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Tags: AccessJune 2026Anne Arundel Community College (AACC) and the University of Maryland Baltimore Washington...
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Tags:June 2026Congratulations to the 2025-2026 Innovation of the Year Award winners from 26 participating League...
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Tags: Organizational CultureMay 2026As community colleges seek to better serve adult learners and align credentials with workforce...
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Tags: Teaching StrategiesMay 2026Writing professors routinely utilize a variety of methods to engage students, facilitate skills...
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2026
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Graduating high school students across the nation are faced with deciding whether to continue their education or enter the workforce. Many seek higher education in order to improve career opportunities and gain economic prosperity and social mobility (Blackwell & Pinder, 2014). The College Board claims that the average annual income for individuals who have a baccalaureate degree is $53,976. The unemployment rate among these graduates is 4.7 percent, which is lower than the U.S. unemployment rate of 6.7 percent (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2014). While these statistics look promising, the...
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Students of color, males in particular, face significant challenges in higher education. African American male students, on average, are less successful than other racial/ethnic groups, including African American women. Compared to Asian/Pacific Islander or White/Non-Hispanic students, they are less likely to succeed in both developmental and college-level coursework and are more likely to drop out. Latino students are the least likely of all racial/ethnic groups to transfer. African American students and Latino males have the lowest persistence rates (Elgin Community College, 2010).
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Writing professors routinely utilize a variety of methods to engage students, facilitate skills development, and create opportunities for achievement. Peer review has a long history in college writing courses, where evaluating one another’s work is often treated as a core competency or an explicit learning outcome. Yet, what students actually do during peer review, and how that activity contributes to their development as writers, varies widely.
Students’ learning depends on factors such as their understanding of the purpose of peer review, whether they have been taught how to conduct one,...
September
2016
As higher education evolves to accommodate new forms of learning and new workforce needs, skills are being assessed across an ever-widening range of activities within the learning landscape. Campus-based and online degree programs; professional certificates; competency-based education; open online courses; professional development initiatives; cocurricular and extracurricular activities; and programs in service learning, information literacy, and entrepreneurship are just some of the higher education settings in which competencies worth recognizing are demonstrated or observed. Digital badges...
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When looking at national data about American students who are identified as English language learners (ELL), overlapping definitions from two prominent sources are important to note. The U.S. Census Bureau uses the American Community Survey (2013) to obtain information about factors that disproportionately affect ELL students and their families. The survey compares statistics between "native" and "foreign" households, definitions which are determined by where the householder was born. Not all children whose parents were born outside of the U.S. are identified as ELL. However, when...
June
2026
Anne Arundel Community College (AACC) and the University of Maryland Baltimore Washington Medical Center (BWMC) have a strong collaborative partnership dedicated to advancing the region’s healthcare workforce. Grounded in a shared commitment to education, workforce readiness, and community health, this relationship has evolved into a strategic model for building career pathways that strengthen talent pipelines and support long-term organizational growth.
BWMC provides essential clinical placements for AACC’s Registered Nursing (RN) and Practical Nursing (PN) students, giving learners direct...
