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Campus Mental Health Awareness Leads Policy Efforts at the Federal and State Level

The mental health crisis on college campuses, prior to 2020, often referred to the overwhelming demand on campus mental…

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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…

Racial Equity, Student Parents

Q&A With Nicole Lynn Lewis, Founder & CEO of Generation Hope

Nicole Lynn Lewis is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Generation Hope, which works to surround motivated teen…

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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Reimagining Higher Ed for Equity and Student Parent Success

“Was higher ed designed for minority students?”  A student asked this question during a Temple University “Sociology of Education” class…

COVID-19, Innovation, Today's Students

Higher learning for a higher purpose: Fighting inequality in the ‘human work’ era

COVID-19 has upended the global economy with astonishing speed and severity. Millions have had their work environments drastically changed,…

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I am in my senior year and want to take advantage of networking opportunities for my future career, but do I just become a non-present parent for my kids? Do I delay adjusting my immigration status until I am done with school, but risk losing status and being deported? What do I do? It’s a question no one else can answer for me.

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Fall 2020: A Senior In The Making, A Mother Soon Breaking

I, like the rest of nearly four million student parents, am already juggling a million different tasks all at…

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  • 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…

  • COVID-19, Online Education

    COVID-19 Accelerated Online Learning, But Where Do We Go From Here?

    Shifting Indiana’s higher education learning system to an online delivery model overnight would have seemed impossible at the beginning of 2020.Yet here we are…

  • COVID-19, Online Education

    Powerful Together: Competency-Based Education and Online Delivery

    Higher education—and sweeping aspects of American life—were upended seemingly overnight in March. Millions of students started the month on campuses across the…

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