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Is Course Sharing the Answer to Declining Enrollment?

Insight Into Diversity

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-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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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?

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3 ways faculty and administrators are embracing AI beyond the classroom

University Business

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. I don’t think it does us any good to villainize these technologies, said Rebecca Sandidge, vice president for enrollment management at Oglethorpe University (Ga.).

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Work Zones Ahead!

Inside Higher Ed

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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U.S. News rankings: These schools made big moves

University Business

6 between the California Institute of Technology, Duke University, Johns Hopkins University and Northwestern University. 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.