Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 12, 2023

Jessica Hicklin The organization seeks to support prison education programs that promote perspectives and leadership of those who have experienced the prison system and that help out overlooked populations and regions. Postsecondary educational programs in prisons have been shown to be beneficial to families and communities.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 7, 2023

The Higher Education Act recognizes organizations that contract with a college or university to help administer or participate in the Title IV financial aid programs as third-party servicers, subject to federal monitoring and compliance requirements.

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MindMax

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Leaders in education, business, government, and philanthropy (plus 100 students!) gathered to discuss opportunities for enhancing college and career readiness during a period of accelerating change. If I’m being honest, I find that a bit daunting, even as someone who has continually embraced new technologies and approaches.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

With the practice of direct admissions, colleges proactively reach out to high school students with a letter of acceptance. Personally, I view direct admissions as a game changer, especially for those students who do not see themselves as college material and their families. ” This second quote is particularly heartbreaking.

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University Business

AUGUST 30, 2023

Yet another college ranking has arrived, and it, too, boasts its unique methodology on the backdrop of the U.S. Washington Monthly’s 2023 National University Rankings analyzed over 1,500 higher education institutions registered with the U.S. Department of Education’s Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS).

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IHEP

MAY 15, 2023

Department of Education (ED) announced a series of updates to its College Scorecard —a free online resource designed to help prospective college students compare institutions using data such as tuition costs, graduation rates, and post-college earnings.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Higher education leaders and states can take a number of additional steps to bolster academic success, reenrollment, and degree completion for students who started college but never finished. Dr. Laura Bernhard These students with some college, no credential (SCNC) make up more than six million Californians ages 25-64.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

Smith, who earned tenure in 2022, is an associate professor of higher education and program coordinator of educational leadership in the College of Education, Criminal Justice, Human Services, and Information Technology at the University of Cincinnati.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

It’s past time for a similar push to increase the number of students successfully transitioning to a college and career pathway that sets them up for later success. education system still too often operates like high school is an offramp for many students, especially those students who are furthest from opportunity.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

These courses also provide incarcerated students and formerly incarcerated alumni with knowledge, skills, and connections they can use to benefit their children and families, multiplying the impact of a single college degree.” Postsecondary education can facilitate upward social mobility to racially marginalized groups,” writes Taber.

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Higher Education Inquirer

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The Pennsylvania Board of Higher Education is composed of 21 members , representing postsecondary education, government, business, labor and students. Other institutions, like the state's 15 community colleges and 10 PASSHE schools are represented by one person. The same goes for Harrisburg Area Community College.

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WCET Frontiers

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Digital Learning technologies can foster meaningful engagement even at a distance. New approaches in Washington and Arizona show how AI can help support distance education students. The data also revealed significant equity gaps—students from lower-income families and first-generation college applicants were particularly affected.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 4, 2023

an alternative to the high school diploma; parried with the Obama administration over its proposal to rate colleges ; and pushed college leaders to explore technology and other forms of innovation. In nine years at the organization’s helm, she overhauled ACE’s approach to the G.E.D.,

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University Business

JANUARY 29, 2024

Building strong pipelines between K12 school districts and postsecondary education has long been an elusive puzzle piece. Districts and colleges that can’t get on the same page see their strategies fizzle out. Every year, we’re growing the number of incredible partnerships with our local colleges to make that happen.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 16, 2024

Department of Education announced this week that it will grant more than $40 million to seven higher education institutions and organizations as part of its Postsecondary Student Success Grant (PSSG) program.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2023

That quote from Jack Welch, American business executive and writer, has stuck with Dr. Juan Alexander, associate vice president for enrollment management at Norfolk State University (NSU), a Historically Black College and University (HBCU) in Virginia. Discriminatory funding has deprived HBCUs of roughly $12.8

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Higher education is a ladder to social and economic mobility and stability, and learning certain skills like leadership, critical thinking, problem-solving and communication, can make the difference in a graduate feeling their time in postsecondary education was both worth the expense and helped them achieve life goals.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Getting into college is harder and harder,” said Dirks. Even though there are wonderful colleges and universities across the states and country, they can’t find enough students to enroll, and every year there are headlines about colleges folding or being acquired.” Dirks, president and CEO of The New York Academy of Sciences.

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University Business

APRIL 4, 2024

Those benefits also extend to the communities where college graduates live and the industries in which they work. But when a myriad of obstacles prevent a majority of college-aged Americans from attaining that goal, there is something very wrong with our current higher education model.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Here at the Associate of Community College Trustees (ACCT) 2022 Leadership Congress currently being held in Manhattan, these key take-aways are being reinforced with increased nuance and clarity. Increasingly, these students, rather than eighteen-year-old high school graduates, form the core of the college-going public.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 4, 2024

For example, adult learners often cite difficulties in digital literacy and report not feeling confident in using online technologies and learning platforms (The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2021). Almost all college courses today include some type of technology component to access course information and/or coursework.

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University Business

JULY 18, 2024

For decades, the pathway to a high-paying career seemed clear: go to college. In response to declining interest, universities implemented new technology and flashy marketing tactics. Unlike their predecessors, these students are acutely aware of the potential burdens of postsecondary education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 8, 2024

," insufficient state investments in higher education over the past two decades have led to significant increases of tuition rates and fees at public four-year colleges, leading to bigger hurdles for students looking to attend college, particularly for low-income students and those from marginalized communities.

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WCET Frontiers

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Campaign Launch Completion of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) is one of the best predictors of whether a high school senior will enroll in college. This is a major new step taken by the Commission to help more students secure financial aid resources and improve equitable access to postsecondary education statewide.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

→ View the podcast transcript Now more than ever, accreditation is essential in higher education. An increasingly high number of professional accrediting bodies touch and impact colleges and universities to the point where accreditors have the potential to lead or even stifle change in higher ed. Our Podcast Guest – Ralph A.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Transfer has always been a major element of the work of the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE). It’s one of the objectives in the statewide postsecondary education strategic agenda, as well as a primary statutory duty. There is a lot of work around transfer in Kentucky.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 4, 2024

For example, adult learners often cite difficulties in digital literacy and report not feeling confident in using online technologies and learning platforms (The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2021). Almost all college courses today include some type of technology component to access course information and/or coursework.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

This past November, contractors began constructing a $380 million health education building approved by the Kentucky General Assembly. It would be hard for a college or university that banks its revenue on tuition and enrollment not to be overwhelmed and even jealous of the money flooding into UK.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Image: Students are obtaining postsecondary education from more places than ever—on-the-job training, military service and high school dual enrollment, to name a few, in addition to two-year and four-year colleges.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Sloan Foundation and RTI International have engaged in a study of Black and Hispanic individuals who have achieved PhD degrees in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields. Half of the top 20 bachelor’s degrees of Black STEM PhD recipients from 2010–20 were earned at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).

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WCET Frontiers

OCTOBER 19, 2023

If you missed the first post in our series, check out the post about RIOPACT from Rio Salado College. This week, we’re joined by Brad Griffith, Associate Vice Chancellor of Innovation with the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education. This ensures that educators are well-equipped to deliver top-notch online instruction.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 16, 2022

If the company did not urgently adapt and reclaim its role as a leader in telecommunications and information technology innovation, it risked losing everything. Let’s examine the higher education industry in 2022. I am the president of Pennsylvania’s second-largest institution of higher education. Sound familiar?

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WCET Frontiers

APRIL 25, 2024

In case you haven’t noticed, the higher education world is highly focused on the impact of Artificial Intelligence on the present and future of postsecondary education. AI’s impact has been and will be felt in many facets of our field, especially within digital education. “Artificial Intelligence.”

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University Business

DECEMBER 19, 2023

For example, President Carrie Hauser of Colorado Mountain College (Colo.) “Colorado Mountain College deserves a lot of credit for leaning into that dynamic because, in the data, that makes them look bad,” says Anderson. More from UB: Do colleges consider legacy status in admissions?

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EAB

MAY 30, 2023

Since 2020, enrollment at community colleges has declined 5.4 percent, 1 which has prompted institutions to reflect on practices that impact student success and on barriers students face in their pursuit of higher education. Most of the enrollment that has been recovered at community colleges is through an uptick in dual enrollment.

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University Business

JUNE 17, 2024

Now, not even three years later, the Department is on course to roll back online learning opportunities, launching efforts to curtail the growth of distance education and reduce the current availability of these offerings. More from UB: How colleges can help restore what students lost during COVID Not quite.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 6, 2023

brought innovation, excellence, and inclusion to community colleges. De los Santos, a posthumous recipient of a 2023 Diverse Champions Award, is remembered by colleagues as a great friend, an outstanding mind, and a determined educator who placed access and equity at the center of his work. Alfredo de los Santos Jr. Richardson Jr.,

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