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Colleges Are More Than Just an Education but a Capital Investment into Our Future

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

What Murray Sperber described in his bestseller Beer and Circus in 2001 is every bit as true today: the academic enterprise is decentered, and the quality of housing amenities, the robustness of student life programming, and the quality of an institution’s athletic teams are primary drivers of undergraduate enrollment.

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Guiding Community Colleges Toward Mission Fulfillment

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A transformative college president Prior to becoming the leader of ATD, Stout spent 14 years as the president of Montgomery County Community College in Pennsylvania, beginning in 2001. In addition to coaching, shes making connections among the presidents and forging collaboration within the expanding network.

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How Active Minds’ Interns Champion Mental Health

Active Minds

My comfort movie is any movie from the Barbie film series, specifically the ones from 2001–2005. I’m really looking forward to learning how to be a better advocate and help companies collaborate with Active Minds to create thoughtful social impact. This semester, I am a returning intern with the K-12 Initiatives Department.

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Partnership and Policy for Academic Advising

The University Innovation Alliance

Collaborating and Incentivizing for Student Success. We gotta scale what works as fast as we can, and that’s exactly what your collaborative has done.". Prior to his appointment as Secretary of Education, Duncan served as the chief executive officer of the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) from 2001 through 2008.

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A Race Scholar

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Lewis, the Carol Grotnes Belk Distinguished Professor of Urban Education and the executive director of The Urban Education Collaborative at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. “He And then, a position opened at UCLA in 2001. It was like a lifetime away.” After he earned his Ph.D. I’m a public school product,” he says.

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