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Declining enrollment: Private universities face tough decisions - Megan Carpenter, Spectrum News

Ray Schroeder

Declining enrollment affects all sectors of higher education, but most notably, private colleges. Public universities rely on government funding, while private colleges rely on tuition and endowments. Most funding for private colleges comes in the form of need-based aid, which averages less than $10,000 per student.

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This for-profit believes it’s being “targeted” by the government

University Business

In a sudden public statement published last week, Grand Canyon University (Ariz.) believes government officials are waging “coordinat[ed] efforts to unjustly target GCU” in response to its lawsuit against the Department over its nonprofit status. If you wanted us to change this or that, we would have willingly done that.

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2022 Delphi Award Winners Share Practices to Support Part-Time Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Offering advice about professional development opportunities, shared governance, and health benefits were but some of the practices presented and discussed by Montgomery College and the Dominican University of California, the two winners of the 2022 Delphi Award, at a webinar onWednesday.

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‘Being a girl is a heavy crime’: Afghan women in despair over university ban

The Guardian Higher Education

In a university chat group for 38 classmates, a friend had shared a news report suggesting the Taliban had banned women from higher education. On Tuesday, Afghanistan’s ministry of higher education issued a letter to all government and private universities, ordering an indefinite ban on university education for women.

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Apply to US Universities from Brazil

Great College Advice

Some of these colleges are private, but most are public (meaning that they are supported by local and state governments). Public four-year colleges and universities Every one of the 50 states in the US has several public universities. Community colleges also offer technical and vocational training.

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These are the top 10 colleges for cybersecurity education

University Business

Along with its list are six must-have modules for any cybersecurity course: “Foundational aspects of cybersecurity, hands-on program training, privacy and ethics, government and national security, risk and information assurance, and capstone projects.” Carnegie Mellon University (1). George Washington University (4).

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4 Reasons Why You Should Study in Germany

Study and Go Abroad

As of 2014, the German government got rid of tuition fees for all students (yes, including international students!) enrolled in public universities. Luckily, there are more public universities — schools funded by the government — in Germany than private universities — independent schools that rely on funding from tuition fees.