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How Project 2025’s War on Higher Education Diversity Threatens Our Global Competitiveness

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The recently released "Project 2025: The Conservative Promise" paints a dystopian picture of American higher education, overrun by a "woke" ideology that supposedly threatens our nation's very foundations. The document's authors misrepresent the origins of progressive thought in education.

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The holy grail of credit transfer?

HEPI

I understand the appeal – the community college system and the transferable nature of credit are much more embedded within the United States than in the UK, even if each state takes a slightly different approach. Finding a way forward feels particularly pertinent right now.

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As microcredentials boom, employers' hiring platforms fumble

Inside Higher Ed

Some applicants enter information about their skills, professional experience and educational achievements into an organization’s hiring platform, including information about traditional college degrees and alternative nondegree credentials. “Why do these systems not call for more detailed information?

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Labour’s education policy is brave, but can they fund it?

HEPI

It’s a rallying call against inequality of opportunity and unfair access to education which prevents potential from being realised. What’s striking is just how much of the overall structure of the current school policy landscape Labour seem willing to retain. The post Labour’s education policy is brave, but can they fund it?

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A People's History of Higher Education in the US?

Higher Education Inquirer

The History of Higher Education in the US over the last 4 centuries is worse than horrible--from a People's perspective. Some of it has been documented. No one has documented the full-length of the terrain. There is a growing educated underclass, people who are working but are not working in areas that they had hoped for.

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New Campaign in California Seeks to Re-Enroll Working Adults

Inside Higher Ed

A coalition of higher ed organizations is launching a campaign, called California Reconnect, to re-enroll adult learners who stopped out of college in the state. California Competes plans to document the experiences of students returning through the campaign to gain a better understanding of their needs in the re-enrollment process.

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Report: Complaining to a higher ed accreditor is burdensome

Inside Higher Ed

Image: The complaint processes at seven of the agencies charged with monitoring the quality of higher education institutions and holding them accountable are burdensome and seem designed to protect colleges, a new brief from the think tank New America argues.

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