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Workforce Training
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When a UCLA professor debuted the custom textbook a year ago, other faculty criticized it as a potential threat to teaching and learning. But the textbook boosted student engagement and freed up instr...
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Claims that Harvard no longer teaches Western civilization are wrong. The real threat to the humanities is collapsing student demand.
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Higher ed is under pressure to become a workforce pipeline. The institutions that find ways to balance those demands with their missions may be the ones that survive.
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Higher education is being pushed to move beyond rigid structures toward models that recognize learning earned across institutions, careers, and lived exper
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KQED Presents Roadtrip Nation: Many Roads Forward, a new series about microcredential programs offering new career pathways.
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From special education classrooms in rural Missouri to manufacturing plants in central New York, apprenticeship programs and their higher ed partners are helping workers earn while they learn, fill cr...
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Russell Sage College President Matthew Shaftel, who co-chairs the Capital Region Higher Ed Alliance, discussed the initiative with WAMC’s Andrew Waite.
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Five Ohio community colleges are shortening semesters, in hopes of making higher education more flexible for adult learners and nontraditional students.
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Curbing the shortage of skilled workers across the country requires more robust awareness outreach to youth and focus on expanding registered apprenticeships as a workforce development strategy, accor...
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Cecilia Lopez Alvarado passed high school math with Aâs and Bâs. But in college, she effectively had to start over. Hereâs why students like her are at the center of a debate in America...
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Consolidating Colorado’s public colleges and universities could save the state money, according to a new report.
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Pennsylvania professor, author challenges norms in traditional higher education at UVU town hall on Thursday.
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The coalition includes six different Colorado nonprofits that want more young people to share their voice in state and local policy.
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2025 was the Year of Superlatives. Few institutions were more affected by partisan politics and polarization than U.S. higher education. What might we hope to see in 2026?
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Converging market pressures require unapologetic focus and strong resolve from executive leadership. Can your institution weather the storm?
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Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA) produces about 80 to 90 nursing graduates each year -- but the major hospital system in its service area needs about 500 annually. The supply-and-demand gap ...
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Stony Brook University students revived the National Association of Black Accountants chapter, creating access to mentorship, industry connections and internships.
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Massachusetts officials are working to address a multiyear trend of small private colleges being forced to cease operations.
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Large majorities of students believe their their college degrees have career value and that they can express themselves freely on campus.
