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The Catalysts for Competency-Based Learning and Prior Learning Assessments Have Arrived

eLiterate

Mr. Hadhad was midway through medical school when he fled Syria. Here’s a guy who was halfway through medical school when he arrived. He was told he would have to repeat all his education starting from high school to finish his degree and become a practicing physician. While the town is the home of St.

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Work-life balance seeps into discussions on leadership, too

Inside Higher Ed

” The powerhouse group of five panelists included two longtime campus CIOs, one newly appointed CIO, one vice president for digital innovation at a liberal arts college and one émigré from higher ed who now works for Amazon Web Services. “I’m going to work for you someday,” he told her.

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Can a ‘degree’ hold its value?

HEPI

The ‘trade’ of Oxford and Cambridge as corporations lay in the study of the artes , the ‘liberal arts’. In both, a student ‘apprentice’ ‘graduated’ gradus by gradus , ‘degree’ by ‘degree’, to become a Bachelor then a Master of Arts. The London Medical Schools were clamouring for that right for themselves.)

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Rising higher ed leaders tackle campus challenges in EAB’s fellowship

EAB

Cooper Medical School of Rowan University Fostering sense of belonging among Black undergraduate students Melissa McGuire, Ph.D.,