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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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

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

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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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

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

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

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. Dr. Mordecai Ian Brownlee is the president of the Community College of Aurora. Be intentional about what you consume.

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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

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

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

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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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

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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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

OCTOBER 27, 2023

A defining moment for higher education in this country lurks just around the corner. The supply of college-eligible students may never recover — at least not for the next two decades or until birth rates rebound to levels not seen since the turn of the century — so the stakes for how institutions respond could not be higher.

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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

MARCH 5, 2025

The data also shows more transfers into community colleges and shorter-term programs and certificates. These are both students transferring from one community college to another as well as people transferring from four-year institutions to community colleges. These reverse transfers showed a 6.3%

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Today's Learner

MARCH 17, 2025

Her commitment to helping students grow not just as learners but as thinkers is what makes her an invaluable part of the OSU community and higher education. Before embarking on her decades-long career in higher education, she received her B.A degree in computer resource management from Webster University.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 27, 2025

The Greatest Challenges Facing Higher Education: A Comprehensive Analysis for 2025 with Exemplars in Navigating Solutions Higher education is no longer coastingcolleges and universities now face a defining moment. And that is where higher ed is right now. million undergraduates. A recession.

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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. Brookdale President Dr. David M.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 8, 2024

When I first became a higher education professional, I remember being told that higher education was not a business. Now more than ever, I reflect on that perspective and ask if it is relevant to society’s emerging realities and today’s public perceptions and expectations for higher education.

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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. A case study from a California community college illustrates these principles in action.

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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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Higher Education Inquirer

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Have revenues, adjusted for inflation, now peaked for US public higher education, or was 2022, the last year reported by the US Department of Education, a blip regarding revenue trends? If higher education revenues continue to decline, as they appear to be doing for 2024-2025, what will we see on the ground level?

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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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Campus Sonar

APRIL 9, 2025

What movements are gaining momentum within higher education, and why? Higher education has excellent examples of the first two strategies, and a significant opportunity to lean into the third to meet our current moment. A recent higher education example caught my eye. movements is 10+10+10+20=50.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2024

The global nonprofit Aspen Institute has named 20 semifinalists for the 2025 Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence, a $1 million prize. The Aspen Institute plans to announce 10 finalists in June. The Aspen Institute plans to announce 10 finalists in June.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

The Senate announced that it has passed a bipartisan resolution dedicating February 3-9, 2025 to celebrate the invaluable role of Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCU) in providing higher education opportunities that shape future leaders while preserving Indigenous heritage, culture, and languages.

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Insight Into Diversity

JULY 25, 2024

Beginning this fall, thousands of students in Michigan will have increased access to higher education thanks to the state’s newly approved 2025 education budget, which makes community college tuition-free for recent high school graduates. It helps to build a college-going culture.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2023

Democratic legislative negotiators reached a higher education spending deal May 8 to create a free college tuition program for Minnesota residents, Star Tribune reported. We've been seeing declining enrollment on all campuses," said Senate Higher Education Committee Chair Omar Fateh."If Gene Pelowski and Sen.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

JANUARY 23, 2024

Senate President Karen Spilka advises to “keep your eyes peeled” for free community college funding in the Senate’s version of the fiscal year 2025 budget. The report was rolled out to reporters last week alongside Spilka, Senate Ways and Means Chair Michael Rodrigues and Higher Education Committee Chair Sen.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

MARCH 22, 2024

President Joe Biden proposed expanding access to free community college across the U.S., and other initiatives to make higher education less costly. In the president’s budget for fiscal 2025, Biden called for increasing the amount of Pell Grants and establishing a “Reducing the Costs of College Fund.”

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Marcia J. Ballinger, Ph.D.

MARCH 1, 2023

Lorain County Community College was founded in 1963 to as a source of constant, relevant education and training for local people. Over the years, many things have changed, but one thing that remains the same is our commitment to adapt to the needs of employers, students and the community through affordable, impactful education.

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Edu Alliance Journal

MARCH 17, 2025

March 17, 2025, by Dean Hoke : This profile of Whitman College is the sixth in a series presenting small colleges throughout the United States. Background Founded in 1859, Whitman College is a private liberal arts institution located in Walla Walla, Washington. Whitman enters 2025 in a favorable financial position.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 23, 2024

This is the second consecutive year of undergraduate growth and third straight year of growth for community colleges. Mitra, vice president of student affairs & enrollment management at Queensborough Community College When asked if the FAFSA impacted freshman enrollment, Shapiro said the data doesn’t address that issue.

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University Business

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Whether it was news of a recent college closure or a forecast of the severity of the demographic cliff, the most popular stories of 2024 centered on the changing makeup of higher education institutions. However, opinions from over 10,000 current college applicants and their parents suggesta different narrative.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2024

The report’s conclusions urge institutions to find ways to engage this ever-growing population, particularly to help America achieve its 60% credential attainment goal for those between 25 and 64 years old by the year 2025. Dr. Kaleb Briscoe, assistant professor of adult and higher education at the University of Oklahoma.

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