Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The Exploring Transfer program at Vassar College is a summer intensive that immerses currently enrolled community college students in an academically rigorous environment, providing vital support and encouragement so they can ultimately continue their education at a competitive four-year institution.

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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.” The options available to them must reflect their range of needs and lived experiences.

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Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 9, 2024

By partnering with other institutions, colleges can quickly introduce new programs in high-demand fields, attracting students who might otherwise have overlooked small liberal arts schools. Many liberal arts colleges are struggling to attract students who prefer career-focused majors over traditional humanities disciplines.

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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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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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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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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

JANUARY 4, 2023

The report takes a deeper look at the issues facing three particular sectors: community colleges, regional public universities and nonselective private nonprofit colleges. a group of community colleges teaming up, but not merging, to increase their impact. 8, at 2 p.m. Eastern.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Students at the liberal arts university now have the opportunity to opt into a three-year pathway for 34 of its traditional bachelor’s of arts degrees. ” As a liberal arts institution, UMN Morris has completely different values that focus on buffing students’ critical thinking and problem-solving skills.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

But at the beginning of this new fall semester, colleges across the country are reporting big turnarounds. Out in the Midwest, the smaller liberal arts-focused Wheaton College missed its 2019 enrollment mark by only 20 students after suffering from a series of budget cuts last year.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 30, 2024

As community colleges are often resource-strapped, collaborating with neighbor institutions allows for each to offer different specializations that fit the workforce needs of the area. “If While institutions may be keen to separate themselves and stand out, this report suggests a solution that runs counter to the idea of competition.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Freshman enrollment was up across all higher education sectors, with the greatest growth coming from community colleges, which gained 42,000 first-year students since last fall, an increase of 6.1 Some sectors saw marginal increases; enrollment at community colleges, for instance, grew by 0.4 and 2 percent. and 2 percent.

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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. And yet Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Columbia received more mentions in The New York Times and The Washington Post than all 1,043 U.S.

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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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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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University Business

JULY 1, 2024

More from UB: How community colleges can build a new teacher pipeline While cuts to language education have been reported throughout the country, most have happened at rural and less selective institutions. How is this possible? But at institutions where students’ family income is under $70,000, it is considered a luxury.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 2, 2022

A good liberal arts education should make us do that. And maybe, just maybe, I provided a better liberal arts education in Qatar than I thought. ” Indeed, a good liberal arts education should make us struggle. Both professor and student alike. His personal website is www.davidsbusch.com.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 30, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean. In dual enrollment programs, high school students take college classes that count for both high school credit and college credit. Typically that will mean something like a liberal arts transfer major. For the future history major, it’s an elegant fit.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 8, 2024

Too often, I hear conversations debating the importance of liberal arts education compared to the value of workforce development. Dr. Mordecai Ian Brownlee is president of the Community College of Aurora in Colorado. Truth be told, they are both equally important and critical to addressing America’s workforce shortage.

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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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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

DECEMBER 17, 2024

These are the 10 best community colleges nationwide Manhattan Area Technical College in Kansas earned the top spot for excelling in affordability, retention and graduation rates. Despite modest gains in access to underrepresented students and overall graduation rates, tuition costs rose by $100 annually, adjusted for inflation.

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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. The plight of the place-bound student and the existence of education deserts offer another compelling equity-based argument for expansion of the community college baccalaureate degree. Lawrence A. Roughly 6% to 12% of the U.S.

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University Business

APRIL 3, 2024

Nearly 50% of Sterling College’s 2018 graduates earned their degree without accruing any debt. Eight other small liberal arts schools are currently designated four-year federal work colleges. Among them are: Alice Lloyd College in Pippa Passes (Ky.) Berea College in Berea (Ky.)

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 12, 2023

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean. They develop college-level writing and synthesis skills in an applied context, with the unwritten rules of the various workplaces revealing themselves over time and through comparison. In senior administration, you’re forced by circumstance to be more fox than hedgehog.

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University Business

OCTOBER 2, 2023

. “If used appropriately, AI can do some of the things we pay college consultants to do.” ” More from UB: Presidents corner: How can courage breathe new life into a classic liberal arts education? The University of North Texas and Reynolds Community College (Va.)

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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. Williams-Goliday holds a Ph.D.

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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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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. The concerns ICAS aired extend to the persistent issues low-income students put up with in pursuing a four-year degree.

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Continuous Learning Institute

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

As a fierce defender of community colleges and broad-access institutions, it's time to sharpen our critical thinking even more. That said, countless college practitioners have experienced the negative impact of flawed research firsthand. -Are Are the research limitations clearly defined and acknowledged? -Is Stay sharp.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 31, 2023

He earned an associate degree in liberal arts from Orange County Community College, a bachelor’s degree in history from Vassar College, and a Ph.D. Latino, African American, and sports history. He is a professor of history at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. in history from the University of Michigan.

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University Business

APRIL 16, 2024

Willamette University, a private liberal arts college in Oregon, experienced an enrollment uptick in 2021 following abysmal rates in 2019. While the university credits much of this increase to the merger with a nearby arts college, the university also experienced a high rate of enrollment from community college transfers.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean. – “Tuition guarantee - 3 yrs for community college, 6 yrs for undergraduate - rule of thumb is to add 50% of the expected time to complete, so it could be applied to trade certificates and other non-degree programs. Includes tuition and fees.”

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean. He notes: – If your kid attends a community college, they're going to take Introduction to Philosophy with me, a doctored and published professor, with (blessedly) hours of graduate training in pedagogy. He’s a philosophy professor and a dean.

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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. But skyrocketing inflation caused a 2.4% drop in real wages, the third straight sharp decline, for a cumulative loss of 7.5%

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

More from UB: How micro-credentials are spurring deeper collaboration between community college and employers U.S. The University of Pennsylvania also fell four spots to No. 10 and there was a four-way tie at No. 6 between the California Institute of Technology, Duke University, Johns Hopkins University and Northwestern University.

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