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Powell, M.; Hatch, M. A.; Fians, E.; Shinert, A.; Richie, D. – Office of Community College Research and Leadership, 2016
Like many colleges funded by the U.S. Department of Labor's TAACCCT program, the goal of the Northeast Resiliency Consortium (NRC) (a Round Three grantee) was to enhance the capacity of colleges to accelerate learning, ensure that students attain industry-recognized credentials, foster innovative employer partnerships, use new technologies, and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Resilience (Psychology), Labor Force Development, Consortia
Paris, David C. – Council of Independent Colleges, 2011
From the fall of 2008 through the spring of 2011, 47 colleges and universities, organized and supported by the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC), administered the Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA) to their students. The CLA is a test of critical thinking, analytic reasoning, problem solving, and written communication developed by the…
Descriptors: Campuses, Critical Thinking, Consortia, College Faculty
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Ekman, Richard; Pelletier, Stephen – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2008
In recent years, an acrimonious debate has broken out in higher-education circles about institutional accountability and performance. Efforts to alter federal policy in particular have been flashpoints for often heated discourse about the ways that colleges and universities could--and should--demonstrate their effectiveness to skeptical outsiders.…
Descriptors: Consortia, Thinking Skills, Higher Education, Accountability