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What Is the Value of a Liberal Arts Education? The Answer Is an Open Book
Efforts to explain why a “liberal arts” education matters keep falling short. The rising price tag for a “liberal” education, including the increasing level of student loan balances and defaults, has...
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The Student Loan Problem: The KISS Solution
President Obama is right: A wider range of college graduates (and even non-graduates) need a more effective way to pay down their student debt. Otherwise, the data show they will be hurting both...
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Football and Higher Education: Presidents Need to Speak Up and Speak Out
Here’s what I do not understand — and apparently I am in good company: Football player Ray Rice apparently physically harms his then-fiancée (now wife Janay Palmer Rice) in an elevator and is...
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A different perspective: Three area school chiefs trade spaces for a day
Bennington Banner News BENNINGTON — Three prominent female educators switched roles for a day on Monday, in order to see the challenges facing other institutions first hand. Karen Gross, president of...
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Rinse and Repeat Does Not Work for College Admissions: A Call for Change
The standard approach to college admissions for vulnerable students is not working. Students who can succeed at four-year colleges are not getting there. It is time to rethink the approaches we’ve...
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Graduation Shouldn’t Be Endpoint
Much of the attention in higher education circles focuses on getting more vulnerable students to and through college. We have finally acknowledged that access to and entry into post-high school...
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Headed Down the Up Escalator: Why Education is Failing Our Students
In his Sunday Op-Ed last week, Nicolas Kristof observed that Americans are not riding up the education escalator, a useful image he has deployed for years. Instead, we are falling behind a host of...
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How Best to Support Veteran Student Success on America’s Campuses: Lessons...
Note: A longer version of this commentary/book review is forthcoming in November 2014. I recently completed Howard Schultz and Rajiv Chandrasekaran’s new book, For Love of Country, detailing the many...
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When Does a College’s Obligation to Its Students End?
Note: This commentary refers to an article in Inside Higher Ed, written by President Karen Gross and Director of Diversity and the Mountaineer Scholar Program, Ivan Figueroa. In our recent piece in...
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A President Receives A Gift
As I leave SVC after eight and a half years, I am reminded of the feelings of our students as they participate in their college graduation. At a college graduation, there is the overt celebration of...
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