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BEYOND LOCAL: How community colleges kept students engaged during and after the pandemic
The following article, written by Xueli Wang, University of Wisconsin-Madison originally appeared on The Conversation and is published here with permission:. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, it prompted enrollment drops at community and technical colleges. But it also spurred the schools to innovate in an effort to better serve students who might otherwise fall through the cracks. Xueli Wang, a professor of higher education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, captures some of the steps that community colleges took in her newly released book, “Delivering Promise: Equity-Driven Educational Change and Innovation in Community and Technical Colleges.” She expounds on a few examples in the below Q&A.
Cambridge baseball: Owen Bernhardt hits go-ahead double as Blue Jays win over Poynette
With Cambridge up 5-0 after the fifth inning, it looked like Tuesday’s game between the Pumas and Blue Jays was going to be a stress-free win for Cambridge. Instead, the game got a lot more interesting. The Pumas rallied for five runs in the bottom of the sixth to tie the game, but the Blue Jays scored twice in the top of the seventh to score a 7-5 win over...
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