 schools or all Midwest liberal arts schools that happen to compete with one another, should announce they are not going to raise tuition by more than inflation each year for the next ten years. Are colleges meant to train clergy?

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Teaching and Thinking with Technology

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One might assume that educators who teach others about the disruptive power of technologies, such as printing presses or steam engines, would be well-equipped to face the challenges posed by the new disruptive AI technology. Not dissimilar are the college classrooms of smaller, liberal arts colleges.

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Teaching and Thinking with Technology

Faculty Focus

One might assume that educators who teach others about the disruptive power of technologies, such as printing presses or steam engines, would be well-equipped to face the challenges posed by the new disruptive AI technology. Not dissimilar are the college classrooms of smaller, liberal arts colleges.

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AAUP Report on Political Interference in Higher Education: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 185 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Henry “Hank” Reichman

The Change Leader, Inc.

We are reminded that what’s happening in Florida is not just an isolated issue but a warning sign of the potential nationwide impact of political interference in academia. And that got me really interested in issues of intellectual freedom, free speech, and, once I did get back into academia, academic freedom.