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Colleges used these 3 strategies to spark big enrollment rebounds this Fall

University Business

The University of Arkansas, for example, has welcomed a record number of students this school year, topping 32,000. 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. Degrees of the Future provides $1.5

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Presidential worries: What’s keeping these Northeastern presidents up at night?

University Business

Most college or university presidents to have recently taken the helm might have had a grasp of their job expectations before the turn of the decade—or even when the pandemic went into full swing. No cohort of presidents might be more familiar with this than those leading small private colleges or universities in the Northeast.

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A New Era of Excellence

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Kinloch received a bachelor’s degree in honors English from JCSU and went on to earn a master’s degree in English and African American Literature and a doctoral degree in English and Composition Studies with a cognate in Urban Studies from Wayne State University. And that’s how it started for me.”

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President’s corner: How ‘presence’ unlocks a powerful enrollment strategy

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A seemingly simple question, but for Sacred Heart University President John Petillo this present-mindedness is a difference maker in convincing students to return to an institution. In 2021, Petillo’s administration added a bachelor’s degree in music and renovated a century-old community theater in nearby Fairfield.

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Post-Traditional Students are the New Premium Students

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This target group is now expanding to students who either didn’t complete their degrees or didn’t go to college at all. To what degree is the demographic cliff starting to bite? Online enrollment has grown by 57 percent for his university but the full-time, main campus population is the biggest source of revenue. “The

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Helping Afghan women back into higher ed

Inside Higher Ed

Afghan women, who’d been worried about their opportunities since the militant Sunni Muslim ruling power took over the country in August 2021, saw their dreams of attaining a postsecondary degree quashed—no matter how close they were to earning it. “I would do anything to support them. It was a privilege to teach them.”

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University of Austin, the self-proclaimed antidote to college campus ‘illiberalism,’ is now accepting fall 2024 applications

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After announcing its founding in 2021, the University of Austin has won approval to issue liberal arts degrees and is now accepting undergraduate students for fall 2024, The Texas Tribune reports. I mean that quite literally…” the university stated on X, formerly known as Twitter.