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based Institute for Higher EducationPolicy (IHEP), one of the nation’s premiere education research and policy centers, Dr. Michelle Asha Cooper has a vision. Since taking the helm of IHEP in 2008, Cooper’s been out front influencing national educationpolicy. As president of the Washington, D.C.-based
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.” “The highest-paying jobs in rural areas are in white-collar, blue-collar, and protective services occupations, and blue-collar and protective services occupations are more likely to employ men,” Martin Van Der Werf, report co-author and CEW’s director of editorial and educationpolicy, said in the press release.
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The coalition includes California Completes, a higher education and workforce research nonprofit offering guidance to state policy makers; InsideTrack, an organization that offers personalized coaching to help students succeed; ProjectAttain!, Dr. Su Jin Jez, executive director of California Completes.
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Specifically: How do we ensure sustainability through sound institutional financial health practices, continuous improvement and healthy competition in the postsecondaryeducation sector? And these ones suggest that there is a lot of room for improvement in the state of the Higher Educationpolicy discourse in Ontario.
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OPMs “imported the worst features of predatory for-profit institutions into traditional higher education and normalized them through ubiquity,” said Barmak Nassirian, vice president for higher educationpolicy at Veterans Education Success, an advocacy group.
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Department of Education, higher education lobbyists and policy experts say. “Their priorities are going to be much more about building a record with an eye toward 2024,” said Frederick Hess, director of educationpolicy studies for the American Enterprise Institute, a right-leaning think tank.
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