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How Vermont is winning the fight against falling enrollment

University Business

Vermont’s public four-year institutions in fall 2022; however, hit a whopping 12.2% Two big initiatives pushing this change are recent school mergers and a powerful free community college pipeline. Following the widespread pushback, Vermont State University conceded, promising to keep 10% of its current collection.

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Consolidating touch points for retention

Inside Higher Ed

For decades, colleges have consolidated many of their admissions and enrollment services functions under a single umbrella office—including, but not limited to, the bursar, the registrar, the cashier’s office and financial aid. Image: One-stop services are not new to higher education.

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Bridging Research and Practice

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Western Michigan University Provost Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig Lori Gottschling For Vasquez Heilig—a prominent public policy researcher who has carved out a national reputation both in and outside academic circles for his scholarship on equity and innovation—the pendulum at WMU is swinging in the right direction.

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What Faculty Know (and Don’t Know) About Transfer—and Why It Matters

Inside Higher Ed

Approximately 25,000 students transfer from one CUNY college to another each year, and over 50 percent of the graduates of every CUNY bachelor’s college consist of transfer students. Colleges and universities are now more aware of the moral, societal and financial imperatives of attending to transfer students.

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Field of study not key to new academic program success

Inside Higher Ed

Image: The success rate for new academic programs at colleges and universities depends more on the type of institution launching them than whether a program is in the sciences or humanities, according to a new report identifying what sorts of programs fare better when it comes to growth.