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President moves: End of the line for this president’s remarkable 25-year career

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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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Is Course Sharing the Answer to Declining Enrollment?

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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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Two big ways institutions must be innovative with upskilling culture

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. “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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Two-year colleges strain to hire instructors in technical fields

Inside Higher Ed

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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Innovating at Scale

Inside Higher Ed

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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Report: Fall Transfer Enrollment Remains in Decline in 2022

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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% in Fall 2022), a trend mostly unaffected by the effects of the pandemic.

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Beating the bottom line: Is language instruction doomed to fail at rural universities?

University Business

Paula Krebs, the executive director of the Modern Language Association of America, stated that “[s]cience, technology and business courses and majors are not enough for WVU to offer if it wants to produce fully informed and thinking citizens for West Virginia.” How is this possible?