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Wilson, John Silvanus, Jr. – Harvard Education Press, 2023
In "Hope and Healing," former Morehouse College president John Silvanus Wilson, Jr. looks to Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to examine what it takes not only to survive as a relevant institution of higher education, but to thrive. Wilson draws on pivotal moments in the timelines of HBCUs and the work of past…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Institutional Characteristics, Educational Finance, Financial Support
Discher, Jennifer M. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Educating for citizenship has pervaded the mission of higher education from classical Greece up to the present day. Colleges and universities increasingly encourage service learning and other curricular approaches that promote social responsibility and civic involvement. Other mission-oriented institutions, such as Catholic health care, grapple…
Descriptors: Catholics, Health Services, Role of Education, College Role
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Wang, Xiaoyan; Liu, Jian – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2011
This paper centers on the expansion from elite to mass higher education in China and its effects on China's economic development. These effects are twofold, including both the immediate influence of expanded enrollment in higher education on China's economy, and the human capital accumulation for the long term. The paper first provides a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economic Development, Higher Education, Human Capital
Colleges Ontario, 2010
Ontario needs to expand nursing education options to improve access to the nursing profession, create better pathways amongst all nursing occupations, and build Ontario's capacity to meet the province's long-term nursing needs. Ontario's colleges are capable of playing a larger role within a long-term provincial strategy for sustaining and…
Descriptors: Nursing Education, Nurses, College Programs, Nursing