Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 8, 2024

universities and colleges were founded before 1900. As the 2025 fiscal year is fast approaching, the looming question is, what institutions will survive without these financial lifelines? Too often, I hear conversations debating the importance of liberal arts education compared to the value of workforce development.

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University Business

AUGUST 27, 2024

In what ranking does the University of Wisconsin-Madison top the likes of Berkeley, John Hopkins and Georgetown? How could Florida International University beat out the state’s flagship when other popular rankings wouldn’t even place it in their top 100? While Tulane University may be touted by U.S.

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University Business

OCTOBER 6, 2023

He came into power at the small liberal arts school after a DeSantis-backed overhaul of the Board of Trustees ousted former President Patricia Okker. Melissa Gilliam – Boston University (Mass.) The bulk of her career in higher education comes from her 16 years at the University of Chicago.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

With the World Economic Forum predicting that 50% of all employees will soon need reskilling or upskilling by 2025, all sectors of education need to face the music. ” The post This startup trailblazer believes these 5 trends will shape the future of education appeared first on University Business.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Declines during the pandemic have been steepest among community college students and African American and Latinx males, Lynn Pasquerella , president of the American Association of Colleges and Universities, points out. On other hand, changing demographics also mean colleges cannot abandon the liberal arts in favor of career preparation.

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University Business

MARCH 8, 2024

Hired Joseph McDonnell – University of Maine at Farmington President Joseph McDonnell (Source: University of Maine at Farmington) Joseph McDonnell initially filled the University of Maine at Farmington’s president role as an interim. The outgoing president will retire by July 2025.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 13, 2023

Mike Runiewicz, assistant vice provost and director of student financial services at Washington University in St. ” Students at a four-year university were more likely to use their university’s information and resources, with 41 percent using the financial aid office and 20 percent turning to other institutional sources.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Blog: Beyond Transfer More than 130 four-year colleges and universities with the nation’s highest graduation rates have come together as members of the American Talent Initiative (ATI), committing to a common goal: to enroll, support, and graduate 50,000 additional students from low- and moderate-income households by 2025.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

These changes are reshaping how colleges and universities must embrace an adaptive approach to student recruitment and retention. The Shifting Landscape of Higher Education Enrollment Enrollment patterns in colleges and universities are undergoing significant transformations.

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HEPI

JULY 23, 2024

This long read was kindly authored for HEPI by Gill Evans, Emeritus Professor of Medieval Theology and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge. From the inherent right to grant degrees to requiring permission The power to permit the award of degrees began as an inherent right of the first English universities.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Fritch, University of West Alabama Todd G. Fritch – University of West Alabama Todd Fritch will be leaving his post as provost at the State College of Florida, Manatee-Sarasota following his appointment as president at the University of West Alabama. Hired Todd G. Kent Trachte – Lycoming College (Penn.)

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Echo Delta

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Coen, VP of Strategic Initiatives and Enrollment Management at Transylvania University , Gareth Fowles, VP for Enrollment Management at Lynn University , and Jeff Kallay, Enrollment Thought Leader. Showing the students the university has their back. But Transylvania, we are a private liberal arts institution.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 2, 2023

Before joining Illinois Tech, Raj developed and launched the first scaled online MBA program in partnership with Coursera at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. One, honoring and strengthening the university’s role as an engine of opportunity and a national leader in economic mobility. I’m excited to have you here.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The postsecondary landscape is dominated by the University of Houston, with 38,000 undergraduates. When I recently heard about the new Houston University of Science and Technology, I thought progress was being made. But UH enrollment growth accounts for a fraction of Houston’s population growth. That’s also very Houston.

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WCET Frontiers

JULY 14, 2023

While it is true that the overall enrollment of high school graduates in colleges and universities is dropping, enrollments are also shifting away from small, private institutions and for-profit institutions to larger, public, non-profit schools. There is also a gender and racial demographic shift happening with enrollments.

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The PIE News

AUGUST 15, 2024

Although former President Trump has disavowed Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation document calls for the education department to be dismantled and urges an evaluation of national security-vulnerable visa programs. For example, Trump has proposed a new 10% universal tariff on all imports and a 60% tariff on all imports from China.

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