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.” The Point of a College Education Is… So, what is the point of a college education?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

Lee Lambert Lee Lambert has been named chancellor of the Foothill-De Anza Community College District. He serves as chancellor of Pima Community College in Arizona. Lambert holds a bachelor’s degree in liberal arts from The Evergreen State College and a juris doctor from Seattle University.

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Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Course sharing aims to help small colleges address declining enrollments and increased competition by offering vocationally appealing programs without the costs associated with developing them independently. This method leverages online education technologies that have become more familiar and advanced during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 8, 2024

When I first became a higher education professional, I remember being told that higher education was not a business. Now more than ever, I reflect on that perspective and ask if it is relevant to society’s emerging realities and today’s public perceptions and expectations for higher education. Instead, we serve learners.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Borough of Manhattan Community College and the Institute for Justice and Opportunity at John Jay College of Criminal Justice have teamed up to create a new degree-granting Prison-to-College Pathways (P2CP) program for incarcerated students at Otisville Correctional Facility in upstate New York.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 18, 2024

Ohio Wesleyan University and Columbus State Community College are collaborating to address societal challenges and help Columbus State students more quickly, easily, and affordably earn bachelor’s degrees at Ohio Wesleyan.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The enormous potential of transfer from community colleges to four-year institutions presents a ray of hope among the pandemic-related enrollment declines, which have particularly affected students from marginalized backgrounds. On average, these students transferred in with 61.5 credits and received $4.5

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 30, 2024

Antioch University, Bard College, Cuyahoga Community College, and Elizabethtown College will host the newest centers, bringing the total of TRHT partner institutions to 71.

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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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MindMax

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Summer isn’t what it used to be for higher education institutions and their students. Today, colleges and universities everywhere increasingly embrace the concept of a holistic year , and summer sessions have become an essential component of both standard and alternative educational pathways. Professional education.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

While overall enrollments are still down (with about 100,000 students missing from community college since the start of the pandemic), the data show that student mobility has increased, particularly transfers into very competitive or highly selective institutions. Six-year completion rates have also increased.

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University Business

JULY 1, 2024

The state, and its flagship institution, experienced a rude awakening in 2023, when the slow-paced, “timeless” way of life in their favorite song was confronted with the volatile reality of contemporary higher education, specifically lower enrollment and a $45 million budget shortfall. How is this possible?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 9, 2023

Researchers also found that of the students who transferred to a four-year school from a community college, liberal arts majors were significantly more likely than non-liberal arts majors to change their major (82.0% Yet, these climbs did not outweigh continuing transfer student declines.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

million freshmen who enrolled in 2019, “this is a very promising sign for higher education,” said Doug Shapiro, the research center’s executive director. Still, it’s not entirely clear why students are returning to higher education now—or whether the trend is likely to continue into this fall.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 29, 2023

Image: Rising numbers of community college students kept total enrollment across all sectors of higher education flat this spring despite a decline in the largest category of institutions by share of enrollment: public four-year universities. Community college enrollment increased by 2.1

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University Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Education leaders ready to leap into the next generation of education that fully embraces digital modalities aren’t waiting around for our current institutions to get it together. “An education system built for the Industrial Revolution is not going to get it done and has frankly outstayed its welcome.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 25, 2023

community colleges combined. Community colleges serve 6.2 In effect, they can receive a free liberal arts education and all the resources and opportunities it provides. For the record, the “ top four ” institutions serve approximately 77,500 students combined.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Image: A new automotive technology program at Coconino Community College, launched last fall, is on pause as campus leaders struggle to hire a full-time faculty member to keep it afloat. The college offered four automotive technology classes last fall and five courses in the spring, serving 46 students.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 2, 2022

In 2016, I traveled overseas to teach two general education courses at Carnegie Mellon University’s campus in Qatar. They were both American-focused courses, one on the history of American education and the other on the history of American public policy. A good liberal arts education should make us do that.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 6, 2023

Establishing a Substrate Historically, Michigan’s transfer infrastructure rested on individual articulation agreements between its constitutionally autonomous community and tribal colleges, public universities, and independent colleges and universities, creating a patchwork of arrangements that varied widely from region to region.

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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. identified as place-bound , according to the American Council on Education (ACE) Center for Policy Research and Strategy (Hillman, Nicholas, & Weichman, 2016). While online education has grown exponentially in the U.S.,

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University Business

APRIL 3, 2024

Antioch College President Jane Fernandes was elated when she discovered her college would be formally designated as a Federal Work College by the Department of Education. Nearly 50% of Sterling College’s 2018 graduates earned their degree without accruing any debt. Berea College in Berea (Ky.)

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University Business

OCTOBER 2, 2023

It’s no secret that artificial intelligence has gripped the higher education sector in more ways than inside the classroom. Although most colleges and universities are scrambling to moderate precisely how students should be allowed to use it, faculty and administrators are inviting its use systemwide.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 14, 2023

in educational administration (higher education leadership) from Indiana State University; a Master of Liberal Arts in African American studies from Temple; a Master of Science in Education in educational psychology and guidance (college student personnel) from EIU; a B.A.

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University Business

APRIL 30, 2024

Colby College in Maine has promised the Class of 2029 that middle-class students who enroll will find their private liberal arts degree more affordable than many in-state public institutions. ” Greene’s comments shed light on a more significant issue across higher education.

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University Business

APRIL 16, 2024

As the cost of higher education continues to rise for students across the socioeconomic spectrum, public and private institutions’ marketed sticker prices have become an increasingly unreliable metric for applicants to gauge how much they will pay, a new report from Brookings declares.

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Continuous Learning Institute

JULY 28, 2023

In this episode, I interview Kathy Booth, Project Director for Educational Data & Policy at WestEd. We need to figure out ways to make education work better for those folks who have more in their lives than school. LISTEN TO THE EPISODE: Learn how data can inform action to improve adult learner outcomes.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Campuses report , published every five years by the American Council on Education , indicates that student mobility – which has been a top priority for internationalisation since 2016 – will continue to be a key priority beyond the pandemic. ODU is also looking to democratise global education, he continued. International recruitment.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 10, 2024

He would go on to earn three associate degrees in general studies, liberal arts, and biology. Their dual credit opportunities with Ivy Tech Community College gave him the chance to jump-start his future.

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Dr. Missy Alexander

DECEMBER 31, 2023

So have the changing attitudes toward higher education. It has been, well, an interesting time to be in higher education. Our responsive approach is something that I am immensely proud of; we worked together to keep education going, under the direst of circumstances.

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Dr. Missy Alexander

DECEMBER 31, 2023

So have the changing attitudes toward higher education. It has been, well, an interesting time to be in higher education. Our responsive approach is something that I am immensely proud of; we worked together to keep education going, under the direst of circumstances.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 15, 2023

The report is based on data from a survey of nearly 900 US colleges and institutions, who provided information on more than 370,000 full-time and 90,000 part-time faculty members. Colleges let short-term employees go to save money during the pandemic, and many of their courses were absorbed by other faculty members, he said.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Unlike in past economic slowdowns, financial turmoil and spikes in unemployment during the early months of the pandemic did not send large numbers of students fleeing the job market into higher education. Harnisch, vice president for government relations at the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean. Last week, in asking folks what they would do if they were anointed Grand Poohbah of Higher Education for a day, I explained my preference for the term Grand Poohbah over the term Big Kahuna on the grounds that the latter smacks of cultural appropriation, whereas the former is just silly.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Image: Richard Bland College of William & Mary is an anomaly in Virginia higher education. The public two-year college is slightly more selective than its peers across the commonwealth; it is not a member of the Virginia Community College System, and it is the only junior college in Virginia with residential housing.

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Marcia J. Ballinger, Ph.D.

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Lorain County Community College is the community’s college, providing pathways to rewarding careers in all fields, including liberal arts and the humanities. Bill Burges, the fund honors the memory of his wife Charlene Moskal-Burges, a powerful force for good who was dedicated to improving her communities.

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