Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Lennor Johnson, president and superintendent of Imperial Valley College in El Centro, California. Student housing is extremely rare at community colleges in California, although affordable housing is increasingly hard to find. The Harbour, where 800 Orange Coast College students live on campus. Out of the system’s 1.8

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 24, 2024

colleges and universities rose by 1.2%, a minor change where the number of enrollees went from 15,072,249 to 15,248,077. Among the years captured in the report, 2019 to 2022 all faced varying rates of decline, with Fall 2021 being the worst (-3.4%). "We However, numbers are still below what they used to be in 2019, 14.2%

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FEBRUARY 2, 2023

million freshmen who enrolled in 2019, “this is a very promising sign for higher education,” said Doug Shapiro, the research center’s executive director. Some sectors saw marginal increases; enrollment at community colleges, for instance, grew by 0.4 In 2020, community college enrollment dropped a whopping 10.5

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JANUARY 4, 2023

Image: Community colleges across the country are struggling to recruit and hire new people after losing faculty and staff members in droves during the pandemic. College leaders report staffing losses at all levels, including IT workers, student success professionals, dining hall workers and executive leaders, she said.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Image: Against the backdrop of headlines blaring news about declining community college enrollments, one bright spot has emerged: community college students, faculty and administrators are broadly aligned in their enthusiasm for the digital transformation that has occurred at their institutions since the start of the pandemic.

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EAB

JULY 21, 2023

Blogs Why customer service matters for community colleges Learnings and recommendations from EAB’s 2023 customer service survey I just talked to someone in registration, and they told me to call you! What are the features of a “modern student experience,” and how do community colleges stack up?

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University Business

MARCH 8, 2023

While rates for urban and suburban community college students transferring to more prestigious universities were declining before 2020, the pandemic exacerbated the issue. In the fall of 2022, upward transfers declined by 11% at suburban community colleges and 8.8% drops in the fall of 2019.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Image: Campus and faculty leaders in the California Community College system are eagerly anticipating the selection of a new chancellor this week. Meanwhile, the system, like community colleges across the country, experienced significant enrollment declines during the pandemic.

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Ray Schroeder

AUGUST 4, 2023

Michigan is making community college free for thousands of people through the new state budget. According to the state, postsecondary education enrollment has risen over 6% since 2019. According to the state, postsecondary education enrollment has risen over 6% since 2019. Still, only 50.5%

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University Business

JANUARY 6, 2023

Massachusetts Senate President Karen Spilka has long called for investing in public education, and on Wednesday said the passage of a 2019 education funding reform bill often referred to as the Student Opportunity Act in her first year as president was among her “proudest accomplishments in this office.” Read more on WBUR.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Military friendly is a common phrase used by organizations to communicate an appreciation of military service members (Kirchner, et al., If your community college is struggling to have those conversations, outside facilitators can support you. Dr. Susan M. 2) Who are your military-connected learners and how do you know?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Community colleges have taken great pride over many decades as an open-door institution welcoming students who had no other place to go. It is not known how many of these students are enrolled in community colleges, but it is likely these students are represented equally to those in universities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2023

college enrollment is a lingering concern for both educators and policy makers. College and university student enrollment is down for the third straight year, 7% lower than it was in 2019. Still others, influenced by dangerous myths, are reluctant to attend an open-access institution like a community college.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 31, 2022

She’s been with the Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC) since 1980 and became its vice president for student affairs in 2008. It’s very exciting for us, as a community college, especially in New York City, where housing is an issue,” said Craig. “It Craig, vice president for student affairs at BMCC. Dr. Marva M.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

How to engage more community college prospects amid the “great opt out”. As the number of traditional-aged students continues to decline, community college leaders must focus on enrollment and recruitment strategies within their control. of students saying they relied heavily on a resource, 2019-2022.

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Robert Kelchen

JANUARY 3, 2024

The keys to endurance: An investigation of the institutional factors relating to the persistence of Historically Black Colleges and Universities. 2019, December 9). Students pay the price if a college fails. link ) Massachusetts Board of Higher Education (2019). link ) Student debt and financing college Baker, D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2024

Some of the topics include literacy and math, advising Black male engineering majors, socio-emotional development, leadership, community college experiences, Black male veterans, athletes in P-12 and higher education, and the recruitment and retention of Black males in educator preparation programs. Emerald Publishing Limited.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Roueche Center for Community College Leadership. Today, some of our country’s communities are engaged in conversations about talent pipeline shortages, challenges, and opportunities. Many of these careers are associated with a degree or other credential (or pathway) at the College. Roueche and Margaretta B.

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Ray Schroeder

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Colleges employed 3.9 percent from 2020 but still down from more than four million in 2019. Community college employee rolls have continued to shrink. million people in 2022, up 1.75

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 29, 2023

Consider this: The World Health Organization’s (WHO) 2019 updated definition of burnout includes three dimensions: “Burnout is a syndrome conceptualized as resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed. Likewise, we have witnessed frustration by teachers for the same reasons. Dr. Kelly A. Dr. Donna Y.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Energy and excitement filled the McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago, as over two thousand community college leaders, faculty, and staff gathered to share stories of access, equity, and inclusion at the 2023 Dream conference. Our colleges have to be inextricably connected to our communities, leveraging our localness.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Just two days later, on September 22, in Gallatin, Tennessee, Volunteer State Community College announced that Orinthia T. O” had previously served as the fourth president of Tompkins Cortland Community College for four years in Dryden, New York, according to her obituary.

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University Business

MARCH 13, 2023

Two big initiatives pushing this change are recent school mergers and a powerful free community college pipeline. Starting this July, Castleton University, Northern Vermont University and Vermont Technical College will consolidate into Vermont State University—a lean, cost-effective hybrid learning machine.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 18, 2023

Image: Recently released federal higher education data show community college enrollment trends during the first two years of the pandemic differed based on the age of the students, according to a new analysis by the Community College Research Center at Columbia University’s Teachers College.

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Robert Kelchen

DECEMBER 19, 2022

This data update included finance data from the 2020-21 fiscal year—the first year to be fully affected by the pandemic following a partially affected 2019-20 fiscal year. Thanks to stronger-than-expected state budgets and timely rounds of federal support, colleges largely avoided the worst-case scenario of closure.

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University Business

APRIL 16, 2024

The inflation-adjusted sticker price at a four-year public college rose by 66% from the 1995-96 academic year to 2019-20 and increased by 79% at private colleges. Only 26% of in-state public college students paid this published rate in 2019-20, compared to the 53% who did three decades ago.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Out in the Midwest, the smaller liberal arts-focused Wheaton College missed its 2019 enrollment mark by only 20 students after suffering from a series of budget cuts last year. gain in first-time college students, thanks in part to an 8.9% increase in community college transfer students, NC Newsline reports.

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Ray Schroeder

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

According to the University System of New Hampshire annual board report released last month, full-time student enrollment declined more than 13% for all public institutions from 2019 to 2023. Nationwide, enrollments declined 8% between 2019 and 2023.

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Robert Kelchen

JUNE 15, 2023

Mapping community college finance systems to develop equitable and effective finance policy. Intended and unintended consequences of for-profit college regulation: Examining the 90/10 rule. 2019, December 9). Students pay the price if a college fails. link ) Massachusetts Board of Higher Education (2019).

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 25, 2024

The bond ratings agency reports that higher education institutions allocating a portion of their budget to cybersecurity increased more than 70 percent from 2019 to 2023. Higher education institutions have increased their cybersecurity budgets as more universities fall prey to cyber attacks, Moody’s Investor Service says in a report.

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Robert Kelchen

JANUARY 3, 2022

2019, December 9). Students pay the price if a college fails. Examining the feasibility of empirically predicting college closures. Massachusetts Board of Higher Education (2019). A risky proposal for private colleges: Ten reasons why the Board of Higher Education must rethink its plan. The Hechinger Report.

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University Business

OCTOBER 2, 2023

For Miles Community College President Ron Slinger, adding a one-credit class on soft skills to Montana’s already extensive patchwork of career-based K-12 opportunities is also a way to address a key concern Montana employers have identified in the workforce.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 9, 2023

On a Friday night in 2019, Gesy Duran prepared to dine at an Italian restaurant with her wife. But the pandemic got in the way, and the idea lay dormant until Duran, who had since started at the Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC), heard about the Blackstone Launchpad Competition, a business pitch contest for students.

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Dr. Al Solano

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Another example is Dartmouth College’s recent laughable, but sad rationale to reinstate the SAT/ACT because their internal “research” shows they would effectively be more equitable for low-income students. Freshmen retention rates: 2019-20: 95.5% Freshman retention rates: 2019-20: 94.4% 2021-22: 95.6%

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University Business

JULY 27, 2023

pp recovery from the suppressed persistence level of those who started in fall 2020 means nearly 22,000 more students are still in college today.” First-year community college learners faring better Rates increased across 4-year public and private institutions, as well as community colleges, whose students boasted the most impressive results.

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University Business

MAY 24, 2023

Moreover, non-degree offerings at community colleges grew by 2.3%, contributing to the sector’s first positive growth rate since spring 2020 (0.5%). A key factor to first-year student enrollment seems to be public, two-year community colleges. Community colleges experienced a whopping 12.4%

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