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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Utilizing a holistic approach, its mission is to ensure that all students thrive in engineering and computer science, particularly Latino, Black and women students, who are underrepresented in these fields. million research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). I care more than just graduation at community college.

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As I take my leave.

Dr. Missy Alexander

We’ve invested in Public Health, Addiction Studies, and expanded our portfolio of nursing programs to create pathways from community college to the doctorate in nursing practice. All of these are growth areas and all of them are directly responsive to future workforce needs. What are those habits of mind?

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Valerie Sheares Ashby on leadership and succeeding a legend

Inside Higher Ed

” An edited transcript of the interview with Sheares Ashby, former dean of Trinity College of Arts & Sciences at Duke University, follows. She started a homeless shelter for men in the city of Raleigh and ran it for 30 years after she retired from teaching, and she did community college higher education.

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If You Were Designing Cal State Today: A Proposal Out of MIT

eLiterate

This was back in the 1990s, so it was early for a professor outside of an education or computer science department to be thinking about such things. So we reject solutions that involve replacing teachers by robots, taking all lessons online, or demoting the humanities. On the bottom was the California Community College System.

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ELEVATE program: Achievement Strategies from Illinois Tech: Changing Higher Education Podcast 166 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Raj Echambadi

The Change Leader, Inc.

They include boosting inclusion through experiential learning opportunities, providing more pathways for students, and embracing digital education. Podcast Highlights Illinois Tech pairs technology education with human-centered education by mandating experiential learning opportunities.