Legacy admissions tumbled dramatically over past decade
Higher Ed Dive
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
The share of four-year institutions considering an applicant's family ties to an alum has dropped by half since 2015, Education Reform Now found.
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A Record-Setting Year for Tennessee Promise
Inside Higher Ed
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
The program, launched in 2015, is a last-dollar free tuition scholarship for the state’s community college students. The Tennessee Higher Education Commission announced Monday that the Tennessee Promise program saw a record number of applicants—more than 670,000—from the Class of 2025.
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Report Highlights Key Challenges and Support Needs for Early Career Faculty at MSIs
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 27, 2024
Supporting Early Career Faculty at Minority Serving Institutions,” examines CMSI’s ELEVATE program launched in 2015, which supports professional development, mentorship, and retention for MSI faculty. As a proud member of the very first ELEVATE cohort in 2015, I had very few expectations.
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Fire Destroys Historic Building at Knoxville College
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
Founded by the Presbyterian Church in 1875, Knoxville College lost its accreditation with the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) in 1997, and the college has struggled financially, and student enrollment began to decline to the point that only 11 students were enrolled at the time of the school’s closing in May 2015.
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Price sensitivity and regional options test UK’s East Asian enrolment
The PIE News
MARCH 17, 2025
However, between 2015 and 2019, this trend reversed, with enrolments declining by 3.2% By 2019, the number of Southeast Asian students enrolled in the UK had dropped by 8%, or 3,500 fewer students compared to 2015. Between 2002 and 2012, student enrolments from Southeast Asia in the UK grew at a compound annual rate of 5.5%.
Indispensable Instructional Designers at Professional Schools
Faculty Focus
JANUARY 5, 2025
Professional schools cater to a diverse student body with varying learning preferences, needs, and accrediting bodies to answer to (Coble, 2015). Coble, R (2015). Professional schools, such as pharmacy, medical, dental, law, etc., Instructional Design: A Collaboration or A Consultation? The Journal of Applied Instructional Design.
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Legacy Admissions Hit Historic Low as More States Ban Practice at U.S. Colleges
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
The practice has seen particularly steep drops since 2015, when nearly half of all four-year colleges considered legacy status. Between 2022 and 2023 alone, 92 colleges abandoned legacy preferences, representing an 18% decrease that coincided with the Supreme Court's landmark decision to ban race-conscious admissions.
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Nandi Mehta - Soccer
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
A member of the womens soccer team, she was named co-captain in 2014 and 2015. School: Northwestern University Year: 2016 Major: Economics and International Studies Nandi Mehta is a Northwestern University senior majoring in economics and international studies.
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One free tuition program is shattering enrollment records
University Business
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
First-time undergraduate enrollment exploded across the state’s community colleges by at least 40% when the initiative was implemented in 2015. The figure may continue to rise as those impacted by Hurricane Helene are encouraged to apply past the Nov.
Morgan State University Launches Task Force to Combat Declining Black Male Enrollment
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 2, 2025
At Morgan State, despite achieving record-breaking total enrollment figures and becoming the nation's third-largest HBCU, the percentage of Black male students has dropped from 43% in 2015 to 37% in fall 2024. Morgan has long been a leader in providing access and opportunity for Black males seeking higher education," Wilson said.
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Degree Apprenticeships in England: What Can We Learn from the Experiences of Apprentices, Employers, and Education and Training Providers?
HEPI
JANUARY 29, 2025
Degree Apprenticeships (DAs) were launched in 2015, as a novel work-based learning route to obtaining a degree. Their growth has been the key factor in the expansion of higher apprenticeships from 43,800 starts in 2015/16 to 273,700 in 2023/24, a rise from 4.8% By Josh Patel , Researcher at the Edge Foundation.
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It Makes a Difference When Teachers Care
Faculty Focus
NOVEMBER 24, 2024
This article first appeared in The Teaching Professor on November 30, 2015 © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. Try a FREE three-week trial of The Teaching Professor! That’s not a new finding, and it’s something most instructors already know, but it’s the size of the difference that’s often underestimated. References Grantham, A.,
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The Appreciative Close: A Strategy for Creating a Classroom Community
Faculty Focus
NOVEMBER 26, 2024
One of the practices I have employed in most of my classes during the past several years is “the appreciative close,” which is an offshoot of “the appreciative pause ” recommended by Stephen Brookfield (Brookfield, 2015, pp.95-96). Design and Facilitation. Goodman, & K. Joshi, eds. Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice, 3 rd ed.
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Furman University Adopts Okanagan Charter to Prioritize Wellbeing
Insight Into Diversity
JANUARY 28, 2025
Developed by public health leaders from 45 countries in 2015, the charter addresses challenges related to health, sustainability, and community welfare. Furman University has adopted the Okanagan Charter, an international framework designed to integrate health and wellbeing into all aspects of campus life. As one of 33 U.S.
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Preempting Conservative Lawmakers, Mizzou Disbands DEI Work
The Chronicle of Higher Education
JULY 30, 2024
Thomas, Getty Images Students embrace one another during a forum on the campus of University of Missouri at Columbia in 2015. The college pledged to take action after hunger strikes and nationally televised racial-justice protests in 2015. Progress has been piecemeal.
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Assume the Best: Trust-Based Strategies for Empowering College Students
Faculty Focus
JANUARY 21, 2025
Such policies demonstrate compassion and respect for the complexities of students’ lives (Nilson, 2016; Hammond, 2015). For instance, rigid attendance or late-work penalties can be replaced with policies such as “grace days,” where students can submit work late without penalty. Teachers College Press. Hammond, Z.
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Marcus Paige - Basketball
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
Prior to the 2015-16 season, Sports Illustrated named him the No. Paige won the Skip Prosser award as the Mens Basketball Student-Athlete of the Year in 2015. He is the teams all time leader in free throw percentage (.865). 2 high-impact senior in the nation.
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5 High-Presence Teaching Tactics for Active Online Learning
Faculty Focus
APRIL 20, 2025
Andriotis, 2015) 5. 2015, September 01). Research has shown that we learn more (and retain it better) when we study in short, focused bursts than when were forced to sit through hour long classes but of course your younger self that was bored to tears at school knew that already. References: Andriotis, N. Dorph, R., & Schunn, C.
Western Connecticut State University’s Strategic Enrollment Success: Leveraging TargetX and Othot for Growth
Liaison International
DECEMBER 23, 2024
In 2015, a data integration hub enabled real-time communication, streamlining processes and enhancing efficiency. From Fall 2014 to Fall 2015, WCSU saw a 40% increase in first-year applications. The Outcome : Realizing Immediate Benefits The phased implementation of TargetX quickly began to yield results.
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Corey Brown - Soccer
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
School :Queens University of Charlotte Year: 2016 Major : Biochemistry Corey Brown, a biochemistry major at Queens University of Charlotte and soccer team forward, started in all 19 games for the 2015 season. He tallied nine goals, 11 assists and led the team in points with 29. He also racked up five game-winning goals.
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Certificates are the only new growth in undergraduate degrees
University Business
APRIL 9, 2025
The number of bachelor’s degrees earned fell to the lowest level since 2015-16 while associate degrees slumped to a 10-year low.
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Mizzou Dissolves DEI Office
Inside Higher Ed
JULY 31, 2024
Facing pressure from conservative lawmakers, Missouri’s flagship university is disbanding its inclusion, diversity and equity division, undoing a keystone achievement of the 2015 campus protests over racial equity.
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Exclusive: ApplyBoard launches in Germany
The PIE News
JANUARY 21, 2025
Founded in 2015, ApplyBoard has partnerships with over 1,500 primary, secondary and post-secondary institutions across the US, Canada, UK, Australia and Ireland, where it launched in 2022. Weve set an ambitious goal to have 20 destinations on the platform by the end of the decade. In early 2000, there were about 1.6
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Tennessee College-Going Rate on the Rise
Inside Higher Ed
JULY 3, 2024
The Tennessee Higher Education Commission recently reported the largest year-over-year increase in the state’s college-going rate since the 2015 launch of Tennessee Promise, a last-dollar free tuition scholarship for community college students.
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BRIAN KITE
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 13, 2025
Brian Kite An award-winning theater director and a UCLA professor of directing since 2015, Kite has also served as TFTs interim dean, special academic senior associate dean and theater department chair.
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The Role of Writing in Communicative Language Teaching: An Investigation of an AI-Integrated Classroom Activity
Faculty Focus
NOVEMBER 12, 2024
This is particularly relevant as the everyday experience of writing has dramatically expanded in the past decade, due largely to handheld devices that facilitate writing on social networks and text messaging, often incorporating photos, videos, and other media (Cope and Kalantzis, 2015; Kearney, 2016; National Council of Teachers of English, 2024).
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Modest 6% increase builds on post-Covid IEP boom in US
The PIE News
MAY 30, 2024
Sub-Saharan Africa still sees a very low percentage, with 2% market share in 2015, 1% in 2019 and now 3% in 2023. Maintaining a healthier average is Asia, which peaked in 2019 with over 50% of the market share – in 2023, it has 38% – but Europe has grown significantly since 2015 when it had just 7% market share.
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A Decade-Long State Chancellorship Is Ending. Board Members Won’t Say Why.
Inside Higher Ed
JULY 1, 2024
In 2015, the North Dakota State Board of Higher Education hired Mark Hagerott to lead the state’s system of 11 public colleges and universities. The North Dakota State Board of Higher Education met behind closed doors before voting unanimously to end Mark Hagerott’s time as chancellor. But he’s getting an extended, well-paid exit.
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Students Increasingly Uncomfortable Sharing Political Opinions
Inside Higher Ed
APRIL 25, 2024
In the latest iteration of the Harvard Youth Poll, conducted by the Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School, one-third of students between 18 and 29 said they feel uncomfortable sharing their political views on campus for fear of negative repercussions—a share that has climbed since 2015, when 13 percent responded that way.
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Report: National Six-Year College Completion Rates Stalling
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 30, 2023
NSC’s researchers found that, on a national level, the six-year completion rate for students who began college in Fall 2017 was 62.2%, the same as those who began in Fall 2015. Older college students – those older than age 24 – seem to be finishing college at gradually higher rates, now at 52% from 2015’s 50.5%. million students.
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Beyond the Campus Food Pantry
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
Prior to 2015 it was difficult to find much formal acknowledgement of student food insecurity, let alone services to help. While that generosity of spirit is appreciated, we think it’s time to say thanks and ask how those collective energies could be harnessed to fight students’ hunger, rather than just feed them.
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The Rise and Fall of DEI at the University of Oklahoma
The Chronicle of Higher Education
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
of Oklahoma’s Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house in 2015 after a racist video stirred outrage. Brian Charles Sue Ogrocki, AP Students marched on the U. Racist fraternity chants nine years ago gave rise to diversity, equity, and inclusion work on the campus. New legislation threatens to end it.
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A Dean Says He Was Ousted for His Opposition to Police and Prisons
The Chronicle of Higher Education
DECEMBER 15, 2022
The University of Houston removed Alan Dettlaff, who'd led the Graduate College of Social Work since 2015, "to better align the college with the university’s academic priorities." By Megan Zahneis.
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Gallup Survey Finds Declining Confidence in Higher Education
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JULY 8, 2024
But a decade ago, in 2015, Gallup found that most respondents (57%) had high confidence in higher education, while 10% had little or none. This, the survey concludes, is primarily because Republican respondents feel colleges are pushing liberal political agendas on students.
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Manifest Global acquires 100% of BridgeU from Kaplan
The PIE News
APRIL 8, 2025
This is about combining expertise and accelerating our mission to open up more life-changing opportunities for students Rohan Pasari, Manifest Global Following the launch of BridgeU in 2015, the business was acquired by Kaplan in 2021.
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Echoing Oz, Moody’s Downgrade Highlights a Tempest in Higher Education
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
APRIL 9, 2025
In 2015, I faced a negative credit outlook from Moody's, a challenge that jeopardized the "fresh start" I was brought in to achieve. The Land of Oz: Financial Storm Clouds Gather My career, which has spanned from the Federal Reserve to leading struggling universities, has highlighted the significance of credit agency evaluations.
Understanding the Crisis of Confidence in Higher Education: Changing Higher Ed podcast 235 with host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and guests Dr. Courtney Brown
The Change Leader, Inc.
NOVEMBER 26, 2024
What you'll gain from listening to this podcast: ✓ Confidence Crisis Analysis: Understand the dramatic decline in public confidence - from 90% expressing great confidence in 2015 to only one-third by 2024. Stop-Out Solutions: Explore strategies to address the 42 million Americans who started but didn't complete college.
Law School's Enrollment Crisis? Looking Past the Headlines
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 16, 2025
A 2015 ABA report found that on average law schools receive 69% of revenue from tuition, with 25% of schools receiving at least 88% of their revenue from tuition. Law schools are highly tuition dependent.
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AB 705: Bold Policy, Implications for Equitable Student Success
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
DECEMBER 3, 2024
For example, the percentage of first-time students enrolling in transfer-level math and English courses within their first year of college rose dramatically between the fall 2015 and fall 2020 cohorts.
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College Completion Rates Improved Between 2016 and 2021, But Students of Color and Part-Time Students Lagged Behind
Campus Technology
DECEMBER 16, 2022
A new state-by-state analysis by national nonprofit organization Complete College America (CCA) found that while on-time graduation rates at both two- and four-year higher education institutions improved significantly between 2015 and 2021, graduation rates for students of color and those over 25 years old have lagged.
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UDC Professor Inducted Into Prestigious Nursing Academy
Insight Into Diversity
DECEMBER 3, 2024
Since joining UDC in 2015, Andrea Doctor, PhD, CNE has played a key role in shaping the future of nursing, both locally and nationally. She has worked tirelessly to prepare the next generation of nurses to tackle the challenges of modern healthcare, improving patient care and advancing the field of associate degree nursing (ADN).
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UW Madison’s Nonresident Enrollment Spiked After Cap Removal
Inside Higher Ed
NOVEMBER 28, 2023
Out-of-state enrollment at the University of Wisconsin at Madison increased by 29 percent in the three years after the state government removed a cap on nonresidents in 2015, according to a new working paper from researchers published by Brown University’s school of education. Tuition revenue also rose significantly, by 47 percent.
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Best Practices for Creating an Innovative Learning Space in a University Setting
EdTech Magazine - Higher Education
AUGUST 6, 2024
Oregon State University’s Learning Innovation Center (LINC), a four-story classroom building, opened its doors in fall 2015. The shared campus classroom seats 2,300 students across 15 general-use spaces, with an additional 640 informal seats on the periphery for individual and group work.
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Level 7 Apprenticeships: Babies and Bathwater
HEPI
MARCH 11, 2025
One such document in 2015 laid out the Cameron Governments reform of English apprenticeships which heralded the introduction of the Apprenticeship Levy in 2017. After all, they might argue, businesses dont exist to do the governments job of workforce planning or social engineering.
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