Saint Paul College Case Study
September 6, 2022
Location: St. Paul, Minnesota Number of staff: 192 Number of full-time faculty: 127 Number of part-time faculty: 109 Student enrolled for credit: 8,365 Students enrolled in non-credit courses: 2,206 Certificate, degree, and diploma programs: 100+ OVERVIEW: Saint Paul College stands out within the Minnesota State system for its unique demographics. It’s one of the most diverse schools among the system’s 26 colleges, 7 universities, and 54 campuses. Students of color make up almost…
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Richland Community College Case Study
August 29, 2022
Location: Decatur, Illinois Enrollment in 2019 (credit and non-credit): 5,435 Part-time students: 73% Continuing education students: 36% Number of EnRich training program participants since 2018: 1,500 OVERVIEW: In central Illinois’ Macon County, the unemployment rate for African Americans sticks stubbornly at around three times higher than the rate for white residents. Recognizing that the reasons for this extended beyond the sheer number of unemployed, Richland Community College in Decatur applied for workforce training funding…
Read more“Children’s Need to Know: Curiosity in Schools”
August 31, 2022
Originally posted in our August 2022 Top of Mind Newsletter. Closing out this month’s Top of Mind, we turn to a paper published in 2011 focused on the importance of curiosity in schools. While we have focused on many of the contemporary issues of education this month, it is also important to reflect on the overarching trend of modern learning. In this paper, “[Susan] Engel argues that interactions between teachers and students can foster or inhibit…
Read more“Redefining the Goal of Education”
Originally posted in our August 2022 Top of Mind Newsletter. As we see the start of the public school year throughout much of the US and other countries, let’s take a moment to reflect on the goal of education and how we might want to reframe it. For starters, many of us believed that the path toward the highest paying and most rewarding job was a college degree. And while it is true that, on average,…
Read more“More workers without degrees are landing jobs. Will it last?”
Originally posted in our August 2022 Top of Mind Newsletter. Thinking about the tumultuous changes to education, one might naturally consider how this impacts the job market. As has been reported for several years, jobs increasingly care about skills, mindsets, and experience over holding a particular degree. In this recent article from the Washington Post, we see an examination of the recent trend of ditching the degree requirement in a variety of fields, namely IT. What’s…
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