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After “exhausting all avenues” to avoid going under, Notre Dame College closes

University Business

The college has already coordinated Teach-Out agreements with several neighboring colleges and universities to ensure the closure does not hurt its students. Following a failed attempt to absorb the struggling college into Cleveland State University, NDC had exhausted all its avenues to keep from going under. IWU was 181 years old.

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Study finds true faculty diversity is possible by 2050

Inside Higher Ed

Image: College and universities will need to diversify their faculties at about 3.5 Nathan Matias, assistant professor of communication and information science at Cornell University; Neil A. Hope, assistant professor of psychology at North Carolina State University. population in terms of race by 2050.

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Adjusting for societal impact, this college ranking features 7 public schools in its top 20

University Business

Washington Monthly’s 2023 National University Rankings analyzed over 1,500 higher education institutions registered with the U.S. Department of Education’s Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS). 281 $1,758 15 3 19 2 Stanford University (Calif.) 84 $4,618 5 5 138 6 Duke University (N.C.)

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Universities on Fire wins AAC&U book award (Bryan Alexander)

Higher Education Inquirer

That work appeared in many blog posts , presentations, meetings, Future Trends Forum sessions, and my 2023 book, Universities on Fire. The American Association of Colleges and Universities is a 109-year-old organization devoted to liberal education, with more than 1,000 campuses as members.

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The Equity Imperative ?of the Place-Bound Student

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Although her family is in San Luis Obispo County, she is more than 100 miles from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo University. It is the closest university, but it doesn’t offer such a program. While online education has grown exponentially in the U.S., Roughly 6% to 12% of the U.S.

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Does College Need to Be 4 Years?

Inside Higher Ed

At my university, an overwhelming majority of undergraduates place out of freshman composition, while growing numbers substitute credits earned from digital diploma mills for gen ed courses previously taken on campus. and continental European model, in which the liberal arts portion of a college education takes place in high school.

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A state's plan to calculate the "economic value" of a degree

Inside Higher Ed

Janine Davidson, president of Metropolitan State University of Denver, said that given the state’s declining higher ed enrollment, shortage of teachers and health-care workers , and a budget crisis caused by decades of state disinvestment , placing a numeric value on degree programs seems like a low priority.

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