University Business

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

24) College closings are expected to uptick over the next five years due to the demographic cliff, and Northland College may be the first of 2025. This page will be continuously updated as University Business monitors the changing landscape of college closings, as well as mergers and acquisitions, in the coming year and beyond.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 27, 2025

A comprehensive new study by education research firm EAB has identified the most influential factors shaping how students choose colleges, with academic program variety, campus safety, and student organizations emerging as the top three drivers of student attraction. The research, analyzing data from U.S.

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University Business

JANUARY 2, 2025

Higher education is undergoing a profound transformation, with online learning shifting from a temporary solution during the pandemic to a core component of many institutions long-term strategies. More from UB: Three ways colleges can re-engage adult learners Goal setting can help develop meaningful goals for online education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2025

Latino students are making pragmatic financial choices to pay for their education, and institutions are increasingly responding with tailored support, according to a comprehensive new report released today by Excelencia in Education. Brown, President of Excelencia in Education, in the report's foreword.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 30, 2025

Post-high school educational attainment in the U.S. In 2008, Lumina set a goal for the nation, that by 2025, 60% of people in the U.S. According to the report, the figure of post-high school educational attainment of Americans ages 25 to 64 has increased from 37.9% has reached a record high, with 54.9% in 2008 to 54.9%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

UNCF will host its annual UNITE Summit July 20-24, 2025, in Atlanta, marking a historic first by offering five complimentary registrations to every historically Black Dr. Michael L. Lomax college and university (HBCU) and Predominantly Black Institution (PBI) nationwide. territory, and Washington, D.C.

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Higher Ed Dive

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The private Missouri nonprofit is shuttering sometime after the spring 2025 term and folding into an alliance with other colleges and a public school system.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 4, 2025

Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy A coalition of 104 education organizations has called on Congress to immediately reverse the Department of Education's recent cancellation of several major teacher preparation grant programs, a move that has disrupted educator pipelines across the country and threatens to worsen the national teacher shortage crisis.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2025

According to Common App's latest "Deadline Update" report released Thursday, college applications for the 2024-25 admissions cycle continue to show strong growth, particularly among underrepresented and first-generation students. to 14% White applicants' share of the applicant pool continued its long-term decline, dropping from 48.2%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Sacramento State has announced the creation of the Sacramento State Native American College —a new university initiative aimed at advancing Native-based education and creating pathways for academic and professional service. They may enter the college either as first-year or transfer students, or as students beginning their junior year.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 1, 2025

Heather Shotton In a historic move that signals a significant step toward reconciliation with its past, Fort Lewis College (FLC) has named Dr. Heather J. She brings more than two decades of experience in higher education, having worked at both small liberal arts colleges and large research universities.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

In response to recent data showing a worrying financial outlook for higher education institutions, Professor David Maguire, Vice-Chancellor at the University of East Anglia (UEA), and Dr Alex Bols, Chief of Staff at UEA, argue more Government action is needed to make the sector financially sustainable.

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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. Several more states are expected to introduce similar legislation in 2025.

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Helix Education

MARCH 19, 2025

As higher education faces what experts call an “ enrollment cliff ,” with projections showing a potential 15% decline in traditional college-aged students, institutions are radically re-imagining their recruitment strategies.

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The PIE News

MARCH 28, 2025

The PIE Live Europe, held between March 11-12 in central London, brought together leading figures in the international education sector. As the conference drew to a close, the winner of the event’s lifetime achievement award was revealed to be Nunzio Quacquarelli, who founded the global higher education and insights company QS in 1990.

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IHEP

DECEMBER 12, 2024

This season presents opportunities to share gratitude for the Institute for Higher Education Policys hard-working team and engaged partners, celebrate our impact, and set sights on the year ahead. We will continue to bring rigorous research to bear on pressing issues within higher education. Its also a time for reflection.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 31, 2024

But regardless of who moves into the Oval Office in January, we know this much: America will need more from our colleges and universities in 2025, not less, and we need to plan for that. In those and countless other areas, solutions are being incubated right now on America’s college campuses. We simply must commit to use them.

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The PIE News

JANUARY 3, 2025

When Al Tarzi founded Nexford University in 2019, he was an entrepreneur in an unfamiliar sector with a vision of making international higher education more affordable, more accessible and more aligned with the workplace. Today, it offers US-accredited online degrees to over 5,000 students in more than 100 countries.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The College Futures Foundation has released a comprehensive report highlighting California's push to achieve 70% postsecondary attainment by 2035, while revealing significant racial and socioeconomic disparities in college completion rates across the state.

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University Business

DECEMBER 16, 2024

A flurry of colleges and universities have shuttheir doors following the pandemic, and 2024 didn’t show signs of slowing down. Chances are closings will continue to uptick as higher education braces for the expected demographic cliff. Centuries of serving higher education erased. If not, the institution shuts its doors.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Rushi Sheth, Vice President (International), College Board, highlighted the importance of expanding opportunities for Indian students. There are opportunities for excellent education in India so our goal is to not see successful outcomes only in the form of outbound migration,” said Sheth.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

After steering America's community colleges through unprecedented challenges and opportunities, Dr. Walter G. Bumphus CEO of the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) at the end of 2025, capping a remarkable 15-year tenure that helped reshape higher education access nationwide.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 5, 2025

Paola (Lola) Esmieu is a strategic leader in higher education, dedicated to institutional growth, access, and equity-driven initiatives. As Chief of Staff at Paul Quinn College, she provides strategic oversight of enrollment, communications, and institutional priorities. and M.S.Ed. from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Westmoreland County Community College has appointed Dr. Kristin L. Dr. Kristin Mallory Mallory, who currently serves as vice president for Academic Affairs at Wor-Wic Community College in Maryland, will assume her new role on July 1, 2025, bringing with her a comprehensive vision for educational excellence and community engagement.

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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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 5, 2025

We see this as a further indication that students are adjusting their post-secondary goals in response to changing education and labor market conditions, said Shapiro. The data also shows more transfers into community colleges and shorter-term programs and certificates. This data does not include incoming freshmen or dual enrollment.

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Higher Education Inquirer

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Will college pay off for you, the student/consumer/worker? In 2017, we co-authored a video called the College Meltdown. A February 2024 report by the Burning Glass Institute and the Strada Institute for the Future of Work found that 52% of recent four-year college graduates are underemployed within a year of graduating.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 4, 2025

Jamie Merisotis The Lumina Foundation announced a new goal to increase the number of Americans with education and training to 75%. Seventeen years later, the percentage of adults 25 to 64 who have achieved education attainment after high school has increased from 38% to 55%. We had to rethink how education creates opportunities.

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ACPA

JANUARY 30, 2025

2024-2025 CGDSD Award Recipients Congratulations to all 2024-2025 CGDSD Award Recipients! Outstanding International Education Initiative This award recognizes programs and other educational initiatives that support international educatio n and the global dimensions of student development.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 12, 2025

Rolita Flores Ezeonu Rolita Flores Ezeonu has been appointed Interim Vice President for Academic Affairs at Highline College. Ezeonu previously served as where Vice President of Instruction at Green River College from July 2018 through February 2025.

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Coursera blog

JANUARY 8, 2025

By Jeff Maggioncalda, Coursera CEO Today, the World Economic Forum published the Future of Jobs Report 2025, revealing that shifts in technology, the economy, demographics, and the green transition will dramatically reshape labor markets worldwide. million AI enrollments on the platform in 2024, over 3.2

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The PIE News

JANUARY 8, 2025

The University of Liverpool has signed an agreement with the University of Al Dhaid to provide the teaching curriculum at the new college, located at the University of Al Dhaid, based in Sharjah. ” The post Liverpool and Al Dhaid establish College of Veterinary Medicine appeared first on The PIE News.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 25, 2024

The recently released "Project 2025: The Conservative Promise" paints a dystopian picture of American higher education, overrun by a "woke" ideology that supposedly threatens our nation's very foundations. The document's authors misrepresent the origins of progressive thought in education.

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Edu Alliance Journal

JANUARY 27, 2025

January 27, 2025 It has been two years since I last wrote a blog post for the Edu Alliance Journal. At 74, I still have ideas to share and contributions to make in the field of higher education. However, one other area is especially close to my heart: the plight of small colleges. Unfortunately, Urbana University didnt survive.

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Helix Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

How Elmira College Enrolled Their Best Class in 10 Years Despite FAFSA Fiascos and Campus Silos Dennis Kelly, Elmira College Dennis Kelly has seen a lot in his 30 years in higher education. Elmira is a small college in upstate New York. Kelly stepped into the middle of a particularly challenging time for enrollment.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2025

Desmond Lee Endowed Professor of Urban Education at the University of MissouriSt. Louis, has been elected as the next president of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). Morris will serve as president-elect for the 2025-2026 term before assuming the presidency following the association's 2026 Annual Meeting.

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University Business

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The demographic cliff may reorient the higher education landscape and propel the number of college closures in the coming decade. If, in the worst-case scenario, the demographic cliff wipes 15% of student enrollment between 2025 and ’29, some 80 colleges could end up closing, or about 4.6 Researchers Robert J.

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