Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 8, 2024

The profile of the average community college student is changing. While two-year institutions still have significant populations of adult students and people desirous of enhancing their career options, there is a growing number of first-time college students, age 18 to 22, that are seeking a traditional college experience.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MAY 31, 2024

Rates of post-traumatic stress disorder among college students more than doubled from 2017 to 2022, jumping from 3.4 percent to 7.5 percent, according to new research encompassing five years of data from the

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

He wasn’t surrounded by college graduates or even friends who were planning to enroll. However, he was curious about some aspects of science and engineering, so he decided he’d try community college. Fast forward to 2023. Childs is an award-winning Ph.D. He said none of his 100 students dropped his physics classes.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MAY 2, 2024

billion in loans for students who attended any Art Institute campus from 2004 to 2017. The Education Department will wipe out $6.1 The relief comes through the borrower defense to repayment program, which allows students who were misled or defrauded by their institution to seek relief.

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University Business

MARCH 13, 2023

Higher education enrollment at Northeastern schools has collectively fallen into a downward spiral since at least 2017, a phenomenon that has plagued every region since the pandemic, according to National Student Clearinghouse Research Center data. Vermont’s public four-year institutions in fall 2022; however, hit a whopping 12.2%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 2, 2023

SHEEO based its analysis on national and state data from the 2017-18 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study, Administrative Collection. Keller also thought that the improved Pell access could also increase enrollment at community colleges, which has been damaged by the pandemic. “If all covered by your Pell Grant.”

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Robert Kelchen

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In this post, I took a look at the percentage change in total expenditures over each of the last four years with data (2017-18 through 2020-21) for degree-granting public and private nonprofit institutions. Characteristic 2020-21 2019-20 2018-19 2017-18 Median change (pct) -1.2 These values are not adjusted for inflation.

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Robert Kelchen

JUNE 15, 2023

The last three times that I taught the course ( spring 2022 , spring 2020 , and fall 2017 ), I shared my reading list for the class on this blog. Mobility report cards: The role of colleges in intergenerational mobility. Mapping community college finance systems to develop equitable and effective finance policy.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 24, 2023

Wood began his academic career as a professor at San Diego State University (SDSU) in 2011, and the next year became co-director, with Dr. Frank Harris III, of the Community College Equity Assessment Lab (CCEAL), which focuses on eliminating equity gaps for students of color. He’s a visionary individual, a brilliant Black male.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JUNE 17, 2024

A Furman University professor who administrators have been investigating for his involvement in the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville has been fired, according to WSPA, a CBS affiliate in South Carolina.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 11, 2023

Students from underrepresented backgrounds face considerable barriers when it comes to completing a community college program. But Dougherty Family College (DFC), a two-year associate degree program at the University of St. DFC has graduated an average of 56% of its students since its formation in 2017.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 19, 2023

He wasn’t surrounded by college graduates or even friends who were planning to enroll. However, he was curious about some aspects of science and engineering, so he decided he’d try community college. Fast forward to 2023. Childs is an award-winning Ph.D. He said none of his 100 students dropped his physics classes.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 1, 2024

Jacob Remes, a member of the organizing committee for the new union, Contract Faculty United, said the effort began in 2017. Full-time, non-tenure-track faculty members at New York University have unionized, creating the largest bargaining unit of such employees at a private U.S. higher education institution.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 14, 2023

ACE’s study, performed approximately every five years since 1986, surveyed over 1,000 college presidents and chancellors about their experiences and backgrounds during 2022. We need to move away from the elitism of sectors, i.e. assuming a qualified candidate from a community college can’t work at a four-year institution,” she wrote.

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EAB

MAY 30, 2023

Since 2020, enrollment at community colleges has declined 5.4 Most of the enrollment that has been recovered at community colleges is through an uptick in dual enrollment. As of fall 2022, enrollment declines at community colleges had slowed to 0.4 percent since 2010, college-going rates declined by 5.4

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Robert Kelchen

JANUARY 3, 2022

The last two times that I taught the course ( spring 2020 and fall 2017 ), I shared my reading list for the class on this blog. Mobility report cards: The role of colleges in intergenerational mobility. Trends in college pricing and student aid 2021. The College Board. Free college. Friedman, J. Working paper.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 12, 2024

A new report from College and University Professional Association for Human Resources released Thursday finds a lack of “meaningful progress” when it comes to pay equity for women and people of color in higher education, who continue to lag behind their white and male peers.

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University Business

MARCH 3, 2023

A Washtenaw Community College program has saved students $10.1 million on textbooks since 2017. The multi-million dollar savings for students makes college even more affordable for WCC students, WCC President Rose Bellanca said in a statement.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Freshman enrollment was up across all higher education sectors, with the greatest growth coming from community colleges, which gained 42,000 first-year students since last fall, an increase of 6.1 Some sectors saw marginal increases; enrollment at community colleges, for instance, grew by 0.4 and 2 percent. and 2 percent.

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University Business

MAY 17, 2024

The University Business Podcast : Why STEM needs the humanities—and vice versa In Pennsylvania, Albright College President Jacquelyn Fetrow has announced her resignation , effective May 31, after leading the small institution since 2017, WFMZ-TV reported. Who’s hiring? Elizabeth S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 14, 2024

Dear Black women in higher education, 2023 should have been a wake-up call to our community, yet the red flags persist. Montague of Volunteer State Community College, was a signal to all other Black women in higher education. Patterson Research Institute at the United Negro College Fund. Bambara, T. The Salt Eaters.

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University Business

MAY 23, 2023

But the rate at which women predominate higher ed may be partly due to the declining rate of men attending college and succeeding. While Fall enrollment among men and women has mostly declined between 2017 and 2022, women have weathered the storm far better across non-profit and for-profit institutions.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

OCTOBER 20, 2023

1, 2017, and Aug. Florida International University has agreed to pay $575,000 in back wages as part of a recently announced agreement with the U.S. Department of Labor, which alleged that FIU paid 163 women less than their male counterparts between Aug. The alleged pay discrimination was uncovered in a recent compliance review.

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The Scholarly Teacher

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

R1, community college) and size, finding like-minded peers and resources to develop, enact, and reflect upon evidence-based instructional practices may be difficult. mathematics), facilitating change is challenging because it disrupts cultural norms (hooks, 1994; Gehrke & Kezar, 2017). link] Gehrke, S., & & Kezar, A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

She was crucial to building smooth transfer pathways from CUNY’s community colleges to John Jay. From its inception, Macaulay Honors College only accepted applications from high school seniors and has not accepted transfer students.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 30, 2023

Many students worry about succeeding in gateway college-level mathematics courses needed to enter most community college degree and certificate programs. Cuyahoga Community College’s psychology department, for example, redesigned its General Psychology course using OER-based adaptive courseware.

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University Business

APRIL 11, 2023

A few of the biggest data breaches Here’s Comparietch’s list of a few of the biggest attacks that have occurred over the past few years: 2013—Maricopa County Community College District (Arizona) : 2.49 2017—Harvard Computer Society: 1.4 2017—Washington State University: 1.12 million records affected.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Here is what it looks like: Full+Part-Time 2020 38,510 2019 40,884 2018 41,479 2017 41,490 2016 41,993 2015 42,782 2014 43,610 2013 44,677 2012 67,074 Not sure why there was such a significant drop between 2013 and 2012. The data available spans from 2012 to 2020. Probably some change in how library staff are counted.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 6, 2023

Establishing a Substrate Historically, Michigan’s transfer infrastructure rested on individual articulation agreements between its constitutionally autonomous community and tribal colleges, public universities, and independent colleges and universities, creating a patchwork of arrangements that varied widely from region to region.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 16, 2024

Mobility report cards: The role of colleges in intergenerational mobility. Seeking an enrollment Hail Mary, small colleges look to athletics. Trends in college pricing and student aid 2023. Understanding loan aversion in education: Evidence from high school seniors, community college students, and adults.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Day three of the 2023 Dream Conference in Chicago kicked off with a heightened focus on building partnerships that strengthen students and fortify the community workforce. The Dream conference is hosted annually by Achieving the Dream (ATD), a reform network of over 300 community colleges working to equitize higher education.

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Parchment

JUNE 6, 2023

In fact, according to a report released in 2017 by the United States Government Accountability Office , students lose an average of 43% of their credits as a result of a transfer. Many factors come into play, including how colleges position transfer and what resources, such as counselors and transfer centers, are available to students.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Although freshmen classes are still well below pre-pandemic levels, especially at Community Colleges, the fact that they are swinging upward in all sectors is a positive indicator for the future.” Its 15 million enrolled graduate students is still higher than pre-pandemic 2017, which had nearly 14 million students enrolled.

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PUC

APRIL 9, 2024

Following his graduation from PUC, he pursued advanced studies at La Sierra University and earned his master’s in theological studies in 2017, followed by a Master of Divinity degree in 2019. PUC alum Chaplain Captain Robert Henry graduated in 2015 with a theology degree. What inspired you to become a military chaplain?

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University Business

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Education Secretary who served under former President Barack Obama from 2016 to 2017, was named State University of New York chancellor Monday afternoon, setting him up to lead the largest public university system in the country. John King Jr., the former U.S.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 16, 2023

” The special-issue model has allowed many journals to massively expand publication, with the Journal of Clinical Medicine publishing 44 papers in 2017 but 4,367 in 2021. Meanwhile, Cells (not to be confused with the prestigious Elsevier journal Cell ) published 11 papers in 2017 but 2,134 in 2021.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 25, 2023

The center’s 2022 annual report analyzes the cases of 4,415 students who withdrew from an institution of higher education while in counseling between 2017 and 2022. percent of the 156,257 total students from 95 college or university counseling centers who had a CCMH case closure form on file. Those who withdrew made up 2.8

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