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. The untimely deaths of two Black women presidents, JoAnne A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 2, 2023

Those recognized with it this year will be showcased as recipients through the 2025-2026 academic year, according to the website. Additionally, one institution will be awarded $25,000, and one nonprofit will get $15,000 award. The two awarded parties must put the funds towards advancing their respective student parent support efforts.

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Ray Schroeder

MAY 22, 2023

The student body presidents of all seven public universities and several community colleges said students could be forced into more debt. It opposes a proposal to cut the public university and community college budget for 2023-2025 by 2.5% compared with the current two-year budget.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The overhaul – which comes with form simplifications, different student aid measures and calculations, and expanded Pell Grant eligibility – is expected to be beneficial and to increase federal financial aid eligibility, according to a 2023 report from the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association (SHEEO).

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University Business

APRIL 19, 2024

Stephenson is currently the president of Northwest Florida State College, a community college. A tenured community college leader, Stephenson has 15 years of experience serving institutions across Alabama, Missouri and Kentucky, Tampa Bay Times reports. Rebecca Bergman – Gustavus Adolphus College (Minn.)

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In June 2023, the school formed a partnership with Hudson County Community College for HCCC|NJCU CONNECT , a dual-admission initiative that leads to degree pathways. We will be poised to enter 2025 in a much stronger position,” Acebo said. “[We . … We really are a model of labor management relations with public universities.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Undergraduate education One of the commitments began expanding undergraduate education to make sure all students experience courses or curriculum related specifically to racism and racial equity, which was approved last fall by the general education committee and the provost. We have good transfer agreements,” says Mantella. “We

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University Business

AUGUST 21, 2023

Legalized cannabis is expected to be an estimated $150 billion industry by 2025,” program manager Stacy Godlewski said in a press statement. “In Consequently, higher education institutions are taking notice as they continue to offer flexible, affordable and enticing programs to attract students. Louis area in just two years.

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University Business

JUNE 13, 2023

In the last month, two states have decided to address their higher education systems’ most pressing issues by leveraging state funding to reward institutions that can deliver—and deprive those that can’t. Greg Abbott approved legislation on Monday to increase its community college biennium funding by nearly 25% for $2.2

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JUNE 13, 2023

college or university say their barriers have been to finishing their education over three years. Courtney Brown of the Lumina Foundation Higher ed leaders can learn what 6,000 current students, 3,000 people who stopped out, and 3,000 more who never enrolled in a U.S. Courtney, welcome to the program.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

OpenAI mastermind Sam Altman and social media pioneer Jason Citron are just a few A-list investors backing Campus, a completely online community college reimagining the two-year experience for students and faculty. At the K12 level, too, online school alternatives are beginning to percolate.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

In many ways, the same challenges facing the military are also disrupting higher education. It’s easy to cite the pandemic as the culprit, but higher education’s enrollment crisis has been festering for more than a decade. Undergraduate enrollment has consistently declined in recent years.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Unlike in past economic slowdowns, financial turmoil and spikes in unemployment during the early months of the pandemic did not send large numbers of students fleeing the job market into higher education. Harnisch, vice president for government relations at the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

But recent findings from a year later show marked—though inequitable—progress toward the foundation’s goal that 60 percent of working-age adults in the country hold a degree or credential by 2025. For example, Washington, D.C.,

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 29, 2023

Although distance education has long been perceived by some as inferior in quality, more than half of American adults surveyed in 2022 believe that the quality of online instruction in higher education is the same as—or better than—in-person instruction, up from 37 percent the year before.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Image: The Association for the Study of Higher Education, like many organizations, plots its annual meetings several years ahead. The Influence of California’s List Past guidance from California continues to shape decisions about conference locations by many higher education groups. Census Bureau employment data.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

While caveats apply, established universities must now conduct research at “world standard” in at least half the broad fields of education they teach. The body charged with enforcing this obligation is the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA), the brainchild of late higher education reviewer Denise Bradley.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 9, 2023

” The program has been very good for IBM, too, which is why it has invested over $250 million in its apprenticeship programs through 2025, Barnes said. Though Simmons’s talk addressed higher education and American democracy, she echoed some themes in the “bad policy” panel.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

14 November · Episode 181 Tough Times Ahead for Higher Education Enrollment 42 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton Dive into the complexities of higher education enrollment–navigate through its current challenges, and uncover strategies for the tough times ahead.

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EAB

OCTOBER 18, 2022

MS: And then, I feel like a Debbie Downer to start off this call, but really what is going on is that all of these factors are compounded by as we look out into the future, first-time enrollment at community colleges is down about 21%. It's coming in 2025 now. And so that's something that's a real challenge moving forward.

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EAB

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

So, this actually squandered a flourishing landscape for incarcerated students to access higher education. Definitely generates some interest, but I also think we could talk about the civic value in the role higher education plays in serving the community. Well, I should clarify. MM: Gotcha. MM: Right.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The labels for Carnegie’s updated classification system are not etched in stone, and it awaits feedback from higher education stakeholders about what should be taken into account. The major changes will be announced in early 2025. If you would like to provide feedback on what the next iteration should look like, go here.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 27, 2023

The Inclusive Higher Education Accreditation Council is set to make its first campus accreditation visit this week at Western Carolina University. Accreditation “would create that validation for parents and students in the community,” Price said. “I also think it would help with students getting a job.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Blog: Call to Action: Marketing and Communications in Higher Education Two years. That’s how long colleges have to prepare for the enrollment cliff predicted by the Western Interstate Commission on Higher Education.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 13, 2023

Only 27 percent of the Class of 2022 (then graduating seniors) had never interacted with their financial aid office, compared to 50 percent of the Class of 2025, then first-year students. Students also disproportionately use their financial aid offices based on their class year. Share here. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 26, 2023

The institution, which is owned by Apollo Education Group, once had more than 200 satellite learning centers and campuses but announced last year that it will close all but one , in Phoenix, by 2025. In recent years, several public universities have absorbed formerly massive for-profit colleges in a series of controversial deals.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 2, 2023

2 August · Episode 166 ELEVATE program: Achievement Strategies from Illinois Tech 42 Min · By Drumm McNaughton Higher ed leaders who want to increase inclusion while maintaining affordability can emulate the actions of Illinois Tech's ELEVATE program. One, my entire experience has shown me the power of higher education.

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Ray Schroeder

MARCH 22, 2024

President Joe Biden proposed expanding access to free community college across the U.S., and other initiatives to make higher education less costly. In the president’s budget for fiscal 2025, Biden called for increasing the amount of Pell Grants and establishing a “Reducing the Costs of College Fund.”

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Higher Education Inquirer

MAY 14, 2024

Since 2016, the Higher Education Inquirer has documented the College Meltdown as a series of demographic and business trends making US higher education of decreasing value to working-class and middle-class folks. This despite the commonly-held belief that college is the only way to improve social mobility.

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University Business

AUGUST 29, 2023

While every college and university has unique challenges, broad trends inevitably develop, forcing higher education leaders to deal with their implications collectively. Two macro trends nationwide seem no more consequential than continuing political interference in higher education practices and downward trending enrollment.

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Higher Education Inquirer

AUGUST 30, 2022

The US Department of Education (ED) continues to paint rosy projections about higher education enrollment despite harsh economic and demographic realities--and increasing skepticism about the value of college degrees. Related link: College Meltdown 2.2: see graph below). Who's Minding the Store?

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Edu Alliance Journal

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Yet nearly 40 million people from the age of 18-64 started higher education and did not complete one degree. According to the Federal Reserve Bank of Saint Louis, the US Civilian Work Force from 25-34 as of June 2022 has the following educational attainment. The Harsh Facts on College Dropouts. Higher Education.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 25, 2023

The trio is championing the initiative as one that provides open, low-cost, flexible access to higher education. A higher education cocktail that mixes a university known for innovation , an experienced provider of compelling educational multimedia content and a behemoth online video-sharing website holds promise.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 17, 2023

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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The Change Leader, Inc.

JUNE 20, 2023

Courtney joins us again to finish our conversation on Lumina’s most recent study, the State of Higher Education 2023: Breaking Down the Barriers to Student Enrollment and Retention.” He understood their communities. Courtney Brown, vice president of impact and planning for the Lumina Foundation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2023

Democratic legislative negotiators reached a higher education spending deal May 8 to create a free college tuition program for Minnesota residents, Star Tribune reported. We've been seeing declining enrollment on all campuses," said Senate Higher Education Committee Chair Omar Fateh."If Gene Pelowski and Sen.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 13, 2023

“Everyone knows education is the ticket to independence and success.” ” Tata said this includes community colleges and trade schools. A total of 389 students received the grant, according to Keith Hovis, director of communications for the state’s Office of Higher Education.

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