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On a Mission: Damon L. Williams Jr., Takes on the World

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Williams’s parents had met during their time at Southern and A&M College, a historically Black college and university (HBCU) in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Williams was raised Catholic and attended private institutions—he was often the only Black student in his class, or one of the few. Everyone didn’t feel that way.”

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Penn’s Sniegowski Named Earlham President

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Levin Family Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. Serving that ideal, and serving Earlham’s students and faculty, is why I am so excited to become part of the community.” Sniegowski holds a bachelor’s degree in music from the Indiana University School of Music; an M.A.

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Guiding Community Colleges Toward Mission Fulfillment

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

There is currently a cohort with tribal colleges and universities and a cohort of colleges leaning into improvement for student parents. Forward focus ATD initiatives over the past decade have involved building capacity to support success for students of color and low-income students.

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Community Colleges’ Essential Role in Workforce Development

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play an important role for students and communities, providing a quality education that prepares students for jobs or to transfer to four-year colleges and universities. Given that over 40% of undergraduate students in the U.S. The 1,038 community colleges in the U.S. million for bachelor’s degree holders and $1.6

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2022: Reemerging, Growing, and Evolving

The University Innovation Alliance

Four new universities joined the UIA, bringing fresh energy and ideas. We raised $5 million for cutting-edge collaborative innovation projects, and we welcomed new colleagues and partners to the digital ecosystem of our University Innovation Lab. In 2022, we reemerged from the challenges of COVID.

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2022: Reemerging, Growing, and Evolving

The University Innovation Alliance

Four new universities joined the UIA, bringing fresh energy and ideas. We raised $5 million for cutting-edge collaborative innovation projects, and we welcomed new colleagues and partners to the digital ecosystem of our University Innovation Lab. In 2022, we reemerged from the challenges of COVID.

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Innovating Through Failure. and Success

The University Innovation Alliance

If a university's a body, where's the ear? The closest thing we have is advising or a help desk, but they're designed to tell the student how they can change their behavior to accommodate into our systems. There is not a space where universities ask, 'What do you need? What types of students dropped out?

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