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Typical College Student Isn’t Typical Anymore

Think you know what the typical college student is like? Today’s typical college student is no longer an 18-year-old recent high-school graduate who enrolls full-time and has limited work and family obligations. Students today are older, more diverse and have more work and family obligations to balance. Turns out that 73 percent of college students […]

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College Unbound Midterm Exhibitions

Congratulations to College Unbound students, many of whom successfully completed the first public exhibition of their work last Monday.  Want to see more pictures of exhibitions?  Check out our video slideshow of exhibition night!

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Online education isn’t revolutionary if the pedagogy is the same

The revolution in college learning these days seems to be online learning.  Every course is being put on line – many for free.  The problem is that many of the lecture courses that are not exciting in person are less exciting online.  Yes, there is hybrid learning – but that’s just a little bit of […]

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Student Debt Can Stop Education in its Tracks

One of the missions of College Unbound is to provide an opportunity to gain a Bachelor’s Degree for adult students who have been unsuccessful in other college settings. What happens when those unsuccessful first college experiences come with a heavy price tag? A student with an unpaid debt to their first college cannot get an […]

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