Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 12, 2025

Prior to that, she was Dean of Instruction for Transfer and Pre-College Education at Highline, from July 2008 to March 2017. She also holds a certificate in Closing the Achievement Gap from Harvard University Graduate School of Education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 4, 2025

Jamie Merisotis The Lumina Foundation announced a new goal to increase the number of Americans with education and training to 75%. Seventeen years later, the percentage of adults 25 to 64 who have achieved education attainment after high school has increased from 38% to 55%. We had to rethink how education creates opportunities.

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University Business

JANUARY 28, 2025

Coming off one of the most challenging years for the higher education business in recent memory, it would be easy to carry a glass-half-empty outlook into 2025. Here are five key trends shaping higher education this year, offering a roadmap for resilience as only higher education can do.

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HEPI

APRIL 7, 2025

Spurred on by the huge response to the TV series Adolescence, Bridget Phillipson MP, Secretary of State for Education, has this week called for more male teachers to act as role models for disaffected boys. And, from the perspective of participation in higher education, would these new recruits help improve their academic outcomes?

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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).

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

DECEMBER 21, 2023

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. The phenomenon starts with the financial crisis of 2008 and relates… For many, college wasn’t a matter of whether they would attend but where they would go.

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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. Consequently, renormalizing consumer expectations for end-user experiences.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

When the Great Recession hit the University of California system in 2008, it marked a major “inflection point” in the life of Dan Greenstein. In his six years as PASSHE chancellor, Dan Greenstein took a bold—and sometimes controversial—approach to repairing a public university system in a downward spiral. Did it work?

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

They shared their convictions with their two sons, including the importance of education and social service. It took him awhile to connect the dots from his passion to higher education. Williams was raised Catholic and attended private institutions—he was often the only Black student in his class, or one of the few. Dr. Dereck J.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Many factors influence the educational experience of everyone involved in education, but the driving force is leadership. The authors of this article are teachers enrolled at the University of Belize pursuing master’s degrees in educational leadership. School leaders have a multifaced role to play.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 13, 2025

We also find critical historical analysis essential when we think about US higher education and student loan debt from a People's perspective. Annual volume of private loans skyrocketed, from $5B in 2001 to over $20B in 2008, when 14 percent of all undergraduates had one. Department of Education (ED) acquired an additional $20.4

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

percent, the lowest investment return since the Great Recession of 2008. This year’s endowment demonstrates a decrease of $1.9 billion compared to last year’s $37.7 billion endowment. University investments generated a loss of 1.5 That year, the University investments suffered a loss of 23.5 This year’s decrease comes after last year’s 46.9

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HEPI

JANUARY 24, 2024

Mathias Cormann, Secretary General of the OECD, on the value of higher education in developed countries. Never mind that the 50% target he refers to relates to tertiary education, I am certain he is not alone in believing that too many people go to university. In 1998, 20% of adults in the OECD had a tertiary education.

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Higher Education Inquirer

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

[Editor's note: The National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity (NACIQI) was authorized and reconstituted by the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008. For additional information about our ongoing investigation , please visit the Higher Education Inquirer.

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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. But a new tradition launched by the New Jersey university to honor and acknowledge future educators recently helped lift her spirits and boost her confidence in her chosen profession.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Many factors influence the educational experience of everyone involved in education, but the driving force is leadership. The authors of this article are teachers enrolled at the University of Belize pursuing master’s degrees in educational leadership. School leaders have a multifaced role to play.

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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 Castillo brings more than 30 years of management experience, having held key roles in both higher education and the corporate sector.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The year: 2008. During our post-mortem, we realized that the political rhetoric surrounding the 2008 presidential race had hijacked our discussion. Our focus on truth-digging also inspired me to examine the role Obama’s Muslim-sounding middle name played in the 2008 election. I was teaching undergraduates in the Deep South.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Census Bureau data and data from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce. Courtney Brown, vice president of strategic impact and planning at Lumina and director of the “Stronger Nation” project, said the increase in educational attainment is “really encouraging.” percent in 2019.

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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., Therefore, educators need to reignite the feelings of excitement that occurred on day one. Secondly, educators need to set boundaries. Pietarinen, J.,

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Higher Education Inquirer

JUNE 29, 2023

The History of Higher Education in the US over the last 4 centuries is worse than horrible--from a People's perspective. In 2026 we expect an enrollment cliff to occur, a ripple effect of the 2008 Great Recession. There is a growing educated underclass, people who are working but are not working in areas that they had hoped for.

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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. Young men quickly became the target audience due to their lack of education on the dangers of gambling and the potential score of lifelong customers, Bouris adds.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 11, 2023

One of the most foundational books I’ve read as an online educator of nontraditional adult learners is Carol Dweck’s Mindset: The New Psychology of Success. Dweck (2008) notes that outcomes are all that matter to students with a fixed mindset. Encouraging a growth mindset in students is incredibly empowering.

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HEPI

JANUARY 18, 2025

These are the remarks by Alison Payne, Research Director at Reform Scotland, at the HEPI / CDBU event on funding higher education, held at Birkbeck, University of London, on Thursday of this week. The graduate endowment was then scrapped by the SNP in February 2008.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 2, 2023

Her higher education journey began with an associate degree from BMCC. Her vision is to provide students with a holistic higher education experience, focusing not only on academic achievement, but also personal growth and development with a desire to be lifelong learners.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 20, 2022

based Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP), one of the nation’s premiere education research and policy centers, Dr. Michelle Asha Cooper has a vision. Since taking the helm of IHEP in 2008, Cooper’s been out front influencing national education policy. As president of the Washington, D.C.-based

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Education Department to block it from recouping millions to repay discharged student loans. million that were approved in February after the department found that DeVry advertised false job-placement rates from 2008 to 2015. For-profit DeVry University is suing the U.S. ” The department declined to comment on the lawsuit.

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The PIE News

APRIL 15, 2024

The legislation aims to mitigate the exodus of tens of thousands of Greek students to universities abroad and internationalise higher education, but students opposed to the bill said it would devalue degrees from state universities. Today more than 40,000 Greeks study abroad. It is a major source of brain drain.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 29, 2022

The president of the National Education Association called the lack of classroom teachers a “ five-alarm crisis.” The flow of new teachers through the pipeline has slowed to a trickle, in part due to years of declining enrollment in education programs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 11, 2024

What does Diverse: Issues In Higher Education mean to you? When the first edition of what was then called Black Issues In Higher Education was published on March 15, 1984, it was two days before my 14th birthday, and I was still adjusting to ninth grade in a public high school after attending a private school from second grade to eight grade.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2023

Lumina, a private nonprofit working to increase learning opportunities for all after high school, has been tracking credential and degree attainment for adults from 25 to 64 years of age since 2008. In 2008, only one state had set a degree or certificate attainment goal for its own population: Hawaii.

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Higher Education Inquirer

MARCH 18, 2025

We have noted a few of these bad ideas from bad actors over the years, to include 2U , Guild , and Ambow Education. Weingarten has been the President of AFT since 2008, a union with about 1.7 And now their ranks are full of educators and administrators with marginal online degrees. million members across the US. They refused.

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University Business

MAY 17, 2024

And neither is enrollment, according to a new analysis that also examines appropriations through the lens of the Great Recession of 2008. economy, according to the latest “ State Higher Education Finance Report ” from the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association. Total education revenue increased 0.8%

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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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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.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 23, 2022

This is the case in politics, but it’s also true in higher education. What were the most important events in higher education in 2022? What if we were to look back at higher education in 2022 a decade or so in the future? State spending on higher education bounced back; direct expenditures increased by an 8.3

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