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College endowments dropped in fiscal year 2022

Confessions of a Community College Dean

A news release from NACUBO notes that the dramatic reversal reflects the fact that the second half of fiscal 2022 “included robust tightening efforts by central banks to combat surging inflation, along with significant geopolitical disruptions” that drove financial markets down. Study respondents reported spending $25.8

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12 Steps to Encourage & Support Student Entrepreneurship

Study Aborad Association

This is something you – as a college administrator or professor – can actively help your students achieve with some concrete steps and college support. Read more about Startup Hackathons from the Institute of Entrepreneurship Development, here. Get Funding. Monitor Student Commitment. School Donors & Foundation.

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Rural-Serving Institutions: Innovative Lessons for Higher Ed Success: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 147 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Andrew Koricich

The Change Leader, Inc.

Public RSIs are more dependent on state appropriations but receive fewer appropriations per student because state funding metrics focus on enrollment growth, which is more constrained. Dr. Koricich and his team have received generous funding from The Joyce Foundation, Lumina Foundation, and Ascendium Education Group.

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Armbrister Hangs Hat on Indelible Career at Johnson C. Smith University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Smith University (JCSU) in January 2018, he brought his experience in law and investment banking as well as his experience in education that encompassed both K–12 and higher education. That was part of the strategic plan developed during his presidency. When Clarence D. Armbrister became the 14th president of Johnson C.

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EdTech Malaise: “He Not Busy Born is Busy Dying”

eLiterate

Pivots to corporate learning and development haven’t produced many great successes (although they have enabled some start-ups that would have folded to scrape along). Last year, nearly half of all EdTech funding went to one company —BYJU’S—which is now struggling to make its debt payments. The start-up picture is brutal.

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Tennessee State cites past underfunding as cause of problems

Confessions of a Community College Dean

At stake is local control of an institution in a state that has admitted to years of inequitable funding for its only public historically Black college. A previous legislative report found between $150 and $544 million in unpaid land-grant funds should have gone to the university from fiscal years 1957 through 2007.

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How can America Encourage College Dropouts to Complete their Degrees

Edu Alliance Journal

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. Personal development courses (35%). Target in August 2021 announced a fund to support educational courses for its employees. US Labor Market. The Harsh Facts on College Dropouts.