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Community College Enrollment: Reducing Inefficiencies in Onboarding

HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

In fact, some schools have experienced record growth over the last five years, and no higher education institutions are better positioned for continued growth in the next decade than community colleges. Community colleges play a crucial role in providing an accessible and affordable education to diverse student populations.

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It may be time to rethink the college minor (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

These colleges and their certification advocates argue that certification not only readily equips students with the real-world skills to transition successfully to their first job post but also addresses many of the equity concerns colleges face by validating the idea that all forms of learning are valued, including forms of skilled labor.

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The university restructured to a centralized academic advising model for the first two years of college, ensuring that advising is consistent across all majors, particularly for the most vulnerable populations. Between 77% and 81% of students identify as Latino and 22% self-reported as first-generation college students.

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Enrollment Strategies and the Evolving Expectations of Students in 2024

HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

The industry is undergoing not just surface-level adjustments that require minor alterations to enrollment strategies, but rather a deeper evolution that reimagines the very fabric of educational delivery and consumption. Enrollment Strategies for Modern Students In many ways, higher education is defined by tradition.

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Growth in assistant professorships is uneven (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Our data source does not track the growth of the biotech industry or postdoctoral positions, but the biosciences are characterized by a large and growing number of postdoctorates compared to other broad fields. Peter Lange is provost emeritus at Duke University and senior academic adviser at Academic Analytics Research Center.

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How Well Do You Know Your Prospective Students?

Campus Sonar

At the same time, they were overwhelmed with worry as they prepared to enter their majors (which is consistent with our latest admissions industry-wide trends ). These conversations consistently reflected stress, worries, and concerns about future plans and pressures to achieve success.

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Should conferences stay put or relocate? It's complicated.

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Staying in Florida for annual meetings this year are the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) and NACADA: The Global Community for Academic Advising. Grimes with Grimes Law Offices. But associations also may be able to work out deals with hotels to offset cancellation costs.

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