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LAOP 2021 · No. 21
Mike McDonough
We forget about the student. We become focused on sustaining the operation of the Institute.
Mike McDonough
Mike McDonough, president of Raritan Valley Community College in New Jersey, believes higher education keeps forgetting to ask who its students are. He fought hard to bring students with Down syndrome to campus, estimates about 40 percent of his students are hungry, and says 83 percent of his budget comes from tuition. He called for just-in-time and competency-based education. His most humbling lesson came from a new advisor: a program failed because the last bus left campus before class began.
Read the Forbes columnTake the Conviction Diagnostic. In three minutes, see where you've traded who you are for who the room wanted, and exactly where to begin reclaiming it.
His story starts where reinvention did: a family that left everything behind for a new country and refused to call it loss. Cuban Roots →
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