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College endowments dropped in fiscal year 2022

Confessions of a Community College Dean

NACUBO also found that colleges increased their endowment spending, with dollars increasingly flowing toward institutional operating budgets, largely focused on student financial aid. The median percentage of budgets funded by endowments was 5.3 percent overall average return in 2021.

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Dual enrollment can be costly for community colleges

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The paper offers strategies for colleges to run dual-enrollment programs without breaking the bank. Generally, having community college instructors teach these classes on campuses is costlier than having them taught at high schools by college faculty members or high school teachers certified to teach at a college level. percent and 2.8

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SJSU Public-Private Partnerships Boost Enrollment and Community Relationships: Changing Higher Ed 193 with host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and guest Dr. Cynthia Teniente-Matson

The Change Leader, Inc.

These partnerships also facilitate research opportunities, enabling students and faculty to contribute to technological advancements. They partner with our senior design students and faculty advisors to work on real-world problems and provide access to equipment. 00:42:53] Jabal has a longstanding scholars program.

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Your student loan payments are due: 3 strategies to support community college students’ financial wellness

EAB

With more than two-thirds of community college students requesting aid annually, 30% being Pell-eligible, 16% being single parents —and inflation at a perilous high—everyone is feeling the effects of one more line-item in the household budget each month. As mentioned previously, finances are the leading reason students stop out of college.

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Governance as a topic in Higher Education Studies

SRHE

The OED offers no more than “The act or manner of governing” and, misleadingly in respect to universities, defines a governing body as “the managers of the institution” ignoring the concept of ‘shared governance’ between governing bodies and senates implicit historically in the constitutions of most pre-1992 universities.

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Tennessee State cites past underfunding as cause of problems

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Mumpower told lawmakers that university leaders should have foreseen a housing crisis, given that it more than quadrupled its 2022–23 scholarship budget to $28.3 “In the fall of 2021, management decided to conduct an extensive recruiting campaign to bring in more students, which by itself is not an issue. million, from $5.2