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Closing Higher Ed’s Equity Gaps

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Did you happen to see Malcolm Gladwell’s article “ Princeton University Is the World’s First Perpetual Motion Machine ”? In 1977, when the university’s endowment stood at $2 billion, its freshman class was 1,585. ” Is Princeton truly a leader in these fields?

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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Associate Engineering Program at Wright College (EPW) Part of the City Colleges of Chicago, Wright College is home to an engineering cohort program that has grown from nine students at its inception to 550 today. million research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). We are an affordable institution.

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Why we need better data on faculty diversity (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

An excellent and diverse faculty is vital to individual colleges and universities and to our communities, states, nation and globe. colleges and universities, the faculty is less diverse than the students. To improve faculty diversity, college and university leaders need data. universities.

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Hard Truths That Higher Education Has Evaded for Too Long

Inside Higher Ed

Anyone who cares deeply about American higher education needs to come to grips with a series of hard and unpleasant truths: That this country’s system of postsecondary education relegates the students with the greatest needs to the most underresourced institutions.

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How colleges measure and prove their value: Key podcast

Inside Higher Ed

Colleges are under growing pressure to prove their value to students, parents, legislators and others. Itzkowitz: Over the past year, we’ve seen an uptick in students and families wanting to know what type of return on investment they’re going to get from the college education.

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Leveraging Partnerships to Support Local Workforce Needs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Twenty-four years later, stakeholders are still seeing evidence of community colleges expanding their role in school reform, especially in the State of Missouri. Brian Noller The Show-Me State has a Career and Technical Education (CTE) delivery system consisting of 518 local education agencies.

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Leveraging PEP and EMI Data to Improve Institutional Value and Student ROI: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 173 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Michael Itzkowitz

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One of the biggest challenges students face is determining their return on investment for obtaining a college degree. Drumm McNaughton speaks with the person who generated and crunched these numbers, Michael Itzkowitz , president of the HEA Group and former director of the College Scorecard under President Obama.