University Business

APRIL 18, 2025

Hired Shari Olsen – Northland Community and Technical College (Minn.) Shari Olson, Northland Community College Shari Olsen has been promoted to permanent president of Northland Community College, effective immediately. Gonzalez – Kalamazoo College (Mich.) Retiring Jorge G.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 24, 2023

” Lectures are a “great tool for college courses, but they are just used way too often,” he says. And while the idea that “learning can be fun is thrown out the window once in college,” it can be “just as exciting for us.” 1 barrier to academic success cited by students in the survey over all.

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Edu Alliance Journal

MARCH 17, 2025

Background Founded in 1859, Whitman College is a private liberal arts institution located in Walla Walla, Washington. Whitman prides itself on a student-to-faculty ratio of 9:1, facilitating personalized education. Popular disciplines include Environmental Studies, Political Science, Psychology, Economics, and Biology.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Art Pimentel will become president of Folsom Lake College, effective Jan. Dr. Art Pimentel Most recently, Pimentel was president of Woodland Community College. from the University of California, Davis. from the University of California, Davis.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Previously, he has served as dean of arts and sciences at Alvin Community College and associate dean at Florida State College at Jacksonville. “Dr. Working in partnership with the campus community, I look forward to the many possibilities that await.

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MindMax

JULY 15, 2024

Steven Mintz, author and professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin, posits that higher ed has strayed too far from its traditional purpose: providing a holistic liberal arts education that produces students who are “life-ready.” I came across an interesting article recently that suggests higher ed has forgotten its aim.

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Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 9, 2024

As colleges and universities across the country face declining enrollments caused by rising tuition costs, changing job market demands, and demographic shifts, institutions are getting creative with solutions. The number of humanities degrees has declined by 14% in the past decade, according to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

That was the dominating discussion among three higher education leaders at the cutting edge of academic and research innovation when speaking about the future of the sector in an inaugural webinar hosted by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s College of Emerging and Collaborative Studies.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 7, 2023

Image: Many students think more flexibility on classroom deadlines, attendance and participation would boost their academic success, a recent Student Voice survey found. About a quarter of students also see strict attendance or participation requirements and unrealistic deadlines as actively impeding their success.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

She possesses an associate degree earned in her early 20’s from her local community college. Marta also takes care of her mother, who has declining health and requires increasing levels of care. Although her family is in San Luis Obispo County, she is more than 100 miles from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo University. Lawrence A.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Image: After more than two years of declining enrollment numbers, fall 2022 finally brought refreshing news: freshman enrollment, which represented the most significant deficits throughout the pandemic, is up from the previous year, according to the latest data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. and 2 percent.

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Insight Into Diversity

MAY 24, 2023

New legislation passed by the Illinois General Assembly aims to equalize credit transfers between community colleges and the state’s public four-year colleges and universities, making student transitions smoother between institution types. The bill, which is soon expected to be signed into law by Gov.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Higher education stakeholders have been transfixed by declining student enrollment numbers in the past decade, which were only exacerbated further by the pandemic. But at the beginning of this new fall semester, colleges across the country are reporting big turnarounds. gain in first-time college students, thanks in part to an 8.9%

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University Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

New findings from the Community College Research Center (CCRC) are eerily similar to those of the Department of Education : only 16% of community college students earn a bachelor’s degree within six years.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

more students than the previous year were able to successfully transfer to a new institution. That’s according to the latest report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, a nonprofit studying data from a majority of postsecondary institutions in the U.S. In fall of 2023, 5.3% These increases are a good sign.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 7, 2023

At a time in academia when STEM is increasingly evolving into STEAM, colleges and universities with intensely driven, career-focused students are endeavoring to create space for arts education. STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) is expanding into STEAM, with the addition of art.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 20, 2023

I feel confused when UK policy makers complain about there being too many students while simultaneously wanting more people to do ‘vocational education’ For the same reason, I feel confused when UK policy makers complain about there being too many students while simultaneously wanting more people to do ‘vocational education’.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 9, 2023

Fall transfer enrollment remains in decline in 2022, albeit at a slower rate than before, according to a new report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. The decline was also observed across institutions at all levels of selectiveness, the worst being for students transferring to highly selective institutions (-13.4%).

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

JUNE 12, 2024

Are you wondering how you can craft a set of marketing messages that truly resonates with prospective students and their families? We’ll help you harness the full potential of FAB in marketing to highlight what your institution offers and vividly illustrate how these offerings translate into tangible success for your students.

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University Business

MAY 16, 2023

Under a bill, community college students in Illinois would be assured that class credits related to their chosen major in certain fields of study will be transferable to all public colleges and universities in the state. Read more from the Belleville News-Democrat.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 18, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Colleges pay tribute to diversity yet largely offer a cookie-cutter approach to education. Work colleges like Berea and Paul Quinn require all students to perform campus jobs to defray part of their education’s cost. Because it makes it easier for students to transfer credits.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The University of Minnesota Morris is excited to share with potential students that they could potentially save $20,000 on tuition costs for a bachelor’s degree, which may appease a public and federal government pushing for a more affordable higher education. Everything from English to political science and biology qualifies.

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University Business

JULY 1, 2024

I agree that the cuts to language study at WVU deprive all its students of a seminal educational opportunity, such as highly marketable skills in intercultural competency and communicative competency. But at institutions where students’ family income is under $70,000, it is considered a luxury. How is this possible?

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

INSIGHT Into Diversity 2023 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award winners are recognized for their exemplary and innovative initiatives designed to recruit and retain underrepresented individuals in science, technology, engineering, and math. Students learn to apply machine learning, text analytics, and artificial intelligence.

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

DECEMBER 20, 2023

To thank hardworking staff, faculty, and students, the Dean surprises them with thoughtful gifts. Spend a Grinch-Free Holiday with Greensboro’s School of Health and Human Sciences UNC Greensboro is a regular on our HEM holiday video highlights list, and this video puts the spotlight on its School of Health and Human Sciences.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Blog: Beyond Transfer Many transfer students cite affordability as a driving concern. Given some of the unknowns for transfer students—such as which institution they will move to and how many of their credits will apply to program completion—it’s sometimes difficult to estimate what a bachelor’s degree will cost.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 14, 2023

Yolanda Vivian Williams-Goliday’s first priority is to make sure that the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) is a supportive and inclusive space for its LGBTQ+, gender nonconforming, and nonbinary community. There, she worked with students academically underprepared for college, she says. It was new for everyone.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

30% of students say poor maintenance, cleaning or overall building conditions have had at least some impact on their ability to learn. Place matters, Medlin adds, because students think it matters. Just under half see research labs as excellent, while only one-third view arts and performing spaces as excellent. block:block=176].

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 3, 2023

Marta Yera Cronin , president of Columbia Gorge Community College, in Oregon, has been chosen as president of Delaware County Community College, in Pennsylvania. Nemat (Minouche) Shafik , president of the London School of Economics and Political Science, has been selected as president of Columbia University, in New York.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 3, 2023

46% of students surveyed have explored sustainability topics within their coursework. “You can create a net-zero campus pretty easily by just shutting it down,” quips Jay Antle, executive director of the Center for Sustainability and a history professor at Johnson County Community College, in Kansas.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

Image: For students in Sarah Blackwood’s How to Read Moby-Dick class at Pace University, learning about Herman Melville’s work isn’t confined to lectures, essays or classroom discussions. percent from 2012 to 2018, according to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences’ Humanities Indicators.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Meanwhile, equity gaps persist, with graduation rates for Pell Grant recipients and Black and Latino/a students roughly 10 points lower than among non–Pell Grant recipients and white and Asian American undergrads. This is an institution that values scholarship, the liberal arts, a physical campus and the teacher-scholar.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 18, 2024

Having taught students in brick-and-mortar classrooms for most of my 23-year tenure in education, I had grown accustomed to witnessing the positive impact human connection can have on the life trajectory of my community college students. Asynchronous learning doesn’t allow me to meet the diverse needs of my students.” “I’m

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean Chad Orzel’s piece this week, “ Physics Is a Liberal Art ,” is a must-read. Classically, the “liberal” arts were contrasted with the “servile” arts. The “servile” arts were about performing employment.

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Edu Alliance Journal

DECEMBER 5, 2022

December 5, 2022 by Dean Hoke : In the newest edition of the 2022 Open Doors Report, US university’s international student enrollment shows encouraging signs. International students coming to the United States are reported at 948,519, which nears the pre-pandemic level. The chart below shows how long US students study overseas.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 18, 2024

Having taught students in brick-and-mortar classrooms for most of my 23-year tenure in education, I had grown accustomed to witnessing the positive impact human connection can have on the life trajectory of my community college students. Asynchronous learning doesn’t allow me to meet the diverse needs of my students.” “I’m

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 2, 2023

The allure of the novel, the newfangled, the groundbreaking and the state-of-the-art can also lead us down a primrose path. Columbia’s core is anything but perfect: it remains much too Eurocentric and fails to engage sufficiently with the social sciences or the pressing issues of the present. Nostalgia can be damaging.

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