Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

This is particularly true of community college students, who are more likely than others to have jobs and family commitments that make coming to a campus tough. In a recent report by Bay View Analytics , 94% of community college students gave their online courses a passing grade, and 58% expressed a desire for more.

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The Scholarly Teacher

MAY 17, 2023

Roxanna Dewey , Glendale Community College Key Statement : As the prevalence of autism spectrum disorder rises, challenges for college students with ASDs may be mitigated through instructional strategies beyond accommodations. allowing the student extended time on tests) (DO-IT, 2022). 2022, March 31).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2024

Research done by the National Center for Inquiry & Improvement (NCI&I) revealed significant racial inequality in the workforce. Strategies to be considered include developing or expanding dual enrollment, apprenticeships, credit for prior learning, transfer, and community college baccalaureates.

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MAY 8, 2024

She was recently selected as an American Educational Research Association Fellow and named a 2023 American College Personnel Association Senior Scholar Diplomate. In 2022, Diverse recognized her with the Diverse Champions Award. in educational organization and leadership from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

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. The institutions lost 13 percent of their employees nationally from January 2020 to April 2022, according to an estimate from EAB, a higher education consulting firm.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 5, 2023

Offering advice about professional development opportunities, shared governance, and health benefits were but some of the practices presented and discussed by Montgomery College and the Dominican University of California, the two winners of the 2022 Delphi Award, at a webinar onWednesday.

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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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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 24, 2024

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 Fall 2023 saw enrolment growth at public two-year schools and community colleges rose significantly (2.6%) while public and private nonprofit four-year schools saw increases to a lesser degree (0.6%

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FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Image: Community college leaders are largely thrilled about the rise in high school students enrolling in college classes, particularly after steep enrollment declines during the pandemic, and many are hoping the trend continues. The paper offers strategies for colleges to run dual-enrollment programs without breaking the bank.

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University Business

MARCH 8, 2023

Upward transfer students from two-year colleges to four-year institutions, however, continue to lag, with a 7.5% drop from Fall 2021 to Fall 2022, totaling a 14.5% decline since the fall of 2020, a semester smack-dab in the middle of the pandemic, according to a new study by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Image: Soaring inflation put a squeeze on college endowments in the 2021–22 fiscal year, driving returns down, according to the annual report from the National Association of College and University Business Officers The report , released today, is a marked change from the booming returns of fiscal year 2021 , when endowments soared.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Postdoctoral researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai started striking Wednesday, following what their union said has been more than a year of bargaining without the two sides being able to agree on what would be their first labor contract together.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 10, 2024

Undergraduate credentials awarded in the 2022–23 academic year fell by 2.8%, continuing its downward trend for the second year in a row. Those are the findings of the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center’s Undergraduate Earner’s Report for Spring 2024. The center collects and analyzes data from almost all U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

She possesses an associate degree earned in her early 20’s from her local community college. identified as place-bound , according to the American Council on Education (ACE) Center for Policy Research and Strategy (Hillman, Nicholas, & Weichman, 2016). It is the closest university, but it doesn’t offer such a program.

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EAB

OCTOBER 24, 2022

5 Tips to Recruit and Enroll Latine/x Students in Your Community College. Prospective Latine/x college students in the U.S. are the most likely to choose community college as their first step when pursuing a higher education. Spotlight: Holyoke Community College. Tip #1: Build belonging.

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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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EAB

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Blogs 5 areas for community college leaders to take stock in 2023 And resources to help sustain your post-pandemic momentum Now that community colleges have weathered the storm of the pandemic, it’s time to take a moment to recognize all you have accomplished, and then to begin to steer the transition from a “crisis” mindset to a sustainability one.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

A 2022 report from the UCLA School of Law Williams Institute and the Point Foundation, an LGBTQ scholarship fund, noted that 32.6% of LGBTQ people experienced bullying, harassment, or assault at college, compared to 18.9% In 2022, the university finally launched an official LGBTQ alumni affinity group, ARC. of non-LGBTQ people.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

However, he was curious about some aspects of science and engineering, so he decided he’d try community college. Although Childs is proud of his research, he is quick to point out that one of his highest honors was receiving the first place Physics Teaching GTA Award in fall 2017. “I Fast forward to 2023.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

But after showing up at one of Michigan’s community colleges, the returning student is given a high-stakes test in math and English to see if they are “ready” for college-level work. And Michigan colleges have begun making those changes. And they follow through.

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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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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

MARCH 14, 2024

Martin Van Der Werf The report, Small Towns, Big Opportunities , categorizes what constitutes a “good job” as a one that pays a minimum of – in 2022 dollars – approximately $43,000 for workers ages 25 to 44 and a minimum of approximately $55,000 for workers ages 45 to 64. hold a proportionate share of good jobs – they make up 13% of the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

According to preliminary data from the National Student Clearinghouse, a research organization collecting data from the majority of U.S. higher education institutions, fall 2022 dual enrollment at two-year colleges grew by 11.5%. But dual enrollment doesn’t just offer larger enrollment numbers.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 5, 2024

It’s not an everyday occurrence when a community college leader gets a phone call telling them their institution will receive an influx of funding in the millions. when MacKenzie Scott, one of the richest women in the world, decided to make a major investment in community colleges.

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Robert Kelchen

JANUARY 3, 2024

National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 27885. The relationships between state higher education funding strategies and college access and success. Educational Researcher. State higher education finance: FY 2022. National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 31291. Research in Higher Education.

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Robert Kelchen

JANUARY 3, 2022

National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 27885. Research in Higher Education, 59 (4), 489-518. Trends in college pricing and student aid 2021. The College Board. Investigating rates and patterns of financial aid renewal among college freshmen. Research in Higher Education, 57 (4), 395-422.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 26, 2024

The PSSG – it was first funded in 2022 via the Consolidated Appropriations Act – recognizes and awards funds to institutions that propose to use the grant for evidence-based reforms and practices in pursuit of bolstering student participation, retention, transfer, and completion rates.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The latest data for fall 2022 enrollment shows the declines characteristic of the pandemic have begun to level off, but overall postsecondary enrollment is still on the decline, dropping by 1.1% Doug Shapiro, vice president of research and executive director of the research center at the Clearinghouse. since last fall.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 27, 2023

After two years of COVID-19-related disruptions, the percentage of first-time college students sticking with school has returned to pre-pandemic levels, according to a new report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center (NSCRC). That’s what worries me and many community college leaders the most.”

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University Business

OCTOBER 25, 2023

above fall 2022 and 1.2% above 2021, according to preliminary data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Positive undergraduate enrollment rates at community colleges accounted for 59% of the fall cohort’s total increase.

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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. Between those three sectors, there are about 39,000 unfilled,” says Jacob Duritsky, Team NEO’s vice president of strategy and research.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Doug Shapiro, vice president of research and executive director of the National Student Clearinghouse. Enrollment has declined steeply, with 85% of 2022 losses coming from four-year schools. Every sector of America has been buffeted by the COVID-19 pandemic and a shifting economy, and the world of higher education is no exception.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 19, 2023

However, he was curious about some aspects of science and engineering, so he decided he’d try community college. Although Childs is proud of his research, he is quick to point out that one of his highest honors was receiving the first place Physics Teaching GTA Award in fall 2017. “I Fast forward to 2023.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 4, 2023

Coupled with the $400 increase in the 2022 fiscal year, this is the largest two-year increase ever in the history of the grant. Dr. Linda Oubré, president of Whittier College in California. trillion by the end of 2022, according to the U.S. By January 2022, Black male retention jumped to 79%. Federal Reserve. “On

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

billion in higher ed spending—a 13% increase from this year’s spending and a 22% increase from the 2022 budget proposed by her predecessor, Andrew Cuomo. Which is all to the good, but it doesn’t really speak to the operating needs of colleges.” “There’s infrastructure needs that have been neglected over decades,” he said.

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