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Hoke’s Notes – The Plight of Small Colleges

Edu Alliance Journal

The Plight of Small Colleges If youve followed my journey, you know that I earned my undergraduate degree from Urbana University, a small private college in Urbana, Ohioa city with a current population of 11,161. During my senior year, I also completed a year-long internship in admissions.

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If I Missed You, Please Leave a Note in the Chat

Faculty Focus

When the pandemic closed down my university in spring 2020, most folks assumed that we would be back up and running a normal slate of face-to-face courses in fall 2020. In mid-August 2020, the pandemic infection rates still exceeded the local disease control agency’s guidance.

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Report: Pandemic stymied higher ed internationalization

Inside Higher Ed

higher education institutions saw a 46 percent drop in new international students and a 15 percent drop in total international enrollment in academic year 2020–21, according to a separate report from the Institute for International Education, whose researchers provided enrollment analysis for the ACE report.

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If I Missed You, Please Leave a Note in the Chat

Faculty Focus

When the pandemic closed down my university in spring 2020, most folks assumed that we would be back up and running a normal slate of face-to-face courses in fall 2020. In mid-August 2020, the pandemic infection rates still exceeded the local disease control agency’s guidance.

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CSU Hires New President, But Questions Linger About the Treatment of Former President

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It’s unfortunate, said some alumni and political leaders, who credit Thomas with boosting student enrollment, establishing an honors college, securing millions of dollars in grant funding, and overseeing the construction of three new facilities. Progress completely stopped, and chaos reigned,” he said. That’s why I left. “He

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New graduate program at Gustavus Adolphus College

Inside Higher Ed

“It seems natural that something like this would be our first step into a master’s program or a higher-level degree,” said Brenda Kelly, provost and dean of the college, citing the lengthy history of the undergraduate athletic training program, which began in 1976. percent from the previous year and about 18.4

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Colleges hire directors to tackle student basic needs

Inside Higher Ed

College administrators nationwide were already starting to tackle the issue in recent years but homed in on it after the pandemic revealed stark economic disparities among students. A month after she graduated in 2015 with a bachelor’s degree in history and global culture, she was hired by her alma mater to do just that.

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