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Employers Seek ‘Success Skills’ Among Potential Employees: Report

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SREB recently released its "The Skills Employers Demand: An Analysis of the Research" report to aid educators and policymakers as they work to integrate soft, employability skills into secondary and postsecondary education. But it is unclear whether credentialing certifies those skills.

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A New Way of Looking at Administrative Burdens and Race

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Dr. Denisa Gándara, assistant professor at the University of Texas—Austin “We’re making a case for why scholars, policymakers, and practitioners should think about administrative burdens and, in particular, how these burdens can be experienced differently and have different effects on racially minoritized students,” said Gándara.

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Free College Programs in New Mexico and Arizona Can Help More Students Receive an Economic Return from Higher Education

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By: Genevieve Garcia Kendrick and Kim Dancy While scope and design vary across states, one thing has become increasingly clear: f ree college programs are an important policy lever to increase affordability and expand the delivery of postsecondary value.

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Study: Outcomes of Students in Policy Debate Programs Linked to ELA Improvements and Postsecondary Enrollment

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Participating in policy debate programs in grade school is associated with improvements in English language arts (ELA) and better odds of graduating and going to college, according to findings from a new study in Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis.

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TICAS Policy Agenda Tackles the Flaws in the Higher Ed System

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Recommendations include doubling the maximum Pell Grant, reforming the student loan system to protect borrowers, and ensuring that public benefit programs, like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) or Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), are reformed to support a student’s journey through higher education.

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Challenges for Higher Education: An Emerging Skills Shortage and Inequity in the Workforce

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Dual Enrollment Establishing and expanding dual enrollment programs is a place to begin. Dual enrollment agreements should include strategies for increasing the inclusivity of dual enrollment programs. The programs offer access to hundreds of occupations in high-growth and emerging industries.

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Morgan State Launches New Center for Urban and Coastal Climate Science Research

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Its primary objective will be to work alongside the global scientific community and policymakers to develop effective solutions to mitigate the adverse implications of climate change affecting the planet. The center is one of six that Morgan State has launched over the past five years.