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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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    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…

  • 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…

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