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.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
APRIL 9, 2025
higher education outlook is not merely a financial tremor; it serves as a chilling echo of the cyclone that swept Dorothy into the tumultuous Land of Oza "tempest of uncertainty" driven by rapid policy shifts and financial pressures, threatening the very foundations of higher education. higher education.
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Inside Higher Ed
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
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. The program, launched in 2015, is a last-dollar free tuition scholarship for the state’s community college students.
HEPI
JANUARY 29, 2025
Degree Apprenticeships (DAs) were launched in 2015, as a novel work-based learning route to obtaining a degree. Since then, they have taken the higher education sector by storm. Since then, they have taken the higher education sector by storm. to 35% of all apprenticeships. Does that add to the quality? one provider asked.
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.
The PIE News
MAY 10, 2023
The data, released by the Korean Educational Development Institute , comes after an announcement by the country’s immigration service that Korea had passed 200,000 international students. 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.
Faculty Focus
JANUARY 5, 2025
There are many ways to design a course in higher education, but why do it alone? As the educational landscape continues to evolve, the role of an instructional designer (ID) has become necessary. As higher education continues to evolve, professional schools must adapt to meet the changing needs of their students and their profession.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 2, 2025
higher education institutions. 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.
ACPA
MARCH 20, 2025
This Black feminist framework seeped into the higher education space with the creation of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and expansion of Black student enrollment (Sturdivant, 2024). Additionally, it is important to note that Other Mothers as educational mentors does not mean they have to be women. Collins, P.H.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
Legacy preferences in college admissions have plummeted to their lowest recorded level, with just 24% of four-year colleges still considering family alumni status in admissions decisions, according to a comprehensive new report from Education Reform Now.
Wonkhe
MAY 15, 2024
Adam Matthews tracks higher education expansion through the Westminster parties' manifestos of the swinging sixties The post Higher education in General Election manifestos – the 1960s appeared first on Wonkhe.
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.
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. Minnesota is one of the latest states to offer its residents tuition-free access to postsecondary education through its aptly named North Star Promise.
Wonkhe
JUNE 19, 2024
Debbie McVitty hunts for solutions in the manifestos of Major, Kinnock, Blair, and Ashdown The post Higher education in General Election manifestos – the 1990s appeared first on Wonkhe. By the end of the eighties the architecture of HE as we know it was in place – but not the funding.
The PIE News
MARCH 17, 2025
Delegates at the British Councils East Asia Education Week 2025 in Hong Kong heard that studying in the UK has become more expensive for East Asian families compared to previous years. Wong explained that unstable wage growth and high inflation have put a UK education out of reach for many middle-income households.
Wonkhe
MAY 7, 2024
Debbie McVitty finds the seeds of an emerging consensus around the value of higher education expansion in party manifestos of the post-war years The post Higher education in General Election manifestos – the 1940s and 50s appeared first on Wonkhe.
Faculty Focus
JANUARY 21, 2025
Trusting students does not mean ignoring accountability; it means designing courses, policies, and practices that build their confidence and skills while treating them as equal partners in their education. Such policies demonstrate compassion and respect for the complexities of students’ lives (Nilson, 2016; Hammond, 2015).
Wonkhe
APRIL 26, 2024
Kicking off a new series on what we can learn from how General Election manifestos have engaged with higher education, Adam Matthews reflects on the changing political fortunes of universities in the past 80 years The post How higher education has showed up in General Election manifestos since 1945 appeared first on Wonkhe.
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.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JULY 8, 2024
Americans are nearly equally divided among those who have high levels of confidence (36%), some confidence (32%), or little or no confidence (32%) in higher education, according to the Lumina-Gallup survey conducted June 3-23.
The Change Leader, Inc.
NOVEMBER 26, 2024
Drumm McNaughton speaks with Dr. Courtney Brown, Vice President of Impact and Planning for the Lumina Foundation, about the critical issue of declining public confidence in higher education. Future Planning: Understand how to rebuild trust while maintaining educational quality and relevance. .
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). 2017) argue for whole person education as a way to help students bring their lives into the classroom.
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
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
Over the last decade the food pantry became a higher education trend. Prior to 2015 it was difficult to find much formal acknowledgement of student food insecurity, let alone services to help. In many ways, it’s a sign of progress. But that is all the more reason to recognize that hope is a strategy.
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. But it is not just about access—it is about building an educational ecosystem that nurtures every student’s potential.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JUNE 3, 2024
Marquette University recently received over a million dollars from the Mellon Foundation to further energize and grow its prison education program. The first, the Educational Preparedness Program (EPP) , offers courses, academic support, and career-building resources to currently and formerly incarcerated (CFI) students.
Wonkhe
JUNE 11, 2024
Adam Matthews looks beyond the iconography and politics of the Thatcher era to find a surprising degree of political consensus over higher education The post Higher education in General Election manifestos – the 1980s appeared first on Wonkhe.
The PIE News
MAY 17, 2023
Education agents are a “key vulnerability” to Canada, Global Affairs Canada has said, as talks begin on the next version of the country’s international education strategy. The issue has risen to prominence recently and is regarded as a key vulnerability to Canada’s international education sector,” they continue.
Liaison International
DECEMBER 23, 2024
Western Connecticut State University (WCSU), with two locations in Danbury, CT, is committed to its mission of providing all students with a high-quality education that fosters their growth as individuals, scholars, professionals, and leaders in a global society. From Fall 2014 to Fall 2015, WCSU saw a 40% increase in first-year applications.
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.
HEPI
APRIL 12, 2025
In this weekend long read, he discusses the history of marketisation in higher education and considers whether applicants have enough information to make informed judgements about where and what they study. Some 40% of undergraduate students might have chosen a different route, although only 6% would not have entered higher education.
Wonkhe
JUNE 4, 2024
But Debbie McVitty also finds in General Election manifestos of the time the arrival of students as a political force to be reckoned with The post Higher education in General Election manifestos – the 1970s appeared first on Wonkhe. The seventies saw galloping inflation, strikes, and the polarisation of politics.
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.
HEPI
AUGUST 11, 2024
Prevalence in higher education A ground-breaking study conducted by the University of East London (UEL), has revealed significant insights into the prevalence of adverse childhood experiences among its undergraduate students. This is the basic underlying principle of a trauma-informed approach to education.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 13, 2025
Brian Kite, currently the dean of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television (TFT), has been appointed UCLAs new dean and vice provost of graduate education. Prior to joining UCLA, Kite was the producing artistic director of La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts, where he helmed numerous acclaimed productions.
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
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. “Partnering with ApplyBoard opens the doors of German education to the world. In early 2000, there were about 1.6
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 16, 2025
The fanfare surrounding the decline in enrollments among students of color at elite schools partly reflects the medias preoccupation with elite education in the US. 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.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
Editor's Note: With the exception of the last section about an Anti-Racist, Culturally Competent Special Education Model, the content in this article comes from a recently accepted journal manuscript. CritSEM: Advancing QuantCrit to examine racialized resegregation in special education. Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness.
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.
Edu Alliance Journal
JANUARY 27, 2025
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. Unfortunately, Urbana University didnt survive. Hoke has a B.A.
Faculty Focus
NOVEMBER 6, 2022
While statistics show that the 2015-2016 academic year ushered in an increasing number of students with disabilities in higher education, countless students do not inform their university about their disability. National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). References.
HEPI
DECEMBER 19, 2024
As 2024 draws to a close, Josh Freeman, Policy Manager, and the HEPI team look back on a remarkable year in higher education policy. Winter In January, we heard from Laura Coryton MBE about period poverty in higher education , the stigma attached to it and the strategies institutions can take to address it. What fault in Afghan girls?
The PIE News
APRIL 8, 2025
Now a wholly owned subsidiary of Manifest Global , BridgeU joins a growing network of education-focused businesses, including Cialfo. Pasari added: I think we have the opportunity to fill that space and in doing so help more students on their international education journey.”
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