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College Completion Rates Edging Upward

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A new report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center (NSCRC) n otes that 61.1% of learners who began college in fall 2018, which is the most recent cohort tracked, earned a credential within six years. This.5 percentage point increase is the first increase in the six-year completion rate in several years. “The improvements here were mostly driven by students who started at community colleges.

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College Completion Rates Trending Up

Inside Higher Ed

Prior dual-enrollment experience made students more likely to finish their credential within six years of starting college, according to a new report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Fewer college students are stopping out before finishing their degrees, according to data the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center released this morning.

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Staying Woke for A Cause

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Theotis Robinson Jr. was in the fifth grade when the ideals of justice and civil rights were emblazoned into the mind of the man who has spent much of his storied career fighting for diversity and equity in education. Robinson, a foundational figure in University of Tennessee history, grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee, where he and his mother, Alma, would listen to the radio, discussing historic elections and admiring the courage of civil rights leaders.

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National college completion rate ticks up to 61.1%

Higher Ed Dive

Those who started at two-year public colleges helped drive the overall increase in students completing a credential.

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Navigating Higher Ed’s Tech & Budget Crunch: Yes, You Can Survive

As Higher Ed institutions continue struggling with budget constraints and enrollment pressures, making smart decisions about technology is crucial. How do institutions enhance data security, optimize their tech stack and engage students effectively…all while managing limited resources? Bret Ingerman, former Vice President for Information Technology at Tallahassee State College, digs into these conundrums, exploring how Pathify offers solutions to enhance student engagement while giving instituti

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Higher Education in 2025: AGI Agents to Displace People

Inside Higher Ed

The new year may bring a host of virtual assistants and administrative staff to higher education. They will begin as assistants to humans, then over time they will evolve into autonomous AI staff members. The winds of change in our field are rapidly converging, as we discussed in the previous edition of “Online: Trending Now.” The anticipated enrollment cliff, reductions in federal and state funding, increased inflation, and dwindling public support for tuition increases will combine to put even

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No letup in financial pressure on colleges in 2025, Fitch says

Higher Ed Dive

A declining body of first-year students, uncertain international enrollment and high costs are weighing on many institutions, the ratings agency said.

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How equitable is funding for public colleges?

Higher Ed Dive

Colleges with low shares of students of color receive the highest levels of funding, research finds.

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Lumina Convening Focuses on the Power of HBCUs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A Lumina Foundation convening brought together leaders from historically Black colleges and universities to engage with researchers, policy experts and the philanthropic community to strategize on the future of these storied institutions. "HBCU24: Collectively Advancing the Power of HBCUs" kicked off in New Orleans on Tuesday with a variety of workshops and panel discussions that ranged in topics including an examination of HBCUs as catalysts for economic prosperity, to supporting and serving ad

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Let’s look outside academia for university leaders

LSE Higher Education Blog

With universities in crisis, the traditional choice of an academic as leader might not be the wisest, suggests LSE HE Blog Fellow Richard Watermeyer At a time of unprecedented challenges for the UK higher education sector, the question of who is best placed to lead universities – assuming that such large and complex organisations can indeed be led (and by any one individual) – resurfaces, alongside churn in top positions.

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Ministerial Direction 107 adjustments “likely” for Australia’s sector

The PIE News

Speaking exclusively with The PIE News , Phil Honeywood, IEAA CEO, shared insights into recent dialogue with the government, which hints at the changes to come for the contentious visa processing directive. The directive will remain in place following the government’s failure to secure enough support for the ESOS Amendment Bill that has dominated headlines with its intention to cap international enrolments.

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Understanding the Social Change Model of Leadership (SCM): Igniting Students’ Academic Development P

The article addresses the Social Change Model of Leadership Development. It elucidates the SMC background, key assumptions, and the main pillars of the model to form a a change agent who could be helpful with institutional in-service delivery.

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Empowering Community Colleges Through AI: A New Era of Access and Economic Mobility

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Artificial intelligence (AI) has created a shifting dynamic in how society is increasing its efficiencies while elevating its productivity and mass disruption Dr. Mordecai Brownlee in how the world interacts with itself. Since Apple introduced Siri, its voice-controlled software, in October 2011, consumers have begun normalizing interactions with narrow AI.

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How Brown University plans to maintain a diverse student body

Higher Ed Dive

The Ivy League institution will create six new positions and increase community outreach following the ban on race-conscious admissions.

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Learning Through Play: The Importance of Library Makerspaces

ACRLog

One of the many hats I wear in my role involves covering LabNEXT at the University of Calgary, the library’s Makerspace. A Makerspace, also referred to as a Maker Studio, Fab Lab, Tech Shop, or Hackerspace, is a dedicated space in the library for hands-on access to technologies for DIY making and collaboration. In our Makerspace, we offer technologies such as 3D Prusa printers, a Carvey, a Cricut, and sewing/embroidery machines.

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How to make premium funding fairer

Wonkhe

Dani Payne argues that reallocating OfS funds as a per-student premium for care experienced and estranged students would serve as a model for wider and fairer funding reform

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See how many colleges may close after 2029

University Business

The demographic cliff may reorient the higher education landscape and propel the number of college closures in the coming decade. A new working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research predicts just how many institutions may become victims. Researchers Robert J. Kelchen, Dubravka Ritter and Douglas A. Webber compiled scores of institutional data from over 8,000 institutions across two decades into a machine learning algorithm to forecast how many institutions are at risk of closure if

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We need to look at representation ratios as well as awarding gaps

Wonkhe

Alex Bradley and Martyn Quigley argue that using representation ratios can reveal new nuance when considering disparities in degree attainment Alex Bradley and Martyn Quigley argue that using representation ratios can reveal new nuance when considering disparities in degree attainment

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Campus Engagement Tip: Using Student Feedback to Build a Campus App

Inside Higher Ed

Dalhousie University launched a new campuswide application to combine legacy systems and provide better data integration. University leaders share how student input drove the process. Today’s college students are digital natives, familiar with technology and expectant of systems to utilize digital solutions. A fall 2023 Student Voice survey by Inside Higher Ed and College Pulse found students are looking for campus technology to feel more connected to campus, particularly through peer-to-peer in

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Avoiding Marketing Pitfalls Pt. 2—Putting Performance Over Preference 

Liaison International

Anchor Your Strategy in Data, Not Familiar Tactics In today’s higher education marketing, there’s a delicate balance between the familiar comfort of past successes and the demands of a data-driven, performance-oriented strategy. Marketers who rely heavily on preference-based decisions risk missing key growth opportunities, particularly within the nuanced world of digital channels.

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Online Presence and Social Media for Academics Attending and Presenting at Events

The Academic Designer

Strategies to enhance your online presence before, during, and after a presentation, focusing on social media engagement and networking opportunities for professors and academics.

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Community ‘college deserts’ leave students stranded from higher education

University Business

Experts are increasingly sounding the alarm on community “college deserts” that leave students without readily accessible higher education options. The deserts, locations where high schools are more than 30 miles away from all community colleges, disproportionately affect rural Americans and those of color, threatening to exacerbate existing education gaps.

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Online Presence and Social Media for Academics Attending and Presenting at Events

The Academic Designer

Enhance your online presence before, during, and after your academic presentation or speaking engagement. Ideas for engaging with people on social media and in person networking for professors and academics.

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Practice Sharing: Digital learning, social purpose and creative art

totallyrewired

Join for a day of discussions and presentation about current and emerging digital education practices. Sessions will explore themes including: Celebrating different cultures and diversity in the digital environment. Anti-oppressive pedagogies, such anti-racism/sexism/homophobia/transphobia practices Climate justice teaching practices. Promoting staff and student wellbeing in and across the curriculum.

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Fitch Reports ‘Deteriorating’ Outlook for Higher Ed

Inside Higher Ed

The higher education sector is expected to face “a deteriorating credit environment,” according to a 2025 outlook report from Fitch Ratings, a major credit ratings provider.

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Gaurav Batra, Infinite Group

The PIE News

Introduce yourself in three words or phrases. A man with a vision. What do you like most about your job? What I enjoy most about my job is building strategic partnerships with esteemed universities and recruitment partners and driving innovation to enhance the global higher education landscape. After being featured in Forbes India select 200 companies with global potential, I think the vision has multiplied for us and so are the responsibilities to expand Infinite Group.

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Survey: Majority of College Students Believe Their Vote Didn’t Matter in the Election

Inside Higher Ed

A mid-November Student Voice survey found over half of college students felt their vote didn’t make much of a difference in the 2024 general election.

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FLAGGED FOR REMOVAL: New Jersey resident ejected from town council meeting for displaying American flag and U.S. Constitution

FIRE

Shutting down protected speech to preserve ‘decorum’ is still a First Amendment violation.

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3 Questions for Classics Professor and Person Living With Cancer Julie Hruby

Inside Higher Ed

A conversation on academic careers and disability. My Dartmouth colleague Professor Julie Hruby reached out to ask if I thought her story would be a good fit for my “3 Questions” series. Julie shared with me the challenges (and gifts) of navigating an academic career while managing a cancer diagnosis.

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Wellbeing in boarding schools: redefining what it means for student success

The PIE News

More than just providing stress-relief programmes or extra-curricular activities, wellbeing should be at the heart of a school’s offering that allows students to thrive emotionally, socially, and academically. Placing a range of activities within the curriculum and enabling participation is of course a first step. However, it is the culture, ethos and values of a School that foster confidence, resilience, and long-term personal development.

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Imagining More Sustainable Higher Ed Careers

Inside Higher Ed

Genia M. Bettencourt, Lauren N. Irwin and Rosemary J. Perez offer strategies for achieving more sustainable careers even as they call for a deeper reimagining of roles. We begin this essay with two key questions: Are our careers in higher education sustainable? If not, what would it take to change that?

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Vice Chancellor for University Development and Alumni Relations Julie Hooper Steps Down

The Berkeley Blog

Hooper transformed philanthropy and fundraising at UC Berkeley throughout her ten years of leadership. The post Vice Chancellor for University Development and Alumni Relations Julie Hooper Steps Down appeared first on Berkeley News.

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Mott Community College Board Attorney Raises Conflict of Interest Concerns

Inside Higher Ed

At a special meeting held by the Mott Community College Board of Trustees on Monday, the board attorney raised legal concerns about conflict of interest on the board related to a recent, controversial vote to permanently hire the interim president, according to a video recording of the meeting.

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More Layoffs at 2U, the Online Program Manager for Elite Universities

Higher Education Inquirer

2U, the parent company of edX, has announced more layoffs today. The layoffs were announced to staff and it's not known yet whether they will be publicly reported. 2U filed for bankruptcy earlier this year and the bankruptcy was approved by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York on September 9th. According to David Halperin, the edtech company may also be the subject of investigations by the Federal Trade Commission and California Attorney General. 2U is the online progr

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Massive astronomical dataset could accelerate AI discoveries about the cosmos

The Berkeley Blog

Astronomers from UC Berkeley, Berkeley Lab and elsewhere have released terabytes of data on stars and galaxies to help train machine learning models of the universe. The post Massive astronomical dataset could accelerate AI discoveries about the cosmos appeared first on Berkeley News.

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New Amazon Nova Models Aim to Redefine Generative AI Performance

Campus Technology

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has introduced Amazon Nova, a cutting-edge suite of foundation models (FMs) for generative AI.

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Use Finiverse to Run a Risk Simulation on College Choices (Wharton School)

Higher Education Inquirer

Going to college affects your financial future. Finiverse can help you make informed decisions about your education and finances. By simply searching Finiverse.org , you can access free tools from the College Cost feature to the Risk Simulation!