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After the Election We’ll Need a Strong System of Higher Education More Than Ever

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Jamie Merisotis That progress tends to get lost, however, amid legitimate concerns about the cost of education and its efficacy in preparing students for jobs. We get it: Higher education must do better. But some of those doubts are symptomatic of our times. We simply must commit to use them.

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Lumina Reports Highest Recorded Post-High School Educational Attainment

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

since 2009. So, while they have increased by more than 9 points, that actually represents a nearly 50% increase, the most of any race or ethnicity since 2009, so they have made incredible progress. Overall, the younger generation is leading the way in educational progress, with the attainment rate for adults 25-34 reaching 56.8%.

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International students support 378,000 US jobs

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. “The annual increase in economic activity is about half of what it was the year before, signalling that the pent-up demand for a US education following the pandemic is subsiding. Meanwhile, competition for the world’s best and brightest is increasing.”

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See which 9 schools are the latest to make college free

University Business

It marks the latest step higher education leaders have taken to answer growing criticisms about affordability. At $141 million this fiscal year, Carnegie Mellon has increased its investment in undergraduate financial aid by 86% since 2009.

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?WEEKEND READING: Shifts in global demand for UK higher education and their implications

HEPI

This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Janet Ilieva, Founder and Director at Education Insight, and Vangelis Tsiligiris, an Associate Professor at the Nottingham Business School at Nottingham Trent University. Implications In 2021/22, almost one in four students in UK higher education was international.

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Hoke’s Notes – The Plight of Small Colleges

Edu Alliance Journal

At 74, I still have ideas to share and contributions to make in the field of higher education. I aim to address several projects and issues moving forward, such as returning to my work as an international higher education consultant and re-launching two podcast series. Hoke has a B.A. from Urbana University, an M.S.

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Indian international students in the U.S. outnumber Chinese for the first time in 15 years

University Business

During the last academic year, students from India became the largest group of international students in American higher education—knocking China off the top seat for the first time since 2009, according to figures released Monday by the State Department and the non-profit Institute of International Education.