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The 4 biggest challenges facing graduate and adult education programs, according to presidents and provosts

EAB

The 4 biggest challenges facing graduate and adult education programs, according to presidents and provosts. As undergraduate enrollment and net tuition revenue continue to fall, university leaders are doubling down on graduate and other adult-serving programs as a source of enrollment and revenue. Organizational uncertainty.

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How to Develop a Higher Ed Value Proposition That Targets Adult Learners

MindMax

Looking to grow enrollments for your school’s adult education programs? In our conversations with higher education leaders, we’ve learned that an adult learner’s values and goals are much different from a college freshman’s , and a school’s more standard value proposition isn’t going to resonate with this audience.

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Four Powerful Practices to Promote Student Success 

Faculty Focus

Research has shown that compassion in education can lead to improved student motivation, reduced anxiety, and enhanced learning outcomes (Goleman, 2011). Benson, EdD, is a long term educator who has always placed service to the teaching profession first in her career. For the following 30 years, she was faculty in higher education.

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3 Key Themes at the CFES Brilliant Pathways Conference

MindMax

Leaders in education, business, government, and philanthropy (plus 100 students!) You might be wondering why someone like me, whose company focuses on higher education marketing and enrollment , would attend a K-12 conference. MindMax shares this focus on creating pathways , in the context of continuing education and higher ed.

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Working-class kids are being denied a second chance at education | Letters

The Guardian - Higher Education

What is an even greater scandal than student debt and collapsing apprenticeships is that adult education, which used to give people a second chance to gain GCSEs and A-levels or vocational qualifications suited to their aspirations, is now virtually nonexistent. Continue reading.

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ANNA MIARKA-GRZELAK

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Miarka-Grzelak earned a master’s degree in English philology from the University of Warsaw and a master’s in adult education from Indiana University. Anna Miarka-Grzelak has been named vice president for strategic enrollment and innovation at the State University of New York Cobleskill.

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SYBIL NEWMAN

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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.