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NOVEMBER 29, 2023

As a “lifer,” Fordham wasn't eligible to participate in prison education programs, but he fought back and earned a diploma, vocational certificates, and an associate degree from Miami Dade College. The college program offers incarcerated men in South Florida the opportunity to earn college educations behind bars.

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JANUARY 23, 2024

A national grant program aims to reposition the liberal arts and humanities as central to the general education curriculum. Except that it's not entirely shocking given what's happening across higher education. This is a time of great change in higher education," Gee said , "and we are leading that change rather than being its victim."

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JANUARY 17, 2023

"Replacing the outdated remedial approach with a more effective, equitable and evidence-based system is an important advance in our ongoing mission to provide our students with educational opportunity and the support they need to succeed," CUNY Chancellor Félix V. Matos Rodríguez said in the release. "I

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JANUARY 31, 2024

Earning a degree tends to impact a student's earnings post-graduation. That means borrowers who didn't complete their college education have a harder time paying off their student loans. They are left holding the bag for the cost of their education but without the salary bump someone who earned their degree might expect. "If

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JANUARY 12, 2023

Community college students finished their degrees faster and had higher eventual earnings when they received help in college-level classes rather than being bumped to remedial courses, according to a new study. Douglas, the study lead and Trinity College's director of social science research, said in the release.

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DECEMBER 1, 2023

Philip’s College, a two-year institution, to pursue a Biomedical Engineering and Technology Associate’s. I kept recalling the summer of 2013 when I worked at an industrial lumber yard for eight hours daily in the blistering heat. I’m the first in our family to attend college and earn an Associate degree. My parents cried.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The graduates will stay with the Northwestern Prison Education Program as teaching assistants and fellows to help other incarcerated students at the correctional institution earn degrees. They were part of the Northwestern Prison Education Program (NPEP). "At Department of Education to Pell Grants for the first time since 1994.

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