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Working-Class Adults: An Untapped Market of Education Consumers
Colleges and universities, the institutions that have historically defined higher education in America, are apprehensive over the prospect of declining cohorts of newly minted high school graduates that have flocked …
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Fundamentals of Student Support
The key to student success isn’t buried in the footnotes of an academic journal…
CAEL President Marie A. Cini on the Value of CAEL Membership
CAEL President Marie A. Cini takes a moment to discuss the value of membership. Will you join the movement to link learning and work for adults?
Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Leverages Strada MSI Grant to Improve Engineering Graduates’ Long-term Success
When Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi really listened to employers, it discovered a painful truth: While its mechanical engineering students had the technical skills needed to get hired, they lacked the …
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Next Generation By Design Symposium
The Next Generation By Design (NGBD) Symposium brings together education industry leaders and practitioners who are actively designing, developing, deploying and promoting next generation software and systems to more effectively …
MSI Grantee: Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
Three Reasons Why the U.S. Is Running Out of Pilots
Travel season is upon us, and domestic airlines are facing a severe pilot shortage that’s…
Completion with a Purpose: The Path To Higher Learning, with Carol D’Amico
The need for a seamless intersection between higher education and workforce development has led Carol D’Amico, Executive Vice President of Strada Education Network to lead a major national effort to …
Banding Together: Join Us at the CAEL Conference
With the 2019 CAEL Conference around the corner, we thought we’d take a look back at 2018. Hear from presenters and attendees to find out what keeps the CAEL community …
Ad Astra and Georgia State University join DXtera Institute as New Members
DXtera Institute, an international nonprofit, member-based consortium dedicated to helping institutions and their partners remove barriers to technology adoption and integration today announced Ad Astra and Georgia State University have …
From College to Life
Relevance and the Value of Higher Education
Relevance scores have an impact beyond purely educational outcomes–they are related to an individual’s overall sense of well being. Among those who are ‘thriving,’ there is an 18-percentage point difference …
Taking A Deep Dive into the College Board’s New Adversity Score
Last month, the College Board announced the introduction of a new “adversity score” on…