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How Being a Mother and Academic Helped Me Fix Higher Education’s Transfer Crisis

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As associate provost at the college, Ill admit I was biased but even two decades of experience in higher education couldnt fully prepare me for her struggle to transfer credits. Queens College is one of The City University of New Yorks 25 colleges. As a result, she obtained credit for the course, which counted toward her major.

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Littles Gets Dean Appointment in Florida State’s College of Medicine

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Littles earned her medical degree from University of Florida College of Medicine and completed the Tallahassee Memorial Family Practice Residency Program. “Dr.

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How Vermont is winning the fight against falling enrollment

University Business

Books will be salvaged based on the frequency of specific checkouts and their proscribed academic value according to department chairs and the university provost. Recent philanthropic efforts between the J. The initiative also provides students with a living stipend and career counseling.

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What Faculty Know (and Don’t Know) About Transfer—and Why It Matters

Inside Higher Ed

We sent the survey to 17,381 full- and part-time faculty in CUNY’s 20 undergraduate institutions and received 3,871 eligible responses for an overall response rate of 22 percent (including 26 percent at CUNY’s associate degree–granting colleges and 22 percent at CUNY’s bachelor’s degree–granting colleges).

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Bridging Research and Practice

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Back in September, Western Michigan University—a public research institution located in the southwestern corner of the state—released its fall 2024 enrollment and retention numbers, much to the delight of the school’s provost, Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig. The fact that we had an increase of 3% last year, we don’t take that for granted.”

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Field of study not key to new academic program success

Inside Higher Ed

Researchers with Lightcast, a labor market analytics firm, found four-year public universities and larger institutions, whether public or private, are more likely to see new degree programs prosper, according to an analysis of federal data on degree conferrals. percent success rate for 2,194 associate degree programs.