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How Being a Mother and Academic Helped Me Fix Higher Education’s Transfer Crisis

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As associate provost at the college, Ill admit I was biased but even two decades of experience in higher education couldnt fully prepare me for her struggle to transfer credits. Queens College is one of The City University of New Yorks 25 colleges. As a result, she obtained credit for the course, which counted toward her major.

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How MSU Saved Millions Without Cutting Faculty or Programs

EAB

EAB’s Paul Gunther is joined by Missouri State University Provost John Jasinski to talk through a highly successful transformation effort that resulted in more than $5 million in cost savings at MSU without cutting staff or programs. EAB · How MSU Saved Millions Without Cutting Faculty or Programs Transcript Coming soon.

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What Faculty Know (and Don’t Know) About Transfer—and Why It Matters

Inside Higher Ed

But perhaps the most telling findings are the high percentages of “wrong” answers to informational items for which there are right and wrong answers and of “don’t know” responses to informational items. From 2008 to 2014 she was executive vice chancellor and university provost of the CUNY system.

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Consolidating touch points for retention

Inside Higher Ed

“We know that students, for them to be successful … [they] need to be able to take advantage of all the resources available to them,” Wichita State University provost Shirley Lefever says. A secondary element, once the resource is established, involves making the one-stop visible to the student and utilized.

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Field of study not key to new academic program success

Inside Higher Ed

“The challenge is to learn from which past programs have paid off and which have not, then use that information to develop future programs with a higher likelihood of producing reliable results and prosperity for schools, students, and communities,” the report stated.