Laura Ascione
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Campus Leadership

4 major priorities for community college leaders

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Community college leaders and other leadership positions made their top priorities clear in a letter sent to Congress.
Technical college and community college leaders from 12 college systems across the country sent a letter to Senate HELP Committee and House Education and Labor Committee leadership, calling…
IT Leadership

Here’s one way institutions can handle edtech integration

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Edtech integration and interoperability can cause headaches, but a new free solution can help.
A new resource from a higher-ed nonprofit is intended to help institutions assess and improve edtech integration across the higher-ed landscape. The Next-Generation Integration Scorecard (NGIS), a free…
Campus Leadership

Which college majors offer solid employment prospects?

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Soft skills are important, but they doesn't leave students in some college majors feeling confident about employment.
This month, incoming college freshman will tackle their first on-campus experience: orientation. As students register for classes and contemplate college majors, data from the Cengage Student Opportunity Index…
Campus Leadership

3 interventions to increase faculty tech use

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There are three interventions to help increase college faculty tech use.
Students on campus, no matter their age, increasingly expect technology to be seamlessly woven into instruction--making it all the more important that higher-ed leaders work to support and…
Campus Leadership

Efforts to “upskill” workers grow across industries

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Efforts to upskill workers and help them learn new skills are growing.
An ambitious new partnership between the nonprofit Education Design Lab and Virginia Western Community College (VWCC) aims to design employer-driven pathways that will "upskill" highly-qualified healthcare professionals to…
Campus Leadership

Food insecurity on campus is growing–technology can help

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Food insecurity on campus is a growing issue, but technology can help.
Higher education brings with it a number of concerns for students, but one of the least talked-about--but most concerning--is the increasing issue of food insecurity on campus. A…
Campus Leadership

Here’s what higher-ed leaders should know about Generation Z students

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Generation Z students have definitive ideas about what they do and don't like in terms of education.
Generation Z students say they vastly prefer video as a learning method, according to a new study that outlines similarities and differences among these learning and Millennials. Beyond…
Campus Leadership

Community college transfer students net impressive graduation rates

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Community college transfer students have excellent graduation rates.
Community college transfer students who enroll in certain four-year institutions perform just as well--and in some cases, better than--their peers who enrolled right from high school. The report…
Campus Leadership

What’s keeping working adults from pursuing higher education?

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A woman works at home as she is pursuing higher education.
Higher education attainment is linked to greater earnings potential and lower unemployment rates, but there are still factors at play that keep today's working adults from pursuing higher…