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Dual enrollment can be costly for community colleges

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Community college leaders are largely thrilled about the rise in high school students enrolling in college classes, particularly after steep enrollment declines during the pandemic, and many are hoping the trend continues. The paper offers strategies for colleges to run dual-enrollment programs without breaking the bank.

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A president proposes steep job cuts to save his institution

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Facing a budget deficit of $5 million, Southern Oregon University is considering a realignment plan that will include deep cuts, which its president says are necessary to right the ship financially. Administrators have said only 23 current faculty and staff members will lose their jobs.

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A small college needs $2.6M to survive. It's raised $178K

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Meanwhile, the King’s College is exploring partnerships even as it courts donors, hoping a higher education savior will step up if the generosity of philanthropists doesn’t come through. 3, Interim President Stockwell Day—a former Canadian minister of finance—noted that the college wasn’t close to hitting the $2.6

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College endowments dropped in fiscal year 2022

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The average return for all college endowments in fiscal 2022 was negative 8 percent, falling far short of the 30.6 NACUBO also found that colleges increased their endowment spending, with dollars increasingly flowing toward institutional operating budgets, largely focused on student financial aid. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Making financial wellness a priority for student success

Confessions of a Community College Dean

” The first concern is an admitted student’s cost of enrollment and financial resources prior to starting at the institution, and then colleges must support the student in having the resources to graduate on time. Give special attention to building budgeting skills Budgeting was the No.

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State Initiatives on Skills-Based Hiring

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Whereas we have great partners like Shio, who are thinking about leveraging higher education pathways and some really specific sort of financing and data implementation. And then also just folks like the community college, the Association of Community College Trustees is a huge partner of ours. This sits in.

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Tennessee State cites past underfunding as cause of problems

Confessions of a Community College Dean

But the university’s longtime president, Glenda Glover, alumni and other supporters of the Nashville institution have argued against a proposal that would place the institution under the oversight of the Tennessee Board of Regents, the governing board for 37 technical and community colleges in the state. million, from $5.2