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A final post as a farewell and thanks

Higher Ed Data Stories

Much of what I did here was simply a sanitized version of what I was doing for my own work anyway, going back to the first post in 2013, which, if I recall, I was preparing for a conference presentation. It's essentially the same one I started on in 2013. And Google has a way of getting rid of its free products with little notice.

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Canadian colleges saw 30% int’l student growth in 2022/23, data reveals

The PIE News

International student enrolments at Canadian colleges increased by nearly 30% in 2022/23 while universities saw a 7% rise, new data from Statistics Canada has revealed. Overall, college enrolments rose by 2.7% The post Canadian colleges saw 30% int’l student growth in 2022/23, data reveals appeared first on The PIE News.

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Community College Leader Dr. Walter Bumphus to Step Down After Transformative Era

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

After steering America's community colleges through unprecedented challenges and opportunities, Dr. Walter G. Bumphus CEO of the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) at the end of 2025, capping a remarkable 15-year tenure that helped reshape higher education access nationwide.

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Assume the Best: Trust-Based Strategies for Empowering College Students

Faculty Focus

Share rubrics in advance, collaborate with students to create or adjust rubrics, and encourage students to self-assess before submitting assignments (Brookhart, 2013). Teachers College Press. Teaching at its best: A research-based resource for college instructors. Journal of Educational Psychology, 111 (2), 189. Ambrose, S.

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Creating Active Virtual Learning Communities in Asynchronous Online College Courses: Why it Matters and Ideas to Try 

Faculty Focus

In a recent study, twenty-four percent of undergraduate students reported seriously considering dropping out of college (Sallie Mae & Ipsos 2024). This technique has been utilized with students from 4th grade up to the college level with great success. Why Bother? ” Multimedia Tools and Applications 74, no. IEEE, 2018.

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Six-year graduation rates at four-year colleges and universities

Higher Ed Data Stories

As I've written about before , it's pretty easy to predict a college's six-year graduation rate if you know one data point: The mean SAT score of the incoming class. These include academic preparation, parental attainment, ethnicity, and wealth, on the student side, and selectivity, on the college side. Graduation rates go up.

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Small College America – Profile Earlham College

Edu Alliance Journal

February 17, 2025, by Dean Hoke: This profile of Earlham College is the second in a series presenting small colleges throughout the United States. Background Founded in 1847 in Richmond, Indiana, Earlham College is a private liberal arts institution with deep Quaker roots. For the 2023-24 academic year, U.S.