Colleges’ expenses rose 5.2% in FY22, the biggest increase since 2001
Higher Ed Dive
DECEMBER 15, 2022
But higher education still experienced less significant inflation than the U.S. as a whole, according to new data.
Q&A With Michelle Blesi, Author of Medical Assisting: Administrative and Clinical Competencies
Today's Learner
APRIL 10, 2025
In 2001, I was hired as a full-time educator, Practicum Coordinator and Program Director at Century Community and Technical College in White Bear Lake, MN. Tell us about the Medical Assistant program at Century College. The Medical Assistant program at Century College has grown significantly since I started in 2001.
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Turn it off and on again: digital literacy in college students
ACRLog
MARCH 21, 2024
This is why I don’t really like the term digital native (Prensky, 2001). link] The post Turn it off and on again: digital literacy in college students first appeared on ACRLog. It’s okay if they can’t find the answer and come ask us anyway – I just want to empower them to try. Let’s talk about digital learners in the digital era.
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Guiding Community Colleges Toward Mission Fulfillment
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
APRIL 1, 2025
Stout, recipient of the 2025 Diverse Champions Award, has focused her career on helping community colleges achieve outstanding student success. Moono, president of SUNY Schenectady County Community College. Felder, president of Harford Community College in Maryland, where Stout began her community college career in 1984.
Colleges Are More Than Just an Education but a Capital Investment into Our Future
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
SEPTEMBER 9, 2023
Hilton This expression is equally relevant to students applying to college. There are compound reasons that colleges fall behind in facilities management, renovation, and new construction duties. Also, there is the affordability of college. Colleges need to be innovative, creative, and committed to this cause.
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After “exhausting all avenues” to avoid going under, Notre Dame College closes
University Business
MARCH 4, 2024
Administrators from Notre Dame College in Ohio have announced that the century-old Roman Catholic school in Ohio will be closing its doors at the end of the semester. The college has already coordinated Teach-Out agreements with several neighboring colleges and universities to ensure the closure does not hurt its students.
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Why I gave $25M to a small liberal arts college (opinion)
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 17, 2022
Now, I see this through a new lens as my husband, Richard, and I have made our first big philanthropic investment in higher education: supporting one of our nation’s small liberal arts colleges. It is no longer enough to leave college with a diploma in hand. Since then, we have become regular supporters of the college.
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Most popular stories: Here is UB’s top 10 for 2024
University Business
DECEMBER 17, 2024
Whether it was news of a recent college closure or a forecast of the severity of the demographic cliff, the most popular stories of 2024 centered on the changing makeup of higher education institutions. Special categories highlight the best value, innovation, social mobility and historically Black colleges. Read the story.
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Alabama’s Coach Saban Retires with Historic Seven National Titles
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 10, 2024
Alabama head coach Nick Saban leaves the field after their win against Ohio State in an NCAA College Football Playoff national championship game, Tuesday, Jan. 10, won seven national championships , more than any major college football coach. Saban led LSU to SEC championships in 2001 and 2003, when he won his first national title.
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Legends Henry and Shirley Frye Honored with Renaming of A&T Building
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MAY 9, 2024
Supreme Court, in 1983, and chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, in 1999, before retiring in 2001. In 1959, he became the first African American student to complete study and graduate from the University of North Carolina School of Law and, in 1963, the first African American assistant U.S. district attorney.
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When a college president is also a tech entrepreneur
Inside Higher Ed
JANUARY 18, 2023
Image: Adrian College president Jeff Docking has some innovative ideas for higher education leaders battling enrollment pressures and market forces. That allowed the college to build out new majors, which in turn brought in students and revenue. Rize was founded in 2019, and Adrian began using the platform the following year.
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When Banks Lost Control of the Student Loan Mess
Higher Education Inquirer
JANUARY 13, 2025
Annual volume of private loans skyrocketed, from $5B in 2001 to over $20B in 2008, when 14 percent of all undergraduates had one. Bush signed the College Cost Reduction and Access Act of 2007 (HR 2669) which cut subsidies to lenders and increasing grants to students. In 2007, President George W.
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Are Your Assessments Fair and Balanced?
Faculty Focus
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
According to the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC), the body for the accreditation of degree-granting higher education institutions in the southern states, the Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) evaluative framework consists of an assessment indicator. Royce (2010). 5: 535–50 Stassen, M.
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Ohio Lawmaker Lied About MIT Degree
Inside Higher Ed
APRIL 6, 2023
Dobos was elected to the Ohio House last year and had previously served on the Columbus City School Board from 1993 to 2001, including a stint as board president. ” Editorial Tags: Degree scandals Ohio Is this diversity newsletter?
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WEEKEND READING: Why Scotland’s student funding system is “unfair, unsustainable, unaffordable” and needs to be replaced with a graduate contribution model
HEPI
JANUARY 18, 2025
The then Labour / Lib Dem Scottish Executive, as it was then known, scrapped tuition fees and replaced them with a graduate endowment from 2001-02, with the first students becoming liable to pay the fee from April 2005. The prioritising of free university tuition over the college sector is adding to this problem.
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Are Your Assessments Fair and Balanced?
Faculty Focus
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
According to the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC), the body for the accreditation of degree-granting higher education institutions in the southern states, the Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) evaluative framework consists of an assessment indicator. Royce (2010). 5: 535–50 Stassen, M.
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Educational Equity Key to Progress and Democracy
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 19, 2024
In 2001, SLN launched the CollegeBound Initiative (CBI), placing 33 college counselors in schools in New York City, Rochester, and Buffalo. Since then, the team has helped over 23,000 students successfully navigate the path to college and helped them secure over $1 billion in scholarships and financial aid.
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These are the states with the highest student enrollment rates
University Business
MARCH 19, 2024
Utah, Idaho, North Dakota, Arizona and California led the country with the highest rate of college-going individuals. While California had by far the most students enrolled in college than any other state at over 2.1 Census Bureau, culled together by World Atlas , one of the largest publishing resources in geography and demography.
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DREAM Conference Marks Milestone
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 31, 2024
Back in February, more than 1,000 practitioners from hundreds of colleges across the nation gathered in Orlando, Florida, to exchange evidence-based approaches to accelerating student success and equity. We are not leaving our colleges in Florida behind, and most importantly, we’re not leaving our students in Florida behind.”
Federal court says undocumented residents can pay in-state college tuition rates
University Business
JULY 17, 2023
The ruling is a win for undocumented students who, since 2001, have been allowed to pay in-state tuition if they lived in the state for three years and graduated from a Texas high school. The post Federal court says undocumented residents can pay in-state college tuition rates appeared first on University Business.
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Study Shows Declining State Aid in Massachusetts
Inside Higher Ed
FEBRUARY 3, 2023
The study, released Thursday, analyzed state Department of Higher Education data to examine how much state financial aid was available to Massachusetts students from 2001 to 2021. Meanwhile, students at Massachusetts community colleges received half the aid their peers at four-year institutions received, according to the report.
Deion Sanders Leaves Jackson State for Colorado
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
DECEMBER 5, 2022
Some fans were hurt that Sanders is leaving the Historically Black College and University (HBCU) at its peak. As a result of [Sanders's] presence, a lot of things were excavated that were long time concerns of HBCU college-goers, community, alumni, and sports fans," said Davis. Online, reactions to Sanders's announcement have varied.
C2YC Past Award Recipients
ACPA
MARCH 14, 2024
Dariel “DT” Henry, Bristol Community College 2013 – Lisa S. Kelsay, Moraine Valley Community College 2012 – Darl Drummond, College of Lake County 2011 – Deborah Casey-Powell, Green River Community College 2010 – Randy L. Dean, Richard Bland College 2009 – Nancy W.
Exploring the History of Latinos in Baseball
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 31, 2023
He earned an associate degree in liberal arts from Orange County Community College, a bachelor’s degree in history from Vassar College, and a Ph.D. Burgos arrived at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2001, where he earned tenure as an associate professor in 2007 and rose to full professor in 2012.
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Gilman program ‘expands horizons’ – US students
The PIE News
DECEMBER 22, 2022
The ECA’s Gilman Scholarship initiative began in 2001 and is supported by the Institute of International Education. Gilman International Scholarship to study abroad through the Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Gilman Scholars must be recipients of Pell grants to qualify for funding from ECA.
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Western Connecticut challenges reflect system tensions
Inside Higher Ed
SEPTEMBER 30, 2022
WCSU administrators are urging patience while they build a plan for financial viability, in collaboration with Connecticut State Colleges & Universities System leaders. percent since 2001, falling from $18,660 per full-time student in 2001 to $13,232 in 2021. Connecticut has cut higher education funding over the years.
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How Academic Advising Impacts the Question: Are You Coming Back Next Semester?
Faculty Focus
JUNE 27, 2023
Light (2001) states, “It is hard to imagine any academic support function that is more important to student success and institutional productivity than advising” (p. As noted by King (1993), academic advising is the only structured service on a college campus to guarantee personal interaction with student representatives of the institution.
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How Academic Advising Impacts the Question: Are You Coming Back Next Semester?
Faculty Focus
JUNE 27, 2023
Light (2001) states, “It is hard to imagine any academic support function that is more important to student success and institutional productivity than advising” (p. As noted by King (1993), academic advising is the only structured service on a college campus to guarantee personal interaction with student representatives of the institution.
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Highlights from Higher Ed: Data-Based Decisions, High Salary Expectations, Hispanic Enrollment, and Cyber Attacks
Liaison International
MAY 16, 2023
Source: Diverse Education Hispanic college enrollment has doubled since 2005 The number of young (18-24) Hispanic students enrolled in the nation’s colleges and universities climbed from 1.2 million in 2001, according to a new report from the U.S. million); some college (up 76.5% million); some college (up 76.5%
Public health majors grow by more than 1,000 percent
Inside Higher Ed
JANUARY 6, 2023
She earned a nursing assistant certification in high school but decided not to pursue the field at Westminster College, a small private institution in Salt Lake City; she worried that it would limit her job opportunities when she graduated. Image: Tabitha Edson always knew she wanted to work in health sciences. and growth in existing ones.
Surviving and thriving in HE professional services
SRHE
MARCH 19, 2025
The Colleges of Oxford and Cambridge similarly distinguish their academic from their other staff. For example St Johns College, Oxford and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge list more than a dozen departments , each with its own body of non-academic staff.
Diverse: Issues In Higher Education Magazine Profiles Top “40 and Under” Scholars
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 13, 2023
School of Social Work, Clark Atlanta Universit Dr. Ja'Bette Lozupone , director of student affairs, Montgomery College Dr. Darris R. Nathaniel Currie , assistant professor, Whitney M. It has remained one of the magazine’s most popular editions since its inception.
After escaping the Taliban for Wisconsin, these women take on the high cost of college
University Business
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
They knew that with the Taliban back in power, their dreams of a college education would likely soon be over. occupation, the number of Afghan women in higher education increased from around 5,000 in 2001 under the previous Taliban rule to about 90,000 in 2018, the United Nations found. Despite the dangers, the women were determined.
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Is India the world’s next top knowledge power?
The PIE News
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
Institutions In India, there are more than 1,110 universities, over 43,000 colleges, and almost 11,300 standalone institutions according to the latest All India Survey on Higher Education ( AISHE ). India is where Thailand was in 2001 and Malaysia in 2000. India has the second largest number of enrolments globally at 40.55
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Highlights from Higher Ed: Public Health Popularity, Microcredentials, Higher-Ed Risks, and Early Decisions
Liaison International
JANUARY 12, 2023
Between 2001 and 2020, the number of students earning the former increased by 1,100% thanks in part to the creation of new programs and growth in established programs. More than 40% of college students say the ability to get a job was a top motivation for enrolling, but many feel their institutions are failing to meet those expectations.
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Pride in the Halls
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
APRIL 16, 2024
of LGBTQ people experienced bullying, harassment, or assault at college, compared to 18.9% Christopher Roth’s primary job at Guttman Community College, part of the City University of New York, is associate director of academic technology. of non-LGBTQ people. About 45.5% of LGBTQ people reported hearing slurs, and 10.3% Dr. Luis A.
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ChatGPT: A Must-See Before the Semester Begins
Faculty Focus
JANUARY 8, 2023
She joined Georgia College in 2001, where she is a Professor of Teacher Education. Cynthia Alby has spent most of her career immersed in “avid cross-disciplinary idea synthesizing.” Her primary research question is, “How might we re-enchant learning in order to help faculty and students flourish?’
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Optional attendance policies ill serve students (opinion)
Inside Higher Ed
NOVEMBER 14, 2022
The optional attendance policy, unchecked, can compromise what many seek in the college experience. However, students continue to flock to campuses wanting the in-person experience, one they’ve been deprived of for much of the past two and a half years. Two decades ago, Frank H.
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The Luddite Chronicles: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Robots
Faculty Focus
MARCH 10, 2024
Most departments need to draft policies on academic integrity that honor both linguistic diversity and a process approach to writing, while ceding the eventuality that college graduates will enter a world where they must harness the tools of generative AI or be hopelessly unprepared for an ever evolving 21 st century workplace.
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Renaming of the Voices of Inclusion Award to the Nancy J. Evans Voices of Inclusion Award
ACPA
JANUARY 26, 2024
Evans was the 62nd President of ACPA from 2001-2002 and established the Voices of Inclusion Award during her term. In 1987, she began serving on the Editorial Board for the Journal of College Student Development. Evans Voices of Inclusion Award. Dr. Nancy J.
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The Lasso Way to Formative Assessment
Faculty Focus
FEBRUARY 11, 2024
Furthermore, accreditation bodies are looking at assessment to ensure colleges and universities are “living up to what they advertise.” Chris Hakala is the director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship at Springfield College. Unfortunately, assessment is too often a euphemism for “accountability.”
Life and Learning, the Washington Way
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 29, 2024
Jamie Washington — an educator, author, student affairs administrator, pastor, consultant, president and co-founder of the Social Justice Training Institute (SJTI), past-president of the American College Personnel Association (ACPA), and much more. Washington is the president and co-founder of Washington Consulting Group (WCG).
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Two-year colleges – Start NOW to achieve near and long term enrollment goals!
Liaison International
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
Undoubtedly, a strong job market is likely the biggest factor behind the decline, but a growing sentiment questioning the value of a college degree, tied with affordability concerns, are contributing to the decline. million, a 16.6% decline in two years. Develop the prospective student database. After a 21-year career as a U.S.
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Providing Wraparound Services for UCONN’s Asian American Studies
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MAY 20, 2024
The professor will be based on the Hartford campus in UConn’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. s 2001 Patriot Act, which Chang says authorized police infiltration and surveillance of American Muslim communities and wrongful incarceration of people assumed to be terrorists. One example of domestic anti-Muslim racism is the U.S.’s
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