Low-income students work more amid rising college costs, analysis finds
Higher Ed Dive
OCTOBER 24, 2024
Three-fourths of students from lower-income families worked by 2008, averaging 20 hours per week or more, a Brookings Institution report found.
Two Community Colleges Recognized for Excellence in Student Success and Equity
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 18, 2025
PHILADELPHIA-- In a significant recognition of their transformative efforts in higher education, Chattanooga State Community College and Southwestern Oregon Community College have been awarded the prestigious Leah Meyer Austin Award by Achieving the Dream (ATD). The college saw an 8.7 percentage points from 2019 to 2022.
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States are taking on fewer college costs. Who is picking up the bill?
Higher Ed Dive
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
The gap between what states and students pay toward higher ed shrunk from 2008 to 2022, the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association found.
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Let's Talk About the True Cost―and True Value―of a College Education
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 19, 2025
Holmes-Sullivan As a college president, I am often asked the same two questions: Why does college cost so much? hold a degree or credentiala 17% increase since 2008. hold a degree or credentiala 17% increase since 2008. That said, most colleges and universities are subject to the market principle of supply and demand.
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Lumina Reports Highest Recorded Post-High School Educational Attainment
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 30, 2025
In 2008, Lumina set a goal for the nation, that by 2025, 60% of people in the U.S. in 2008 to 54.9% We have to continue to promote practices and policies that increase access, increase success, so that we don't continue to have 42 million people in the United States who have some college, no degree. since 2009.
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Analysis: Higher ed costs haven’t been this high since 2008
University Business
DECEMBER 16, 2022
Each year, the Commonfund Higher Education Price Index provides a snapshot of colleges’ expenses. Among private colleges, as mentioned previously, doctorate-granting institutions increased salaries at a rate of nearly 4% (3.8%). And according to this year’s data, costs have risen across the board.
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Rolita Flores Ezeonu
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 12, 2025
Rolita Flores Ezeonu Rolita Flores Ezeonu has been appointed Interim Vice President for Academic Affairs at Highline College. Ezeonu previously served as where Vice President of Instruction at Green River College from July 2018 through February 2025.
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Empowering Community Colleges Through AI: A New Era of Access and Economic Mobility
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
DECEMBER 4, 2024
Combined with the Apple App Store, which first debuted in 2008 with 500 phone applications, in less than 20 years, technology has revolutionized how the average consumer communicates, entertains themselves, and obtains information. These historical progressions made the relationship between college access and inclusiveness symbiotic.
Report Details How Titles III and V of the Higher Education Act Could Better Serve Students of Color and Low-Income Students
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 31, 2024
The last time it was amended was in 2008. … Dr. Andrea Fabrizio, dean of academic affairs and principal investigator for the Title V project at Hostos Community College, an HSI in New York City, said she would like to see flexibility.
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After the Election We’ll Need a Strong System of Higher Education More Than Ever
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 31, 2024
But regardless of who moves into the Oval Office in January, we know this much: America will need more from our colleges and universities in 2025, not less, and we need to plan for that. In those and countless other areas, solutions are being incubated right now on America’s college campuses. We get it: Higher education must do better.
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The cost of private colleges is high, yet many low-income students still choose them
University Business
JANUARY 29, 2025
Smaller class sizes, grassy knolls, campus idyllfor low-income college students chasing that storied experience at Californias private nonprofit colleges, the expense is high: sometimes $30,000 or more in the first year alone after all grants and scholarships are considered. Read more at CalMatters.
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2021’s Top-Paid Private-College President Received a Record Payout
The Chronicle of Higher Education
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
of Pennsylvania at 2008’s commencement Amy Gutmann earned nearly $23 million in 2021, her last full year as president of the University of Pennsylvania, according to federal tax filings. By Julia Piper and Nick Perez Matt Rourke, AP Amy Gutmann as president of the U.
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Lumina Releases New Long-Term Goal and Strategic Plan for Higher Education
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 4, 2025
In 2008, the Lumina Foundation, a national private foundation focused on higher education and workforce development, set a national attainment goal that by 2025 60% of working-age adults would earn college degrees, certificates or industry-recognized certifications. We had to rethink how education creates opportunities.
Huge college attainment growth missed one group’s big goal
University Business
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
More than half of all working-class Americans hold a college degree or credential beyond high school, according to a new report from the Lumina Foundation, a higher education advocacy group. Lumina Foundation has monitored local, state and national college attainment rates since 2008. points, followed by Utah at 22.5
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Report: National Six-Year College Completion Rates Stalling
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 30, 2023
s national college completion rate has remained stagnant, with rates even falling for some populations, according to a new report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center (NSCRC). This year’s edition examined enrollment and completion for college students who started in Fall 2017 through June 2023, a cohort of approximately 2.4
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The Silent Crisis: Bullying Among Nurse Educators in Higher Education
Faculty Focus
APRIL 29, 2025
The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) reports that thousands of qualified nursing applicants are turned away each year due to a lack of faculty. Dr. Robert Lucia is a three-time Bradley University graduate, receiving his undergraduate degree in 2008, his masters in 2011, and his doctorate in 2019.
Forecasting the future of online education
The PIE News
JANUARY 3, 2025
AI and the pace of change Despite the widespread uptake of Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCS) across global education since 2008, Al Tarzi argues that they are a complimentary offering and that the pace of technological change has not been as rapid as people expected over the past two decades.
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Watch for these 5 high-impact trends shaping higher education business in 2025
University Business
JANUARY 28, 2025
In 2013, Harvard Business School professors Clayton Christensen and Michael Horn made a striking prediction in the New York Times , forecasting that a host of struggling colleges and universities the bottom 25 percent of every tier, we predict will disappear or merge in the next 10 to 15 years.
How Lumina’s 2040 Vision Can Help Restore Public Confidence in Higher Education: Creating Pathways to Rebuild America's Trust in Colleges and Universities
The Change Leader, Inc.
APRIL 18, 2025
Once viewed as the gateway to opportunity and upward mobility, colleges and universities are now in a trust crisisincreasingly perceived as inaccessible, unaffordable, and disconnected from the realities of today’s learners. workforce to attain a college degree or a credential of economic value by 2040. The consequence?
4 things leaders should know about stalled college completion rates
University Business
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
College completion rates flattened this year, with slight and similar decreases in the number of white, Black, and Latinx graduates compared to 2021. compared to 2020, according to the latest Completing College report by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Community college graduation rates increased slightly.
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Dr. Marva M. Craig, Borough of Manhattan Community College
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 2, 2023
Craig, vice president for student affairs at Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC), is living proof of the power of community colleges. Since taking on the BMCC position in 2008, she has expanded student affairs services to better support well-rounded learning experiences and remove obstacles to student success.
Confidence in college: Has it collapsed? Better think again
University Business
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
Americans have completely lost confidence in college. But “many of these articles are getting the story wrong,” says the latest analysis from New America, a research organization and think tank that is taking a deeper look into what it calls “college declinism.” ” U.S. ” U.S.
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Tallahassee Community College Earns Highest Distinction from Achieving the Dream
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
Tallahassee Community College (TCC) recently received high honors from Achieving the Dream , an organization and network founded to close achievement gaps and accelerate student success nationwide by guiding institutional change, influencing public policy, generating knowledge, and engaging the public. 19-22, in Orlando, Florida.
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On a Mission: Damon L. Williams Jr., Takes on the World
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
Williams’s parents had met during their time at Southern and A&M College, a historically Black college and university (HBCU) in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. His first ambition after college was to make money, and he entered the corporate world and earned his MBA from Fontbonne University. Everyone didn’t feel that way.”
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Colleges Saw Costs Rise 4% in Fiscal Year 2023
Inside Higher Ed
DECEMBER 14, 2023
colleges and universities rose 4 percent in fiscal year 2023, according to data from the annual Commonfund Higher Education Price Index released Wednesday. It’s the second-highest rate of inflation since fiscal year 2008, when the HEPI was at 5 percent. Inflation for U.S.
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Former New England College President Michele Perkins Sues School, Alleges Gender Discrimination and Emotional Distress
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
SEPTEMBER 25, 2023
Former New England College (NEC) President Michele Perkins is suing the school, alleging gender discrimination and emotional distress after being fired earlier this year, New Hampshire Public Radio reported. 4 online meeting. She attributed the case to misogyny and a culture of gender bias among certain top school officials.
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When Banks Lost Control of the Student Loan Mess
Higher Education Inquirer
JANUARY 13, 2025
Although the book was an exceptional chronicle of the student loan industry from 1958 to 2013, it missed at least one key event, the 2008-2010 bailout of Sallie Mae and a number of banks who made questionable private loans guaranteed by the US government. In 2007, President George W. This event occurred largely without notice.
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The Enrollment Cliff: How Technology Can Help Higher Education Confront It
EdTech Magazine - Higher Education
DECEMBER 21, 2023
For many, college wasn’t a matter of whether they would attend but where they would go. The phenomenon starts with the financial crisis of 2008 and relates… In the past, it was a rite of passage: Students graduated high school and enjoyed a final summer at home before heading out to the next stop on their educational journey.
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Whole-brain Teaching Strategies for the Diverse College Classroom
Faculty Focus
APRIL 25, 2023
These opposing mindsets created “different psychological worlds” (Dweck, 2008). You must have worked very hard,” created self-confidence and self-reliance in the ability to put in the required effort (Dweck, 2008). On the other hand, students who had a growth mindset would make “a plan of positive action” to “remedy the deficiency.”
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How sports betting fleeced students of their money—and mental health
University Business
JANUARY 21, 2025
High-risk gambling wasn’t on Amaura Kemmerer’s radar in 2008 when worked at Northeastern University’s wellness center. “Colleges have this unique moment in time to help intervene early so that a student can alter their trajectory before it becomes a lifelong addiction or problem.”
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Public-Serving Colleges Should Get More Federal Money
Inside Higher Ed
JANUARY 12, 2023
Postsecondary institutions whose mission and operations are optimized to educate, train and credential learners—community colleges, land-grant institutions, comprehensive regional public universities, HBCUs and other minority-serving institutions come to mind—should get more public money. Where should that public money come from?
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Strategic Affiliation in Higher Education: What Colleges Can Learn from the Colleges of Law and TCS Education System: Changing Higher Ed podcast 258 with host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and guest Dr. Matt Nehmer
The Change Leader, Inc.
MAY 6, 2025
May 6, 2025 · Episode 258 Strategic Affiliation in Higher Education: What Colleges Can Learn from the Colleges of Law and TCS Education System 32 Min · By The Change Leader, Inc. Strategic affiliation in higher education offers small colleges a sustainable alternative to mergers.
Vassar connects two-year colleges and liberal arts colleges
Inside Higher Ed
DECEMBER 9, 2022
Image: Campus leaders at Vassar College are on a mission to bring community college students to liberal arts institutions. They announced plans this fall to help 30 liberal arts colleges explore how to start programs modeled after Exploring Transfer, a 35-year-old summer bridge program for community college students at Vassar.
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JUAN J. CASTILLO
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 10, 2024
Castillo, who has served as the Vice President for Finance and Administration at TAMIU since 2008, will oversee the university’s operations following the unexpected passing of President Pablo Arenaz. Castillo has been named the Acting President of Texas A&M International University in Laredo, effective immediately.
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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 graduate endowment was then scrapped by the SNP in February 2008. This meant that from 2008 to 2021/22 EU students did not need to pay fees to attend Scottish universities, though students from the rest of the UK did. The prioritising of free university tuition over the college sector is adding to this problem.
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Emerging leaders: 4 colleges hire their first Black or female—or both—president
University Business
FEBRUARY 27, 2023
These colleges may all be well over a hundred years old, but there is still a first time for everything: Mount Holyoke (Mass.), Norbert College (Wis.) Norbert College all fall somewhere around 2,000. President-designate Danielle Ren Holley (Photo: Mount Holyoke College website) She was the perfect person to do it, too.
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How My Classroom Became a Laboratory for Countering Truth Decay
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 22, 2024
The first time I lost control of a college classroom, fiction played a starring role. The year: 2008. During our post-mortem, we realized that the political rhetoric surrounding the 2008 presidential race had hijacked our discussion. Or maybe it was the absence of concrete facts. I was teaching undergraduates in the Deep South.
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Colleges honor education majors with pinning ceremonies
Inside Higher Ed
OCTOBER 13, 2022
Image: Savannah O’Connor, a junior in Rowan University’s College of Education, doesn’t have much free time. At the Rowan ceremony, students, cheered by friends and family, walked across the stage to receive pins from the College of Education’s dean, Gaëtane Jean-Marie.
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Dr. Michelle Asha Cooper
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 20, 2022
Since taking the helm of IHEP in 2008, Cooper’s been out front influencing national education policy. The dynamic education leader, who also made Diverse ’s “25 To Watch” list in 2009, has Washington insiders tuned into the issues that impact college access, minority students, and success in postsecondary education.
6 trends impacting community college enrollment in 2023
EAB
JANUARY 26, 2023
Blogs 6 trends impacting community college enrollment in 2023 For the past two years, it’s been difficult to focus on anything beyond the immediate consequences of the pandemic. But now as we find ourselves stabilizing, it’s time to pause and take stock of the full landscape facing community colleges. 6 trends to watch in 2023 1.
The Power of Empowerment
Faculty Focus
APRIL 11, 2023
A person with a growth mindset views one’s position, intelligence, talents, and abilities as being controllable and learnable; a person with a fixed mindset views such traits as being unchangeable (Dweck 2008). Dweck (2008) notes that outcomes are all that matter to students with a fixed mindset. New York: Ballantine, 2008.
Federal grant program would cut college costs (opinion)
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 23, 2022
College costs and student debt continue to rise, and cuts in state funding for higher education have been a major reason why. The good news is that the federal government can play a key role in reversing these trends, making college more affordable for all. First, states could directly reduce the price of college.
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Increase Faculty Resilience with Co-regulation Skills
Faculty Focus
JANUARY 31, 2023
Teachers who are burned out also provide a lower quality of instruction than their counterparts (Klusmann, Kunter, Trautwein, Ludtke, & Baumert, 2008; Pyhältö et al., Burnout is defined as fatigue, frustration, or apathy resulting from prolonged stress, overwork, or intense activity (Webster’s Universal College Dictionary, 2004).
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Study Examines How Colleges Borrow During Times of Crisis
Inside Higher Ed
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
How colleges use debt during times of crisis varies greatly depending on institutional characteristics, according to a new report from Ithaka S+R funded by the TIAA Institute. Ad keywords: administrators executive institutionalfinance Editorial Tags: Economic Crisis 2009-10 Historically black colleges Research Is this diversity newsletter?:
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