Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Dr. Frank Fernandez, assistant professor of higher education leadership and policy at the University of Florida. “We We were hopeful we’d see continuing improvement, because we know there’s been so much work going on in terms of retention and completion in colleges,” said Shapiro. percentage points, the largest gap since 2008.

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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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Confessions of a Community College Dean

DECEMBER 23, 2022

This is the case in politics, but it’s also true in higher education. Shifts in demography, the economy and cultural values have far greater influence than the stories that dot the higher ed press. What were the most important events in higher education in 2022? How about the defunding of higher education?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Created in 2005 by Excelencia in Education, Examples of Excelencia is a national initiative that recognizes institutions and nonprofit organizations that identify, aggregate, and promote evidence-based practices that improve Latinx student access in higher education. I care more than just graduation at community college.

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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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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 12, 2023

Blog: Learning Innovation Tyler Cowen drove a lot of traffic to my piece critiquing his thinking on higher education. All it took was Cowen posting a two-sentence comment on Marginal Revolution : Joshua Kim comment on my higher education worries. The trend of state-level disinvestment from higher education is well-known.

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Higher Education Inquirer

APRIL 19, 2023

US higher education enrollment has been declining slowly and consistently since 2011. The declines have been small enough for many people outside of higher education to miss this phenomenon. In 2026 and 2027 we expect a more significant drop: a result of declining fertility rates during the 2008-2009 recession.

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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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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

JANUARY 4, 2023

Molly Corbett Broad, who became the first woman to lead the American Council on Education after breaking a similar glass ceiling as president of the University of North Carolina system, died Monday, her family announced. She was 81. In nine years at the organization’s helm, she overhauled ACE’s approach to the G.E.D.,

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 5, 2023

It will change higher education forever. Eroding public confidence in higher education. Community colleges failing to fulfill their mission. As I read the higher ed press, I try to find the trendline. Following the 2008 Great Recession, lesser funded institutions all across the country cleaned house.

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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

MARCH 27, 2023

The Inclusive Higher Education Accreditation Council is set to make its first campus accreditation visit this week at Western Carolina University. Accreditation “would create that validation for parents and students in the community,” Price said. “I also think it would help with students getting a job.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Unlike in past economic slowdowns, financial turmoil and spikes in unemployment during the early months of the pandemic did not send large numbers of students fleeing the job market into higher education. Harnisch, vice president for government relations at the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Image: State fiscal support for public higher education institutions is up 6.6 percent for fiscal year 2023, according to the latest report from the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association, or SHEEO. billion of federal funding on higher ed. In FY2023, states spent $1.2

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University Business

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

However, despite the new higher education landscape that’s formed and insistence from government officials, colleges and universities at large still have many strategic holes in ensuring accessibility compliance. In May, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the U.S. “That’s really not enough.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JUNE 13, 2023

college or university say their barriers have been to finishing their education over three years. Courtney Brown of the Lumina Foundation Higher ed leaders can learn what 6,000 current students, 3,000 people who stopped out, and 3,000 more who never enrolled in a U.S.

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EAB

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

And with the threat of another recession looming, EAB has received requests for guidance on higher-education philanthropy amidst uncertain times. Indeed, during the 2008-2009 recession, giving fell along with the economy, and it took three years for philanthropy to start growing again.

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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.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

14 November · Episode 181 Tough Times Ahead for Higher Education Enrollment 42 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton Dive into the complexities of higher education enrollment–navigate through its current challenges, and uncover strategies for the tough times ahead.

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Higher Education Inquirer

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The Higher Education Inquirer first reported on the beginning of company's meltdown in October 2019. In July 2022, 2U announced layoffs as it changed its business model (again) and the US Department of Education scrutinized the company's grad school offerings closer. In 2016, we wrote "When college choice is a fraud."

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 9, 2024

Technology’s Role in Enabling Enrollment Growth Franklin University exemplifies how technology can be leveraged to enhance enrollment and streamline educational processes. The university has established over 1,300 articulation agreements with community colleges across the country.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 25, 2023

The Biden administration has been doing extraordinary work on the cost side of higher education—seeking ( if the Supreme Court will permit it ) general loan forgiveness and reforming income-driven repaymen t , Public Service Loan Forgiveness and borrower defense to repayment.

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Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

JANUARY 29, 2024

Student Attrition, Learning, and Program Evaluation (1960s and 1970s): In the 1960s and 1970s, the call for co-curricular evaluation at the higher education level was received, with federal grants funding program evaluation and student attrition research. Empirically exploring higher education cultures of assessment.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

In many ways, the same challenges facing the military are also disrupting higher education. It’s easy to cite the pandemic as the culprit, but higher education’s enrollment crisis has been festering for more than a decade. Undergraduate enrollment has consistently declined in recent years.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JUNE 29, 2023

The History of Higher Education in the US over the last 4 centuries is worse than horrible--from a People's perspective. 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 many cases it has been horrifying.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 2, 2023

Over the last four decades, public esteem and political support for nonprofit higher education have steadily eroded. This competition yielded many benefits for higher education and the nation and was widely applauded through the 1970s. But the growth rate of the U.S. But the growth rate of the U.S.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 13, 2023

This latest effort will show how the accountability landscape has changed, if at all, since the rating idea was first broached, which morphed into the College Scorecard. The Obama administration didn’t end up rating institutions after opposition from higher education groups and others.) ” Measuring Value.

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Higher Education Inquirer

MAY 14, 2024

Since 2016, the Higher Education Inquirer has documented the College Meltdown as a series of demographic and business trends making US higher education of decreasing value to working-class and middle-class folks. This despite the commonly-held belief that college is the only way to improve social mobility.

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Higher Education Inquirer

AUGUST 30, 2022

The US Department of Education (ED) continues to paint rosy projections about higher education enrollment despite harsh economic and demographic realities--and increasing skepticism about the value of college degrees. Related link: College Meltdown 2.2: Foreign enrollment continues to languish.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 6, 2025

Academia Next: The Futures of Higher Education. Diploma Mills: How For-profit Colleges Stiffed Students, Taxpayers, and the American Dream. Johns Hopkins University Press. : A Former United States Secretary of Education and a Liberal Arts Graduate Expose the Broken Promise of Higher Education. and Best, E.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Recessions typically raise enrollment but the aftereffects of the pandemic are injecting yet more uncertainty into how hard the expected economic slowdown will hit higher education. What will remain typical if a recession hits is that states will surely cut higher ed funding, adds Thomas L. ” Preparing for recession.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

In a recent survey of most trusted institutions, higher ed ranked fourth behind small business, the military and the police, and ahead of organized religion and public schools. Feelings about higher education are driven by politics. People who answer polling questions about college are sometimes confused.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JUNE 20, 2023

Courtney joins us again to finish our conversation on Lumina’s most recent study, the State of Higher Education 2023: Breaking Down the Barriers to Student Enrollment and Retention.” He understood their communities. Courtney Brown, vice president of impact and planning for the Lumina Foundation.

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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

MARCH 7, 2023

” Holden Thorp, who was chancellor at Chapel Hill from 2008 to 2012, said the idea that such moves are not motivated by politics is “ridiculous.” “I’m just glad I’m retired,” said Thorp, who left his final higher education job, as provost at Washington University in St. Louis, in 2019.

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