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The Next Iterations of Disruptive Innovation

Inside Higher Ed

Just when colleges and universities began to feel that operations were returning to normal, new variants and mutations emerged to upset the apple cart. Here’s one shocking example : South College in Savannah, has a 4 percent graduation rate and leaves its students with an average debt of $25,000, and yet remains accredited.

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Becoming a Mission-Driven University

Inside Higher Ed

Consider the following examples: Wealthy colleges have found a new way to separate potential students from their dollars. Nor are they, like the City University of New York’s 2 and 4 year colleges, dedicated to broad access and upward mobility. ” Or I don’t know whether to laugh for cry.

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2023 Inspiring Programs in Business Award Winners

Insight Into Diversity

Drexel University Drexel University LeBow College of Business Build Relationships in Diverse Group Experiences (BRIDGE) is an academic enrichment program designed to support underrepresented students at Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business. Georgia College & State University Georgia College & State University J.

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Tailoring Student Services to Create Career-Ready Graduates: Changing Higher Education Podcast 153 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Kevin Grubb

The Change Leader, Inc.

Podcast Highlights The University Learning Goals page on the Villanova website contains searchable student career outcome information from the past five years that can be sorted by college and major. This data updates annually from surveys where graduates share their career experiences upon graduating.

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Career-readiness initiatives are missing the mark (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

The notion that the nation’s colleges and universities are failing to prepare their students for the world of work appears to no longer be a matter of debate: it has become conventional wisdom. Darling and Deanna P.

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How to Improve College Teaching in 2023

Inside Higher Ed

The first, which initially arose in Italy and elsewhere on the European continent a millennium ago, offered professional training in law, medicine, and the church and later in such fields as architecture, business, engineering, and the sciences. These four traditions co-exist uneasily within the contemporary college and university.

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Which Path Forward?

Inside Higher Ed

What we need, I think, is what Feldstein calls a “radically conservative” vision that conserves “the best parts of an American-style liberal arts education by re-imagining it but not rejecting it.” ” I call that the learner- and learning-centered university. Yet the problems go deeper.