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Access Must be Front Burner for Community Colleges

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Students navigate housing and food insecurity, transportation issues, and other limitations to access. Transportation is a significant issue, and Trent suggested increasing transportation vouchers. She also noted that the college should reach out to students regarding their needs rather than waiting for students to come to them.

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American Indian College Fund Receives Near $39 Million for TCUs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The money might also be used for projects that are not specifically grounded in Native culture, but which address the needs of Native students, such as funding for laptops and Wi-Fi, transportation, and childcare. The College Fund is aiming to let the TCUs lead the way in determining what would help them the most.

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Team Growth: Get to Know Maddy and Louis

Campus Groups

This included: enrollment management, first-year experience, advising, residence life, career exploration, and leadership development. I love Google Maps because I am CONSTANTLY traveling and it comes in handy, especially when I’m in a big city walking and using public transportation. What do you like to do outside of work?

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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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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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A Global Shift in Higher Education Requires a New Business Model: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 180 with Drumm McNaughton and Catherine Friday

The Change Leader, Inc.

About Our Podcast Guest Catherine Friday EY Oceania Managing Partner, Government and Health Sciences; EY Global Education Leader Catherine has spent much of her career providing services to state and federal departments and regulators, ministerial councils, not-for-profits, and NGOs in every state and territory in Australia and in New Zealand.

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Data-Driven Decision Making in Higher Education: Unlocking the Potential of Analytics

Creatrix Campus

This contributes to holistic data management, supporting admissions, enrollment, and student services.