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DECEMBER 16, 2022

The post Analysis: Higher ed costs haven’t been this high since 2008 appeared first on University Business. Among master’s-granting institutions, that number rose by only 0.5%, and 0.7% at baccalaureate institutions. More from UB : Is betting big on graduate school enrollment growth a major risk for higher ed?

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MARCH 4, 2025

In 2008, the Lumina Foundation, a national private foundation focused on higher education and workforce development, set a national attainment goal that by 2025 60% of working-age adults would earn college degrees, certificates or industry-recognized certifications.

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DECEMBER 4, 2024

Combined with the Apple App Store, which first debuted in 2008 with 500 phone applications, in less than 20 years, technology has revolutionized how the average consumer communicates, entertains themselves, and obtains information.

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MARCH 6, 2025

Additionally, she is the author of Being Black, Teaching Black: Politics and Pedagogy in Religious Studies (Abingdon, 2008), Black Church Studies: An Introduction (Abingdon, 2007) and Dear Sisters: A Womanist Practice of Hospitality (Pilgrim Press, 2001).

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OCTOBER 30, 2024

Thanks to the active engagement and voter turnout of college students of all races, ethnicities, genders, and social classes, Barack Hussien Obama, was elected America’s first Black president of the United States of America in 2008 and reelected for a second term in 2012.

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OCTOBER 22, 2024

The year: 2008. During our post-mortem, we realized that the political rhetoric surrounding the 2008 presidential race had hijacked our discussion. Our focus on truth-digging also inspired me to examine the role Obama’s Muslim-sounding middle name played in the 2008 election. I was teaching undergraduates in the Deep South.

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OCTOBER 10, 2024

Castillo, who has served as the Vice President for Finance and Administration at TAMIU since 2008, will oversee the university’s operations following the unexpected passing of President Pablo Arenaz. Castillo has been named the Acting President of Texas A&M International University in Laredo, effective immediately.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2023

In terms of gender, outcomes from the fall 2017 cohort gave rise to the widest gender gap in completion rates since 2008 – a 7.2% gap compared to 2008’s 7% gap. Continuing trends all the way back to 2011, Asians continue to have the highest six-year college completion rates (74.8%), followed by white students (68.5%).

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MARCH 2, 2023

Since taking on the BMCC position in 2008, she has expanded student affairs services to better support well-rounded learning experiences and remove obstacles to student success.

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JANUARY 31, 2023

Lumina, a private nonprofit working to increase learning opportunities for all after high school, has been tracking credential and degree attainment for adults from 25 to 64 years of age since 2008. In 2008, only one state had set a degree or certificate attainment goal for its own population: Hawaii.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Those lectures became a fundamental first step into his career in higher education, and in 2008, he became special assistant to the director of the TRIO programs at GSU, a series of federally funded programs that assist low-income, first-generation, or otherwise minoritized students attend and graduate college.

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OCTOBER 20, 2022

Khator, a scholar in the field of global environmental policy, is the eighth chancellor of the University of Houston System and the 13 th president of the University of Houston , dual titles she’s held since January 2008. She is the first foreign-born president of the university and the second woman to hold the position.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Dr. Michele Perkins In the suit, Dr. Perkins –who led the school from 2008-2022 before becoming chancellor in September 2022 – claims she was unexpectedly released by the school during an Apr. 4 online meeting. “I

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OCTOBER 20, 2022

Since taking the helm of IHEP in 2008, Cooper’s been out front influencing national education policy. -based Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP), one of the nation’s premiere education research and policy centers, Dr. Michelle Asha Cooper has a vision.

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MAY 12, 2024

In 2008, he was a board member for the Obama presidential transition with general responsibility for healthcare, education, and immigration. He also held senior positions in five presidential campaigns, serving as policy director for Michael Dukakis; and senior policy adviser for Al Gore, Howard Dean, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2024

“To have been recognized in 2022 with their highest distinction, the Leah Meyer Austin Award, was humbling.”

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NOVEMBER 9, 2022

In 2008, a UK student and another man were arrested, accused of, but ultimately not indicted for hanging a life-size likeness of President-elect Barack Obama from a tree on the campus. . This is not UK’s first racist incident.

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MARCH 5, 2025

She is the 2008 recipient of the MANA National Latina Organizations Las Primeras award as the first Hispanic female to command a warship in the U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Financial crises and their impact on higher education (2008-2010) The 2008 financial crisis had far-reaching effects on higher education, ushering in an era of budget cuts, rising tuition fees, and an intensified focus on financial sustainability.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

It was a beautiful, sunny day that turned into a lovely, brisk night on Tuesday, November 4, 2008, the night then Sen. Barack Obama was elected the 44 th President of the United States. That evening, I met with other scholars of color in graduate school for an election night party.

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The Scholarly Teacher

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Community of Inquiry (CoI) names three implicit and explicit presences in online teaching: teaching presence, social presence, and cognitive presence (Akyol & Garrison, 2008). Regardless of course delivery, CoI challenges educators to consider how we influence and create community. References Akyol, Z., & Garrison, D.

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OCTOBER 3, 2024

This November, for the first time since before 2008, students, faculty and staff will be unable to vote on Purdue University’s campus on Election Day. Employees and students must vote off campus in November for the first time in years. Voting groups say such changes are a common, albeit subtle, form of voter suppression.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Prior to her time at Fairfield, Dr. Bilias Lolis worked as a school psychologist in Stamford Public Schools, ultimately becoming district chair of school psychological services in 2008.

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MARCH 26, 2024

Since joining Lumina in 2008, she has served as a strategy officer, director of equity and inclusion, and director of impact and research. Johnson is director of grants administration at Lumina Foundation , a private foundation committed to making opportunities for learning beyond high school available to all.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

When the Great Recession hit the University of California system in 2008, it marked a major “inflection point” in the life of Dan Greenstein. In his six years as PASSHE chancellor, Dan Greenstein took a bold—and sometimes controversial—approach to repairing a public university system in a downward spiral. Did it work?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Two former scientists at Cornell University used made-up data in 12 different scientific papers published between 2008 and 2016, according to new reports by the federal Office of Research Integrity.

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JANUARY 11, 2023

The initial wave of no-loan programs took place starting around 2008, when there was talk within the government about taxing endowments or forcing schools to spend them down. “I Bennett’s study found that no-loan programs increase Pell Grant recipients by approximately 10-15%.

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OCTOBER 31, 2022

She’s been with the Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC) since 1980 and became its vice president for student affairs in 2008. Craig thought that rents would stay low for the next few years. Craig is no newcomer to NYC. But by the end of 2021, rents had jumped 36% and showed no signs of slowing, according to realty website Zumper.

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JULY 17, 2024

What started as an innovative program to support limited-income and first-generation students at the University of Michigan in 2008 has since grown into a 16-institution collaborative program that has helped hundreds of first-generation students across the country find success in post-secondary education.

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MARCH 7, 2024

Cassandra Hart The report, Teacher-Student Race Match and Identification for Discretionary Educational Services , analyzes administrative data from North Carolina elementary schools from 2008 to 2013 to determine whether having Black teachers would affect the rates at which Black students – and those of other races – are designated for either gifted (..)

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JANUARY 17, 2024

Amid the global economic crisis in 2008, Mark says he worried what he would do with his undergraduate degree in history from Tufts University. Trending issues like violent and non-violent protests, development, economic crisis, and economic and social rights have also occupied his scholarly orbit.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2022

percentage points, the largest gap since 2008. Completion rose across institutions for Asian and Native American students but fell for Black and Latinx students at four-year public and private nonprofit institutions. More women completed than men, bringing the completion gap to 7.1

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MAY 11, 2023

Barack Obama in 2008, he said. He has been involved in local elections but has also been involved in state and national elections as well. Back in 2000, he was policy director for Sen. Bill Bradley’s presidential campaign, a position he held again for Sen. And in 2006, he served as general counsel for Cory Booker’s Newark mayoral election.

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OCTOBER 7, 2024

TAMIU first hired him as provost in 2008. The president of Texas A&M International University in Laredo died unexpectedly on Thursday, according to a university announcement. No cause of death was given for Pablo Arenaz, the university’s sixth president, who had served in the role since 2016.

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JANUARY 25, 2024

Amid the global economic crisis in 2008, Mark says he worried what he would do with his undergraduate degree in history from Tufts University. Trending issues like violent and non-violent protests, development, economic crisis, and economic and social rights have also occupied his scholarly orbit.

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APRIL 11, 2024

Years ago, her work appeared in this publication via a story on the American Indian Science and Engineering Society (“Providing a Full Circle of Support,” March 6, 2008) 7. I recently became acquainted with the work of Native American journalist Mary Annette Pember in her podcasting. Remembering and rendering lives.

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DECEMBER 21, 2023

The phenomenon starts with the financial crisis of 2008 and relates… Now, economic uncertainty, fears about diminishing returns on their tuition and other investments, increased opportunities to work in the trades, and other factors have experts warning about a coming enrollment cliff for higher education institutions around the country.

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