Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Finney, director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Institute for Research on Higher Education. “In the context of the health of the institutions, those dual enrollments do make a difference,” Shapiro said. Enrollment at private nonprofit institutions dipped 0.6 and 2 percent. percent in 2021.

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University Business

OCTOBER 31, 2023

From fall 2021 to fall 2023, enrollment in computer and information sciences increased by 21.4% While most institutions and their academic programs faltered during the worst of the pandemic, this STEM subset thrived, growing 6.2% from 2017 to 2022. At Middlebury College (Vt.),

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HEPI

APRIL 18, 2023

Many institutions around the country are offering innovative cross-disciplinary or interdisciplinary courses that connect in new ways the core skills and expertise of our humanities colleagues with issues of general public interest and priority. This Institute asks, how can we live well with technology?

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

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. But at the beginning of this new fall semester, colleges across the country are reporting big turnarounds. It’s proven to be the right call.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

” He continued, “It’s also a violation of the principles of academic governance, and it has implications for the integrity of the institution.” ” Allegheny said in a written statement that its program and staffing plan “involves the elimination of faculty and staff positions around the institution.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

” At William & Mary, an institution currently in its 330th year, we have a saying: “We change to preserve what we value most.” In just the past two years, the number of computer science degrees went from 78 to 93. Rowe asked the audience, “What is changing in your discipline?”

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

19 September · Episode 173 Leveraging PEP and EMI Data to Improve Institutional Value and Student ROI 37 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton What does your institution need to improve to ensure you are providing the best ROI for students and in turn, financial stability for your institution?

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

In March 2021, the chair of the Board of Trustees of Becker College announced that the institution would close its doors due to financial difficulties accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. The two institutions shared both history and a deep connection to the Worcester community.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Indeed, many are already being piloted at various institutions across the country. Yet I think it’s fair to say that however inspiring such a vision might be, the overwhelming majority of institutions have adopted a different approach. Institute more thematically oriented and career-aligned cohort and research programs.

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eLiterate

OCTOBER 25, 2022

I recently ran across a white paper called Ideas for an Affordable New Educational Institution out of MIT’s J-WEL center. This was back in the 1990s, so it was early for a professor outside of an education or computer science department to be thinking about such things. Ideas for an Affordable New Educational Institution.

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University Business

OCTOBER 4, 2024

The Brooklyn-based nonprofit connects Black, Hispanic and other minority groups with emerging careers in tech and computer science through its array of short-term credentials, which are developed in partnership with regional employers. The latest shining example is Marcy Lab School. There are three major differences.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

In 2020, we released a paper about a new way of evaluating institutions of higher education. We define earnings boost as the amount more that they are making beyond the typical high school graduate within the state that their institution is located. An edited transcript of the discussions follows. We have data from the U.S.

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The PIE News

JULY 6, 2023

And data can help to point institutions to make decisions. Across the four countries analysed in the report, employer demand was similar in 2022, with engineering, computer science, nursing and business graduates highly sought after. The paper acknowledges that in some industries the skills match is working well.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 9, 2023

Can financially-challenged institutions sustain the range of majors and faculty size, especially in the humanities, while adding new career-aligned fields? Can institutions add new requirements, for example, involving cultural diversity and global awareness, without eliminating older ones? I don’t think so. Apparently not.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The result, according to Feldstein: these institutions “make the same research demands on faculty and incur expenses for building out facilities that are not focused on creating well-educated citizens, successful professionals and thoughtful human beings. ” So what should these broad-access institutions do instead?

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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 2, 2023

Higher education leaders who want to increase inclusion while maintaining affordability at their campus can emulate the actions of Illinois Institute of Technology’s ELEVATE program. Because of how the public perceives higher ed , institutions must provide different pathways for students to receive an education.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Our students have changed, but our institutions have not adapted sufficiently to this reality. Yet our institutional calendars, course schedules, and campus services haven’t sufficiently adjusted, even post-pandemic. Our institutions also need to strengthen advising, both academic and non-academic.

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HESA

APRIL 5, 2023

I see we’re back into tiresome public debates about the value of “Liberal Arts” and the “Humanities” (not synonyms, even though most people use the terms interchangeably). So, for instance, the shuttering of nine degree offerings at Marymount turns out on closer inspection to affect about 75 students, or about 2% of the institution.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 16, 2024

In the ever-evolving landscape of higher education, recent regulatory changes by the Department of Education, effective July 1st, have significantly redefined the processes for institutional mergers and acquisitions.

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