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. But we need to look closer at the data.

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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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 2, 2023

We’re having discussions with policy makers across the spectrum from state and federal [government] … about the fact that we need to be supporting our students through this journey,” Lee said. Lee said funding needs to be cultivated from hospital systems desirous of building their nursing workforce.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 4, 2023

In 2011, the Education Department issued a Dear Colleague letter (DCL) allowing institutions to pay a percentage of tuition revenue to providers of a bundle of services that included marketing and recruiting. The department should revoke the 2011 DCL. Second, the risk profile has changed.

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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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EAB

JUNE 12, 2023

February Department of Education (ED) Dear Colleague Letter massively increases ED oversight (for now) In the last year, the federal government has taken several key actions that sowed confusion among Professional, Continuing, and Online (PCO) leaders, made worse by the February 2023 ED Dear Colleague Letter.

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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 ” 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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