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PATRENA BENTON ELLIOTT

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Patrena Benton Elliott Patrena Benton Elliott has been appointed president of Halifax Community College in North Carolina.

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SYBIL NEWMAN

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Newman holds a bachelor’s degree in in professional speech, theatre arts, and broadcast communication and a master’s in leadership studies and adult education from North Carolina A&T University. She served as interim director of the GTCC Foundation.

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DOMINIQUE HARRISON

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He earned a bachelor’s degree in communication studies from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and master’s in adult education specializing in higher education from A&T. Harrison served as director of undergraduate recruitment and admissions.

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Adult learners: Who they are & what they want from college

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Hear EAB’s latest research on the characteristics of the adult learner market We’ve rounded up a few quick facts about adult learners—check them out below. Get more information For more on recruiting adult student populations, including graduate students, subscribe to the Professional and Adult Education Blog.

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Current enrollment is 8,000 students with around 61% in semester credit courses and 39% pursuing adult education. Daley College, City Colleges of Chicago Richard J. Daley College is part of the City Colleges of Chicago system. Between 77% and 81% of students identify as Latino and 22% self-reported as first-generation college students.

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Prospects are tired of your advertisements. Organic social media can change that.

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Tips to guide your professional and adult education unit through developing social media content for today's market Digital marketing, despite its potential to reach more customers than any other type of marketing, is seen by most consumers as distracting, intrusive, and inauthentic. Blogs Prospects are tired of your advertisements.

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To design microcredentials that meet student needs, follow these 3 steps

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Examples include Public Speaking, Science Communication and Storytelling, and Leading Remote and Hybrid Teams. Florida International University (FIU) allows undergraduates to complete an assessment to earn a badge that demonstrates a specific skill they acquired in their undergraduate coursework.