Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Image: To increase enrollment and retention of male students, Queensborough Community College in New York is investing in a Male Resource Center, aimed at its smallest populations of Black and Latino men to create equity, President Christine Mangino says. The problem isn’t unique to Queensborough.

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University Business

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Schools today vying to win applicants over must toe the line between investing in top-notch student support programs and keeping their degrees affordable all while sustaining long-term economic health. However, this growing facet of higher education intersects with the public’s growing disdain for the degree’s price tag.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 18, 2023

That allowed the college to build out new majors, which in turn brought in students and revenue. Docking told Inside Higher Ed such efforts are a necessary innovation for higher education, offering strapped institutions an affordable way to add courses of study and flexible online programs in an effort to recruit students.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 27, 2023

And yet, this fall the University of Utah admitted a record class of first-year students for the third year in row. We’re still enrolling third-, fourth- and fifth-generation college students (the ones with 10 Advanced Placement classes on their transcripts, 4.0-plus plus grade point averages and 34s on the ACT).

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

While building a 15-year foundation in admissions and enrollment management, Williams found herself engaging with students long after they had enrolled, which naturally expanded to helping them successfully navigate campus. Her main responsibility is broad: to serve undergraduate student scholars and their unique academic goals.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 20, 2023

Like other small private institutions, Gustavus Adolphus, a Lutheran college in southern Minnesota, faces a shrinking pool of traditional-age students, even ahead of the projected decline in college-age students due to kick in later this decade. It dipped to 2,042 full-time-equivalent students this academic year, down about 8.2

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 5, 2023

Still, he added, it hasn’t been ideal; AUK’s plans to expand into other buildings in Kyiv have been put on indefinite hold, and recruiting students has been challenging. While his class size is supposed to be about 30 students, only five or six are usually on Zoom calls, and when there are more their connection is spotty.

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SRHE

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The Covid-19 pandemic meant a ‘ swift and acute ’ disruption to student experiences through the ‘ dissolution of the physical and social environment ’, and immediate financial hardship experienced by many. The issues of student retention, success, connectedness, and feeling included remain pressing issues for current entrants.

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EAB

APRIL 11, 2023

Today, we examine ways that virtual reality already enables students to do things like take a tour of your campus from the comfort of home, or take a tour of the inside of a microscopic cell in their college biology class, while ChatGPT and artificial intelligence may be hogging the headlines right now, make no mistake. Colin: That's right.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 27, 2023

Working together, educational institutions can create more accessible and effective pathways for students to enter high-demand career fields. The result of NCC’s persistence led to their proposal for a new facility with a price tag of approximately $60 million.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 13, 2023

Inside Higher Ed spoke with three financial aid professionals about their best strategies to strengthen this area for students. Mike Runiewicz, assistant vice provost and director of student financial services at Washington University in St. Students also disproportionately use their financial aid offices based on their class year.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 6, 2023

On the other hand, many students do not seek counseling, even if they’re in great distress. Higher education institutions need to meet the mental health needs of students who refrain from seeking help. An effective and ethical approach is to offer evidence-based programs that proactively address students’ well-being.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

In its latest annual strategic plan , the Colorado Commission of Higher Education has proposed a way to calculate that value using not only the return on investment from expected income, but also a number of other variables—most notably, the “opportunity cost” incurred by attending college instead of working full-time.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 16, 2023

A Failed Online Program Like the leaders of many struggling institutions, those at the King’s College looked to online enrollment as a way to bring in more students, boost the bottom line and address long-simmering business issues like the persistent funding gap that has been plugged by wealthy donors.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Drumm McNaughton speaks with Director Camille Dumont of the Center for Career and Professional Development (CCPD) about how she aligned career services with academia at Post University to better prepare students for the workforce. CCPD also meets virtually with online students throughout the week.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 3, 2023

Image: An enrollment surge at Tennessee State University combined with a lack of student housing led to a scathing comptroller’s report calling for a change in the historically Black university’s leadership. “No, we didn’t just adjust the budget in advance to get more students.” million, from $5.2

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 17, 2023

College students take on debt because they believe higher education is risk-free and will pay off. But for too many students, especially those from families with low income and low wealth, this is no longer true. IDR plans help level the playing field between well-resourced and more disadvantaged students.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Image: Congress is planning to increase the maximum Pell Grant award to $7,395—a $500 increase—and put more money toward several student success grant programs as part of a $1.7 “It will significantly help low-income students finance community college.” trillion spending package for fiscal year 2023.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 11, 2023

Image: The Biden administration is moving forward on a sweeping plan to overhaul how student borrowers can repay their loans, though advocates want the Education Department to go further in its plan, while critics cite the price tag as an area of concern. The proposed regulations will open for 30 days of public comment today.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 21, 2023

Image: Higher education administrators say a change in the federal student aid formula could mean lower levels of financial aid for children whose parents run family farms or small businesses, and they want Congress to take action. Currently, the net worth of farms or businesses with fewer than 100 employees is exempt from the formula.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 19, 2023

Tom Harnisch, vice president for government relations at the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association, said concerns over a potential economic downturn and skepticism of higher education's value for students and state economies alike could make it more difficult for higher ed institutions to make their case to lawmakers.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 23, 2023

Earmarks, which have been renamed “congressionally directed spending” in the Senate and “community project funding” in the House of Representatives, send federal funds for specific projects to lawmakers’ districts and states. That leads to bad legislation and bad decisions.” ” The nearly $1.7

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 10, 2023

1, would help build a higher education system that grows the middle class, drives the economy forward and prepares students for highly skilled jobs. The budget proposal is the opening salvo in what will likely be a fierce budget battle with House Republicans, who have said they want to return spending to pre-pandemic levels.

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University Business

JANUARY 1, 2024

The Supreme Court officially struck down affirmative action, leading institutions to reevaluate their relationship with legacy students and the nature of an “elite” institution. institutions offer students a hefty discount. The fervor over U.S. Ron DeSantis to extract the “woke” from higher education.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

“The Department of Education and then the rest of us will learn more about the contracts that institutions have, and there will be greater scrutiny and accountability for the OPM contractors if they are involved in recruiting students.”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Image: Expanding Pell Grants to cover short-term programs is a top priority for North Carolina representative Virginia Foxx and her House Committee on Education and Workforce. “Students need the shortest and least expensive pathways to employment with opportunities for advancement throughout their lives.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 3, 2023

billion to colleges and universities thanks to earmarks and pouring millions more into student success grant programs as part of the $1.7 Advocates and higher education groups said the $500 bump is significant and will help more students afford a college education. Image: Congress is sending more than $1.5 In the end, Congress gave $2.5

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 24, 2023

Image: House Republicans who want to stop President Biden’s student loan policies used a hearing Thursday to outline why they think those policies are harmful to the economy and what changes they would prefer. Higher education associations have historically opposed risk-sharing measures.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 14, 2023

When the American education system was constructed in the 19th century—and that includes public higher education in places like Wisconsin, where I teach—the purpose was not to train future students for jobs; it was about training citizens for democracy. The book traces how that idea changed. And we need to stop selling that idea.

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