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How to Ask Your Employer to Pay for Your Degree

Coursera blog

However, you may still be able to approach your employer and see if they’re open to paying for a portion of your degree as part of your professional development. Start by approaching your manager to ask whether the company might consider paying for covering some of the costs associated with your degree, like tuition.

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PhotoVoice: Using Technology to Impact Student Learning and Assessment

Faculty Focus

As a faculty member, I often hear the blatant dismissal of students and their preoccupation with technology. How can we help develop ethical leaders, solid communicators, critical thinkers, and diversity-minded, community-engaged students if students in today’s generation are focused so heavily on technology and their phones?

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The 5 subjects proven to give undergrads the best wage premium

University Business

Despite declining higher education enrollment rates beginning in 2010, undergraduate degrees in engineering and computer science are continuing to see substantial growth most likely due to the high lifetime wage earnings they promise, according to a new study published by Sage Journals. ” Researchers analyzed survey data from 5.8

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KENRO KUSUMI

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Kenro Kusumi Kenro Kusumi has been named university senior vice provost and dean of The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University. He serves as a professor of life sciences and dean of natural sciences. Kusumi holds a bachelor’s degree in biochemical sciences Harvard University and a Ph.D.

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Meet the Parents Who Completed Their Bachelor’s Degrees Online During the Pandemic

Coursera blog

Hear why they chose to enroll in the Bachelor of Applied Arts and Sciences program at UNT, what aspects of the program they found most valuable, and their advice for anyone who wants to finish their college degree online. A customizable degree, a high-support online program. Then the pandemic struck. You deserve it.”.

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PhotoVoice: Using Technology to Impact Student Learning and Assessment

Faculty Focus

As a faculty member, I often hear the blatant dismissal of students and their preoccupation with technology. How can we help develop ethical leaders, solid communicators, critical thinkers, and diversity-minded, community-engaged students if students in today’s generation are focused so heavily on technology and their phones?

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US liberal arts could shift focus to help post-study work options

The PIE News

Liberal arts students are afforded the fewest official opportunities for post-study work. STEM and science students have OPT , scientists and accounting and finance majors have jobs at both fintech and technology companies – humanities students are feeling the lack of options. It prepares you for any job, anywhere.