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    <title>The Future of California Higher Education</title>
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;Nathan Mueller sits down with Jonathan Brown, retired president if AICCU (Association of Independent Californai Colleges and Universities) to learn Jonathan’s perspective as to where California is headed in regards to higher education, and therefore, where the rest of us may well find ourselves a few years from now.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
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     <pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2012 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title>NACAC 2013 National Conference</title>
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                    &lt;span class=&quot;date-display-start&quot;&gt;Thu, 09/19/2013&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;date-display-separator&quot;&gt; - &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;date-display-end&quot;&gt;Sat, 09/21/2013&lt;/span&gt;        &lt;/div&gt;
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     <pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 18:59:14 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title>The Summer Seminar</title>
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                    &lt;span class=&quot;date-display-start&quot;&gt;Thu, 06/13/2013&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;date-display-separator&quot;&gt; - &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;date-display-end&quot;&gt;Fri, 06/14/2013&lt;/span&gt;        &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;June 13-14, 2013&amp;nbsp;Minneapolis, Minnesota&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A “must attend” conference for senior leadership at private colleges and universities. Summer Seminar is a two-day, intensive conference focusing on issues surrounding higher education marketing and enrollment management. The program is substantive, the conference is engaging, and the participants are strategic practitioners. Participants consistently tell us that this is the best professional development conference they attend.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;og_rss_groups&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 18:51:07 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title>Hardwick Day Summit 2013</title>
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You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialise correctly.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;We&#039;re happy to share this video, which contains highlights of research that was conducted by Kevin Menk and Laura Tiffany of Strategic Resource Partners. It features three different segments: 
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1. Highlights from a series of twelve interviews led by Kevin Menk with students expressing interest in Annapolis Group colleges outside Minnesota, and their parents. Respondents were given thirteen charts with findings from the comparative alumni research we devised to identify differences in how students experience and benefit from private liberal colleges and state flagship universities. We asked the students and parents to interpret the findings and assess their significance.  
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     <pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2013 21:10:16 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title>Expanding Your Toolkit</title>
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Stephen Smith sits down with Carol Stack to explain how students use Naviance now, and how it can serve both school and students in the future.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
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     <pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2012 20:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title>Economic Intelligence</title>
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Bill Watkins talked with Anna Swanson in March of 2012 and gave a clear-eyed assessment of California&#039;s economy.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
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     <pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2012 19:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title>The Texas Tribune: Most Texas Students Found Not Ready for College</title>
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    <description>&lt;p&gt;Fewer than one in two public school students met the state’s “college readiness” standards in math and verbal skills on ACT, SAT and TAKS scores in 2010.&lt;/p&gt;
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    <description>&lt;p&gt;Four men, friends from New York University, have spent much of the last 18 years living together in low-rent spaces they found in New York City.&lt;/p&gt;
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    <title>Colorado shootings: University launches independent review</title>
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