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South Carolina House GOP focusing on education, tax reforms

12/19/2018 - ABC4News.com

Free college is now a reality in nearly 20 states

12/19/2018 - CNBC.com

Hunger-Free Campus bill advances and other legislation

12/19/2018 - PressofAtlanticCity.com

Institutions weigh sexual assault reporting changes

12/19/2018 - Duluth News Tribune

Metallica donates $1M to community colleges

12/19/2018 - Forbes
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From UB

How today’s employees get the job ‘won’

Melissa Ezarik
December, 2018
PERSPECTIVE ON THE DATA—“It really struck us that the high school economy still provides 13 million good jobs,” says Anthony P. Carnevale, director of Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, which helped produce recent job research.

Two out of three jobs now demand at least some education or training, confirms new research. Three pathways still remain: a high school education, middle-skills training or education, and a four-year college degree.

Will midterm elections lead to higher ed reform?

Emily Ann Brown
December, 2018

While House Democrats push affordability agenda, divided control of Congress could cause gridlock.

Elite learning, anywhere

Stefanie Botelho
December, 2018

UPenn’s College of Liberal and Professional Studies now offers an online Bachelor of Applied Arts and Sciences degree. While many Ivies have digital advanced learning programs, this is the first online option for undergrads.

For higher ed, investing in OER pays eventual dividends

Ray Bendici
December, 2018
Achieving the Dream’s OER Degree Initiative increased the number of students enrolling in open education resources-based courses.

Study finds that open education resources provide significant cost savings to low-income students and strengthen instruction and learning.

MIT to open AI college

Tim Goral
December, 2018

MIT is betting artificial intelligence will become so ubiquitous it is investing more than $1 billion to create a dedicated college, combining AI, machine learning and data science with other disciplines. It will open next September.

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Industry News

The University of Texas at Arlington College of Engineering Joins Liaison’s EngineeringCAS™

12/5/2018

Liaison Integrates GMAC's Common Letter of Recommendation into BusinessCAS™ and Enhances the Reviewer Experience

12/4/2018

Complete College America’s 2018 Annual Convening to highlight student success efforts across the nation

12/3/2018

Brent White to lead UA Global engagement

12/3/2018

$80 million gift to small mountain college maximizes impact

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12/13/2018

Creating a Connected Campus by Automating Core Processes

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Students expect their higher education experience to be modern and digital, but for many institutions, core systems across campus still rely on paper-based, manual and siloed processes. By automating processes and modernizing workflows, institutions can improve the user experience while reducing costs and workload and improving efficiency.

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Campus card system helps support student success while increasing efficiency

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Colorado Mesa University’s new campus ID platform tracks the most popular items in the dining hall, but more importantly, it tracks when students aren’t making it to the dining hall in the first place.

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Managing unstructured data helps colleges with efficiency and compliance

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What is the state of unstructured data on college campuses today?

There is a huge proliferation of information produced, from emails to applications for financial aid and dorm rooms. Gartner estimates that upward of 80 percent of enterprise data today is unstructured. But the business strategy to capture this content and organize it for efficiency and compliance purposes is lacking.

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A holistic approach to student success increases financial literacy, reduces debt

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A Kentucky university saw Cohort Default Rates plummet and financial literacy improve almost immediately after implementing two programs that take different, but related, approaches to student success.

At the end of 2013, the three colleges that now make up Sullivan University in Louisville had Cohort Default Rates of about 25 percent each. At the end of the 2018 school year—five years after partnering with Student Connections to implement Borrower Connect—these same schools had default rates from 13.5 percent to 15.4 percent.

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12/2018

Purchasing cooperative saves time so university can pursue strategic endeavors

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Ten years ago, Auburn University began using E&I Cooperative Services for purchasing, a move that dovetailed perfectly with the school’s shift to a strategic sourcing model of procurement.

As a result, Alabama’s second-largest university now has the time and money to build strong relationships among employees and further increase efficiencies, says Missty Kennedy, director of procurement and business services.

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