Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The enormous potential of transfer from community colleges to four-year institutions presents a ray of hope among the pandemic-related enrollment declines, which have particularly affected students from marginalized backgrounds. Supporting transfer access to independent colleges has broad implications for strengthening equity in our society.

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University Business

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The coursework in the crosshairs isn’t hard to divine, either: liberal arts mainstays such as literature, history, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and psychology. Those with liberal arts degrees took umbrage. The key is to paint a sharper picture of the enormous benefits that liberal arts actually deliver.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Williams College faculty voted 81-5 to approve the creation of an Asian American studies (AAS) concentration beginning Fall 2023, The Williams Record reported. s history of anti-Asian racism and the upsurge in attacks against Asian people during the pandemic, such as the March 2021 Atlanta shooting killing six Asian American women.

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University Business

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Degrees and subsequent jobs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) have long been praised as lucrative and safe pathways for students looking to enroll at a college or university. From fall 2021 to fall 2023, enrollment in computer and information sciences increased by 21.4% At Middlebury College (Vt.),

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Image: Faculty members at the College of William & Mary are concerned that the institution is purposely excluding them from conversations about the future. Take the college’s recent announcement that it’s exploring opening a computing and data science school.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

In the past six months we have seen a number of colleges and universities fail, and unless there is some significant innovation, more are likely to close. in 2021 so this demographic shift will herald a marked decrease in the college age students. The US sector is assailed on a number of fronts. Birth rates dropped from 4.3

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 18, 2023

Image: Adrian College president Jeff Docking has some innovative ideas for higher education leaders battling enrollment pressures and market forces. That allowed the college to build out new majors, which in turn brought in students and revenue. Rize was founded in 2019, and Adrian began using the platform the following year.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

For college algebra, the underprepared students must take a developmental course called Intermediate Algebra. To help more students complete their college math requirements, higher education must stop using the student-deficiency mentality and start adopting a student-growth mentality. And the list goes on.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Roanoke College students will soon get the opportunity to learn and even earn a degree in cannabis studies, after approval from school faculty. Dr. DB Poli This will make Roanoke College the first college in Virginia to offer a four-year degree in the field of cannabis studies, according to the school. According to U.S.

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

MARCH 15, 2023

News & World Report released its first list of annual college rankings in 1983. 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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 9, 2023

in 2021 to -2.3% in 2022) but was still dropping faster than non-transfer enrollment in comparison (-4% in 2021 to -1.4% in 2021 to now -1.5%. The report found that the declining fall transfer enrollment slowed down in 2022 (-4.7% An overall 6.9% decrease was observed for undergraduate transfer enrollment from 2020-2022.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

million freshmen enrolled in a college or university last semester, a 4.3 percent increase over fall 2021 and a healthy jump from the 2.24 Freshman enrollment was up across all higher education sectors, with the greatest growth coming from community colleges, which gained 42,000 first-year students since last fall, an increase of 6.1

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University Business

JUNE 12, 2023

High school students molded by the pandemic are rejuvenated to experience an in-person college experience again. These are some key takeaways EAB gathered in their latest meta-report that creates a comprehensive picture of higher education’s future college cohort: “Gen P.” That’s an 8% rise compared to 2021.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Image: After a missed bond payment and months of uncertainty, Cazenovia College will close. College officials remained tight-lipped, telling Inside Higher Ed earlier this fall only that “discussions continue to take place” on the outstanding bond payment. Now college leaders have made a clear decision about its future.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Image: The Whittier College Board of Trustees was scheduled for a rare in-person meeting this Friday, after conducting most business virtually during the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, with her address looming, Oubré and her critics have radically different views of what the state of the college is. We’re very proud of that.

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University Business

MARCH 4, 2024

Administrators from Notre Dame College in Ohio have announced that the century-old Roman Catholic school in Ohio will be closing its doors at the end of the semester. The college has already coordinated Teach-Out agreements with several neighboring colleges and universities to ensure the closure does not hurt its students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Born in Grinnell, Iowa, Edith Renfrow Smith graduated from Grinnell College in 1937 and was the only Black student on campus during the 4.5 years that she attended the small, private liberal arts college. At 110 years old, she is the college’s first Black alumna and the oldest living graduate of the institution.

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University Business

MARCH 7, 2025

A professor of history, Benson has also taught at every school where he eventually became president, which also includes Eastern Kentucky University, Southern Utah University and Snow College in Ephraim, Utah. Charles Edmonds, Lycoming College Charles Edmonds – Lycoming College (Penn.) He begins his new position in July.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 8, 2024

universities and colleges were founded before 1900. Without the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act and the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, institutions nationwide would have crumbled or failed to receive critical investments toward institutional sustainability. As of May 2024, the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 15, 2022

When Cazenovia College, a 199-year-old private liberal arts school in upstate New York announced last Wednesday that it would close after the spring semester, sophomore Ally Ruetton was shocked. “No But the college’s financial problems had been building for years. No one thought it was really going to happen,” she said.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

Image: Gustavus Adolphus College went 161 years without any graduate programs. Like other small private institutions, Gustavus Adolphus, a Lutheran college in southern Minnesota, faces a shrinking pool of traditional-age students, even ahead of the projected decline in college-age students due to kick in later this decade.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 3, 2023

It’s taken months of collaboration across institutions, but east Tennessee’s only Historically Black College and University (HBCU) is on track to regain accreditation. The college is anticipating submitting its application for approval in April. Knoxville College (KC), a private institution, lost its accreditation in 1997.

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University Business

JANUARY 10, 2023

President Meredith Woo has spearheaded Sweet Briar College’s triumphant revival over the past several years, and now she is making way for the institution’s next leader. Meredith Woo (Sweet Briar College). Sweet Briar College has already been comprehensively restructured under Woo’s leadership.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Since the Great Recession of 2008, but especially after 2012, the share of majors in the humanities has continued to decrease precipitously among American college-goers. Instead, American universities have adopted the expedient, but ultimately harmful, practice of keeping tuition fees for all liberal arts degrees essentially equal.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Two years in, Canton is preparing a proposal that outlines the reasons for making African American studies a department, and the benefit it would bring to the university, to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in which it is situated, and to the community. The college’s dean, Dr. David E. I had to get used to that.

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The PIE News

JULY 15, 2024

The number of US students studying abroad recovered to 188,753 in 2021/22 – just over half of pre-pandemic levels, according to Open Doors data. According to Kelly McGee, director of Denison University’s global programs, the small liberal arts college in Ohio has seen a “surge” in study abroad applications this year. “In

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Image: Scholars in Florida are angry, disappointed and divided over a recent joint statement , signed by Florida College System presidents, promising to “not fund or support any institutional practice, policy, or academic requirement that compels belief in critical race theory or related concepts.”

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Despite high profile stories about the closing of small liberal arts colleges, such as California’s Mills College and Vermont’s Green Mountain College, college closures have actually declined in the past five years. But the numbers may spike again as declining U.S. First, the numbers.

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University Business

AUGUST 6, 2024

For the last decade, computer science majors have become highly prized by many colleges and universities. Colleges and universities have slowly begun to launch undergraduate degrees in AI. Likewise, Georgia Tech promotes interdisciplinary study in AI through a new minor available to its liberal arts and engineering students.

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University Business

APRIL 16, 2024

The inflation-adjusted sticker price at a four-year public college rose by 66% from the 1995-96 academic year to 2019-20 and increased by 79% at private colleges. Only 26% of in-state public college students paid this published rate in 2019-20, compared to the 53% who did three decades ago.

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Helix Education

DECEMBER 6, 2023

That requires great creative work that really stands out from all the other marketing messages that students see—and it’s what the RNL creative team does with each campaign they undertake for colleges and universities.

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Liaison International

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

colleges and universities is on the rise, although it has still not returned to pre-pandemic levels, according to a report released by the Institute for International Education. International enrollment rose 4% during the 2021-22 school year and climbed another 9% in the fall 2022 semester. International Enrollment Is on the Upswing

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 15, 2023

The report is based on data from a survey of nearly 900 US colleges and institutions, who provided information on more than 370,000 full-time and 90,000 part-time faculty members. Colleges let short-term employees go to save money during the pandemic, and many of their courses were absorbed by other faculty members, he said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 22, 2022

Norbert College in Wisconsin. Karlyn listens, analyzes, and accomplishes — helping to guide change with an unwavering focus on ensuring the best experience possible for students,” wrote Dr. “Like Ohio Wesleyan, Karlyn is deeply committed to the value and power of the residential liberal arts experience.”

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Definitely a very attractive point for Asian destinations Josephine Phinith, ICEF Rob Turner, international development and marketing manager at International College of Liberal arts (ICLA), stressed that sharing co-curricular activities is mutually beneficial. There’s so few declines and fast processing.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 22, 2022

Traci Morris, a member of the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma, has worked with Native American tribes, tribal businesses as well as artists and non-profits; she has also written a college-accredited curriculum in Native American new media and has advocated for digital inclusion on Capitol Hill and before the Federal Communications Commission.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 7, 2023

Their proposed solution is an unconventional one—to create a three-year bachelor’s program equivalent to a four-year college degree. Zemsky, who has long pursued the idea of a three-year degree, held court at Georgetown alongside Carrell with representatives from a dozen colleges in attendance.

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