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Speaker Profile: DeShawn Preston, PhD, Southern Education Foundation

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We are very pleased to have Dr. Preston presenting some of his findings from his report Untold Barriers for Black Students in Higher Education at the Saylor Higher Education Summit. DeShawn Preston serves as the Southern Education Foundation’s (SEF) Higher Education Research Fellow. He recently received his Ph.D. in Higher Educational Leadership from Clemson University, and his research […]

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Speaker Feature: Dr. Andrew Sears, City Vision University

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Andrew Sears is the President of City Vision University, which is a nationally accredited online-only Christian university with the goal of providing radically affordable education. City Vision launched a four-year bachelor’s degree in Business for $5,000 (in total) targeting developing countries in partnership with Saylor Academy (http://web.cityvision.edu/saylor-qualifi/) and is developing a similar Computer Science degree. […]

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Panelist Profile: Lisa Sax Mahoney

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We are pleased to have Lisa Sax Mahoney, Director, National College Credit Recommendation Service, join us at the Saylor Higher Education Summit for a panel on employer-education partnerships. Lisa has vast experience on workforce degree completion partnerships and will offer insights learned from her role as a director of corporate partnerships at a public college, […]

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Saylor Higher Education Summit – The Agenda has Arrived!

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We have hinted at a few speakers and are now quite excited to bring you our agenda for the Saylor Higher Education Summit next month. As promised, the Summit focuses on how we can educate/train people toward employable skills while lowering cost, increasing access and exploring alternatives to traditional credentials. We gathered the word cloud […]

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Making Education Affordable: JetBlue Scholars Program

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Key Takeaways Corporate investment in employee degree completion provides a competitive education benefit and can be used as a tool to recruit motivated, dedicated employees. Saylor Academy’s college-credit recommended OER provides a solid foundation for many types of learning, including corporate-sponsored degree completion & tuition-assistance initiatives. Alternative credit initiatives can help adult learners efficiently earn […]

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