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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Inside Higher Ed

MAY 6, 2025

Education Dept. Tells Colleges to Advise Struggling Borrowers Katherine Knott Tue, 05/06/2025 - 03:00 AM The guidance, released Monday, reminds colleges of their responsibility to ensure borrowers repay loans to the best of their ability. Byline(s) Jessica Blake

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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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University Business

MARCH 20, 2025

In a June 2024 article, Katherine Gonzalez noted, Top-level leaders in community colleges are not only aging, but also retiring in waves, with an average tenure of five to seven years. More from UB: Is this the first college closing announced in 2025? Succession planning: Advance or exit?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Currently, just 56% of California adults aged 25-64 hold a postsecondary degree or credential, according to the February 2025 report. While this rate has steadily increased and matches national averages, it falls well short of the state's aspirations, particularly for underserved communities.

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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

Ezeonu previously served as where Vice President of Instruction at Green River College from July 2018 through February 2025. Prior to that, she was Dean of Instruction for Transfer and Pre-College Education at Highline, from July 2008 to March 2017.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The Aspen Institute has named the 150 community colleges that can compete for its $1 million Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence. public two-year colleges – were chosen for high and improving levels of student success and equitable outcomes for lower-income, Black, and Hispanic students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 9, 2023

Oregon is changing how $550 million-plus in annual local and state taxpayer funding will be distributed to the state’s 17 community colleges. As it stands, the community colleges funding model distributed funds almost entirely based on student enrollment, which did not incorporate student success components.

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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. Black students saw an even higher transfer rate at 8.3%

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University Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Interest in Tennesse’s free tuition program for its community and state technical colleges is promising, to say the least, as the number of applicants for its Class of 2025 broke last year’s record by more than 700. Community colleges, however, have fared better than their counterparts.

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Edu Alliance Journal

MAY 5, 2025

May 5, 2025, by Dean Hoke : For years, there have been conversations among many higher education podcasters asking: Why isnt there a podcasting conference just for us? Podcasting in higher education was growing rapidly, but most lacked a community outside of their home institution to network with, share ideas, and be inspired.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2025

Alvero When my daughter transferred to Queens College in Spring 2019, I could not have been more excited. As associate provost at the college, Ill admit I was biased but even two decades of experience in higher education couldnt fully prepare me for her struggle to transfer credits. Government Accountability Office.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 17, 2024

Nassau Community College teachers have reportedly filed an ethics complaint against the college regarding allegations it paid $120,000 to a lobbying company supporting the construction of a Sands casino on Long Island, New York. Faren Siminoff, concerns are ongoing about the financial management of the community college.

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Higher Education Inquirer

APRIL 29, 2025

The landscape of higher education staffing is undergoing significant transformations, as highlighted in the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR) April 2025 report, The Non-Exempt Higher Education Staff Workforce: Trends in Composition, Size, and Pay Equity. higher education.

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Insight Into Diversity

DECEMBER 17, 2024

This is the first program of its kind at any historically Black college or university (HBCU) in the nation. Set to launch in 2025, IAIER reflects a forward-thinking approach to leadership in one of todays most dynamic fields, ensuring that underrepresented voices play a central role in shaping AIs development.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 28, 2024

Free community college is part of a $58 billion budget recently approved by the Massachusetts State Senate for Fiscal Year 2025. Rodrigues “Tuition free Community College impacts individuals most in need and whom otherwise would not be afforded this opportunity,” said Sen. The proposed $117.5

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 1, 2025

Stout, recipient of the 2025 Diverse Champions Award, has focused her career on helping community colleges achieve outstanding student success. Moono, president of SUNY Schenectady County Community College. Shes known for her transformational work in higher education, says Dr. Theresa B.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

Highlighting excellence in community college education, Achieving the Dream (ATD) has named 23 institutions as either Leader Colleges or Leader Colleges of Distinction for 2025, celebrating their commitment to student success and institutional reform.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 12, 2025

Patterson, who currently serves as president of Chadron State College in Nebraska, will assume his new role on July 1, 2025, succeeding retiring President Dr. Bob Jackson. Colleagues describe Patterson as a collaborative, servant leader who values accessibility, affordability, education, and innovation in higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2024

The Achieve Academy for Adults with Autism has launched at the Brookdale Community College in New Jersey. It seeks to address a critical need for services and educational opportunities for adults with autism once they reach age 21 and public school services end. Dr. David M. The program provides essential supports for the group.

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Insight Into Diversity

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Gavin Newsom (D) reached an agreement on a new pilot pathway program designed to facilitate student transfers between the University of California (UC) and the state’s community college system. The post California Seeks to Expand Access for Community College Transfers Under New Plan appeared first on INSIGHT Into Diversity.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

OCTOBER 27, 2023

A defining moment for higher education in this country lurks just around the corner. What awaits college and university leaders is the long-predicted enrollment cliff, the period around 2025 or 2026 when the effects of the Great Recession on this country’s birth rate will be realized as dramatically fewer high school seniors reach graduation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Educators are uniquely responsible for guiding learners to pathways of knowledge, transformation, and empowerment. Higher education has entered a new era, one unlike previous eras of growth and expansion driven primarily by demographic growth and industrial expansion. At the top of 2025, the U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 17, 2023

Image: The Biden administration’s $90 billion plan to provide free community college likely won’t make it through Congress, but supporters of the effort say the request shows it’s a priority for the administration and helps to continue the national conversation about the policy. percent decline in enrollment.

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Today's Learner

MARCH 17, 2025

Women Educating and Inspiring Generations. And we cant think of a better way to celebrate than by paying tribute to the remarkable women educators who are doing just that. Your commitment to educating and inspiring students doesnt go unnoticed. Before embarking on her decades-long career in higher education, she received her B.A

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Helix Education

APRIL 27, 2025

Read the report The old scorecard for student success in higher education was simple: graduate on time with good grades. But in 2025, that definition feels as outdated as a flip phone. What this means for higher education’s future Download your copy of the report now. It’s worth taking the time to get it right.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 26, 2022

But he ultimately went to Ohlone College, a community college in Fremont, Calif., The path to medical school is rife with financial and structural barriers for community college graduates like him. “We’re weeding out a lot of students who have vital perspectives in their communities,” he said.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 27, 2025

College Leaders Galvanize to Fight the Anti-DEI Chaos Sara Weissman Mon, 01/27/2025 - 03:00 AM Education for All, a grassroots network of mostly community college leaders, is spreading strategies for how to resist anti-DEI bills and rhetoric. Byline(s) Sara Weissman

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

Artificial intelligence (AI) has transitioned from a speculative concept to a transformative tool in higher education, particularly within community colleges. Drawing on the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL), it argues that AI can enhance accessibility and efficiency while preserving the human essence of education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2022

The Association of Community College Trustees (ACCT) has launched a partnership pilot program to increase effectiveness of skills-based hiring with the help of a $350,000 grant from the Lumina Foundation. One of the goals is to create a pipeline of skilled and career-ready job candidates.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 10, 2025

4 Layers of Corequisite Education Support Ashley Mowreader Thu, 04/10/2025 - 03:00 AM Middle Georgia State University created a multipronged approach to aiding corequisite math learners through embedded tutoring, peer mentoring, success coaching and faculty assistance. Byline(s) Ashley Mowreader

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 12, 2024

Ten finalists have been named and are still in the running for the Aspen Institute’s 2025 Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence. The biennial prize, which comes with $1 million award, recognizes strong performance among community colleges. They show that excellence can be reached in any and every context.”

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University Business

APRIL 14, 2025

In March 2025, the U.S. Department of Education laid off nearly all federal staff responsible for managing, analyzing and interpreting higher education data through the National Center for Education Statistics. Quiet unraveling of NCES Few headlines covered the March 2025 layoffs at NCES.

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University Business

JUNE 28, 2024

Many Michigan families would receive free pre-K and all high school graduates would receive free community college education under the 2025 spending plan passed Thursday by lawmakers. billion spending plan for education also would continue free breakfast and lunches for all students at a cost of $200 million.

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