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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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.
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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The PIE News
MAY 10, 2023
The 205,167 international students enrolled in March 2023 means the country hit a target set in 2015 of hosting 200,000 foreign students by 2023. ” The post South Korea hosts 200,000 international students, hits 2015 target appeared first on The PIE News.
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%.
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.
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.
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.
HEPI
MARCH 14, 2024
In 2015, Stand Alone, a small charity founded in 2013 to offer support to adults estranged from family, embarked on the ambitious project to change higher education for students whose relationship with their parents and wider family network had broken down, i.e. were estranged.
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.
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.
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.,
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
HEPI
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
In truth, the scheme started by accident when Nicholas Robinson emailed me from Australia nearly a decade ago offering to work with us for a few weeks in the summer of 2015, but we still thought we were mainly going to be giving rather than receiving.) A decade on, I can see that I could not have been more wrong.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
He was also the founding editor of Global Dialogue magazine and served as co-chair and secretary of the Berkeley Faculty Association from 2015 to 2021. His scholarly impact was profound, with his published works receiving over 50,000 citations.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
ACPA
MARCH 20, 2025
Mentorship can serve higher education and student affairs professionals in a variety of ways, including navigating adversity (Chance, 2022), advance careers (Smith & Crawford, 2007), and career satisfaction (Thomas et. 31482641) [Doctoral dissertation, Drexel University]. ProQuest Dissertations Publishing. Lunsford, L.G., and Rodrigues, H.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
Insight Into Diversity
NOVEMBER 12, 2024
CSU launched Graduation Initiative 2025 in 2015 with the goals of helping more students graduate, closing gaps in degree completion, and addressing California’s workforce needs.
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.
Faculty Focus
JANUARY 17, 2023
Time management experts and seasoned online instructors encourage faculty to be pro-active in managing their workload and workspace (Kondo 2015; Rubin 2009; Shi, Bonk & Magjunka 2006). She writes, “As a result, you can see quite clearly what you need to do in life and what you don’t, and what you should and shouldn’t do” (Kondo, 2015, p.
University Business
MARCH 4, 2025
in 2024, returning to levels last seen in 2015. Between 2021 and 2024, new OPM partnerships fell 47.4%, with a 42.1% drop since 2023, according to the report. Meanwhile, OPM-supported program launches fell 43.4% These declines suggest universities are re-evaluating their reliance on external providers for online program development.
Edu Alliance Journal
JANUARY 27, 2025
A 2017 study by the Southwestern Ohio Council for Higher Education estimated that Urbana contributed over $60 million annually to the economies of Champaign and Logan counties and employed 111 full-time staff during the 2015-2016 academic year.
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