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College Students Are Hungry to Learn Everywhere

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

If you read the national news about higher education, you might think everyone is angling for admission to the Ivy League or trying to pay off debt for degrees earned. To be sure, this summer’s Supreme Court rulings are clear signs of a badly broken higher education system.

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Proponents see value in Biden's free community college plan

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: The Biden administration’s $90 billion plan to provide free community college likely won’t make it through Congress, but supporters of the effort say the request shows it’s a priority for the administration and helps to continue the national conversation about the policy. percent decline in enrollment.

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Public-Serving Colleges Should Get More Federal Money

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Blog: Learning Innovation Tyler Cowen drove a lot of traffic to my piece critiquing his thinking on higher education. All it took was Cowen posting a two-sentence comment on Marginal Revolution : Joshua Kim comment on my higher education worries. The trend of state-level disinvestment from higher education is well-known.

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Univ. of Phoenix is the Top Recipient of GI Bill Funding

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The University of Phoenix has received more GI Bill funding than any other higher education institution, USA Today reported Wednesday. While the University of Phoenix remains among the top recipients of GI Bill funds, its annual cut has shrunk, from $391 million in fiscal year 2013–14 to $73 million in 2020–21.

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More colleges will likely face closure in 2023, experts say

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Presentation College in South Dakota announced its impending closure this week, making it the latest higher education casualty in a sector squeezed by slumping enrollment and rising costs. An analysis last year from EY-Parthenon , drawing on 2020 IPEDS data, projected that 20 percent of four-year colleges in the U.S.

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Updated educational attainment data show progress and gaps

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Census Bureau data and data from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce. The project was paused in 2020 because of data-collection challenges during the pandemic. For example, Washington, D.C.,

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It’s time for wealthy colleges to share the wealth (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Over the last four decades, public esteem and political support for nonprofit higher education have steadily eroded. This competition yielded many benefits for higher education and the nation and was widely applauded through the 1970s. But the growth rate of the U.S. But the growth rate of the U.S.