University Business

MARCH 18, 2025

” “I think we’re going to see schools shift to more non-degree, continuing education courses. “Historically, many four-year schools have been somewhat detached from the job market, focusing more on traditional liberal arts education,” Dinski says. ” U.S. .

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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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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. It also launched schools of nursing and business, among other new programs. John Sygielski – Harrisburg Area Community College (Penn.)

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 9, 2023

Upward transfers – where students transfer from two-year institutions to four-year schools – experienced the brunt of the drops, making up most of the Fall 2022 transfer enrollment decline, according to the report. Undergraduate enrollment in general slowed its fall in 2022, going from -4.1% in 2021 to now -1.5%. decrease from 2020-2022.

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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. “More than 20% of our incoming class of new high school students this year started last fall with at least a semester’s worth of credit,” she says.

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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. The University of Arkansas, for example, has welcomed a record number of students this school year, topping 32,000. gain in first-time college students, thanks in part to an 8.9% It’s proven to be the right call.

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University Business

DECEMBER 17, 2024

These features make 64 campuses the prettiest in the nation Architectural Digest’s list of 64 stunning college campuses highlights schools with unified architectural visions, blends old and new styles, and beautiful surroundings. News rankings: These schools made big moves Over 50% of U.S. Read the story. Read the story.

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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. I see the stress high school students experience when they are in the college application process.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

News & World Report ‘s latest college rankings are out and a handful of institutions rocketed up the charts thanks to a formula tilted more in favor of schools that succeed in enrolling and graduating students from all backgrounds. News rankings: These schools made big moves appeared first on University Business.

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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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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. It would be weird if they didn’t.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 10, 2024

Two weeks later, he will walk across the stage to receive his high school diploma, adding one last credential to the collection he’s been building since he was 11 years old, when he took his first dual enrollment courses. He would go on to earn three associate degrees in general studies, liberal arts, and biology.

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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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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

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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University Business

APRIL 16, 2024

Only 26% of in-state public college students paid this published rate in 2019-20, compared to the 53% who did three decades ago. At private schools, the rate of students paying sticker prices fell by nearly half. “If any one school changed their policy on its own, it would lose students,” wrote Levine.

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MindMax

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

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. Forward-thinking schools could benefit from applying these programs to entire incoming freshman classes. College credit programs.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 12, 2023

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean. I don’t remember having any contact at all with a career center in graduate school. DeVry is a for-profit college with a strong vocational orientation; as such, the career center there carried much more weight than it had at other places. So, in that spirit, here goes.

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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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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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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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University Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Instead, they’re building their own schools that they see better fall in line with 21st-century students and match their needs. At the K12 level, too, online school alternatives are beginning to percolate. Sora Schools is just one example of one such school looking to satisfy parents’ wants.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

.” Most higher ed leaders are all too aware that some of the shifts—such as a decline in students entering college right after high school—are already underway and hitting hardest in the Northeast, the Midwest and in rural areas. ” Equity is essential as college student demographics change.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean A number of terrific tidbits have come in over the last week or so, most of which are directly relevant to student success. Kudos to the schools that see the big picture. That can certainly be true, but Morgan State has found that liberal arts degrees can hold real appeal, too.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Image: When Ryan Weger was a high school student in Northern Virginia, he longed to attend Virginia Tech for college. But he changed his mind after his father returned to college in his late 30s and earned an online, competency-based bachelor’s degree at Western Governors University in a single year. The Numbers.

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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 4, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean Yesterday I asked my wise and worldly readers to help me figure out how to do concurrent enrollment at scale. I was particularly interested in the credentials expected of the high school teachers who are deputized to teach college classes. Many wrote from other states.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 18, 2023

Large-scale quantitative data such as these provide an invaluable evidence-based context about the areas of scholarship in which institutions are investing new faculty lines, a matter of interest to deans of graduate schools and provosts alike. Finally, we only explored Ph.D.-granting In all cases, we observed the same overall trends.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Why would faculty who were disciplinary specialists trained at elite graduate schools and well published in their fields forsake scholarship? This is an institution that values scholarship, the liberal arts, a physical campus and the teacher-scholar. I certainly wouldn’t. What, then, is the alternative?

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

” Bruce Strouble, an adjunct professor at Tallahassee Community College and Florida A&M University for over a decade, said he was “outraged” by the statement. A chilling effect on diversity work, spurred by political rhetoric in the state, appears to already be taking hold at some community colleges.

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WCET Frontiers

JULY 27, 2023

A surprising selection of colleges and universities are thriving despite the culling of institutions and programs happening around them. Cutting programs Some schools have chosen to cut programs as a way to shore up finances. In December 2022, Catawba Valley Community College in North Carolina laid off 21 staff and six faculty members.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

ATI members run the gamut, from the entire Ivy League and flagship publics to regional comprehensive universities, and a variety of private liberal arts colleges. The data underscore the opportunity for these schools. Even fewer focus on access to selective colleges and universities.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 8, 2022

have enrolled in college and left without receiving a degree or certificate ( NSC Research Center ). On a national scale this group, served by the School of Continuing Studies’ (SCS) bachelor of arts in liberal studies completion program, is nearly twice the size of all undergraduates currently enrolled in postsecondary institutions.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

One Michigan State University freshman majoring in journalism began his journey as a transfer from a local community college, which Michigan Reconnect paid for. Dan Doerger, director of workforce innovation at UH Community Colleges, believes such an opportunity may be just the tip of the iceberg.

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WCET Frontiers

JULY 28, 2023

A surprising selection of colleges and universities are thriving despite the culling of institutions and programs happening around them. Cutting programs Some schools have chosen to cut programs as a way to shore up finances. In December 2022, Catawba Valley Community College in North Carolina laid off 21 staff and six faculty members.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean Yesterday I asked my readers what rule they would enact for higher education in their state if they were somehow declared Grand Poohbah of Higher Education for a day. (I Now, this is just for those young people coming straight out of high school. Why mandate four years?

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