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Paul Quinn College to Create an Innovative Housing Model and a Mixed-Use Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Jakes Foundation (TDJF), in partnership with Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC), Paul Quinn College (PQC) is looking to create an innovative housing model, accompanied by a mixed-use community on their Dallas campus. Thanks to a $1.5 million grant from T.D. PQC is the only minority-serving, federally recognized Work College in the nation.

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Private colleges and discount, 2020

Higher Ed Data Stories

The scholarship or aid is just an accounting transaction. If it's funded (that is, some source is providing you the scholarship money, like a funded award), you get the $6M from the student and the $4M from the scholarship source, or the full $10M. Their funding models are often very different, and they make the view very noisy.

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Announcing four new entry-level certificates and Universal Skills scholarship program from Microsoft to help learners land in-demand jobs

Coursera blog

Business Analyst Professional Certificate – As the first business analyst Professional Certificate on Coursera, this program provides learners with a combination of business, technology, and data science skills including strategic and data-driven decision-making, change management, and process modeling. Available now. Source: Lightcast.

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Higher Education Succumbs to the Corporate Model

Academe Blog

Universities should be bastions of creativity, scholarship, and democracy, but administrators have been using a corporate management style which invariably leaves the faculty behind. ETERNO Faculty at many universities are experiencing frustration.

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Socrates in Space: University of Austin as a Model of America's Ivory Tower Future

Higher Education Inquirer

While its founding has had some media attention, critical and uncritical, little is known about the school, other than some of the curriculum--and more recently about the school's constitution and austere business model. The founding 2024 class is expected to enroll 100 students, growing to 200 students in 2025 and 1,000 students in 2028.

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Weekend Reading: Education and Scholarship – An overlooked solution to the teaching dilemma

HEPI

The traditional model of higher education institutions in the UK has largely relied on student recruitment as the primary means of funding both staff salaries and research activities. In terms of research, there is far less recognition of excellence in education and scholarship compared to excellence in subject-specific research output.

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Drexel Offers Half-Off on Tuition Costs for Community College Grads

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Promise scholarship recipients must maintain full-time enrollment (up to 12 academic quarters during class terms) and a minimum 2.0 Promise scholarship recipients must maintain full-time enrollment (up to 12 academic quarters during class terms) and a minimum 2.0 cumulative GPA. cumulative GPA.