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How to engage more community college prospects amid the “great opt-out”

EAB

How to engage more community college prospects amid the “great opt out”. As the number of traditional-aged students continues to decline, community college leaders must focus on enrollment and recruitment strategies within their control. Community members who leverage career services resources.

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The hybrid campus: Why colleges still need a physical presence in a virtual world

University Business

As proponents of hybrid campuses suggest , institutions should reimagine a campus-based education as a “technology-enabled student experience” that blends the physical and digital worlds in instruction and academic programs, scheduling, career counseling, student engagement and other services colleges normally offer.

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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It began as a pilot program in 2015 and started in earnest in 2018 with 25 students after receiving a $1.68 Over the past five years, EPW has served 909 students, 68% of whom are Latino. We’re changing the landscape of how community colleges serve underserved students,” says Espiritu. “We

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Queens College debuts virtual neurodiversity hub

Confessions of a Community College Dean

How will students engage? Hub members can communicate with each other on the platform through posts and chats. ” She recalls staying in the library past the point of exhaustion as an undergraduate but says now she knows to take breaks “and shift my focus.” Are my lectures broken up into smaller chunks?

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AI bots can seem sentient. Students need guardrails

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Donahoe opted to co-create a course policy on generative AI writing tools with her students. She and the students engaged in an exercise in which they all submitted suggested guidelines for a class policy, after which they upvoted each other’s suggestions.

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Rising higher ed leaders tackle campus challenges in EAB’s fellowship

EAB

In addition to the content from the subject-matter expertise and professional skills development sessions, the fellows also had access to EAB’s research library and experts, and they were paired with a partner to help develop ideas and get feedback along the way.

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Boost Higher Ed Enrollment and Graduation Rates – The Power of Student Support and Belonging: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 148 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Elliot Felix

The Change Leader, Inc.

Take a multifaceted approach by creating identity and affinity centers for underserved communities such as LGBTQ+, first-gen, student veterans, and parents. I got to work on a lot of interesting libraries and campus plans. I believe the Survey of Student Engagement started tracking belonging two years ago.