Confessions of a Community College Dean
FEBRUARY 1, 2023
This increase marks the largest two-year jump in educational attainment since the project began in 2008, when the share of working-age adults with a degree was only 37.9 ” The recent data show 53.7 percent of Americans, ages 25 to 64, now hold a degree or other credential, compared to 51.9 percent in 2019.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
APRIL 5, 2023
It will change higher education forever. Eroding public confidence in higher education. As I read the higher ed press, I try to find the trendline. Is it that higher education is reeling, that past failures are coming home to roost, and the long-anticipated day of reckoning has at last arrived?
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Confessions of a Community College Dean
JANUARY 12, 2023
Blog: Learning Innovation Tyler Cowen drove a lot of traffic to my piece critiquing his thinking on higher education. All it took was Cowen posting a two-sentence comment on Marginal Revolution : Joshua Kim comment on my higher education worries. The trend of state-level disinvestment from higher education is well-known.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 27, 2023
The Inclusive Higher Education Accreditation Council is set to make its first campus accreditation visit this week at Western Carolina University. Students in these programs are eligible for Pell Grants, though not federal student loan aid. “I also think it would help with students getting a job.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 2, 2023
Over the last four decades, public esteem and political support for nonprofit higher education have steadily eroded. This competition yielded many benefits for higher education and the nation and was widely applauded through the 1970s. But the growth rate of the U.S. But the growth rate of the U.S.
University Business
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
Recessions typically raise enrollment but the aftereffects of the pandemic are injecting yet more uncertainty into how hard the expected economic slowdown will hit higher education. What will remain typical if a recession hits is that states will surely cut higher ed funding, adds Thomas L. ” Preparing for recession.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
JANUARY 13, 2023
The Obama administration didn’t end up rating institutions after opposition from higher education groups and others.) We’ve been trying to avoid this now for over a decade … We can’t continue to punt this to the federal level.” ” Measuring Value.
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