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Rolita Flores Ezeonu

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Ezeonuserved as Highline's Interim Vice President for Academic Affairs from April 2017 to June 2018.Prior Prior to that, she was Dean of Instruction for Transfer and Pre-College Education at Highline, from July 2008 to March 2017.

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Empowering Community Colleges Through AI: A New Era of Access and Economic Mobility

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Combined with the Apple App Store, which first debuted in 2008 with 500 phone applications, in less than 20 years, technology has revolutionized how the average consumer communicates, entertains themselves, and obtains information. Consequently, renormalizing consumer expectations for end-user experiences.

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JENNIFER ECCLES

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

There she served as vice president of development and external relations since 2017. Eccles holds a bachelor’s degree in public communication from the University of Idaho and a master of executive leadership from the University of Southern California’s Sol Price School of Public Policy.

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Experts Gathered to Discuss Challenges Facing Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dirks said t hat percentage shrunk to 10% by the time he left in 2017, which resulted in increased tuition. Institutions have a responsibility to communicate to parents and students how the humanities can overlap and benefit other fields of study, Fleming said.

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Dr. Dara N. Byrne: Leveraging Public Higher Education for the Common Good

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

in rhetoric and intercultural communication, she earned a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship in the Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean at the CUNY Graduate Center. The Macaulay Bridge Scholars program created a pathway to honors education for CUNY community college students.

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Data-Informed College Decisions: Students Deserve Clear, Consistent, and Complete Financial Aid Offers

IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

The following year, New America and uAspire published a similar study [2] about award letters from 515 institutions and found a lack of clear and consistent communication, including confusing terminology and awards that are not clearly defined or differentiated.

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Mapping Transfer Pathways: How Data and Equitable Admissions Policies can Support Transfer Student Success

IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

By participating in—and clearly communicating—articulation agreements with community colleges , four-year institutions help students mitigate credit loss. 2017, updated 2021). Tracking transfer: Measures of effectiveness in helping community college students to complete bachelor’s degrees (Signature Report No.