Confessions of a Community College Dean

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Grad Worker Unionization Is Booming, Even Down South Ryan Quinn Wed, 09/06/2023 - 03:00 AM Organizing is surging into private universities, and strikes have increased as well. Byline(s) Ryan Quinn

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 20, 2024

Mercy is the largest private institution in New York that also qualifies as a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) with 44% of their student population identifying as Latinx.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

OCTOBER 1, 2024

California governor Gavin Newsom signed legislation banning admissions preferences for relatives of alumni and donors at both public and private universities in the state on Monday, the second law in the nation that applies to independent as well as public colleges. It’s the most consequential legacy legislation to date.

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University Business

MARCH 11, 2025

Other notable private universities on the list include Stanford University, Johns Hopkins University and the University of Southern California. The post See what’s driving the sudden rise in institutional neutrality appeared first on University Business.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JUNE 21, 2024

Non–tenure-track faculty members at two more private universities have voted to unionize. At Tulane University, full-time teaching faculty members voted 146 to 29 to unionize, the university said. The new union, Tulane Workers United, is affiliated with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).

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University Business

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

As the president of Hollins University, an all-female private university, she is especially cognizant of how some content places unrealistic pressure on young women. .” Balancing social media with physical presence Mary Dana Hinton recognizes that social media can harm teen mental health.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 25, 2024

Davenport U Launches Bilingual Degree Program for Latino Students Sara Weissman Mon, 03/25/2024 - 03:00 AM The private university in Michigan is producing online degree programs with courses that alternate between English and Spanish each week. Byline(s) Sara Weissman

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Paul Getty Trust, which funds research and visual art preservation, and Dr. Josef Sorett, dean of Columbia College at Columbia University and vice president for undergraduate education. Public universities and private universities all have very different kinds of funding allocations,” said Dirks.

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University Business

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Two private Seattle colleges are joining forces. Seattle University, the largest private university in Western Washington, and the smaller Cornish College of the Arts plan to combine into one school, eventually creating Cornish College of the Arts at Seattle University.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 10, 2024

Drake University and Des Moines Area Community College are locked in a legal battle over the letter “D.” Drake, a nearby private university, also uses the letter as its logo and took issue with the shift. The community college rebranded last year, changing its logo to a simple, block-style “D.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2024

Cho, who published a report on their findings in February, was surprised that several elite private universities with “very cut-throat types of cultures,” including Harvard, Dartmouth, and the University of Chicago, ranked at the top, they said.

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Ray Schroeder

OCTOBER 21, 2023

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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University Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

We’re trying to be competitive against private universities who are discounting at larger rates every single year,” UMass President Marty Meehan said. colleges and universities offering tuition-free programs? Read more at MassLive. The post Why are more Mass.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 11, 2023

Three private universities in California say they admitted students in recent years who didn’t meet the institutions’ academic requirements.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 5, 2023

Dominican also allocates $15,000 a year to compensate adjunct faculty for time spent attending professional development and university events, said Dr. Lindsey Dean, assistant dean for academic affairs at Dominican. Adjunct faculty have designated slots on key shared governance committees,” Behmand said.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Since the 201415 school year, the cost of attending a public four-year university has fallen by 21 percent, before adjusting for inflation, according to College Board data analyzed by Judith Scott-Clayton, a professor of economics and education at Columbia Universitys Teachers College.

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Symplicity

JUNE 20, 2024

Spain is experiencing a notable growth in the number of private universities, reflecting a booming educational trend. Let's analyse this issue and how Symplicity CSM can be the solution universities need.

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University Business

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Aside the usual culprits ailing small private universities, administrative leaders also cited issues with last year’s FAFSA rollout, NBC Philadelphia reports. Delaware College of Art and Design Delaware College of Art and Design announced on May 23 that it would not be offering classes for the upcoming fall semester.

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Great College Advice

AUGUST 31, 2023

Some private universities offer a wide range of degree programs, including Bachelor’s, Masters, and doctorates. Or they can study engineering at more specialized public universities like the Colorado School of Mines or the Illinois Institute of Technology. These include Harvard , Princeton, Yale, Dartmouth, and Columbia.

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The Guardian Higher Education

DECEMBER 21, 2022

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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University Business

JUNE 26, 2024

Lindenwood University recently announced it’s letting go of 12 staff members and two faculty members and may decide not fill up to 50 positions in order to help cut its operating budget by 10%, St. Other mid-sized private universities have made similar moves. Louis Post-Dispatch reports.

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The Guardian Higher Education

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Private university to pay £37,000 after missing multiple deadlines and creating ‘significant regulatory risk’ The University of Buckingham has been fined by England’s higher education regulator for missing multiple deadlines to publish its audited accounts, creating “a significant regulatory risk” in the event of financial failure.

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University Business

JANUARY 22, 2024

Rice University has set aside $33.75 million to settle an antitrust lawsuit filed against 17 prestigious private universities across the country accused of illegally running a scheme that limited the amount of financial aid given to students, according to the school’s financial statements for last year.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2024

It involves seven state-supported universities and one private university, including UNC Chapel Hill, NC State, and Duke. A&T Center for Excellence in Post-Harvest Technologies (CEPHT), located on the North Carolina Research Campus (NCRC) in Kannapolis. This is a $1.5

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 11, 2023

Three private universities in California universities acknowledged to the state that in recent years they admitted some legacy students who did not meet their minimum admissions requirements, The San Francisco Chronicle reported.

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Higher Education Inquirer

APRIL 27, 2025

Supporting Public Institutions : The revenue generated from taxing legacy admissions could be reinvested into public universities, which often face funding shortages and higher tuition rates.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The study was of 600 college freshmen at three private universities. Every additional hour of average nightly sleep early in the semester is associated with an 0.07-point point increase in end-of-term grade point average, according to study published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Great College Advice

AUGUST 2, 2023

Get your diploma from a flagship university Thus even students with poor high school grades may be able to graduate from their state flagship university. Or even a selective private university. At the end of two years, he got into a selective, private university as a transfer student.

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Ray Schroeder

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

About 8% of staff positions have been eliminated — putting 20 staffers out of a job — and the university leadership team has been restructured, according to school officials.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Aside the usual culprits ailing small private universities, administrative leaders also cited issues with last year’s FAFSA rollout, NBC Philadelphia reports. Delaware College of Art and Design Delaware College of Art and Design announced on May 23 that it would not be offering classes for the upcoming fall semester.

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Great College Advice

AUGUST 29, 2023

Many American public and private universities rank among the best in the world. Great College Counseling for International Students The United States remains a primary higher education destination for students from around the world.

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University Business

JULY 10, 2024

Small- to mid-sized colleges that lack brand power are finding themselves at a deeper recruiting disadvantage than large state schools and high-profile private universities. These summer programs provide high schoolers with a low-stakes environment to test drive a major in a campus setting.

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University Business

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Birmingham-Southern College is suing the state treasurer after denying it a loan program that lawmakers promised would help save the university from going under, according to a lawsuit filed yesterday. Alabama Gov. The program was initially funded at $30 million, with Birmingham-Southern in mind.

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Ray Schroeder

MARCH 15, 2024

The future of another private university in Wisconsin is in flux, as financial deficits cause upcoming layoffs. Concordia University announced cuts to staff and faculty are imminent at both its Mequon, Wis., and Ann Arbor, Michigan campuses.

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University Business

AUGUST 7, 2023

These findings reflect all institution types, which illustrates how this problem pervades across what’s thought of as wealthier private universities. NPSAS collected responses from more almost 81,000 undergraduates and 20,000 graduate students, who in all, respectively, represent 17.1 million and 3.6 million students nationwide.

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Ray Schroeder

MARCH 27, 2024

Faculty layoffs and discounted degree programs are a result of West Virginia University's $45 million budget shortfall and declining enrollment, President E. Public universities aren't alone in their struggles. Gordon Gee said last year.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

” However, one university’s decision to roll out its own financial aid forms is looking all the wiser now. Assumption University, a Massachusetts private university, implemented its own form in October, dodging the headaches most institutions are currently dealing with.

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