University Business

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Although community college may be regularly associated as an equitable pathway to bachelor’s degrees, wealthier students typically capitalize on the opportunity. As for low-income students, a new report from the Department of Education details how infrequently their college hopes pan out.

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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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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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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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Edu Alliance Journal

MARCH 17, 2025

Background Founded in 1859, Whitman College is a private liberal arts institution located in Walla Walla, Washington. Curricula Whitman College offers over 45 majors and numerous minors spanning the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences.

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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

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

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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University Business

MARCH 18, 2025

. “Historically, many four-year schools have been somewhat detached from the job market, focusing more on traditional liberal arts education,” Dinski says. Schools should train students for specific jobs that are in demand, which is a lesson that can be extended from the community college model.”

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University Business

AUGUST 9, 2024

Under McNulty’s tenure, the Christian liberal arts college saw applications hit a two-decade high, and endowment and fundraising levels doubled, TribLIVE reports. John Sygielski – Harrisburg Area Community College (Penn.) Young President Wallace Community College-Dothan Linda C.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 18, 2022

Which is why I was bowled over when I learned what a neighboring institution, Austin Community College, was up to. John’s College, decided to wage war against a cookie-cutter education. Examples include: Purdue’s Cornerstone: Learning for Living, an immersive, integrated liberal arts certificate program.

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Insight Into Diversity

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Held at Johns Hopkins University, the summit brought together presidents and chancellors from a wide array of institutions, including research universities, liberal arts colleges, and community colleges.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

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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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 15, 2025

Despite the fact that many community colleges and regional public institutions are relatively affordable, the public narrative is dominated by sticker shock from elite universities. Drumm McNaughton: Well, you’re part of that 1% that many folks say has been able to leverage a liberal arts background.

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