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Should schools ditch traditional learning and focus on job-ready skills? A streamlined education could make graduates more employable, but is there a trade-off? Let's discuss it! #highereducation #skills #employability

This will offer aspiring leaders an opportunity to enhance their skills and positively impact their communities through visionary thinking, effective communication, decision-making, emotional intelligence, collaboration, adaptability, resilience, and ethical leadership.

I made it to the #sansinstitute honors list for the Cloud Security Certificate :) Their program includes the latest content in topics like cloud security, automation, and forensics. Thanks Anne Bedwell Jozwik for all your support.

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Battle of the Lands: The Creation of Land Grant Institutions and HBCUs--Fostering a Still Separate and Still Unequal Higher Education System Ms. Cooper asserts "Today, HBCUs are responsible for developing a large percentage of Black students in America. Despite HBCUs being founded as normal schools with less resources and representing only 3 percent of all higher education institutions in the United States, HBCUs have educated 10 percent of all Black students in the United States. HBCUs enroll twice as many Pell-Grant eligible students as other non HBCU institutions, yet HBCU graduates are 51 percent more likely to move into a higher economic bracket than they were born into than graduates of non-HBCUs. HBCUs also serve as a pipeline to professional schools looking for talented Black students, most notably by supplying the highest amount of Black applicants of any other type of University. HBCUs are also responsible for 80 percent of all Black judges, 50 percent of all Black lawyers, 40 percent of all Black engineers, 40 percent of all Black US Congress members, and 12.5 percent of Black CEOs. These colleges and universities are able to produce compelling results all while being historically underfunded, an action that still effects these institutions today. Despite the impact that HBCUs have had on the Black community, the number of successful alumni the institutions create, and the level of economic mobility an HBCU education can wield, the legitimacy of HBCUs in the modern day higher education sphere continues to be questioned. Some scholars argue that HBCUs are not quality institutions and have failed to achieve the quality and reputation of their counterpart institutions. It is no secret that these institutions are underfunded compared to their peer institutions, especially public HBCUs that rely on the federal government and the state for funding. For decades, all HBCUs have struggled to survive off of less financial support than Predominantly White Institutions (“PWIs”). The reason HBCUs are faced with this lack of funding is because of the dual education system that was not only encouraged, but sanctioned, by the federal government, allowing states to get away with segregation for far too long. From the creation of anti-literacy laws, HBCUs in the North founded by white missionaries to spread the Gospel, Southern states refusing to integrate, to federal and state governments continuing to control the funding of many HBCUs, it is clear that white control over Black literacy and development still lives today."

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