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Is a 4-Year College Degree Still Necessary?

MindMax

The college experience, the safe space a campus can provide, the opportunities for exploration and personal growth: those are benefits that don’t have a price tag attached. The concept of “just enough” education Can a traditional college education lead to positive outcomes cognitively, mentally, financially, and otherwise?

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Minority males benefit from consistent academic coaching

Inside Higher Ed

” Improved overall outcomes: The alignment of people, process and technology did, indeed, help this vulnerable student population to succeed. Consistent coaching, higher impact: Having the same academic coach throughout a student’s time on campus made a difference in outcomes. No In-Article Careers: 2

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Four ways for career centers to engage students

Inside Higher Ed

“Leadership of colleges [and] universities need to champion career services, and graduate employment outcomes as a top priority,” VanDerziel says. Create career services champions across campus. With this aid, they can lead and improve the work done, he adds. Share here.

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Report: Colleges face disincentives to improving transfer

Inside Higher Ed

” “Until we can change that default mind-set, we’ll continue to see current student outcomes and current policies and practices,” she added. Alvarado said she believes colleges misinterpret “academic rigor” as needing to weed people out and that contributes to these complicated credit evaluation processes.

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Secretary Cardona calls for change in higher ed

Inside Higher Ed

" Cardona also announced the expansion of Project Success, an initiative that helps 200 HBCUs, MSIs, TCUs, and HSIs access services to improve student outcomes. " Editorial Tags: Federal policy Image Source: Getty Images: Tom Williams / Contributor Image Caption: Education Secretary Miguel Cardona Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Faculty members oppose trustees' plan to review DEI language

Inside Higher Ed

” The motion passed with a 5-to-2 vote in early September. ” He sees attempts to remove these kinds of terms from campus materials as partially a backlash to a wider movement in higher education to close equity gaps in academic outcomes. Newsletter Order: 0 Disable left side advertisement?

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Challenging 'bad' online policies and attitudes

Inside Higher Ed

But some “bad” policies and attitudes about online learning undermine their efforts to work together, expand access and deliver outcomes to motivated, capable learners. “Good policy would actually advance and incentivize delivery against outcomes, not inputs.” ‘Bad’ Policy No.

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