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Top Retention Strategies for Diverse Modern Learners

HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

As the needs of students change, universities must alter their recruitment and retention strategies to make sure that their messages resonate with diverse student prospects, and that they provide the right support services to meet these students’ needs. Mental health services. For many institutions, this is easier said than done.

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Are you meeting students’ basic needs?

EAB

Review these 7 aspects of your basic needs strategy before the semester begins Community colleges play a vital role in higher education, offering affordable and accessible pathways to academic and professional success. Childcare Services: More than two million community college students are parents of children under 18.

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Career-readiness initiatives are missing the mark (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

With efforts like these gathering steam across the postsecondary landscape, it looks like higher education is in the midst of a mission shift that positions career readiness as a strategic, campuswide priority. For instance, the communication scholars Ann L. What could be wrong with this development? Darling and Deanna P.

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Overcoming Barriers in Higher Ed: Strategies for Student Success and Employability: Changing Higher Education Podcast 157 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guests Kathryn Campbell and Dr. Zack Mabel

The Change Leader, Inc.

The Georgetown Center for Education in the Workforce’s research focuses on three core areas: jobs, skills, and equity, with the goal of better aligning education and training with workforce and labor market demand. The report highlights three basic pathways: high school, community college, and university.

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AI-ROBOT CAPITALISTS WILL DESTROY THE HUMAN ECONOMY (Randall Collins*)

Higher Education Inquirer

It will ride out competitors and market downturns by having deeper pockets. But the result is the same: domination of world markets by an oligopoly of AI-robot capitalists will have the same effect in destroying the economy, as it would if a monopoly squeezed out all competitors. What about government regulation?

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How Community Colleges Are Leading Innovation

HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

This rapid enrollment cliff prompted many community colleges to make some much-needed adjustments to improve the student experience and get back into growth mode. By design, community colleges are broad-access systems that make higher education more accessible, affordable, and achievable for the average learner.

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How can America Encourage College Dropouts to Complete their Degrees

Edu Alliance Journal

I thought in early 1969 when I left the university, I didn’t have the academic ability to get a degree and my university advisor certainly was not supportive and suggested I should go sign up for military service that day. Yet nearly 40 million people from the age of 18-64 started higher education and did not complete one degree.