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A Second Chance at Higher Education

Growing up in a low socioeconomic area in Phoenix, Arizona, surrounded by gangs, violence, and drugs, I never thought…

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Student Parents and the Opportunity to Support Multiple Generations of Families

For 14 years, I have been an Institutional Researcher at Monroe Community College (MCC) in Rochester, NY. On March…

Adult Students, COVID-19, Pathways, Today's Students

Rethinking PLA: The Urgency of Counting Prior Learning

As the country works toward economic recovery in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, there are at least 10…

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The Two-Faced Promise of Higher Education

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The four-year college degree has long been the gold standard and the surest gateway to economic opportunity in the…

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    Q&A with President Lyle Roelofs of Berea College

    Berea College, the first interracial and coeducational college in the South, focuses on learning, labor and service. The College admits only academically promi…

  • COVID-19

    A Fall Like No Other

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    Whether one is returning to college or entering college for the first time, Fall of 2020 is clearly a fall semester like no other. While higher education insti…

  • Adult Students, COVID-19, Online Education

    It’s Past Due for Online Education Students and Programs To Be Appreciated

    Starting in the 1990s—which is a relatively long time ago for me and many Millenials (I went to elementary school in the ‘90s!)—the budding pathway of distance…

  • COVID-19, Online Education

    How the Pandemic Experience Could be an Opportunity to Improve Online Learning: Let’s Not Waste It!

    Who would have guessed that it would take a pandemic to expose online education as a critical modality to keep students connected to their educational studies?…

  • COVID-19, Data, Online Education

    Is Online Higher Education Working? Only Data Will Tell

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    As thousands of colleges and millions of college students prepare for a fall semester that will likely be partially or fully online, it may not have been comfo…

  • COVID-19, Online Education

    Accountability in a Post-Pandemic Landscape

    Every day, colleges and universities are facing new and difficult realities as they address the unprecedented circumstances brought about by COVID-19. There ar…

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