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College Revives Standardized Test Requirement

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The college adopted a test-optional policy for applicants to the Classes of 2025, 2026, and 2027 and a test-recommended policy for applicants to the Class of 2028 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Lee Coffin, the college’s vice president and dean of admissions and financial aid.

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Report: Pandemic Dealt a Blow to Internationalization

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This includes partnerships with overseas institutions, faculty with international background and expertise, and curriculum. Around one-third of institutions used technology to facilitate collaborative online international learning (COIL), such as course-level partnerships between students and faculty at home campuses and abroad.

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Attack of the “Math Shark”: Why Unfinished Learning Is a Lurking Threat to Student Success in the Late 2020s

EAB

The class entering college in 2027 was in sixth grade in Fall 2021 and has since failed to make up any of the ground they lost. Most of the 13-year-old cohort tested by NAEP in Fall 2022 will enter high school in Fall 2023 and begin entering college in Fall 2027. Math achievement will not be our only enrollment concern in 2027.

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Attack of the “Math Shark”: Why Unfinished Learning Is a Lurking Threat to Student Success in the Late 2020s

EAB

The class entering college in 2027 was in sixth grade in Fall 2021 and has since failed to make up any of the ground they lost. Most of the 13-year-old cohort tested by NAEP in Fall 2022 will enter high school in Fall 2023 and begin entering college in Fall 2027. Math achievement will not be our only enrollment concern in 2027.

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Pursuit of R-2 status can expand opportunity (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

There is that conjectural concern that as universities become more research-oriented, or move “up” in Carnegie classification, seeking R-2 (high research activity) or R-1 (very high research activity) status, they become less focused on students, more exclusive and less responsive to their communities’ needs.

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Higher fees for higher ed: How schools are combatting newly proposed tuition hikes

University Business

Other contributors are decreased school endowments, increased budgets for faculty hiring and salaries, and state budget cuts pushing the price of school on the student. The most commonly cited reason for the above-average tuition spikes is inflation. By comparison, the rest of SUNY colleges are looking at a 3% tuition bump.

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How colleges are creating sustainable business models while upticking student support programs

University Business

Research by the Lumina Foundation found that providing advisers across academics, finances, mental health and other services is essential for the post-pandemic college cohort. However, this growing facet of higher education intersects with the public’s growing disdain for the degree’s price tag.