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Why the short-term Pell offers limited yet promising results

Despite stronger enrollment and completion rates, students offered the experimental aid package underperformed in these three areas.

Cyber ranges may be higher ed’s solution to a big workforce problem

Fueled by million-dollar grants, the experiential learning opportunity is funneling students across the country into cybersecurity, a industry that's desperate for skilled technicians.

Graduates need workplace coaching due to poor interpersonal skills

Workplace etiquette training can help recent college graduates build their communication skills and ability to receive feedback—and know when to use their phones, according to a new manager survey from Intelligent.

I’m a nobody in higher ed leadership—but I still believe I know what’s right

The curse of a sole focus on vocationalism comes as a reaction to corporate leaders and their willing collaborators in state legislatures who think it is either difficult or impractical to interest students in the liberal arts or, heaven forbid, that it might make them into informed voters.

The next ‘evolution’ in higher ed’s state funding model has arrived, per report

Completion-goals funding will push public higher education and state policymakers to address the region's labor market needs together, in turn boosting graduates' return on investment and improving the economy, according to Complete College America.

40% of business leaders believe graduates aren’t prepared to work. Are they right?

About a fifth of business leaders believe educators are to blame. Ithaca College professor Dr. Diane Gayeski, however, believes they can't be more wrong.

3 ways to demonstrate the value of your institution to prospective students

With a thoughtful and learner-centric approach to education, institutions can continue to support students and faculty no matter who or where they are.

Why these 2 states are changing their higher ed funding model

As state institutions recuperate from poor enrollment numbers, legislators are ready to increase higher ed funding—under one condition.

The 5 trends that will predict the course of higher education

More than ever, institutions need to reimagine how they address affordability and outcomes and remodeling the workforce and business model.

Minnesota’s “bold action to make college affordable” results in free tuition

Legislative negotiators have reached a deal to make college free for residents whose families make less than $80,000 a year in order to bolster the state's fledgling enrollment and labor workforce shortage.

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