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Midtier: Broad-Access Universities Are the Key to Increasing Educational Opportunity

Inside Higher Ed

The Ivies, the flagships, the land-grants and the extremely selective and even moderately selective private universities and liberal arts colleges will do fine. ” In his words: the proposed model “will take on the challenges of cost and career value without rejecting the value of liberal arts of human teachers.”

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Work Zones Ahead!

Inside Higher Ed

Work Zones The MCSS, along with various state and national partners, is currently leading three initiatives focused on improving transfer: Strengthening MiHumanities , Strengthening MiWorkforce Pathways and Liberal Arts Pathways From Community Colleges to Independent Institutions.

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Which Path Forward?

Inside Higher Ed

Stepped-up advising, more aggressive interventions and academic and financial supports have made a genuine difference. Money that could be used to build better connections to employers, add more advisers or cut tuition is instead spent on the same trappings as research universities.” But much more needs to be done.

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Innovating at Scale

Inside Higher Ed

Strengthen advising and counseling by expanding opportunities for one-on-one interactions with designated professionals. Examples include: Purdue’s Cornerstone: Learning for Living, an immersive, integrated liberal arts certificate program. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.

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ChatGPT: Threat or Menace?

Inside Higher Ed

Pangloss, and I certainly don’t want to come across as a hopeless optimist, let alone as an uncritical promoter of the new technology. The sad fact is that advising and career counseling resources on most campuses are grossly inadequate and that instruction in writing is insufficient. As Claudia Golden and Lawrence F.

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Nine insights from an integration process (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

which traced its history to the union of Leicester Academy, founded in 1784, and the Becker Business College, which opened in 1887. It also was a serious loss for the Worcester region because of Becker College’s long and impactful history in the area and the prominence of several academic programs.

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Why Implementing a Richer, More Robust Academic Experience Is So Hard

Inside Higher Ed

Principle 6: An education that provides more mentoring, more proactive academic and nonacademic advising and support and that embeds students in a learning community or cohort to promote a sense of belonging and connection. These cohort programs, too, can be directed by staff who can provide dedicated advising and mentoring.