Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. It’s very exciting for us, as a community college, especially in New York City, where housing is an issue,” said Craig. “It Craig is no newcomer to NYC.

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EAB

JANUARY 26, 2023

Blogs 6 trends impacting community college enrollment in 2023 For the past two years, it’s been difficult to focus on anything beyond the immediate consequences of the pandemic. But now as we find ourselves stabilizing, it’s time to pause and take stock of the full landscape facing community colleges. get your copy 2.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

percentage points, the largest gap since 2008. IPEDS classifies any institution that offers a bachelor’s degree as a four-year institution, even if the school identifies as a community college. Community colleges often serve lower-resourced populations, said Shapiro, which can make achieving completion more complicated.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

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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Confessions of a Community College Dean

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

We’re changing the landscape of how community colleges serve underserved students,” says Espiritu. “We Having cohorts here is really important, especially for engineering and computer science because it’s a community that supports each other.” I care more than just graduation at community college.

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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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University Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

million people started postsecondary education in the fall of 2016, but the six-year completion rates for first-time students dropped for the first time in recent years among public and private four-year colleges and universities. Community college graduation rates increased slightly. More than 2.4

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

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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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 12, 2023

Postsecondary institutions whose mission and operations are optimized to educate, train and credential learners—community colleges, land-grant institutions, comprehensive regional public universities, HBCUs and other minority-serving institutions come to mind—should get more public money. percent of households.

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The Scholarly Teacher

MAY 10, 2023

Spending time talking with candidates about their goals and concerns helps students feel supported and combats feelings of isolation as they become aware of themselves as members of a community (Haythornthwaite & Kazmer, as cited in Hrastinski, 2008). 2008, November 18). Community College Research Center.

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Higher Education Inquirer

APRIL 19, 2023

In 2026 and 2027 we expect a more significant drop: a result of declining fertility rates during the 2008-2009 recession. College Meltdown: NY, IL, MI, PA, VA hardest hit Community Colleges at the Heart of College Meltdown So where does US higher education enrollment go after 2026? Who's Next?

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EAB

APRIL 14, 2023

Blogs The 4 stages of an integrated lifecycle approach for community college student success How EAB’s Navigate helps community colleges at every stage There is encouraging data showing that six-year completion rates have been rising across all community colleges, with a.9%

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

DECEMBER 14, 2023

colleges and universities rose 4 percent in fiscal year 2023, according to data from the annual Commonfund Higher Education Price Index released Wednesday. It’s the second-highest rate of inflation since fiscal year 2008, when the HEPI was at 5 percent. Inflation for U.S.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

The data is part of Luminas A Stronger Nation tool, which tracks progress toward a goal the foundation set in 2008 that 60percent of working-age adults would hold a postsecondary credential by 2025. Credential attainment among U.S. adults is on the rise, according to new data released by the Lumina Foundation Thursday.

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APRIL 5, 2023

Community colleges failing to fulfill their mission. Community Colleges The Hechinger Report, a higher ed news source not given to hyperbole or scare headlines, recently posted an alarming article entitled : “‘The reckoning is here’: More than a third of community college students have vanished.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 4, 2023

In 2008 she became president of ACE, higher education’s chief lobbying group, which had not had a female leader since its founding in 1918. In 1997, she was appointed president of the North Carolina system, becoming the first woman (and the first non–North Carolinian) to lead the esteemed public system.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 27, 2023

” Christine Price, program coordinator for the Skills, Training and Education for Personal Success (STEPS) program at Austin Community College in Texas, said she gets phone calls from people wanting to know if STEPS is a “real college” program. “I also think it would help with students getting a job.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The pipeline of traditional-age students will tighten further midway through this decade because of the drop in births during the Great Recession of 2008, forcing college leaders to compete more aggressively for fewer students. ” Equity is essential as college student demographics change.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

This increase marks the largest two-year jump in educational attainment since the project began in 2008, when the share of working-age adults with a degree was only 37.9 ” The recent data show 53.7 percent of Americans, ages 25 to 64, now hold a degree or other credential, compared to 51.9 percent in 2019. For example, Washington, D.C.,

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University Business

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

At Los Angeles Community College District , two blind students were awarded $240,000 in May for not promptly receiving accessible course materials and software. “A lot of institutions view accessibility as a check-the-box,” he says. “That’s really not enough.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

DECEMBER 23, 2022

” Community colleges and for-profits have borne well over 90 percent of the drop. During the pandemic, the median college received $13.2 That’s the largest increase since 2008. Free community college? million in federal relief funding. percent year over year. Underserved markets exist.

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EAB

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Indeed, during the 2008-2009 recession, giving fell along with the economy, and it took three years for philanthropy to start growing again. Understandably, fundraisers don’t want to seem tone-deaf to the possible financial hardships or fears of their constituents. But there are also significant risks to halting solicitations altogether.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Still, she said, this year’s numbers are “definitely a strong positive,” building on a strong fiscal 2022, which already represented some of the largest boosts for state higher ed funding since the 2008 recession. “I would say it’s more positive than we’ve seen in the last two decades. . 5.2% -6.2%

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 5, 2023

After all, the humanities are frequently characterized as being in crisis and, since 2008, have suffered massive hemorrhaging in the numbers of new majors. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, colleges and universities have made cuts to humanities departments, and the financial exigencies of the pandemic have only made the situation worse.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 6, 2023

A few years later, Kathleen Norris’s memoir Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer’s Life (2008) treated the malady with less deference to secular psychiatry, taking seriously the understanding of it as a spiritual condition.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JUNE 13, 2023

Drumm McNaughton talks with one of The State of Higher Education’s leading architects, VP of Impact and Planning Dr. Courtney Brown of the Lumina Foundation, an independent private foundation that increased the number of states with attainment goals from one in 2008 to 48 today. When Lumina set that goal in 2008, the nation was at about 38%.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Morehouse College also raised eyebrows in 2008 when its valedictorian was a white student. For example, Lincoln University faced criticism from alumni after its president suggested recruiting students locally in a predominantly white region. The Missouri HBCU had a student body that was about 40 percent white at the time.

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Higher Education Inquirer

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

2U began in 2008 as an online program manager (OPM), one of a few companies offering edtech services that required large amounts of capital and labor costs. In 2016, we wrote "When college choice is a fraud." They expanded through the acquisition of other edtech firms, Trilogy Education Services (2019) and edX (2021).

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 10, 2023

“Since the Virginia Tech shooting and what happened at Northern Illinois University back in 2007 and 2008, I think higher ed has done a really good job trying to improve threat assessment and shooting response at the campus level,” she said.

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College for Creative Study

OCTOBER 16, 2023

I had trouble looking towards the future, and like many college students with ADHD, I struggled finding “the point” of my more tedious classwork. In February of 2008, my parents and I decided to disenroll me from college, just 5 months after I began. As a transfer student ( Happy National Transfer Student Week!

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 9, 2024

The university has established over 1,300 articulation agreements with community colleges across the country. When a student from any of these community colleges applies to Franklin University, the system can instantly inform them about the transferability of their courses into their desired degree program.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

00:18:14] Bill: And in this first year cohort, community colleges are flat. at least, half of that, is, actually 40 percent of that, is in the community college enrollments, and half of the community college enrollments is because of dual enrollments from high school. Public is down 6%.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 25, 2023

Also, like the bond rating agencies, whose overblown ratings helped precipitate the Great Recession in 2008, agencies are paid to provide their accreditation services by the very institutions that they evaluate. Finally, the rare instances in which accreditors terminate colleges often lead to long, time-consuming and expensive litigation.

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Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

JANUARY 29, 2024

Opaskwayak Cree community psychologist Shawn Wilson, who works to define research as a community practice that would benefit from being accountable towards the ideals of 1) Respect, 2) Reciprocity, and 3) Responsibility (2008). New Directions for Student Services , 2022 (178-179), 77-86. link] Dyer-Barr, R., Baxter, K., &

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Right now, college administrators are scrambling to prepare for the impending demographic cliff —a dramatic decline in the number of high school graduates set to hit in 2025, stemming from historically low birth rates in the decade following the 2008 recession.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JUNE 29, 2023

At the front end of the higher ed pipeline, the US is not producing enough domestic students with the resources or skills to succeed in college and beyond. In 2026 we expect an enrollment cliff to occur, a ripple effect of the 2008 Great Recession.

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