Coursera blog

MAY 2, 2024

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. Investing in employee education can have a positive impact on the company’s bottom line.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

Drew University of Medicine and Science College of Science and Health The Biomedical Sciences Enrichment Program is a yearlong program that exposes students to career paths in biotechnology, biopharmaceuticals, and research. Students design proposals and work with mentors to carry out their research. Chicago, Ill.;

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

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. Without innovation no organization can thrive. They don’t.

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University Business

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The coursework in the crosshairs isn’t hard to divine, either: liberal arts mainstays such as literature, history, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and psychology. If no one studies history, we don’t get the next Doris Kearns Goodwin; if no one studies English literature, whence the next David McCullough? New tools.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 30, 2022

As the noted legal commentator who goes under the banner of Unemployed Northeastern puts it: “Some states are busy banning books, other states are busy educating students.” These areas have much lower rates of college attendance, suggesting that higher education is less valued and isn’t a priority. Here’s how.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 4, 2023

These are issues that need to be addressed if we are to improve the quality of the education our campuses offer. The $64,000 question is how institutions can do all these things as well as their existing functions (like research and graduate and professional education) without pricing themselves out of business.

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