University Business

AUGUST 1, 2023

The board overseeing West Virginia’s four-year colleges and universities voted Monday to revoke a small Baptist university’s ability to award degrees, in response to its staggering debts. Alderson Broaddus University will be prohibited from awarding degrees starting Dec. Read more from AP News.

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IHEP

JULY 17, 2024

IHEP welcomed President Kenneth Adams of LaGuardia Community College to share the ways in which his institution is delivering strong post-college earnings outcomes to a diverse student body. Thirty-nine percent of our students rely on need-based federal Pell Grants to help pay for college. Some are English language learners.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 30, 2024

Varying Degrees 2024 is New America's eighth annual survey on higher education. New America Americans still generally value higher education and support more investment from the state and federal government to make it more affordable, according to a new report from New America.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 2, 2023

Williams earned a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of the West Indies, a master’s in education policy and leadership and a Ph.D. in education policy from the University of Maryland College Park.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 3, 2023

And colleges struggle to deliver what employers want. “With the economy shifting … we need workforce education training faster and better,” said James Fong, chief research officer at the University Professional and Continuing Education Association (UPCEA). But there is good news, too.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2023

Perdomo-Ahmed holds a bachelor’s degree in Latin American studies and cultural anthropology from Mount Holyoke College, as well as master’s and doctorate degrees in educational policy, research, and administration from the University of Massachusetts.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 24, 2023

Socio-economic status has a strong correlation with whether or not a high school graduate enrolls in college within 18 months of graduating. Sade Bonilla, an assistant professor of policy, organizations, leadership and systems division at the University of Pennsylvania. The findings are even more striking when disaggregated.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 22, 2024

First-generation college graduate Dr. Ronald S. Rochon holds a bachelor’s degree from Tuskegee University and master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He did doctoral work in educational policy studies. Dr. Ronald S.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Image: China’s Ministry of Education will no longer recognize online degrees from overseas colleges, per a Jan. The announcement, which arrived without notice and was effective immediately, impacts Chinese students enrolled at foreign colleges who had been studying online in their home country. Reputable U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2024

Zamani-Gallaher holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Western Illinois University, a master’s in general experimental psychology, and a Ph.D. in educational organization and leadership from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. At Pittsburgh, she served as interim dean of the school since August 2023.

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University Business

JUNE 21, 2024

Community colleges must recommit to reforming developmental education courses, or dev-ed, to ensure K12 students hampered by the pandemic won’t crash out of the postsecondary track, declares a new report from FutureEd, a public policy think tank at Georgetown University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2024

A new study finds that colleges and universities are responding to changing labor market needs. Dr. Kevin Stange " Skills, Majors, and Jobs: Does Higher Education Respond? ” Kevin Stange, co-director of the University of Michigan's Education Policy Initiative. increase in course-taking and degrees in that field.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Kim has been appointed president of Santiago Canyon College in California. Kim holds a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a master's from California State University, Fullerton, both in cultural anthropology.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

"Education beyond high school should be a ticket to the middle class — and across our Nation, more than 500 Hispanic-Serving Institutions have helped to make that promise real, opening the doors of opportunity a bit wider for generations of Hispanic college students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 20, 2022

based Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP), one of the nation’s premiere education research and policy centers, Dr. Michelle Asha Cooper has a vision. Since taking the helm of IHEP in 2008, Cooper’s been out front influencing national education policy. As president of the Washington, D.C.-based

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 18, 2024

The American Association of Colleges and Universities ( AAC&U ) has announced the 2024 recipients of the annual K. A past annual conference hosted by the American Association of Colleges and Universities. Graduate students in fields where the master’s degree is the terminal degree are also eligible.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2024

Students at LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City, NY. IHEP identified these two institutions by using the Equitable Value Explorer , a free, publicly accessible site that analyzes data from colleges and universities across the country. Kenneth Adams, president of LaGuardia Community College.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2024

in educational policy and planning, Reid hopes to make an impact on federal and state policies related to education. When he went into his master’s degree [in educational psychology], he said, ‘Dr. “A Reid is already meeting with politicians in Texas about educational policy.

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Inside Higher Ed

JUNE 26, 2023

The West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission this month granted reauthorization for every private college in the state to continue to operate and award degrees, except for one: Alderson Broaddus University, MetroNews reported.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Image: New data from the Lumina Foundation on college degree or credential attainment rates for U.S. The national share of working-age Americans who hold college degrees increased across racial and ethnic groups and rose in all states between 2019 and 2021. Still, the national degree attainment rate is 45.7

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University Business

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The most positive trait of working in a rural area is that rural workers without a bachelor’s degree fare better than those in urban America, thanks to its remaining blue-collar jobs and a rising recreation and tourism economy. As a result, researchers at Georgetown recommended the following to fortify higher education in rural America.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Completing my college degree was the path to a better way of life, and I was determined to graduate to experience the socioeconomic benefits a college degree would afford my family. in higher education policy at FSU, and my one-time infant is now a high school freshman. I would later earn my Ph.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 7, 2023

For more than a million students each year, the college process starts with logging on to the Common App, the online application that can submitted to over 1,000 colleges and universities. If you’re thinking about helping to equalize college enrollment, it may be easier to get them over the hurdle.”

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The study draws on responses from 11 focus groups and an online survey of 1,675 people between the ages of 18 and 30 who decided not to go to college or stopped out of a college program. “What’s making people choose something other than college?

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Insight Into Diversity

JULY 1, 2024

Despite this shift, many colleges and universities still favor applicants with familial ties to alumni. A recent report by the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP) highlights the significant impact of these policies on furthering disparities in college access, particularly for Black, Hispanic, and low-income students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 14, 2024

This finding came as a surprise, said report co-author Martin Van Der Werf, director of editorial and education policy for the CEW. However, it seems that those with associate’s degrees or lower fared better in rural areas than in urban ones. Per their criteria for a good job, researchers found that workers in the rural U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 8, 2022

A coalition of higher ed organizations is launching a campaign, called California Reconnect, to re-enroll adult learners who stopped out of college in the state. California Reconnect will be modeled on an approach by ProjectAttain!, ” Ad keywords: studentsuccess Editorial Tags: California Is this diversity newsletter?

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Faculty Focus

JULY 14, 2024

Adapting Strategies for Broader Application Not only are instructional programs eligible for these economical tactics, by including comparable techniques, including using open educational resources, providing online courses, and making sure program credits transfer to additional certifications or degrees, other fields can modify these approaches.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2024

in educational policy and planning, Reid hopes to make an impact on federal and state policies related to education. When he went into his master’s degree [in educational psychology], he said, ‘Dr. “A Reid is already meeting with politicians in Texas about educational policy.

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Campus Sonar

JULY 23, 2024

This spring, we hosted virtual roundtables that brought more than 300 higher ed professionals together to discuss the value of a college degree, innovative strategic planning, and growing graduate enrollment. No matter the topic, the common thread was rebuilding trust in higher education. Here's what we heard.

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IHEP

DECEMBER 20, 2023

By: Mamie Voight As the year draws to a close, we at the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP) are taking a moment to reflect on the strides we’ve made and the work left to do to advance our mission – building a more equitable and just society through higher education.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 14, 2024

Adapting Strategies for Broader Application Not only are instructional programs eligible for these economical tactics, by including comparable techniques, including using open educational resources, providing online courses, and making sure program credits transfer to additional certifications or degrees, other fields can modify these approaches.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 12, 2023

Although 80% of students who enroll in community colleges plan on getting a bachelor’s degree, only around 15% do so within six years. You need to have really clear lines of communication [and] consistent understanding of policies and processes to do everything that we wanted to do,” said Roberson.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 21, 2024

Dr. Wil Del Pilar In recent years, the imperative of fostering DEI has become a cornerstone of higher education policies and practices. Colleges and universities would need their institutional policies and practices revamped to ensure that they not merely accommodate rather celebrate and incorporate diverse cultures and experiences.

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IHEP

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Like many students across the country, Coleen began her journey to a four-year degree at a community college. When I was 18, I realized that I was going to be paying for college on my own and it hadn’t really hit me before, like exactly how much it costs,” Coleen explained. FOUR-YEAR INSTITUTIONS. ix x .

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The Guardian - Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Gaps in regulation over franchise university providers leaving funding unprotected, according to National Audit Office Organised crime could be profiting from student loan fraud worth at least £60m at unregulated colleges in England because of lax oversight, according to a report by the National Audit Office.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 3, 2024

in sociology in 2015 from Emory University’s Laney Graduate School and her Bachelor of Arts degree in English and political science from North Carolina Central University. She is also a columnist for the New York Times, an award-winning author, and a 2020 MacArthur Fellow. McMillan Cottom received her Ph.D.

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