Coursera blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Scott Shireman, Global Head of Coursera for Campus Career outcomes are a top decision-making factor for students selecting their higher education institution. Enhancing curricula to better align with in-demand skills used by today’s employers is therefore a top priority for higher education institutions.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

INSIGHT Into Diversity 2023 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award winners are recognized for their exemplary and innovative initiatives designed to recruit and retain underrepresented individuals in science, technology, engineering, and math. MS in Business Analytics – STEM-designated Adelphi University Robert B.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 3, 2023

Columbia University has become the first Ivy League institution to go test optional in admissions permanently for Columbia College and the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science.

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Marcia J. Ballinger, Ph.D.

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Half of Lorain County families have someone who has taken classes at LCCC or the University Partnership. When LCCC was founded in 1963 as Ohio’s first community college with a permanent campus, manufacturing education and training was one of the first focus areas. From top left: Steven Acord, Jody Page, Mason Moreck, Mitch Morig.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

All too often, LGBTQ+ people experience discrimination, stigma, and prejudice when seeking and receiving health care, but a new project called the Eidos LGBTQ+ Health Initiative, housed in the School of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), aims to change that. Research affirms this assertion.

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SRHE

OCTOBER 18, 2023

by Jana Berg, Michael Grüttner, Stefanie Schröder With the exception of a few master’s degree programs, the German higher education system is dominated by monolingual organizations. Therefore, language certificates are a key element of access to German higher education for international students. And went through with it, mercilessly.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Did you happen to see Malcolm Gladwell’s article “ Princeton University Is the World’s First Perpetual Motion Machine ”? The fact is that Princeton is not a research powerhouse in the applied sciences. Inequities pervade American higher education.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Column: Letters to the Editor In 2018, at the very first of what would become many campus listening forums to help shape the framework of the university’s strategic plan, President Katherine A. To educate for impact, a university evolves and does it within its core values.

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The PIE News

MAY 29, 2023

Numbers are recovering after the pandemic, with some universities overwhelmed with applications and the government even having issues with a visa processing bottleneck in the 2022 intake. The program sees students have extra lessons in English, as well as course specific tracks in business, engineering & technology and nursing. “As

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Marcia J. Ballinger, Ph.D.

AUGUST 22, 2022

As LCCC and University Partnership classes begin today, the campus is alive with the hope and purpose of all students – those starting their first college classes, those returning after some time away, those retraining for new careers, and so many more. This new applied bachelor’s degree was developed in direct response to employer needs.

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Marcia J. Ballinger, Ph.D.

APRIL 4, 2022

LCCC’s history of serving the community stretches back to 1963 when the need was recognized for a local college to create higher education access and a bridge to gainful employment. This year, we celebrate 25 years of the University Partnership providing affordable degrees to local people. It’s right there, our middle name: community.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

“Every time I taught it, it kind of doubled,” said Duma, professor of engineering and director of the Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science. In a news release , the university celebrated the online courses for offering students access and flexibility. More than 1,000 students signed up.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 6, 2023

Similar to our roads and bridges, the pathways between our colleges and universities have often been marked with potholes, roadblocks and lane closures. This 30-credit block of courses satisfies most, if not all, general education requirements and went into effect in fall 2014. And improvement is needed.

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

By creating an ad that appears at the top of Google’s search engine results page (SERP), you can boost the visibility of your programs and motivate prospects to click on your website. It’s also best to wait for 30 days to collect statistically significant results.

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GlobalHigherEd

JULY 14, 2016

Post-EU Referendum turmoil in the UK (and the EU) continues, for all sorts of reasons, but soon more serious and sustained assessment of the post-Brexit landscape for UK universities will occur. This blog entry is an exercise in thinking future-forward, brainstorming-fashion (so all caveats apply!),

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 9, 2023

How might this precept apply to higher education? As the historian Henry Steele Commager observed six decades ago, American higher education is an amalgam of four distinct educational traditions. These four traditions co-exist uneasily within the contemporary college and university. Priorities conflict.

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