Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Anna Miarka-Grzelak has been named vice president for strategic enrollment and innovation at the State University of New York Cobleskill. Miarka-Grzelak earned a master’s degree in English philology from the University of Warsaw and a master’s in adult education from Indiana University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Newman holds a bachelor’s degree in in professional speech, theatre arts, and broadcast communication and a master’s in leadership studies and adult education from North Carolina A&T University. She served as interim director of the GTCC Foundation.

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SRHE

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

by Sir Adrian Webb The publication on 13 September 2023 of the House of Lords Industry and Regulators Committee report on the Office for Students drew attention to the financial challenges facing universities in the UK and to the challenges associated with regulating and overseeing these risks.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 15, 2025

The shift to virtual learning, accelerated by the global pandemic, has fundamentally transformed the way education is delivered. As a result, the lasting impact of this transition, along with the necessary adaptations, continues to reshape how education is offered to its target market.

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University Business

JUNE 17, 2024

The University of North Florida is bucking declining college enrollment trends in higher education, and John Kantner, University of North Florida senior associate provost of faculty and research, credits some of this growth to its focus on continuing education (CE) programs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Elliott earned a bachelor's degree in communication studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a master's in adult education from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in Greensboro, and a Doctor of Philosophy in leadership studies at N.C. A&T.

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Higher Education Inquirer

AUGUST 3, 2024

Elites are reestablishing a more brutal world, hearkening back to previous centuries--a world the Higher Education Inquirer has been observing and documenting since 2016. 2U , Guild Education , and a number of online robocolleges reflected the neoliberal promise of higher education and online technology.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Khrystyna Sanborn Khrystyna Sanborn has been appointed dean of adult education at Heartland Community College in Normal, Illinois. She holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Kyiv National University in Ukraine. Sanborn served as associate dean and then interim dean at the college.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JULY 12, 2023

The University of Phoenix (or at least its name) may soon enter the ash heap of US history--and rise again as a state-run robocollege. Once hailed as the leader in affordable adult education for workers entering middle management, it is a shell of its former self--in an economy less certain for consumers. It's a Long Story.

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totallyrewired

DECEMBER 2, 2023

08 Dec – 1pm GMT Register here Image created with DAL-E 4 Chrissi Nerantzi Associate Professor Leeds University. Sandra Abegglen, Researcher, University of Calgary, Canada. Marianthi Karatsiori, Adjunct Lecturer (Pedagogy, Adult Education, ICT), University of Macedonia, Greece.

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HEPI

MARCH 24, 2025

Professor David Phoenix OBE is Vice-Chancellor of London South Bank University and Chief Executive of LSBU Group. Dr Katerina Kolyva is Chief Executive Officer of The Education and Training Foundation. Post-16 education in England is at a pivotal moment, with increasing efforts to create a more integrated and collaborative system.

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The PIE News

MAY 7, 2023

The international education strategy for Scotland that the devolved assembly outlined in its 2021/22 program for government has still not been released, while a replacement for the Erasmus program has also been delayed. In 2020/21, non-EU students contributed £867m in tuition fees.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

Over the past two decades, promise programs, in which recent high school graduates are offered free tuition to attend local colleges and universities, have become popular tools to bridge equity gaps in higher ed, with over 300 programs active in over 40 states. The study found that KPromise has many benefits. Byrd and his co-authors, Drs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Dominique Harrison Dominique Harrison has been named director of undergraduate admissions at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. He earned a bachelor’s degree in communication studies from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and master’s in adult education specializing in higher education from A&T.

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SRHE

JANUARY 17, 2025

To explore this potential, a body of qualitative research was conducted with six volunteer PhD candidates enrolled at a regional Australian university awaiting feedback on their theses. With a background in Adult Education and Positive Psychology, she has a well-developed interest in fostering autonomous learners.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 4, 2024

Relevance for Learning, Instruction, and Assessment Adult learners have unique needs that require consideration when designing instruction. Conclusion Lightboards continue to present an open opportunity for educational institutions to bring faculty expertise to the online setting. Advances in Physiology Education , 40 (4), 509–513.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 4, 2023

We’ve done the same thing in the context of higher education. Another thing I’ve observed in higher education is a fishbowl, where students come and swim around in our courses and in our academic curriculum, but they fail to do anything with that knowledge outside of the context of the learning environment itself. Clover, D.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 4, 2024

Relevance for Learning, Instruction, and Assessment Adult learners have unique needs that require consideration when designing instruction. Conclusion Lightboards continue to present an open opportunity for educational institutions to bring faculty expertise to the online setting. Advances in Physiology Education , 40 (4), 509–513.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 9, 2025

Fostering student success may be highly individualized, but there are four universal practices that might yield successful student outcomes. Communication Effective communication between university faculty and students is fundamental for enhancing academic success, student engagement, mental health, and trust. Dr. Tammy R.

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The PIE News

JUNE 20, 2023

Finland’s universities may begin to increase tuition fees for international students under policies announced by the country’s new government. The education ministry, which initially proposed the policy earlier this year, predicted that the move could result in a 43% drop in the number of students coming from outside the EU.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 27, 2024

In higher education, “building rapport” is often cited (e.g., The Center for Digital Education at Washington University in St. Leticia Velasquez, MAT, is an Instructional Designer at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Casey Woodson, MAE, is an instructional designer at Washington University in St.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 27, 2022

“This initiative aims to strengthen the capacity of our community colleges to serve as hubs for regional Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) that convene high school educators, community college faculty, and representatives from local employers and workforce agencies,” Dr. Karen Stout says in the award notification.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Plato around a seminar table this ain’t Wildavsky usefully nails the idea that higher education is contrary to skills-based learning, noting that even the ‘land-grant institutions’ founded in the US over a century ago provide practical experience. The fact it is meshed together has just made it confusing, messy and unhelpful.’ Many (most?)

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EAB

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The 3 big bets university presidents and provosts are placing on graduate and adult learner enrollments. Key takeaways from our new survey of university leaders. An unfavorable labor market, the rise of distance education, and, of course, a global pandemic, spurred much of this growth. Survey Methodology.

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EAB

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The pandemic changed the landscape for many industries, and higher education was no exception. I know from experience that being an enrollment manager is challenging, but now it's even harder than before.

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EAB

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The pandemic changed the landscape for many industries, and higher education was no exception. I know from experience that being an enrollment manager is challenging, but now it's even harder than before.

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Higher Education Inquirer

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Here's our latest analysis of Guild (formerly Guild Education) based on a limited amount of publicly available data. Guild is a third party provider of adult education from a number of non-profit and for-profit companies connecting companies like Walmart and Target with schools like Purdue University Global (Purdue University's robocollege).

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 4, 2023

We’ve done the same thing in the context of higher education. Another thing I’ve observed in higher education is a fishbowl, where students come and swim around in our courses and in our academic curriculum, but they fail to do anything with that knowledge outside of the context of the learning environment itself. Clover, D.

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EAB

JULY 31, 2023

Tips to guide your professional and adult education unit through developing social media content for today's market Digital marketing, despite its potential to reach more customers than any other type of marketing, is seen by most consumers as distracting, intrusive, and inauthentic. See an example from Western Governors University.

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Helix Education

MARCH 28, 2024

In the pursuit of knowledge, students enrolled in higher education often find their educational path intersects with the pressures of performance. Which is why I found so much value in exploring this relatively missed aspect of adult education. Graduate students face many challenges with work-life balance.

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SRHE

MAY 11, 2023

By Rachel Brooks How healthy is the area of higher education studies? Higher education research has also been critiqued for occupying a relatively marginal place within the wider discipline of educational research. Indeed, there is mounting evidence that higher education research is an increasingly vibrant area of enquiry.

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EAB

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Blogs Adult learners: who they are and what they want from college Across the last few years, colleges and universities have increasingly prioritized adult learner enrollment to offset declining undergraduate enrollment and diversify revenue streams. But not all adult learners are looking to higher ed to advance their careers.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 26, 2023

The financial composite score the Department of Education assigned Valley College is 1.8 Bonaventure University—a nearby four-year Roman Catholic college—spent 18 months in merger talks only to walk away at the end without an agreement. And despite the unusual pairing, Hilbert College officials say the move makes sense.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 7, 2023

Image: Huddled around a table in the Georgetown University Alumni House, roughly two dozen academics convened last week to address two of the most persistent challenges in higher education: improving student outcomes and lowering the cost of a bachelor’s degree. Those losses led her to rethink the program’s curriculum.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Blogs To design microcredentials that meet student needs, follow these 3 steps Professional, continuing, and online education (PCO) units are facing pressure to quickly stand up microcredential offerings. Prospects are interested in continuing their education but are daunted by the idea of enrolling in a full master's degree.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 15, 2025

The shift to virtual learning, accelerated by the global pandemic, has fundamentally transformed the way education is delivered. As a result, the lasting impact of this transition, along with the necessary adaptations, continues to reshape how education is offered to its target market.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 23, 2022

Image: The University of California system wants to grow its enrollment by at least 23,000 in-state students—the equivalent of an additional campus—over the next eight years. To help reach that goal, the system is looking to adult learners with some college but no degree. ” Addressing Barriers.

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