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Trust and Transparency

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

To do so, she focused on long-standing issues like program development and student support services, and by the time the Coast Community College District Board of Trustees approved her permanent position, progress was tangible. and for the University of California system it is 79.5%.

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UNCF Summit for Black Higher Education: Hit the Target!

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This second annual summit, UNITE 2023 , convened in Atlanta, Georgia, July 16-20, 2023, and was attended by 1,200 participants from more than 75 Black Colleges and Universities, more than 40 Black college presidents, and 50 corporate and nonprofit sponsors. Instead, the focus was on the future rather than the past!

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Pepperdine University Professor Seeks to Give High School Students a Head Start

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The program is meant for students who are enrolled in any level of high school. The free program provides students the opportunity to develop their skills in geometry and algebra for a couple hours a day for four weeks in the summer. For its third year, he wants the program to also teach students writing along with math.

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4 reasons your labor market analysis isn’t capturing employer demand for graduates

EAB

Considering the situations above, however, ensures you don’t rush to abandon a program that could still hold opportunity. To investigate if other market data supports program development, even if current employer demand data does not, check out the other data sources in our New Program Launch Guidebook.

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Are you losing grad and adult enrollments at the last minute? Try these 4 strategies.

EAB

While many institutions follow a robust yield playbook for their undergraduate programs , I’ve found this isn’t always the case for graduate and adult education programs. Developing an effective yield strategy is just as important at the graduate level, if not more so. Try these 4 strategies.

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Increase College Enrollment With These 10 Creative and Effective Strategies

HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

While postsecondary enrollment saw a slight uptick in 2023 (after several years of decline), a recent Gallup poll demonstrated that the number of Americans with strong confidence in higher education has dropped to just 36% — indicating skepticism about the value of a college degree.

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Helping Afghan women back into higher ed

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Jonah Kokodyniak, senior vice president for program development and partner services at the Institute of International Education, said it's the kind of assault on the values of higher education that prompts an international response. institutions are exploring ways to help those displaced from their programs.