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06Oct
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Who has better insight into what new majority learners need and seek from higher education institutions to thrive than students themselves?

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Today’s majority learners bring a diverse and different array of experiences, needs, and ambitions. However, in many regards, the system of higher education is not designed to holistically support these learners due to deeply embedded forces that drive structural inequities. Evidence of such is demonstrated by the persistence of disparities in student success outcomes across […]
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04Oct
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Please Mind the Student Trust Gap

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Insights and Opportunities from the Lived Experiences of Today’s Majority Learners Trust is at the foundation of healthy relationships. At its core, trust is a “firm belief in the reliability, honesty, integrity, or strength of someone or something.” It is an expectation that two parties will act in a way that is mutually beneficial. For […]
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30Aug
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Mental Models are Holding Higher Ed Hostage

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How student voice and challenging age-old assumptions in education can fuel the systemic change today’s students want and need. What truly holds large educational systems back from change? So many of us recognize the need for change in all social systems including healthcare, education and business to adapt to the changing face of society, yet […]
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27Aug
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What is Their Lived Experience?

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Introducing Today’s Student Experience Lab Buckle up team!  We are putting our student-centric glasses on for a fun and thought-provoking ride.  We are thrilled to announce the launch of the Today’s Student Experience Lab in partnership with the Lumina Foundation. The Lab is aimed at helping Lumina and its partners gain deeper insights into the challenges and opportunities […]
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26Oct
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Virtual Student Experience Labs are Here!

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Kinetic Seeds provides the platform and methodology, you provide the students. Together, we elevate the voices of those most closely connected to the experiences in need of innovation by uncovering system-level barriers and opportunities, shifting critical mind-sets, and delivering better and stronger outcomes.
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30Jul
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Let’s Talk About Jennifer: An Insider’s Perspective on Credit for Learning

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Next up in our Project APPLY series is an insider perspective on credit for learning penned by James R. Hallmark, Ph.D., Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs for The Texas A&M University System. Dr. Hallmark, a long-time advocate for transfers and credit for learning, reveals a number of hidden (and not so hidden) barriers affecting a […]
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02Jul
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Some of our best education pathways need some extra care and attention

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In developing the graphic above to support Project APPLY (Advocating for Portability of Previous Learning), it got us thinking — while most of us within postsecondary circles acknowledge that today’s students and workers learn in different ways, places and contexts, we aren’t necessarily doing enough to ensure that they (1) get credit for their learning […]
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15Apr
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Empowering Today’s Learners and Workers with Due Credentials

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By Lara K. Couturier, principal at HCM Strategists and Christine Flanagan, president, Kinetic Seeds. The COVID-19 crisis has produced record levels of unemployment, disrupted student learning on an unprecedented scale and laid bare the structural racism that leads to highly inequitable outcomes in areas such as health, education and economic opportunity. Even before the current […]
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