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I’m a nobody in higher ed leadership—but I still believe I know what’s right

University Business

State universities in West Virginia have an uphill struggle to resuscitate interest in higher education. Ravaged by a poor economy, declining population and an understated opiate crisis , it has the lowest bachelor’s degree level educated percentage of all 50 states. How ought it be lived? What is right?”

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Higher Education Reading List

Susquehanna President's Blog

Higher Education Reading List One of our wonderful trustees recently asked me to recommend a higher-education reading list. Here it is: Newsletters and Magazines I start each weekday with a review of these three: Inside Higher Ed publishes a daily newsletter of current events in higher education.

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Mount Holyoke Taps Howard University Law Dean to Lead College

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I think its values, what it represents, is the best of higher education.” Mount Holyoke is a gender-inclusive women’s college in Massachusetts, one of the historic Seven Sisters, a group of highly selective women’s liberal arts institutions in the Northeast. The search committee included two student representatives.

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Transfer Enrollments Increased Fall 2023

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Eighty-two percent of liberal arts and sciences, humanities and general studies majors changed their majors upon transfer. For students who started at a community college in 2014, including those who transferred and those who did not, 33% obtained a credential. Six-year completion rates have also increased.

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Report: Fall Transfer Enrollment Remains in Decline in 2022

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Researchers also found that of the students who transferred to a four-year school from a community college, liberal arts majors were significantly more likely than non-liberal arts majors to change their major (82.0% Yet, these climbs did not outweigh continuing transfer student declines.

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Work Zones Ahead!

Inside Higher Ed

This 30-credit block of courses satisfies most, if not all, general education requirements and went into effect in fall 2014. Adding Layers With the foundation of a general education core in place, the Legislature turned its attention in 2017 to investing in a set of multi-institutional agreements in popular majors.

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How Does U.S. News Rank Colleges?

HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

News college rankings often point out that much of the data used to compile the rankings is provided by “experts” who range from high school guidance counselors to admissions counselors and faculty members at various higher education institutions. The problem? For example, here are the top-ranked colleges in the U.S.

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