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.”
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
DECEMBER 8, 2022
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government and higher education institutions have fed the public a steady diet of bad enrollment news. Over half a million – 579,000 to be exact – Black students have left the American higher education system since 2011.
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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.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 13, 2023
” Lieber hasn’t yet been sentenced for his December 2021 convictions for knowingly making false statements to the federal government, willfully filing false tax returns and willfully not disclosing that he had authority over a Chinese bank account. He was set to be sentenced March 2, but that is being rescheduled.
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.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
APRIL 4, 2023
The cost, as well as the reputational and financial risk, of building and marketing online programs kept traditional colleges from competing. In 2011, the risk was that one could not build an online program at the same level of competence as an on-campus one, and that no student would enroll in it, anyway.
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 ” This effort may signal increased interest by the federal government in ensuring that college and university leaders have the data they need to improve faculty diversity, equity and inclusion.
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