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How Data Drives Student Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

IHEP identified these two institutions by using the Equitable Value Explorer , a free, publicly accessible site that analyzes data from colleges and universities across the country. In many of our ACE programs, we grant academic credit. Students at LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City, NY. But that’s just the minimum goal.

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Study: Minority Students Still Underrepresented in Public Health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Despite an upward trend in diversity in the public health educational pipeline, minority students are still underrepresented in the field, a recent study from George Washington University found.

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Advising, Counseling, Mentoring and Teaching Black Males in Secondary and Postsecondary Settings

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

We identified three recurring themes from the interviews with the Black male academy of engineering students: Promoting Interests in STEM, Drawing Connections to Core Academic Concepts , and An Affinity for Hands-on Learning through the Engineering Curriculum. Emerald Publishing Limited. link] Dr. Donna Y. Hines & E.C. Fletcher (Eds.).

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The 5 trends that will predict the course of higher education

University Business

Student frustration over the high cost—and lack of transparency—of earning a degree has clashed with the ever-increasing costs of operating an academic enterprise. These challenges have wide-ranging implications, not only for universities and colleges but also for our workforce and our society.

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Historic faculty pay increase still beaten by inflation

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: While this academic year saw the largest one-year increase in full-time faculty members’ average salaries in over three decades, that still wasn’t enough to stop their real wages from falling due to inflation, the American Association of University Professors noted this Thursday alongside its latest salary survey data.

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Change is an opportunity. Amid deepening pressures, universities must seize it

University Business

From population trends to economic drivers, we’re living at an inflection point. Amid declining enrollment, diminished public confidence and generational shifts in the workforce, change may be our only constant and the only universal necessity in the 21st century. If they don’t, the future falters.

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It may be time to rethink the college minor (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Instead of or in addition to minors, higher education stakeholders may want to consider partnering with employers—both public and private—to create pathways toward certifications specifically designed to help students enter the workforce with higher-paying jobs. This shift in thinking is not new.

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