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  There are efforts underway to position colleges and universities to recognize “prior learning” in ways that go beyond today’s standard approaches.
  As competition for international students intensifies and more first-generation students enroll, there’s no one-size-fits-all method for reaching families in their native languages.
  Campus Finance News
  What do you see as the biggest roadblock for finance offices at colleges in moving away from spreadsheet-based budgeting and financial planning?
  Behind the News
  Seth Bodnar, 38, left General Electric Transportation to become the 18th president of the University of Montana.
  The new “marijuana major” at Northern Michigan University, the Medicinal Plant Chemistry program, is the first U.S. undergraduate major in the study of cannabinoids.
  A recent survey by World Education Services (WES) found that more than 40 percent of current international students had not yet used campus career services.
  The University of Wyoming now uses an augmented reality platform with a simulated class as part of its teacher education program.
  Under a new proposal by President Ray Cross, the University of Wisconsin would merge the state’s 13 two-year colleges into its system.
  California State University's Dominguez Hills campus is set to complete a three-story, 91,000-square-foot building for early 2020.
  What can senior academic executives do to protect themselves in an axe-happy environment? Quite a lot, as it turns out.
  The traditional university model of an in-house administrative investigation run by some combination of university administrators and professors is a disservice to both the accused and the university. It is arcane and inefficient.