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Access Must be Front Burner for Community Colleges

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As in-person and hybrid learning resume, enrollment numbers have not returned to pre-COVID levels. Students navigate housing and food insecurity, transportation issues, and other limitations to access. Trent said the overall drop in enrollment was around 13%, but certain populations had greater drops than others. Dr. Everrett A.

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Community Colleges Increase Housing Options

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Impact “As of 2020, students who live on campus, their [three-year] graduation rate is 4% higher than the students who do not live on campus,” says Andrew Morong, dean of enrollment management at CMCC. Their fall-to-fall retention rate between fall 2022 and fall 2023 was actually 11% higher than commuters.”

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Unleash the Chatbots! AI for Retention

Higher Ed Connects: Technology

Each department—whether it is academic, registrar, advising, career counseling, student services, student success, food service, housing—are separate fiefdoms. While I definitely see the benefit of that method,” says Dr. Paul Orscheln, Associate Vice President, Enrollment Management and Retention at Missouri Western State University. “I

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Improving Enrollment, Retention, and Graduation Rates: Learning from the Arrupe College Strategic Enrollment Model

The Change Leader, Inc.

For example, one program provides complimentary breakfast and lunch daily to address food insecurity and build a sense of community. In addition, to close the technology gap, all students receive a laptop and, since the pandemic, internet hotspots.

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The State of Higher Education Part 1: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 159 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Courtney Brown

The Change Leader, Inc.

enrolled in a two- or four-year institution and, for whatever reason, stopped out along the way. Drumm McNaughton 16:36 If you’re an enrollment manager, director, or VP at a university, those should be people you are targeting to bring back, am I right? That’s an insane number. That’s a lot of people.

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Drive Enrollment Growth with First-Gen Pathways to Success: Changing Higher Education Podcast 167 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Marielena DeSanctis

The Change Leader, Inc.

Families can come for 15 minutes, receive the diploma, and leave, or they can stay for four or five hours and enjoy DJs, food trucks, and all that. We do it outside. We have a DJ. It’s an all-day affair. But when the student receives their diploma, they can bring whoever they want to on stage.

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Our Favorite Global Reads: AIFS Abroad Staff Picks

AIFS Abroad

” -Becca Newman, Enrollment Manager. ” -Chelsea Conran, Enrollment Manager. It was an incredibly personal memoir of grief, food, family, culture and the complexities of growing up multiracial in a country that often forces you to choose a single box. Angels and Demons by Dan Brown.