Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 2, 2023

At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, community colleges across the country saw a decline in enrollment for myriad reasons — financial, family, illness, lack of internet or inability to adapt to online learning. The purpose of community colleges is to increase access to higher education for the most vulnerable populations.”

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Higher Education Inquirer

MAY 14, 2024

Since 2016, the Higher Education Inquirer has documented the College Meltdown as a series of demographic and business trends making US higher education of decreasing value to working-class and middle-class folks. This despite the commonly-held belief that college is the only way to improve social mobility.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 13, 2023

Image: Nearly a decade after the Obama administration broached the idea of rating colleges and universities, the Biden administration is ready to take another crack at the historically fraught concept. The Obama administration didn’t end up rating institutions after opposition from higher education groups and others.)

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 19, 2023

The for-profit Living Arts College closed abruptly after the shutdown of the embattled Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges & Schools and blamed the federal government for its demise. Recent federal data shows that Presentation enrolled a total of 577 students in fall 2021.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 10, 2023

A study of employment records of nearly 300,000 tenured and tenure-track faculty members employed between 2011 and 2020 at 368 Ph.D.-granting The survey was last administered in fall 2003, with earlier administrations in 1987, 1992 and 1998. granting universities found that 80 percent of those with doctorates from U.S. universities.

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Edu Alliance Journal

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The most recent study dated 2017 shows the following: 30% of first-year students drop out before their second year of college. of students who started in community college after 6 years have not obtained any degree or certificate (1,071,720 students from students starting in 2011). 730,556 students starting in 2011).

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