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As I take my leave.

Dr. Missy Alexander

Education has been rebuilt from elementary education to EdD in Instructional Leadership and our students are achieving successes that are on par with our regional, elite, universities. All arts programs at WCSU are focused on top tier professional training, fully preparing our students to work in these competitive and in-demand industries.

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How to Improve College Teaching in 2023

Inside Higher Ed

A tripartite curriculum -- consisting of general education requirements to guarantee intellectual breadth and ensure that graduates acquire a foundation in the liberal arts, a major to offer depth, and electives to maximize individual choice – is supposed to produce well-rounded graduates.

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Nine insights from an integration process (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

which traced its history to the union of Leicester Academy, founded in 1784, and the Becker Business College, which opened in 1887. It also was a serious loss for the Worcester region because of Becker College’s long and impactful history in the area and the prominence of several academic programs.

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Why Implementing a Richer, More Robust Academic Experience Is So Hard

Inside Higher Ed

Institutional leadership need to support initiatives that are evidence-based, that can be scaled in an affordable, effective way, that promote equity and that improve essential learning outcomes. I may be old-fashioned, but what I consider essential to a liberal arts education is the interaction with a scholar and with classmates.

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

eLiterate

To what extent is the university’s leadership aware of the paper? 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. To understand the potential role this model could play, we need to review a little history.

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What Today’s College Students Need

Inside Higher Ed

Sweeping survey courses on such topics as big history (the sweeping history of the cosmos, Earth, life, and humanity), ethics, religion, cognitive distortions, social science methods and thinking, and world art, literature, or music. Computational, cross-cultural, contextual, and design thinking are highly prized.

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Regulatory Changes and Their Implications for Higher Education Mergers: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 190 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Mike Goldstein

The Change Leader, Inc.

This includes a potential shift in the role of states within NC-SARA’s leadership, emphasizing consumer protection and student rights. About Our Podcast Guest Michael Goldstein has a long history of close engagement with higher education. And they felt this particularly in computer sciences. What name is it using?