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Reverend Dr. Calvin O. Butts III, Pastor of Historic Abyssinian Baptist Church and Veteran Educator, Dies

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

During his time at SUNY Old Westbury, Butts presided over a period of tremendous success and growth, highlighted by the introduction of the highest admissions standards on record for the College, enrollment growth of more than 1,800 students (more than 56 percent) and the introduction in 2004 of graduate instruction at the College, which now boasts (..)

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Christopher Edley, Prominent Legal Scholar, Passes Away

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Edley spent more than two decades as a professor at Harvard Law School, where he and Orfield founded the Civil Rights Project in the aftermath of a 1996 court ruling that squelched race-conscious admission policies at many universities. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled against the UT practices.

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Performance-based funding: The new normal or a schtick?

University Business

Additionally, two- and four-year higher ed systems that have adopted hybrid funding models that mix base formulas with performance metrics have exploded by an average of 775% between fiscal years 2004 and 2020, according to an April 2023 report by InformED States , a clearinghouse for policy analysis.

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Is Academic Scholarship Stagnating?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Not by admissions selectivity or even by their contribution to social mobility, but, rather, their impact on the growth of knowledge and technological and scientific advancement? If that was true in 2004, it’s even more true today, as the competition for jobs has intensified exponentially.

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Student Loan Discharge Worth $6.1B Approved for Borrowers Who Attended The Art Institutes

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

1, 2004, and Oct. The department independently reviewed evidence, provided by the state attorneys general offices, that included internal employment data, admissions training manuals, employment advertisements, internal records of graduate employment outcomes, and statements from former students and employees.

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Online Transition Programming in the Time of COVID

Supporting Student Success

2 Between late June and late July 2020, 22,834 prospective students opened the Admissions & Recruitment team’s emails promoting Get Ryerson Ready , which was an open rate more than 1.5 1 This included the Registrar, the Executive Director, Student Affairs, and the Director, Student Life & Learning Support.

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Tug-of-War: Bought vs. Brought Credit

Confessions of a Community College Dean

In sum, institutional transfer acceptance practices may cause an incentive business model where learners must buy credits ( NECHE 2004 ). Receiving institutions place credit limits, accepting only a few credits beyond the associate degree ( Moody 2019 ), with little regard for applicability to the learner’s next-level degree objective.