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3 Enrollment Boosting Strategies for Accredited Institutions: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 178 with Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Dr. David R. Decker

The Change Leader, Inc.

Discover how these three interconnected strategies boost higher education enrollment and contain costs with a comprehensive approach that involves the 4 Ps of marketing, aligning pricing strategies with fixed educational benchmarks, and fostering strategic partnerships with community colleges and employers.

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3 Reasons We Joined the edX/2U University Partner Advisory Council

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Blog: Learning Innovation Last week, the three of us participated in the first in-person meeting of edX/2U’s recently constituted University Partner Advisory Council (UPAC). Separately and together, we sit on a number of advisory groups/councils of for-profit companies working with nonprofit universities in the online learning space.

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Student Loans, Basic Needs and the Public Good

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Public university attendees borrow an average of $32,880 to attain a bachelor’s degree. Private, nonprofit university attendees borrow $35,983. For context, some interesting student loan debt statistics from the Education Data Initiative. Private, for-profit students borrow $42,551. Basic Needs.

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A better way to address revenue sharing and online marketing (letter)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

At this point, nearly every nonprofit university in the U.S. This exception to Title IV’s incentive compensation regulations was designed to allow a new generation of OPMs to shoulder that cost and the risk of starting programs, in exchange for a share of tuition. The strategy worked.

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Advocacy group survey: Faculty fear backlash for free speech

Confessions of a Community College Dean

four-year public and private nonprofit universities. Colm O’Muircheartaigh, a University of Chicago professor and academic director of the university’s Center for Survey Methodology, said, “SSRS is an entirely reputable research company.

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Report: U of Arkansas system may buy University of Phoenix

Confessions of a Community College Dean

A few years later, in 2020, the University of Arizona, a public land-grant institution, purchased for-profit Ashford University in a deal that included roughly 35,000 students—all online.

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How 2 of higher ed’s most challenging trends are causing pain this fall

University Business

“It’s a dicey thing in terms of trying to hold on to your program principles, values, and criteria on the one hand, and yet you’re being given a different message over here.” The first college closure this academic year Hodges University, the small private nonprofit university in Naples and Fort Myers, Fla.,

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